BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Freedom Festival - ECPv6.15.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Freedom Festival REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240619T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240704T170000 DTSTAMP:20260421T144533 CREATED:20240618T234758Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240618T234904Z UID:10000055-1718798400-1720112400@freedomfestivalusa.org SUMMARY:Music is My Church DESCRIPTION:MUSIC IS MY CHURCH! \nWhether in major or minor modes\, \nPowerful healing energy always abodes. \n🥷🎶♎️ \nMUSIC 🎶 🎶🎶 is a universal language that requires no translation. MUSIC provides energetic healing through its tones\, vibrations and rhythms. \nI am a social worker social therapeutics practitioner performance coach and psychotherapist. \nSocial therapeutics is not only my methodology\, but also my life philosophy ——spiritual\, transformational\, alchemical. Social therapeutics\, informed by philosophy\, psychology and improv\, it is the HOW I am able to live life living\, in the solution\, not the problem. \nI have discovered my favorite “philosophers” are musicians. Their language is literally “honey for my soul\,” as a dear friend described it. \nSo\, my contribution to this year’s Freedom Festival is to offer musical gifts each day from Juneteenth through July 4th. \nCheck them out here. \nhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/isfreedomfestival/ URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/music-is-my-church/ LOCATION:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/music-is-my-church/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240620T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240705T235900 DTSTAMP:20260421T144533 CREATED:20240619T014459Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T052003Z UID:10000057-1718877600-1720223940@freedomfestivalusa.org SUMMARY:Art with your Cuppa DESCRIPTION:Raquell Holmes has selected paintings\, photos and drawings from the art collection of LeVell Holmes\, her father\, who collected engaging\, eclectic art from around the world\, with a focus on Black culture. The select pieces will be on display at Johnny’s Java\, Cotati CA\, throughout the festival. \nTake your picture with one of the art pieces and post it on the Festival’s Facebook page. Or\, better yet\, let the pieces of art inspire a poem and post that with your picture. \nDr. LeVell Holmes would have loved this festival! He was a cultural historian who felt that the ideal history professor is one who can talk about music\, science and art as well as political events. In addition to creating the Ethnic Studies program of Sonoma State University\, he found friends\, family and warmth in people around the world. URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/art-with-your-cuppa/ LOCATION:Johnny’s Java Coffee Shop\, Cotati CA\, 8492 Gravenstein Hwy\, Cotati\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Arts & Crafts,Food & Drink,Visual Arts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/wp-content/uploads/JJ_Art.png ORGANIZER;CN="Nick Gross":MAILTO:gross@bu.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240701T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240701T190000 DTSTAMP:20260421T144533 CREATED:20240626T172851Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240905T163934Z UID:10000060-1719855000-1719860400@freedomfestivalusa.org SUMMARY:Inspirational Ladies! DESCRIPTION:  \n7/1/2024\nStart Time 5:30 PT/8:30 ET \nYou’re invited to celebrate inspirational ladies in your life with us.  \nThe inspirational lady you choose may be anyone in your life. They maybe someone you know well or even someone you just heard about for a few seconds. They are ladies–women who inspired us to be the person that the human race needs. \nTo recognize them\, we all will make a Kudo Board here (https://www.kudoboard.com/boards/75QRMKkF). \nOn the Kudo Board\, we will highlight the life and details of any inspirational lady in your life.\nWe all will come together July 1\, 2024 at 5:30 pm PT/ 8:30 pm ET via Zoom (RSVP below to get the link) and will present our Inspirational Ladies that inspired us.  \nPost on the Kudo Board before or during our session. Take a look and you’ll see one of my Inspirational Ladies\, Harriet Tubman! \nhttps://www.kudoboard.com/boards/75QRMKkF \nStart Time 5:30 PT/8:30 ET \nLed by Andy Anderson Jr. is a long time volunteer and supporter of the All Stars Project. He co-leads the improvscience Uncomfortable Independent Conversations that bring people together around race and class. An architect and passionate builder of community. URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/inspirational-ladies/ LOCATION:online CATEGORIES:Arts & Crafts,Conversations,Recording,Visual Arts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/wp-content/uploads/Screen-Shot-2024-06-20-at-12.06.28-PM.png ORGANIZER;CN="Andy Anderson Jr":MAILTO:andyojr.aaj@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240702T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240702T170000 DTSTAMP:20260421T144533 CREATED:20240619T130236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240702T175259Z UID:10000058-1719934200-1719939600@freedomfestivalusa.org SUMMARY:Freedom\, Liberation and Independence - Creative & Emotional Playground DESCRIPTION:As part of the Freedom Festival\, we invite you to join members of our Monthly Creative Playground for a special workshop to explore\, perform and celebrate freedom and independence. \nDate: July 2nd\, 2024 at 3:30 pm PDT/ 6:30 pm EDT \nWe started the Creative Playground with a collective intent: that exploring creativity together is therapeutic. We have created a space where we foster our creativity\, and develop emotionally as well as artistically. We come together on Zoom the first Thursday of every month. In the Creative Playground we use the expressive arts (theater/improv\, poetry\, movement\, music\, drawing/collage) to create improvised conversations and art together. \nJoin us as we creatively and emotionally explore what it means for us all to come together to celebrate freedom from slavery and our ability to collectively self-organize and recreate our world. \nAll people have an experience of what freedom and independence mean to them. Through this festival\, we want to create OUR experience of liberation. \nRegister Here! URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/freedom-liberation-and-independence-creative-emotional-playground/ LOCATION:online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/wp-content/uploads/https-cdn.evbuc_.com-images-528860329-154781269324-1-original.20230604-194446.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240702T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240702T190000 DTSTAMP:20260421T144533 CREATED:20240527T190016Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240905T163431Z UID:10000037-1719943200-1719946800@freedomfestivalusa.org SUMMARY:Open Forum by California Independent Voters in Conversation DESCRIPTION:Imagine– a land of the free and the represented. Imagine– a respectful\, curious conversation in which people who are often cast by the media as opponents\, opposites\, and divided listen to one another. Imagine–a political culture where questions\, curiosity\, wonder and the creation of new possibilities is the norm. *California independent Voters in Conversation (CiViC)* invites those who are self-identified independent or independent-minded voters to come together and discover/create the questions they feel are important to address\, to learn what independents are experimenting with as we work to create a democracy that thrives with the concerns and voices of everyone. \nJoin us in creating a conversation that brings forward the voices of over 43% of adults\, the voices of independents. We are listening to build with one another\, to develop and amplify the voices of independents. Together\, we seek to inform the dialogue that takes place before\, during\, and after elections\, transforming the political culture and giving people a positive reason to vote. \n*Organizers:* Catana Malinowski and James Newman are builders of the independent voter movement in California communities. California independent Voters in Conversation (CiViC) is an association of self-identified independents and independent-minded voters who seek to lift the voice of independent voters (43% of California voters) and support democracy that includes and represents all. CiViC is associated with Independent Voting. URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/open-forum-by-california-independent-voters-in-conversation/ CATEGORIES:Conversations,Recording ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/wp-content/uploads/SeanGarrett_CiViC.png ORGANIZER;CN="California independent Voters in Conversation":MAILTO:ca.iv.voices@gmail.com LOCATION:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/open-forum-by-california-independent-voters-in-conversation/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240703T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240703T131500 DTSTAMP:20260421T144533 CREATED:20240628T210837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240905T162349Z UID:10000063-1720008000-1720012500@freedomfestivalusa.org SUMMARY:Freedom Festival: Inspiring Conversations DESCRIPTION:Sixteen days of celebration and months and years of conversations have led to this day\, Wednesday July 3rd. Starting at 12:00 pm PT/ 3:00pm ET \nIn this 75 minute conversation\, we invite participants to share and discover the conversations inspired by the Freedom Festival.  We are discovering new stories\, relationships\, challenges and possibilities. Festival participants (those in and out of sessions) are thinking about and talking with family\, friends and organizations about freedom\, independence and our histories.  Folks are asking\, “How can we be part of celebrating freedom Juneteenth to Independence Day?” “What’s the relationship of who I am and what I do to emancipation\, to freedom?” \nJoin this heartful\, intimate–have your back\, excited to see you–conversation and let’s discover what we’re creating and inspiring together. URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/freedom-festival-inspiring-conversations/ CATEGORIES:Conversations,Recording ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/wp-content/uploads/improvscience-freedom-festival-banner-2-final-web-small-600x400px.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="improvscience":MAILTO:info@improvscience.org LOCATION:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/freedom-festival-inspiring-conversations/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240703T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240703T210000 DTSTAMP:20260421T144533 CREATED:20240630T022832Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240630T023022Z UID:10000065-1720029600-1720040400@freedomfestivalusa.org SUMMARY:What do beer\, freedom and independence have in common? DESCRIPTION:6 pm PT. Parliament Brewing serves up great brews and an opportunity to test your knowledge of freedom and independence in history\, song and facts. \nThis local brewery invites us to create new traditions in celebration of freedom and independence\, Juneteenth to Independence Day\, through the simple act of asking questions. \nJoin us for trivia\, sodas and beers. \nStart time: 6 pm URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/parliament-brewing/ LOCATION:Parliament Brewing\, 5865 Labath Ave Ste 9\, Rohnert Park\, CA\, 94928\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/wp-content/uploads/parliament-brewing-co-logo.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240704T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240704T111500 DTSTAMP:20260421T144533 CREATED:20240630T021426Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240905T162512Z UID:10000064-1720087200-1720091700@freedomfestivalusa.org SUMMARY:Freedom Festival Independence Day Finale DESCRIPTION:  \nhttps://freedomfestivalusa.org/wp-content/uploads/SlideShow-ReginaBell.mp4\n10 am PT/ 1 pm ET Independence Day\, July Fourth\, we’ll host our Freedom Festival finale! In this conversational romp\, we’ll dance with music\, words and images through the experiences and discoveries we have made together in the festival. \nWhether you’ve attended events or only recently heard about it\, come with curiosity\, hopes and dreams as we cheer in new relationships to Independence Day and celebrate our movement towards freedom and independence for all. \nLed by Dr. Raquell Holmes with Freedom Festival Volunteer-Staff\, Hosts and Attendees! \nFreedom Festival Finale Slide Show 2024What we created together\, a slide show review of 2024. URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/freedom-festival-independence-day-finale/ CATEGORIES:Recording ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/wp-content/uploads/freedom-festival-multi-colored-hands-flag.jpg LOCATION:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/freedom-festival-independence-day-finale/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR