AN ARTISTIC RESPONSE TO THE GROWING NUMBER OF MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN. Thousand Oaks, CA—The REDress Project* focuses on the issue of missing or murdered indigenous women across North America. It is a powerfully emotional installation art project in response to this critical issue. The project has been installed in public spaces throughout the […]
Photo caption: Alabama Gates Occupation, 1924. Credit: Eastern CA Museum. LONE PINE—Alabama Gates 2024 is a weekend of free community events in Lone Pine, California, November 15–17, 2024, commemorating the centennial of the Alabama Gates Occupation. Events include roundtable discussions at Lone Pine’s Statham Hall, a no-host community picnic at Lone Pine’s Spainhower Park featuring […]
ESCONDIDO—The Art & Ethos of California Native Plants A free film screening SAGING THE WORLD spotlights the ecological and cultural issues intertwined with white sage, centering the voices of Native advocates who have long protected and cherished this plant. The short documentary was produced by Rose Ramirez, Deborah Small, and the California Native Plant Society […]
AN ARTISTIC RESPONSE TO THE GROWING NUMBER OF MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN. Thousand Oaks, CA—The REDress Project* focuses on the issue of missing or murdered indigenous women across North America. It is a powerfully emotional installation art project in response to this critical issue. The project has been installed in public spaces throughout the […]
VIRTUAL—NewGround will be talking with Ibtisam Barakat about Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood. Set in Ramallah during the aftermath of the 1967 Six-Day War, her memoir captures what it is like to be a child whose world is shattered by war. Ibtisam is a Palestinian-American author and poet whose work centers on healing social […]
SAN LEANDRO—Closing reception and creative presentation open to the community where participants from the creative writing program, Liberando Nuestras Voces, will read a piece, showcase their artwork, and receive certificates of completion. This will be an event to celebrate our participants as escritoras (writers) and creatives, sharing with their families, friends, and the rest of […]
THOUSAND OAKS—Spenser Jaimes, Šmuwič and Island Chumash, Founder/CEO Limuw Productions discusses his current cultural work along with discussing his upcoming Documentary Project: The Chumash Account of the 1824 Revolt. Where: Oakbrook Chumash Indian Museum, 3290 Lang Ranch Parkway, Thousand Oaks, 91360 When: 5pm November 22nd For details, see: www.chumashmuseum.org For questions, please contact: visit@chumashmuseum.org
LOS ANGELES— See a film screening of HOW TO SUE THE KLAN, a story of how five Black women from Chattanooga used legal ingenuity to take on the Ku Klux Klan in a historic 1982 civil case, fighting to hold them accountable for their crimes and bring justice to their community. Their victory set a legal […]
BERKELEY—PANEL DISCUSSION and SNEAK PERFORMANCE PREVIEW Moderated by Oakland Cultural Affairs Manager Roberto Bedoya Panelists: Dr. Stephania Canizales, Dr. Mauricio Ramírez, José Artiga, Central Americans for Education (CAFÉ). When: Thursday, December 5, 6:30 pm (FREE admission) Where: Latinx Research Center University of California Berkeley 2547 Channing Way Berkeley, CA 94704 Little Central America, 1984 explores […]
VIRTUAL—The NewGround Book Club will be read Albert Memmi's The Pillar of Salt, a semi-autobiographical novel about a young boy growing up in French-colonized Tunisia who must contend with his identities as Jew, Arab, and African at the advent of World War II. Albert Memmi's novels and nonfiction explored his complex identity as an anti-imperialist, Zionist, […]