Power of Cross-Cultural Organizing: From the Front Lines of Creative Justice, A Multi-Part Series
POWER OF CROSS-CULTURAL ORGANIZING: From the Front Lines of Creative Justice, a multi-part series
The series comprised of discussions and workshops will feature two curated discussions with elder and emerging cultural activists; online film screening; community story circle and cross-cultural organizing workshops. These activities will culminate in a virtual town hall with series’ participants. Over the course of the series, we interrogate questions such as: What are the barriers to building solidarity? What are the possibilities? How does our unification empower our communities? How do we learn from the successes and problems of the past to lay new groundwork for today’s movement?
POWER OF CROSS-CULTURAL ORGANIZING part 1
From the Front Lines of Creative Justice: Panel Discussion
From the Front Lines of Creative Justice: Panel Discussion
Wednesday, March 24, 2021, 6:30-8:30 PM EST
REGISTER: bit.ly/cjiconversations
Join SMS Associate Professor, Neyda Martinez, who has been co-organizing a series of events that focus on the power of intergenerational and cross-cultural organizing, alongside Kate Fowler, Southern Community Cultural Alliance and Studio Two Three; Ben Fink, cultural organizer and author of Secular Communion in the Coalfields, The Populist Aesthetic and Practice of AppalShop’s Roadside Theater; and, Marangeli Mejia Rabell, director, Philadelphia Latino Film Festival for the Creative Justice Initiative.
Please join us for the entire series, and our kick-off event on March 24th with Hy Thurman, former member, The Young Patriotsand author, Revolutionary Hillbilly; Jose “Cha Cha” Jimenez, founder of the National Young Lords Organization, a national human rights movement; Ray Santiesteban, documentary film director, The First Rainbow Coalition; Jasmine Leeward, New Virginia Majority and activist/strategist and emerging filmmaker; and, Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi,Defend Puerto Rico and independent filmmaker.
Funding for this program is provided in part by Firelight Media’s Impact Campaign Fund to advance the engagement with The First Rainbow Coalition.
Save the Dates for Upcoming Discussions in the Series:
DIGITAL WORKSHOP on How to Host a Storycircle
Facilitators: Kate Fowler, Ben Fink, Dudley Cocke
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DIGITAL WATCH PARTIES of the documentary film
The First Rainbow Coalition by Ray Santiesteban
March 25, 2021
The First Rainbow Coalition by Ray Santiesteban
March 25, 2021
COMMUNITY STORY CIRCLE DISCUSSIONS on cross-cultural organizing
March 25, 2021
POWER OF CROSS-CULTURAL ORGANIZING part 2
From the Front Lines of Creative Justice: Panel Discussion
April 28, 2021
POWER OF CROSS-CULTURAL ORGANIZING part 3
From the Front Lines of Creative Justice: A Participatory Town Hall
How do we build common ground today?
May 28th, 2021
From the Front Lines of Creative Justice: A Participatory Town Hall
How do we build common ground today?
May 28th, 2021