Welcome to the SR IC archives!
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Summer 25
Curanderismo en nuestras vidas
Viernes, Julio 25, 6:00 pm - 8:00pm Sabado, Julio 26, 8:30 am - 4:00 pm
Acompáñenos a estar en comunidad y aprender con yerberas, parteras, y otras personas con conocimiento ancestral. Los talleres se enfocarán en como recuperar conocimientos ancestrales de como las hierbas, plantas, nuestros ancestros, y nuestra comunidad pueden ayudarnos a sanar físicamente y emocionalmente. Este evento es para tode aquelles interesades en conectarse más con el curanderismo, sea usted principiante o con décadas de conocimiento.
Este evento gratis sera completamente en español, y comida será proveída. Será un evento familiar y habrá actividades para les niñes. En Santa Rosa Junior College, campus de Santa Rosa.
Para participar regístrese aquí: https://shorturl.at/0V91H
Financiado gracias a una subvención del Fondo de Enriquecimiento Cultural Randolph Newman de la Fundación Santa Rosa Junior College
Fall 24- Spring 25
Sanación con Hierbas
miercoles 29 de enero | 6-7pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
¿Esta interesadx en aprender de hierbas medicinales y otras formas de curanderismo? Inscríbase para participar en nuestras pláticas mensuales, cada último miércoles del mes. Todxs tenemos conocimiento, nos educaremos colectivamente. Organizado por Rafael Vázquez Guzmán, Facultad en Humanidades en SRJC.
QTBIPOC Movie Night: Everything Everywhere All at Once
Thursday, Jan 30 | 4-7pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
This hangout is open to students, faculty, staff, classified professionals, and community members. This will be an opportunity to build community among folks who identify as Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color. We’d love for you to join us! Come connect, celebrate, and enjoy snacks and refreshments in a welcoming space. We look forward to seeing you there! Click here to RSVP.
Mini-Corps info
Tuesday, Feb 4 | 12-1pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
Interested in teaching careers? Want to start working in the field and get paid? Join us for an info session on Mini Corps. Food will be provided, first come first serve.
APASS Welcome Back Dinner
Thursday, Feb 6 | 6- 8 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
This event is specifically for current APASS students. For more information, email: schang@santarosa.edu
Sanación con Hierbas
miercoles 24 de febrero | 6-7pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
¿Esta interesadx en aprender de hierbas medicinales y otras formas de curanderismo? Inscríbase para participar en nuestras pláticas mensuales, cada último miércoles del mes. Todxs tenemos conocimiento, nos educaremos colectivamente. Organizado por Rafael Vázquez Guzmán, Facultad en Humanidades en SRJC.
Moving from Carceral Logics to Community Care
Tues, Feb 25, 1-2:30pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
Interested in incorporating abolitionist values and frameworks into your role at SRJC? Have you been in a situation where you don’t agree with punitive practices but you are not sure what alternatives there are? Join Dr. Roam Romagnoli and Malena Hernández as we delve into these topics, provide a space for SRJC employees/ students to imagine and practice what community care can look like here and now. Part of this semester’s series of “Dismantling False Narratives, Rethinking Safety & The Carceral State”
QTBIPOC Social Hour
Weds, Feb 26| 4:00 - 6:00pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
- more info
Join the Queer Resource Center for an evening of socializing, board games, arts & crafts, and just being with community! Free food and drinks will be provided.
Ribbon Skirt Making
Thursday, Feb 27| 4:00 - 7:00 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
Join the Native American Center for a 4-week class. Every thursday Feb 27, March 6, 13, & 20. Limited space available, to RSVP email jduran2@santarosa.edu
Sonoma County Youth Reimagining Safety in School
Weds, March 5, 5:30-7:30
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
Current High School students organized as “Latinx Student Congress” will discuss their work organizing in Sonoma County and how they work to challenge the notions of safety, youth, and education. Part of this semester’s series of “Dismantling False Narratives, Rethinking Safety & The Carceral State”
What our Fat Students Want Us to Know: Fatness as a Political Identity
Thursday, March 6| 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
Join Emma Ruderman and Dr. Solen Sanli Vasquez. In this presentation, we will be discussing Fatness as a Political Identity through three main intersections: Fat Liberation, Desire/ability Politics as well as White supremacy and anti-Blackness. We will critically examine, through the analysis of Desire/ability Politics, how we view the body both culturally and socially and how the body, body size specifically, directly determines one's ability to engage with the wold around them. We will study the history and creation of Fatness as we know it today, it's direct correlation between white supremacy/ anti-Blackness and the meaning we give to Fatness, as well as the dire barriers that Fat folks encounter, specifically multiply marginalized Fat folks.
Ribbon Skirt Making
Thursday, March 6| 4:00 - 7:00 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
Join the Native American Center for a 4-week class. Every thursday Feb 27, March 6, 13, & 20. Limited space available, to RSVP email jduran2@santarosa.edu
Cultural Centers mid-term break
Tuesday, March 11| 11:00 - 1:00 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
More info to come
Ribbon Skirt Making
Thursday, March 13| 4:00 - 7:00 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
Join the Native American Center for a 4-week class. Every thursday Feb 27, March 6, 13, & 20. Limited space available, to RSVP email jduran2@santarosa.edu
Ribbon Skirt Making
Thursday, March 27| 4:00 - 7:00 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
Join the Native American Center for a 4-week class. Every thursday Feb 27, March 6, 13, & 20. Limited space available, to RSVP email jduran2@santarosa.edu
Undocumented Counterstories & Testimonios
Tues, March 25, 6:00 – 7:00 pm
Newman Auditorium (in Emeritus Hall)
In this conversation and book reading, SRJC Alumni and authors of the book “The Journey of DACA Student Living in the United States Today” will discuss issues around safety, immigration, and how do we imagine and work towards a world without borders. Part of this semester’s series of “Dismantling False Narratives, Rethinking Safety & The Carceral State”
Sanación con Hierbas
viernes 28 de marzo | 6-7pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
¿Esta interesadx en aprender de hierbas medicinales y otras formas de curanderismo? Inscríbase para participar en nuestras pláticas mensuales, cada último miércoles del mes. Todxs tenemos conocimiento, nos educaremos colectivamente. Organizado por Rafael Vázquez Guzmán, Facultad en Humanidades en SRJC.
Conversation with David Masumoto
Wednesday, April 9| 12:00 - 1:300 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
Along with speaking to his chapter in Colors of Nature, “Belonging to the Land,” David Masumoto will share about new projects, including co-authoring a children’s book with his daughter “Every Peach is a Story,” and partnering with Fresno Philharmonic to create a musical composition based on stories from his new book Shadow Music, Four Generations of Japanese American Farm Women. Part of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
Cancelled: Re-membering Our Roots
Monday, April 14| 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
more info to come.
Conversation with Elmaz Abinader
Wednesday, April 16| 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
More information to come. As part of Middle Eastern, North African Heritage Month.
One Million Experiments at the “We the Future” Conference
Friday, April 18
Petaluma Campus, Carole L. Ellis Auditorium
Join us for the keynote at the WTF conference in the Petaluma Campus. Through this short documentary and panel we will explore snapshots of community-based projects that expand our ideas about what keeps us safe. The experimental documentary film showcases and explores how we define and create safety in a world without police and prisons. In partnership with the WTF committee and Petaluma Intercultural Center. For time and to register, visit: https://wethefuture.santarosa.edu/. Part of this semester’s series of “Dismantling False Narratives, Rethinking Safety & The Carceral State”
Political Prisoners & the Movement to Free Mumia
Weds, April 23, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Sawubona BLOC, Pioneer 360
Jamal Hart will present about his father’s imprisonment along with one of Mumia’s previous attorneys, Rachel Wolkenstein. They will discuss the current “Free Mumia” movement, his frameup and innocence, and general conversations about political prisoners in the United States. This will be both a conversation and a celebration for Mumia’s birthday. The first hour will be a lecture style presentation, with the last hour being a Q&A and casual conversation. In collaboration with Sawubona BLOC and Santa Rosa Intercultural Center. This is part of this semester’s series of “Dismantling False Narratives, Rethinking Safety & The Carceral State”.
Last Fall's events
Cultural Center's Open House
August 26-29, 2024 | 11:30am - 1:00pm
Pioneer Hall Cultural Centers
Students can learn more about how they can connect and engage with our centers. Please see the schedule below and attached, and send students our way! Staff and faculty are also welcome to join and learn how you can connect and support our centers. Tour the centers and meet the staff. Fun activities and food provided (while supplies last). Monday: Check out what the Santa Rosa Intercultural Center has to offer and screen print a tote bag Tuesday: Find out how you can get involved with the Black Leadership and Opportunity Center and learn how to make your own body scrub Wednesday: Learn about the great work happening at the Queer Resource Center while you relax making bracelets Thursday: Connect with all the resources available at the Native American Center and join us for button making
MECha Ice Cream Social
Tuesday, Sept 10| 2:00 - 4:00 Time
Santa Rosa Interrcultural Center, Pioneer 380
Join MEChA de SRJC and enjoy making community and eating ice cream
Welcome Reception: NAC Coordinator
Tuesday, Sept 17| 12:00 - 2:00 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
Please join us to welcome our new Native American Center Coordinator, John “JD” Duran, Sicangu Lakota, Rosebud Sioux Tribe, to our SRJC family. The formal program will begin at 12:30 pm.
Bisexual Visibility Week
Wednesday, Sept 18| 11:30 - 1:00 pmTime
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
In honor of Bisexual Awareness Week, the Queer Resource Center is giving away bisexual themed bracelets and buttons. Learn about common misconceptions about bisexuality, its common definition, and lived experiences of bisexual people.
Re-membering Ancestral Dyes w/ Sari Monroy
Thursday, Sept 19| 10:30- 12:00 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
This 1.5 hours dye workshop seeks to highlight and preserve ancestral Mesoamerican fiber art traditions. Participants will learn the chemistry involved in using botanical dyes to dye fibers. We will make yellow, purple, and red with botanical dyes and learn about other plants in our environment that can give us a dye. Each participants will receive one bandana to dye. You can also bring a clean small all-natural cotton or wool fiber item to dye such as a bandana, mask, scarf, small hand bag, or something small made of all natural fibers. Participants can also bring jars to take dye water home if they wish. If you plan to bring a whole class, please email intercultural@santarosa.edu to make sure we have enough space.
Re-membering Backstrap Weaving w/ Sari Monroy
Friday, Sept 20| 10:00 - 12:00 pm
RSVP
The Backstrap loom is one of the oldest technologies in the world and still used to this day. Students will participate in a 2 hour weaving workshop with the backstrap loom. Students will be introduced to the loom and its connection to culture and textiles from Mesoameria to the Andes. Students then will learn the basics of weaving on the backstrap loom, including how to set up the loom and how it connects to our body. Students then will have time to practice how to do plain weaving. Participants will get to keep the loom to continue practicing on their own. RSVP at intercultural@santarosa.edu for location. open to current students only
Baile: Noche de Selena
Friday, Sept 20| 7:00 - 10:00 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
Venga y balile con música de cumbia. Este evento trendrá a DJ spooky. Este evento está abierto al público
POSTPONED: Mini-Corps Pop-up
Tuesday, Sept 24| 12:00 - 12:30pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center
More info to come
EMLS Student Celebration
Wednesday, Sept 25| 12:30 - 1:30pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center
EMLS Students and Faculty: Join us to celebrate and honor the EMLS scholarships awardees and enjoy some free pizza!
Sanación con hierbas (evento en español)
Miercoles, 25 de septiembre| 6:00 - 8:00pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
Venga a aprender como sanar con hierbas, nuestro conocimiento ancestral de sanación debe continuar. Herbalista certificada, Josselyn Torres, dará este taller donde podrá aprender y compartir sobre el uso de hierbas.
The Importance of Disability Cultural Centers w/ Rachel Stewart
Monday, Sept 30| 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380 or on zoom
Rachel Stewart, Ed.D. (she/her) currently works as a coordinator of the WorkAbility III program at Sacramento City College. She has over 15 years of experience working in the disability field, and recently received a doctorate in Educational Leadership from CSU Sacramento. Rachel's dissertation was focused on disabled student activism to create Disability Cultural Centers on college campuses. She will share the findings of her dissertation, providing ideas to transform Santa Rosa Junior College's Disability Cultural Center into a space of belonging, community, connection to resources, and resistance to ableism. Lunch and refreshments provided! Zoom link: https://santarosa-edu.zoom.us/j/83150714030
ASL Hour with Dr. Molly Senecal
Tuesday, Oct 1| 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
Join us for American Sign Language Q&A and Deaf culture talk with VP of Student Services at SRJC. Snacks and refreshments provided.
Resisting Erasure: Seeing Palestine
Wednesday, Oct 2| 1:00 - 3:00pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
Erasure, dehumanization, and false dichotomies have convinced too many people that Palestinian life is unworthy. We resist this violence by seeing Palestinian history, culture, and life. In this workshop, we will analyze language being used by politicians and protestors and share resources for deepening your understanding of social and environmental justice. Led by Dr. Erica Tom. This event is part of SRIC's series "Dismantling False Narratives"
Art Journaling and Reflection with Colors of Nature
Tuesday, October 8 | 9:30 - 11:00 am
Santa Rosa Campus, RSVP for location
Join Artist Amanda Ayala as we center our inherent creativity and brilliance to think together and reflect on themes in Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World. Amanda will share high quality art materials with us to work with, all supplies included, you are welcome to bring your favorite art supplies if you like. To RSVP email etom@santarosa.edu. Amanda Ayala (she/ella) is an interdisciplinary Xicana Indigenous visual artist and maker who centers people targeted by oppression and acknowledges their brilliance. Amanda leads and facilitates workshops that combine artist liberation and social justice for people of all ages. She creates within community as a way to heal and transform society
POSTPONED: Queers with Careers: Noble Folk Co-Founder Christian Sullberg
Tuesday, Oct 8 | 12:00 -1:00 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
This event has been postponed for a future date. To find out the new date, please email qrc@santarosa.edu. More on event: Join us for "Queer with Careers": Noble Folk, featuring Christian Sullberg, co-founder of Noble Folk Ice Cream & Pie Bar. Learn how Christian built a thriving, inclusive business that supports the queer community and local growth. Gain valuable insights to help turn your own passion into a business!
5 Myths about Immigrants that Help Fuel Our Toxic Bipartisan Political Culture
Wednesday, Oct 9 | 10:00 -11:30 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
Come learn how to debunk 5 common myths about immigrants that circulate among Democrats and Republicans in our current political moment. Led by Dr. Michael Hale. This event is part of SRIC's series "Dismantling False Narratives"
DACAmented Queer Professionals
Tuesday, Oct. 15| 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm TBD
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
In honor of UndocuWeek of Action, the Queer Resource Center is hosting queer professionals that will talk about their experience growing up undocumented, their path to DACA, and their professional development and education.
Dismantling toxic agency: the “pick yourself up by your bootstrap” myth
Monday, October 21| 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
Common expressions such as “If I can do it, you can do it too,” “If you just work hard enough, you alone can achieve success,” and “Pick yourself up by your bootstraps and work hard for what you want, and you will succeed” reflect the "Pick Yourself Up by Your Bootstraps" Toxic Agency Myth. These phrases propagate a detrimental narrative that suggests success is solely a result of individual effort, particularly affecting marginalized students. This workshop aims to explore the implications of this myth, examine the socio-economic factors it disregards, and propose strategies for reframing the narrative. It will emphasize the need for an intrinsic mindset shift, advocate for enhanced institutional support, and promote educational equity as key components in addressing and overcoming these systemic challenges. Led by Bree Clark. This event is part of SRIC's series "Dismantling False Narratives".
Is Education the Key to Success?
Tuesday, Oct 22| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
In this presentation, we will examine the historical inequities in the US education system to emphasize that equity, rather than education alone, is the true path to success. Led by Dr. Purnur Ozbirinci. This event is part of SRIC's series "Dismantling False Narratives"
Art & the Earth under Occupation with Elmaz Abinader
Wednesday, Oct 23 | 9:00 -11:00 am
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
Elmaz will tell the story of meeting the Palestinian artists she writes about in "The Art Gallery." She will also speak about how all her work "is conversation with history which etches the collisions on every rock and road, riverbed and meadow; the earth holds the marks of migrations, escapes, exiles, alienations, aging and evolutions. In [her] poetry, in particular, the body and the earth exchange their positions and perspectives. The memories of war are on the skin as well as on the mesa, the exile is written in dust and cells." Elmaz Abinader has a memoir: Children of the Roojme, A Family’s Journey from Lebanon, and two books of poetry, In the Country of My Dreams…winner of PEN Oakland and This House, my Bones. Find recent work at Terrain and Michigan Quarterly Review etc. Elmaz teaches at Mills College at Northeastern University and was a co-founder of VONA/Voices. This event is part of SRJC's 2024 Work of Literary Merit "Colors of Nature". For more WOLM events visit: https://english.santarosa.edu/work-literary-merit
SRJC Día de Muertos Procesión y Celebración
miercoles 23 de octubre| 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Bertolini Dinning Commons, Santa Rosa Campus
Únase a nosotros en una procesión a visitar algunos altares en el colegio. Al final de la procesión, nos espera una celebración con altares, actividades, recursos, y aperitivos. Participe en nuestro concurso de disfraz vistiéndose como catrina/ catrín. Traiga a toda la familia y amigos a celebrar el día de muertos. En collaboración con MEChA de SRJC. Join us for an in-person walking procession to visit some altars throughout campus. At the end of the procession, a celebration awaits us with altars, activities, resources, and snacks (at Bertolini Quad). Dress your best for the Catrina/Catrin showcase! Bring family & friends to celebrate Día de Muertos!
Erick Hernandez: Lumbee Hoop Dancer
Tuesday, Oct 29 | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Student Activities Center, Bertolini, Santa Rosa Campus
Join us as Eric Hernandez shares his story and the ways in which Lumbee Hoop Dancing holds an integral role in his life and that of others. This will be a combination of storytelling and performance.
Out in Tech
Tuesday, Oct 29 | 12:00 -1:30 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
Out in Tech employee shares their story about their experience as a LGBTIA2S+ identifying person in technology. Learn more about Out in Tech as well!
Is Voting an Effective Tool of Social Change?
Wednesday, Oct 30 | 10:00 -11:30 am
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
Between people arguing that "voting in America does not matter" and others saying, "vote as though your life and your democracy depends on it," students are receiving dramatically opposing messages. For a person who wants their voice heard, this workshop will investigate the question of whether voting is an effective tool for social change. Led by Dr. Michael Hale. This event is part of SRIC's series "Dismantling False Narratives."
Medicine Bag Workshop
Tuesday, November 5 | 3:00-4:30 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
Explore Native American tradition and spirituality during our Medicine Bag Workshop. Limited space, please RSVP for this event with JD at jduran2@santarosa.edu. This event is part of SRJC's Native American Heritage Month. For more events click here to go to the website.
Beyond the Ballot
Wednesday, November 6 | 10:00 - 2:00 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
The day after general US elections, SRJC Cultural Centers invite you to be in community with us as we learn different ways in which we can make a difference in our communities & bring about political change, beyond voting.
- 10 am - 12 pm: Zine Making Workshop: Learn how/make zines to share your story on the impacts of the elections/ world politics etc.
- 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm: Engaging with Community Orgs Meet/ engage with SRJC & local orgs making an impact in our communities and find out how you can get involved with them to bring about positive change.
Movie Night: Smoke Signals
Tuesday, November 12 | 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
Come join us for some laughs while we watch this classic film – refreshments included. This event is part of SRJC's Native American Heritage Month. For more events click here to go to the website.
Beading workshop
Tuesday, November 19 | 3:00 - 4:30 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
Explore traditional Native American crafting and experience the fun of beadwork. Limited space, please RSVP for this event with JD at jduran2@santarosa.edu. This event is part of SRJC's Native American Heritage Month. For more events click here to go to the website.
Movie Night - Powwow Highway
Tuesday, November 26 | 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
Come join us while we watch a classic Native American film – refreshments provided. This event is part of SRJC's Native American Heritage Month. click here to go to the website.
SRJC's La Posada 2024
miercoles 4 de diciembre | 5:00 -8:30 pm
Bertolini Dinning Commons, campus de Santa Rosa
Evento gratis. Concurso de Atole. Disfrute de tamales, atoles, pan dulce, musica, actividades de lotería, villancicos, y mucha mas diversión. Toda la familia es bienvenida. Estacionamiento gratis en Emeritus & Zumwalt Para mas información, comuníquese con Rafael Vázquez Guzmán 707-527-4589. En colaboración con MEChA de SRJC. Free event: Atole competition! Enjoy some tamales, atole, pan dulce, music, activities like lotería, posada songs, & lots more of fun! Bring the whole family! Free parking in Emeritus & Zumwalt. For more information contact Rafael Vázquez Guzmán 707-527-4589.
Spring 24
Hip Hop Writing Workshop with Bocafloja
Friday, February 9, 2024 4:00-5:00pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
A creative writing workshop exploring the poetics of Rap & Spoken Word through a historical revision of the Global South as cohesive front of knowledge production.
Bocafloja is a Mexican born Interdisciplinary artist of afro-indigenous descent based in the US. Music, Documentary Filmmaking, Literature and Photography are some of his mediums of creation. His body of work addresses topics such as the Global South, Decoloniality, Immigration, Critical Race Theory and the African Diaspora in Latin America. Rolling Stone magazine and Billboard named him as part of the 50 most relevant Hip Hop artists in the history of Spanish language Hip Hop.
Bocafloja: Concierto Intimo/ Intimate Concert
Friday, February 9 | 6:00 - 7:30 pm
Bertolini Student Activities Center
Join us in this intimate concert with opening by Rasquaches and concert by Bocafloja. Free event, parking $4
Bocafloja is a Mexican born Interdisciplinary artist of afro-indigenous descent based in the US. Music, Documentary Filmmaking, Literature and Photography are some of his mediums of creation. His body of work addresses topics such as the Global South, Decoloniality, Immigration, Critical Race Theory and the African Diaspora in Latin America. Rolling Stone magazine and Billboard named him as part of the 50 most relevant Hip Hop artists in the history of Spanish language Hip Hop.
From Ally to CoConspirator
Tuesday, February 27 | 3-5pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center
This is part of a series of events lead by the Queer Resource Center in partnership with Positive Images. For more information please email: qrc@santarosa.edu
Art as Resistance
Wednesday, March 13 | 1-2:30pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
Together, communities & artists have asked, how can art be a tool for social change? Art, and more specifically, public art has been vital in resistance movements throughout the world, sharing messages of struggle and triumph with a broader audience. Here in Sonoma County many women of color are creating public and accessible art that is challenging hegemonic narratives of this region and its peoples. In this panel, local artists will share with us the ways in which they use art to illustrate narratives of resistance, joy, culture, and community situated within the context of social justice and social change.
Part of Women's History Month series of events. For more WHM events visit: https://events.santarosa.edu/womens-history-month-2024
WOLM "The Marrow Thieves" All Our Relations Reading Group
Thursday, March 28 | 5-7pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
Dr. Churchill and Dr. tom facilitate the All Our Relations Reading Group to provide opportunities for students, faculty, staff, and the public to read texts and join in conversation about issues in Native American Studies, Indigenous Studies, Environmental Studies, and all areas that allow us to explore our connectedness with all our relations. This semester, we are excited to feature the young adult novel "The Marrow Thieves" and the sequel "Hunting by Stars" by Cherie Dimaline (Métis)
Abolition April with Katie "KD" Dixon
Tuesday, April 9 | 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
Virtually: Our House/QRC Petaluma Jacobs 116
Have you heard the headlines? Join us for a presentation on abolition April and Recognition of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Come hear from Katie "KD" Dixon about the ongoing sexual violence committed by guards inside the prisons. Tuesday April 9, 2024. From 12-1:30pm. In Person at the @qrcsrjc Queer Resource Center, Pioneer Hall 380, Santa Rosa or Join us for a zoom watch at Our House/QRC Jacobs 116, Petaluma. Scan the QR Code to register or register at https://bit.ly/3IJQAOF
Art Journaling and Reflection on WOLM with Amanda Ayala
Wednesday, April 10 | 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
Join Artist Amanda Ayala as we center our inherent creativity and brilliance to think together and reflect on themes in The Marrow Thieves (this year's Work of Literary Merit, WOLM). All supplies included, you are welcome to bring your favorite art supplies if you like!
Amanda Ayala (she/ella) is an interdisciplinary Xicana Indigenous visual artist and maker who centers people targeted by oppression and acknowledges their brilliance. Amanda leads and facilitates workshops that combine artist liberation and social justice for people of all ages. She creates within community as a way to heal and transform society.
Denim Day SAAM Workshop
Wednesday, April 24 | 12:00 - 1:00pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Come early to get lunch! Learn about resources, consent, how to take action to create safer communities for all. Denim Day, observed on a Wednesday in April, originated as a response to a rape conviction overturned by the Italian Supreme Court, promoting awareness and activism against victim blaming and myths surrounding sexual violence by wearing jeans in solidarity. This event will be made up of a presentation, discussion, creative project, and food :). In collaboration with Verity; Student Health PEERS; Queer Resource Center.
"Unseen" Film Screening and Q&A with protagonist, co-writer and director
Monday, April 29 | 12:00 - 2:00pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
Join us for the film screening of “Unseen” along with an opportunity to engage with pedro, the film’s protagonist & co-writer, & Set Hernandez, the director. Film synopsis: Most people dream of a better future. Pedro, an aspiring social worker, is no different. But as a blind, undocumented immigrant, Pedro faces political restrictions to obtain his college degree, secure a job as a health care provider, and support his family. As he finally graduates, uncertainty looms over Pedro. What starts as a journey to provide mental health for his community ultimately transforms into Pedro’s path towards his own healing.
Poetry Reading with Dan Lau
Tuesday, May 7 | 1:30pm to 3:00pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
Dan Lau is a poet, a nonprofit arts administrator at Kundiman, and an editor at Foglifter, a queer literary journal and press
in collaboration with EOPS. This event is part of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month. For more events like this, visit https://intercultural.santarosa.edu/APIhm
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WOLM "The Marrow Thieves" All Our Relations Reading Group
Thursday, April 25 | 5:00 - 7:00pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
Dr. Churchill and Dr. tom facilitate the All Our Relations Reading Group to provide opportunities for students, faculty, staff, and the public to read texts and join in conversation about issues in Native American Studies, Indigenous Studies, Environmental Studies, and all areas that allow us to explore our connectedness with all our relations. This semester, we are excited to feature the young adult novel "The Marrow Thieves" and the sequel "Hunting by Stars" by Cherie Dimaline (Métis)
Fall 23 events
SanaciÓn con hierbas (evento en espaÑol)
Miercoles, 27 de septiembre | 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
- more info
- Venga a aprender como sanar con hierbas, nuestro conocimiento ancestral de sanación debe continuar. Herbalista certificada, Josselyn Torres, dará este taller donde podrá aprender y compartir sobre el uso de hierbas.
Selena Night: Baile
Friday, September 29 | 7:00 - 10:00 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
- more info
- Venga y balile para celebrar a una artista que nos motiva a disfrutar la vida. Tendremos premios para las tres personas que mejor se visten como Selena o Los Dinos.
- Come and dance to celebrate an artist that motivates us to enjoy life! We will have prizes for the top three people dressed as Selena or Los Dinos.
Undoing Foundational Fairy Tales One Children's Book at a Time- With Dr. Siu
Tuesday, October 10 | 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
- more info
- In this talk, Dr. Siu offers a full reading of her book, Christopher the Ogre Cologre, It's Over! and reflects on the dangers of foundational fairy tales, their origins, and the need to contest them with the power of our stories.
Window Sill Planting
Wednesday, October 17 | 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
- more info
- Come learn how you can grow your own herbs with almost no space, just grow them on your window sill.
Your Dystopia, My Reality: The Power of Perspectives in Imagined Futures
Wednesday, October 25 | 1:00 - 3:00 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
- more info
- Typically, plot and theme of dystopia expresses and highlights cultural anxieties and is often grounded in "reality" without elements of fantasy or speculation or "what ifs" in order to comment, sometimes indirectly, about society and its fears. But for BIPOC, system oppression and manipulation is already part of the experience. Instead this genre is an opportunity to use story as medicine as they mean to revivify a state of being, to repair a culture, give a sense of place, soothe one's mental state, and/or give a strength that allows one to persevere and survive. Event recording here: https://santarosa-edu.zoom.us/rec/share/cQ-hHl1IfYaquXjQE34RGSRz-EFCHF2rfVspWHSfZhTjLqg7dpMd26MMI_m3IeJE.1i_BepPXsFl_nJ30
Method Sampling, Film Screening and Q&A
Thursday, November 2 | 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
- more info
- Method Sampling is the principle used by an Oakland, CA globetrotting orchestra which fuses hip-hop and classical music to magical effect. JooWan Kim, its Korean born composer, believes that any paradigm shifting change only happens by sampling and reframing differences that spark innovation. To test his hypothesis, Kim meets a disabled choreographer who revolutionized modern dance, a self-taught Black mycologist who wrote the first books on Cordyceps cultivation, and a tiny house builder with a shipbuilding background who looks at houses as inverted boats. In addition, he meets the Italian Critical Theorist, Fabio Vighi, to explore how Method Sampling may allow society to overcome the challenges it faces today. There will be a Q&A following the film with JooWan Kim and co-producer Christopher Nicholas.
Critical Literacy, with Professor Jason Seals
Wednesday, November 8 | 12:20 - 1:30 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
- more info
- critical literacy as a strategy for personal empowerment and social change-- in educational spaces and larger society. Critical Literacy is a social-political effort to challenge traditional approaches to teaching, learning, and engaging language.Join Dr. Jason Seals & the Santa Rosa Intercultural Center as we engage in an informal conversation with students, faculty, staff, and community members.
ITSU & AISES welcoming event
Thursday, November 9 | 4:30 - 6:00 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
- more info
- Join Student clubs "Inter-Tribal Student Union" and "American Indian Science Engineering Society" as we have a community building event with watching a film, sharing food, and making space to be.
Wintertime Storytelling Session
Tuesday, November 14 | 5:00 - 6:30 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
- more info
- Wintertime storytelling session includes a history of oral tradition within Indigenous cultures in US and Canada. Origin stories, ghost stories, bigfoot stories, oral history, oral tradition, supernatural and more.
CULTURAL FIRE: RESTORING RELATIONS
Wednesday, November 15 | 11:30am - 12:30 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
- more info
- The Honorable Ron W. Goode, Chairman of the North Fork Mono Tribe, teaches and speaks internationally on cultural burning. Joined by Dr. Erica Tom and students, this event will explore the power of restoring our relationship to the land, plants, animals, ourselves, and each other.
Elsie Allen Pomo Basket Collection: Songs, History, and Videos of Pomo Basketweavers.
Tuesday, November 21 | 6:00 - 7:30 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
- more info
- A collaboration between Linda Aguilar (Elsie Allen Granddaughter), Rachel Minor, SRJC Multicultural Museum Supervisor/Curator, and Lori Laiwa Thomas, Native American Studies Instructor-Ethnic Studies. A discussion will take place about Allen family narratives, the history about the multicultural museum at SRJC, and rare video footage of Pomo weavers from the Mendocino County area, including Elsie Allen, her mother, Annie Burke, and more.
All Our Relations Reading Group: Deer Woman, An Anthology
Tuesday, October 10 | 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Thursday, November 30 | 4:00 - 5:30 pm
- more info
- Dr. Churchill and Dr. Tom facilitate the All Our Relations Reading Group to provide opportunities for students, faculty, staff, and the public to read texts and join in conversations about issues in Native American Studies, Indigenous Studies, Environmental Studies, and all areas that allow us to explore our connectedness with all our relations. This semester, we are excited to feature the young adult novel The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline (Métis), scholarship on The Marrow Thieves by PhD Candidate Melissa Horner (Métis/Anishinaabe), Dr. Joaquin Muñoz (Pascua Yaqui), and Dr. Robert Petrone, and Deer Woman: Anthology, edited by Elizabeth LaPensée and Weshoyot Alvitre.
22-23 School Year
Details added as they come
- Kyle Mays
- Thursday, Feb 2, 2023. 12-1:15
- Part of Black History Month. More detials forthcoming
- Eric Atkinson
- Thursday, Feb 9, 2023. 12-1:15
- Part of Black History Month. More details forthcoming
- All Our Relations Reading Group
- Feb 27, 12- 1:30
- Disability & Innovation, with Haben Girma
- Thursday, March 2, 2023
- 11:30am -12:30pm
- Virtual event
- Wintertime storytelling with Lori Thomas
- Thursday, March 2, 2023
- 4-7pm
- Native American Health with Brijit Aleman
- 3/15 10-11
- Chairman Ron Goode
- April. Time and date TBD
- First Foods of the Season with Lori Thomas
- May 4, 2023
- 3-6pm
Past Events 2022-2023:
La Ruta del Son y Huapango Huasteco
Weds Oct 12 |10:30 -12:00 pm
SR Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380, and virtual. Zoom link to come.
History Instructor Laura Larqué and Ethnic Studies instructor Dr. Moises Santos will lead a lecture on the music of La Huasteca. They will discuss the roots and cultural influences of the Huasteca’s Son and Huapango.The cultural wealth of the Huasteca music has a long history of different ethnicities collaborating to create one of the most diverse and beautiful musical genres in Mexico.Come and learn about the six different regions in which La Huasteca is played, danced, and enjoyed. Learn a few zapateados and the double meaning of many Huasteca songs.Santa Rosa campus, Bertolini Student Activities Center
Sanacion con Hierbas
Miercoles, 14 de Sept | 6:00 pm - 7:30pm.
Evento en espanol. Evento en persona.
Hierbas que nos Apoyan
En el tiempo que estaremos juntos habrá oportunidad de compartir nuestras conexiones con hierbas. El enfoque será alrededor de hierbas que ayudan a reducir la ansiedad, estrés, depresión, insomnio, y que apoyan el sistema nervioso. También hablaremos acerca de las diferentes formas de consumir hierbas y recursos que existen en obtener hierbas. El uso de hierbas es una forma ancestral de apoyar nuestro bienestar y eso es parte de la inspiración de este compartimiento con la comunidad.
Santa Rosa Campus. SR Intercultural Center Pioneer 380
Simon Silva: “Creating Sustainable Equity Through the Arts”
Wednesday & Thursday, Sept 21-22
The lecture/workshop reveals to individuals a clarity and truth about the arts that has remained unknown for decades. He reveals all of the important easily applicable benefits of the arts that will be a requirement in the new economy. Things like enhanced communication skills, improvisation, being introspective, developing better questions and understanding that mistakes are capable of producing new and exciting opportunities. Silva says, “we were all born with genius level capacities to draw, think, learn and to question.” He believes that society has imposed a discrimination against our children simply because they are children and we stop developing what’s already naturally there. He believes the arts are an important component of everyone’s education but they need to be taught correctly. By doing so, we can develop and nurture what’s organically already there . This will give everyone a greater degree of success in the 21st century job market
September 21, Wednesday
| Time | Campus | |
9:00 am -10:00 am Lecture | Santa Rosa, Bertolini Student Activities Center | |
10:30 am- 11:30 am Art Workshop | Santa Rosa, Bertolini Student Activities Center | |
1:30 pm -3:30 pm Lecture & workshop | Santa Rosa, Analy Hall rm 714 | |
6:00 pm-7:00 pm Art workshop | Southwest Center, Rm 112 |
September 22, Thursday
| Time | Campus | |
11:00 am-12:00 pm Lecture | Petaluma, Student Engagement and Success Center | |
12:00 pm-1:00pm Art Workshop | Petaluma, Student Engagement and Success Center | |
4:30pm-6:00pm Meet & Greet hosted by LFSA | Santa Rosa, Bertolini Student Activities Center |
Participants will have the opportunity to purchase Simon Silva's art and get it signed. While supplies last.
Latinx Carpa: Student Talent Show
Thursday, Sept 29 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 PM
In person: Burbank Auditorium, Santa Rosa Campus
You may also join South County students in the SRJC Petaluma Student Engagement & Success Center Thursday, Sept 29 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 PM for the livestream interactive watch party. We will provide refreshments and an opportunity to be active audience members.
Latinx Carpa is a talent show mainly for students. Carpa means “tent” in Spanish. It was a type of traveling theater very popular in México in the early 20th century featuring a mixture of specialty acts such as burlesque comedy, song and dance. If you have a talent or want to participate you are invited for a night of burlesque, music, dance, magic and perhaps movie clips. For more information and to register to participate go to https://lfsa.santarosa.edu/latinxcarpa
Stand and Deliver: SRJC Theater Production
7:30 pm on Sept 30, Oct 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 2022
2:00 pm on Oct 2, 8, 9, 2022
Based on the screenplay by Ramon Menendez and Tom Musca.
Adapted for the stage by Robert Bella.
Directed by Elizabeth Dale.
Assistant Director/Cultural Advisor: Anakarina Swanson.
Studio Theatre
Based on a true story and an Academy-Award nominated film, Stand and Deliver celebrates Jaime Escalante, a math teacher at an East LA high school who transforms his students' lives with his unorthodox teaching methods. This production features SRJC Theatre Arts alumnus Danny Banales in the lead role, and is dedicated to Sonoma County's own Jaime Escalante, Maestro Roberto Ramirez.
for tickets:
Online -or- call (707) 527-4307
Alejandro Jimenez: "Poetry as the Means We Need"
Tuesday, Oct 4 | 10:30 am -12:30 pm
SR Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380.
Virtual viewing via Instagram Live.
https://www.instagram.com/srjcinterculturalcenter/
Join us as we welcome renown poet, Alejandro Jimenez. Alejandro will share with us an hour of poetry reading from his unique work (10:30 -11:30am), followed by an hour poetry workshop (11:30-12:30). You can attend one or the other or both. Workshop: "Two tongues, two languages". In this workshop, we will explore the languages we carry in our tongues. It will ask the participants to think beyond the immediate benefits and repercussions of being bilingual. We will explore the power, the resistance created when we hold on to our language(s); when we give new meaning to words, when we create new words, when we write in a way that our family understand us, when we do not conform. What does it mean to be bilingual in an era of anti-latinx rhetoric and sentiments? The crux of this workshop is on how our tongues are not a burden but a necessary tool to reclaim ourselves.
ALEJANDRO JIMENEZ is a formerly-undocumented immigrant, poet, writer, and educator from Colima, Mexico, living in New Mexico. He is the 2021 Mexican National Poetry Slam Champion, he is a two-time National Poetry Slam Semi-Finalist (US), multiple time TEDx Speaker/Performer, and regional Emmy-nominated poet. He was featured in TIME Magazine as one of 80 Mexican artists shaping contemporary Mexican culture. His work centers and touches on cultural identity, immigrant narratives, masculinity, memory, and the intersections of them all.
Indigenous Peoples' Day
Monday, October 10
11:00 am - 3:00pm
Visit https://nac.santarosa.edu/event/srjc-indigenous-peoples-day-0 for more information and full schedule
21-22 School year (June - July)
Campus Hubs For Social Justice
Monday, August 16, 10-11am & Wednesday, August 18, 5-6pm
Learn more about the new Intercultural Center in Santa Rosa and "Our House" in Petaluma. Both centers serve as important hubs for antiracism and social justice work at SRJC.
Vaccine Panel *traducción en español
Join us Thursday, September 23 from 5-6 pm. Questions/ concerns over the COVID vaccine? Get your questions answered by experts in the field.
Panel of experts: Dr. Kismet Baldwin, Dr. De Von Jackson, Dr. Brian Prystowsky, Zeke Guzman
Can't make it, send your questions ahead of time to: studenthelthservices@santarosa.edu
Live captioning (CART) provided in English, and event translated in Spanish
Acompáñanos el jueves, 23 de septiembre de 5-6pm. Tiene preguntas o dudas sobre la vacuna del COVID? Expertos médicos le contestaran cualquier duda sobre la vacuna contra el COVID
Expertos incluyen: Dr. Kismet Baldwin, Dr. De Von Jackson, Dr. Brian Prystowsky, Zeke Guzmán
Si no puede asistir, made sus preguntas a: studenthelthservices@santarosa.edu
El evento estará completamente traducido en español por interpretes profesionales. Subtítulos en tiempor real en inglés.
Indigenous People's Day
Oct 11th 11am - 3pm
Join the SRJC Native American Faculty & Staff Association and Native leaders in our local community for a virtual gathering.
Coming out Across Intersections hosted by Yosimar Reyes
Wednesday, October 13. 11am -12pm
Yosimar Reyes, nationally-acclaimed poet and public speaker, will lead the discussion around the nuances of “Coming Out” as it relates to intersectional identities, with a focus on their own experience within Mexican/Chicanx/Latinx Queer Identities. This will be an incredible discussion and we invite folks to join us from 11a.m. to 12pm..
Yosimar Reyes is a nationally acclaimed poet and public speaker. Born in Guerrero, Mexico, and raised in Eastside San Jose, Reyes explores the themes of migration and sexuality in his work. Yosimar is a LAMBDA Literary Fellow, named as one of “13 LGBT Latinos Changing the World” by The Advocate, and Remezcla included Reyes on their list of “10 UP and Coming Latinx Poets You Need to Know”.
MURAL CONVERSATION WITH MARIA DE LOS ANGELES
The SRJC Foundation is commissioning artist and alumna Maria De Los Angeles to create a mural for the Santa Rosa campus.
Come have a conversation with the artist about what you would like to see in the mural that reflects our community. The conversations will be welcoming and fun. The artist will create a safe and respectful space for a fruitful conversation that might inspire visual vocabulary and symbols for the mural design.
Click on the event title for more information.
Native American History Month
Join us for events that center the experiences, lives, and history of Native folks. In collaboration with Sonoma State and SSU's the HUB Cultural Center, we have come together to provide a vast array of events. Click here for more info.
Going Beyond Land Acknowledgments
Friday, December 10th 9:30am - 12:30pm | to RSVP, email mhernandezlegorreta@santarosa.edu
Going Beyond Land Acknowledgements is an interactive 3 hour workshop for individuals seeking to grow their allyship with Native peoples. Participants learn about the strengths and limitations of land acknowledgments and explore concrete, action-oriented strategies for building connections with Native communities and organizations.
Texturas Marrón
Políticas raciales en Latinoamérica. Una conversación con Bocafloja
Diálogo y conversatorio que se adentra en la genealogía de la identidad racial referente a los estados-nación latinoamericanos. El mestizaje como proyecto político en los modelos de colonialismo interno de la región. Intercambio de saberes a partir de una óptica anticolonial desde las epistemologías del sur global.
Bocafloja es un artista interdisciplinario y curador radicado en New York; las películas documentales, música, literatura, fotografía, y el diseño, son algunos de sus medios de creación.
Miercoles, 23 de febrero, 2022 4:30-5:30 PM.
Evento en Español.
This event is part of SRJC's Black History Month series of events. For more events in the series, visit: https://santarosajuniorcollege.formstack.com/forms/bhmeventsregistration
Crossing Borders & Boundaries: Conversation with Bamby Salcedo
Join us in conversation with award-winning activist, community organizer, social justice advocate and professional, Bamby Salcedo. Salcedo will discuss her work from founding Trans Latin@ Coalition, to testifying before congress, and what she’s currently working on. Her work mediates intersections of race, gender, sexuality, age, social class, HIV+ status, immigration status, and more.
Bamby Salcedo is a prominent and celebrated transgender Latina activist, known all over the world for her passionate and productive social, political, and economic influence. As the President and CEO of the TransLatin@ Coalition, Bamby steadily leads this nationally recognized organization that advocates for and addresses the issues of transgender Latinas throughout the United States, as well as countless organizations whose efforts focus on critical topics that include immigration, HIV, at-risk youth, LGBTQIA+ issues, incarceration, and more. Bamby received her Master’s Degree in Mexican and Latin@ Studies from California State University, Los Angeles. She has developed the Center for Violence Prevention & Transgender Wellness, a multimillion, multipurpose, multiservice space for Trans people in Los Angeles. Thanks to her impassioned and impactful influence, Bamby has been invited several times by the White House to participate on a multitude of panels. Just recently, Bamby was invited to testify before Congress to speak on the Equal Rights Amendment with the ERA Coalition, for which Bamby serves as a board member. Bamby was humbly honored to participate in the hearing and always ensures that our elected officials learn firsthand how people are impacted by the policies and laws they create. To learn more about Bamby and her work, visit http://bambysalcedo.com.
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
11 AM -12 PM PT
Part of SRJC's Woman's History Month. Funding provided by the SRJC Foundation Lawrence A. Bertolini Student Center Endowment
"You Want These Hands?" Tips & Tricks for Intercultural Conflict
Wednesday, March 16, 10:00am -11:30am |
This workshop will give hands-on skills and practical skills for identifying your and others' conflict styles
SRJC student participants will have a chance to enter into an opportunity drawing for a $25 gift card
Well-Being Wednesday: Keeping Calm During Midterms & Exams
Wednesday, March 16, 10:00am -11:30am |
A SAFE space to TALK, SHARE, and CONNECT with new people to IMPROVE mental health and RELEASE stress
SRJC student participants will have a chance to enter into an opportunity drawing for a $25 gift card
GOING BEYOND LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Tuesday, April 5th, 10:00am -1:00pm | To be added to the waitlist, email mhernandezlegorreta@santarosa.edu
Going Beyond Land Acknowledgements is an interactive 3-hour workshop for individuals seeking to grow their allyship with Native peoples. Participants learn about the strengths and limitations of land acknowledgments and explore concrete, action-oriented strategies for building connections with Native communities and organizations.
OUR OWN VOICES: SECOND CHANCE PANEL
Tuesday, April 12, 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Hear from 5 past and present second chance students as they share how their experiences have shaped where they are today, including their time at SRJC. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions during this event.
Part of Second Chance Month: https://intercultural.santarosa.edu/second-chance-month
ARab? Middle Eastern? Muslim? South Asian? Mapping our Presence on Campus
Tuesday April 19, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Join SRJC Students, Staff, and Faculty as we discuss what it means to us to identity as part of the AMEMSA community in the United States and at SRJC. Centering our lived experiences within the vast and diverse ethnic and cultural groups known broadly as the “Middle East/AMEMSA”, we will discuss how social, historical, and familial contexts have impacted our notions of self, race, belonging, and our communities.
April holidays & Celebrations
Wednesday, April 20, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Please join AMEMSA in exploring a wide range of Middle Eastern holidays that take place this April! We will share the various ways Ramadan and Easter are observed and practiced in different parts of the Middle East, as well as discuss secular spring celebrations, festivals, and memorials.
Transfer panel
Thursday, April 21, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Getting ready to move: Ready for Transfer? Housing | Roomates | Mental Health | Environment
Come get prepared for your new environment, get other students first hand experience. We will have a panel with past SRJC students who have transferred. It will be a great place to ask questions and get personalized tips!
Panelists from: Out of State, UCs, CSUs, HBCU.
Participants will be entered into a drawing for a $25 grocery card
Bright as the Sun: A look at the lives of women in ancient egypt
A lecture by Dr. Heidi Saleh
Wednesday, April 27, 12:00 pm - 1:30pm
Ancient Egyptian women enjoyed more rights and freedoms than their counterparts in Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome. And even though women played a pivotal role in ancient Egyptian society, they have been traditionally overlooked and/or downplayed by modern scholars. Join us in a lecture that explores the lives and occupations of a wide spectrum of ancient Egyptian women from a variety of socio-economic backgrounds. We will examine women Pharaohs as well as female servants and work to understand their full complexity as leaders and workers as well as wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters.
Sponsored by LFSA and HSI Lanzamiento
FILM SCREENING OF “VINCENT WHO?” AND CONVERSATION WITH CURTIS CHIN
Hosted by Sheryl Cavales Doolan
Thu. April 28, 2022 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm
In recognition of the 40th Anniversary of the Vincent Chin case, you are invited to a film screening of Vincent Who? and Q&A conversation with Director/Producer Curtis Chin. Vincent Who? recounts the 1982 murder of Vincent Chin, a Chinese American who was murdered in Detroit at the height of anti-Japanese sentiments, by two white autoworkers who blamed Chin for the loss of their jobs. Vincent Chin’s killers were given a $3,000 fine and three years probation but no jail time. Outraged by this injustice, Asian Americans around the country united for the first time across ethnic and socioeconomic lines to form a pan-Asian identity and civil rights movement.
TALK STORY WITH DR. ROWENA TOMANENG PRESIDENT OF SAN JOSE CITY COLLEGE
Hosted by Dr. Frank Chong
Wed. May 4, 2022 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm
A first-generation immigrant from the Philippines and community college transfer student, Dr. Rowena Tomaneng has been a multicultural educator in the California Community Colleges for 25 years. Rowena is currently the President of San Jose City College (SJCC) in the San Jose-Jose-Evergreen Valley Community College District. Join us in an hour long talk story with Dr. Rowena Tomaneng about her career trajectory as an Asian American and Pacific Islander woman and her extensive leadership around social justice, student equity, and community engagement.
zoom link: https://santarosa-edu.zoom.us/j/99425654299
DECOLONIZING ASIAN AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER MENTAL HEALTH
Hosted by SRJC PEERS Coalition
Thu. May 5, 2022 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
This presentation will explore the mental health impacts of the pandemic and the rise in API hate on the greater API community. The presentation will take a decolonial framework and lens on the mental health counseling field, address barriers to mental health service access, and present solutions to open up the mental health service access to the API community.
Transfer student mixer
May 11, 2022; 3-5pm
In-Person: Santa Rosa Campus Graduation Lawn (near Bertolini Quad)
Great Place to Find roomates and Friends. Come get to know other students that are transferring this fall and celebrate together with food and music. Claim your transfer medallion. Participants will be entered into a drawing for a $25 grocery card.
AAJC BYSTANDER INTERVENTION TRAINING
Hosted by Asian Americans Advancing Justice- LA
Thu. May 12, 2022 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
In collaboration with SSU
In response to the alarming surge in hate incidents targeting the Asian American community, Advancing Justice – LA, a leading legal and civil rights organization, is launching a bystander intervention initiative. The effort is designed to promote awareness and usage of bystander intervention methods. Intended to prevent verbal harassment from escalating into physical violence, these techniques offer everyday people the chance to assist victims and play a role in keeping their communities safe.
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Spring 24 events at/by the Santa Rosa Intercultural Center
Hip Hop Writing Workshop with Bocafloja
Friday, February 9, 2024 4:00-5:00pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
A creative writing workshop exploring the poetics of Rap & Spoken Word through a historical revision of the Global South as cohesive front of knowledge production.
Bocafloja is a Mexican born Interdisciplinary artist of afro-indigenous descent based in the US. Music, Documentary Filmmaking, Literature and Photography are some of his mediums of creation. His body of work addresses topics such as the Global South, Decoloniality, Immigration, Critical Race Theory and the African Diaspora in Latin America. Rolling Stone magazine and Billboard named him as part of the 50 most relevant Hip Hop artists in the history of Spanish language Hip Hop.
Bocafloja: Concierto Intimo/ Intimate Concert
Friday, February 9 | 6:00 - 7:30 pm
Bertolini Student Activities Center
Join us in this intimate concert with opening by Rasquaches and concert by Bocafloja. Free event, parking $4
Bocafloja is a Mexican born Interdisciplinary artist of afro-indigenous descent based in the US. Music, Documentary Filmmaking, Literature and Photography are some of his mediums of creation. His body of work addresses topics such as the Global South, Decoloniality, Immigration, Critical Race Theory and the African Diaspora in Latin America. Rolling Stone magazine and Billboard named him as part of the 50 most relevant Hip Hop artists in the history of Spanish language Hip Hop.
From Ally to CoConspirator
Tuesday, February 27 | 3-5pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center
This is part of a series of events lead by the Queer Resource Center in partnership with Positive Images. For more information please email: qrc@santarosa.edu
Art as Resistance
Wednesday, March 13 | 1-2:30pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
Together, communities & artists have asked, how can art be a tool for social change? Art, and more specifically, public art has been vital in resistance movements throughout the world, sharing messages of struggle and triumph with a broader audience. Here in Sonoma County many women of color are creating public and accessible art that is challenging hegemonic narratives of this region and its peoples. In this panel, local artists will share with us the ways in which they use art to illustrate narratives of resistance, joy, culture, and community situated within the context of social justice and social change.
Part of Women's History Month series of events. For more WHM events visit: https://events.santarosa.edu/womens-history-month-2024
WOLM "The Marrow Thieves" All Our Relations Reading Group
Thursday, March 28 | 5-7pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
Dr. Churchill and Dr. tom facilitate the All Our Relations Reading Group to provide opportunities for students, faculty, staff, and the public to read texts and join in conversation about issues in Native American Studies, Indigenous Studies, Environmental Studies, and all areas that allow us to explore our connectedness with all our relations. This semester, we are excited to feature the young adult novel "The Marrow Thieves" and the sequel "Hunting by Stars" by Cherie Dimaline (Métis)
Abolition April with Katie "KD" Dixon
Tuesday, April 9 | 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
Virtually: Our House/QRC Petaluma Jacobs 116
Have you heard the headlines? Join us for a presentation on abolition April and Recognition of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Come hear from Katie "KD" Dixon about the ongoing sexual violence committed by guards inside the prisons. Tuesday April 9, 2024. From 12-1:30pm. In Person at the @qrcsrjc Queer Resource Center, Pioneer Hall 380, Santa Rosa or Join us for a zoom watch at Our House/QRC Jacobs 116, Petaluma. Scan the QR Code to register or register at https://bit.ly/3IJQAOF
Art Journaling and Reflection on WOLM with Amanda Ayala
Wednesday, April 10 | 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
Join Artist Amanda Ayala as we center our inherent creativity and brilliance to think together and reflect on themes in The Marrow Thieves (this year's Work of Literary Merit, WOLM). All supplies included, you are welcome to bring your favorite art supplies if you like!
Amanda Ayala (she/ella) is an interdisciplinary Xicana Indigenous visual artist and maker who centers people targeted by oppression and acknowledges their brilliance. Amanda leads and facilitates workshops that combine artist liberation and social justice for people of all ages. She creates within community as a way to heal and transform society.
Denim Day SAAM Workshop
Wednesday, April 24 | 12:00 - 1:00pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Come early to get lunch! Learn about resources, consent, how to take action to create safer communities for all. Denim Day, observed on a Wednesday in April, originated as a response to a rape conviction overturned by the Italian Supreme Court, promoting awareness and activism against victim blaming and myths surrounding sexual violence by wearing jeans in solidarity. This event will be made up of a presentation, discussion, creative project, and food :). In collaboration with Verity; Student Health PEERS; Queer Resource Center.
"Unseen" Film Screening and Q&A with protagonist, co-writer and director
Monday, April 29 | 12:00 - 2:00pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
Join us for the film screening of “Unseen” along with an opportunity to engage with pedro, the film’s protagonist & co-writer, & Set Hernandez, the director. Film synopsis: Most people dream of a better future. Pedro, an aspiring social worker, is no different. But as a blind, undocumented immigrant, Pedro faces political restrictions to obtain his college degree, secure a job as a health care provider, and support his family. As he finally graduates, uncertainty looms over Pedro. What starts as a journey to provide mental health for his community ultimately transforms into Pedro’s path towards his own healing.
Poetry Reading with Dan Lau
Tuesday, May 7 | 1:30pm to 3:00pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
Dan Lau is a poet, a nonprofit arts administrator at Kundiman, and an editor at Foglifter, a queer literary journal and press
in collaboration with EOPS. This event is part of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month. For more events like this, visit https://intercultural.santarosa.edu/APIhm
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WOLM "The Marrow Thieves" All Our Relations Reading Group
Thursday, April 25 | 5:00 - 7:00pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
Dr. Churchill and Dr. tom facilitate the All Our Relations Reading Group to provide opportunities for students, faculty, staff, and the public to read texts and join in conversation about issues in Native American Studies, Indigenous Studies, Environmental Studies, and all areas that allow us to explore our connectedness with all our relations. This semester, we are excited to feature the young adult novel "The Marrow Thieves" and the sequel "Hunting by Stars" by Cherie Dimaline (Métis)
Fall 23 events
SanaciÓn con hierbas (evento en espaÑol)
Miercoles, 27 de septiembre | 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
- more info
- Venga a aprender como sanar con hierbas, nuestro conocimiento ancestral de sanación debe continuar. Herbalista certificada, Josselyn Torres, dará este taller donde podrá aprender y compartir sobre el uso de hierbas.
Selena Night: Baile
Friday, September 29 | 7:00 - 10:00 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
- more info
- Venga y balile para celebrar a una artista que nos motiva a disfrutar la vida. Tendremos premios para las tres personas que mejor se visten como Selena o Los Dinos.
- Come and dance to celebrate an artist that motivates us to enjoy life! We will have prizes for the top three people dressed as Selena or Los Dinos.
Undoing Foundational Fairy Tales One Children's Book at a Time- With Dr. Siu
Tuesday, October 10 | 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
- more info
- In this talk, Dr. Siu offers a full reading of her book, Christopher the Ogre Cologre, It's Over! and reflects on the dangers of foundational fairy tales, their origins, and the need to contest them with the power of our stories.
Window Sill Planting
Wednesday, October 17 | 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
- more info
- Come learn how you can grow your own herbs with almost no space, just grow them on your window sill.
Your Dystopia, My Reality: The Power of Perspectives in Imagined Futures
Wednesday, October 25 | 1:00 - 3:00 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
- more info
- Typically, plot and theme of dystopia expresses and highlights cultural anxieties and is often grounded in "reality" without elements of fantasy or speculation or "what ifs" in order to comment, sometimes indirectly, about society and its fears. But for BIPOC, system oppression and manipulation is already part of the experience. Instead this genre is an opportunity to use story as medicine as they mean to revivify a state of being, to repair a culture, give a sense of place, soothe one's mental state, and/or give a strength that allows one to persevere and survive. Event recording here: https://santarosa-edu.zoom.us/rec/share/cQ-hHl1IfYaquXjQE34RGSRz-EFCHF2rfVspWHSfZhTjLqg7dpMd26MMI_m3IeJE.1i_BepPXsFl_nJ30
Method Sampling, Film Screening and Q&A
Thursday, November 2 | 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
- more info
- Method Sampling is the principle used by an Oakland, CA globetrotting orchestra which fuses hip-hop and classical music to magical effect. JooWan Kim, its Korean born composer, believes that any paradigm shifting change only happens by sampling and reframing differences that spark innovation. To test his hypothesis, Kim meets a disabled choreographer who revolutionized modern dance, a self-taught Black mycologist who wrote the first books on Cordyceps cultivation, and a tiny house builder with a shipbuilding background who looks at houses as inverted boats. In addition, he meets the Italian Critical Theorist, Fabio Vighi, to explore how Method Sampling may allow society to overcome the challenges it faces today. There will be a Q&A following the film with JooWan Kim and co-producer Christopher Nicholas.
Critical Literacy, with Professor Jason Seals
Wednesday, November 8 | 12:20 - 1:30 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
- more info
- critical literacy as a strategy for personal empowerment and social change-- in educational spaces and larger society. Critical Literacy is a social-political effort to challenge traditional approaches to teaching, learning, and engaging language.Join Dr. Jason Seals & the Santa Rosa Intercultural Center as we engage in an informal conversation with students, faculty, staff, and community members.
ITSU & AISES welcoming event
Thursday, November 9 | 4:30 - 6:00 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
- more info
- Join Student clubs "Inter-Tribal Student Union" and "American Indian Science Engineering Society" as we have a community building event with watching a film, sharing food, and making space to be.
Wintertime Storytelling Session
Tuesday, November 14 | 5:00 - 6:30 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
- more info
- Wintertime storytelling session includes a history of oral tradition within Indigenous cultures in US and Canada. Origin stories, ghost stories, bigfoot stories, oral history, oral tradition, supernatural and more.
CULTURAL FIRE: RESTORING RELATIONS
Wednesday, November 15 | 11:30am - 12:30 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
- more info
- The Honorable Ron W. Goode, Chairman of the North Fork Mono Tribe, teaches and speaks internationally on cultural burning. Joined by Dr. Erica Tom and students, this event will explore the power of restoring our relationship to the land, plants, animals, ourselves, and each other.
Elsie Allen Pomo Basket Collection: Songs, History, and Videos of Pomo Basketweavers.
Tuesday, November 21 | 6:00 - 7:30 pm
Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380
- more info
- A collaboration between Linda Aguilar (Elsie Allen Granddaughter), Rachel Minor, SRJC Multicultural Museum Supervisor/Curator, and Lori Laiwa Thomas, Native American Studies Instructor-Ethnic Studies. A discussion will take place about Allen family narratives, the history about the multicultural museum at SRJC, and rare video footage of Pomo weavers from the Mendocino County area, including Elsie Allen, her mother, Annie Burke, and more.
All Our Relations Reading Group: Deer Woman, An Anthology
Tuesday, October 10 | 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Thursday, November 30 | 4:00 - 5:30 pm
- more info
- Dr. Churchill and Dr. Tom facilitate the All Our Relations Reading Group to provide opportunities for students, faculty, staff, and the public to read texts and join in conversations about issues in Native American Studies, Indigenous Studies, Environmental Studies, and all areas that allow us to explore our connectedness with all our relations. This semester, we are excited to feature the young adult novel The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline (Métis), scholarship on The Marrow Thieves by PhD Candidate Melissa Horner (Métis/Anishinaabe), Dr. Joaquin Muñoz (Pascua Yaqui), and Dr. Robert Petrone, and Deer Woman: Anthology, edited by Elizabeth LaPensée and Weshoyot Alvitre.
22-23 School Year
Details added as they come
- Kyle Mays
- Thursday, Feb 2, 2023. 12-1:15
- Part of Black History Month. More detials forthcoming
- Eric Atkinson
- Thursday, Feb 9, 2023. 12-1:15
- Part of Black History Month. More details forthcoming
- All Our Relations Reading Group
- Feb 27, 12- 1:30
- Disability & Innovation, with Haben Girma
- Thursday, March 2, 2023
- 11:30am -12:30pm
- Virtual event
- Wintertime storytelling with Lori Thomas
- Thursday, March 2, 2023
- 4-7pm
- Native American Health with Brijit Aleman
- 3/15 10-11
- Chairman Ron Goode
- April. Time and date TBD
- First Foods of the Season with Lori Thomas
- May 4, 2023
- 3-6pm
Past Events 2022-2023:
La Ruta del Son y Huapango Huasteco
Weds Oct 12 |10:30 -12:00 pm
SR Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380, and virtual. Zoom link to come.
History Instructor Laura Larqué and Ethnic Studies instructor Dr. Moises Santos will lead a lecture on the music of La Huasteca. They will discuss the roots and cultural influences of the Huasteca’s Son and Huapango.The cultural wealth of the Huasteca music has a long history of different ethnicities collaborating to create one of the most diverse and beautiful musical genres in Mexico.Come and learn about the six different regions in which La Huasteca is played, danced, and enjoyed. Learn a few zapateados and the double meaning of many Huasteca songs.Santa Rosa campus, Bertolini Student Activities Center
Undocumented Student Action Week
Oct 17-21
For a list of events, visit https://dream.santarosa.edu/events-workshops
Sanacion con Hierbas
Miercoles, 14 de Sept | 6:00 pm - 7:30pm.
Evento en espanol. Evento en persona.
Hierbas que nos Apoyan
En el tiempo que estaremos juntos habrá oportunidad de compartir nuestras conexiones con hierbas. El enfoque será alrededor de hierbas que ayudan a reducir la ansiedad, estrés, depresión, insomnio, y que apoyan el sistema nervioso. También hablaremos acerca de las diferentes formas de consumir hierbas y recursos que existen en obtener hierbas. El uso de hierbas es una forma ancestral de apoyar nuestro bienestar y eso es parte de la inspiración de este compartimiento con la comunidad.
Santa Rosa Campus. SR Intercultural Center Pioneer 380
Simon Silva: “Creating Sustainable Equity Through the Arts”
Wednesday & Thursday, Sept 21-22
The lecture/workshop reveals to individuals a clarity and truth about the arts that has remained unknown for decades. He reveals all of the important easily applicable benefits of the arts that will be a requirement in the new economy. Things like enhanced communication skills, improvisation, being introspective, developing better questions and understanding that mistakes are capable of producing new and exciting opportunities. Silva says, “we were all born with genius level capacities to draw, think, learn and to question.” He believes that society has imposed a discrimination against our children simply because they are children and we stop developing what’s already naturally there. He believes the arts are an important component of everyone’s education but they need to be taught correctly. By doing so, we can develop and nurture what’s organically already there . This will give everyone a greater degree of success in the 21st century job market
September 21, Wednesday
| Time | Campus | |
9:00 am -10:00 am Lecture | Santa Rosa, Bertolini Student Activities Center | |
10:30 am- 11:30 am Art Workshop | Santa Rosa, Bertolini Student Activities Center | |
1:30 pm -3:30 pm Lecture & workshop | Santa Rosa, Analy Hall rm 714 | |
6:00 pm-7:00 pm Art workshop | Southwest Center, Rm 112 |
September 22, Thursday
| Time | Campus | |
11:00 am-12:00 pm Lecture | Petaluma, Student Engagement and Success Center | |
12:00 pm-1:00pm Art Workshop | Petaluma, Student Engagement and Success Center | |
4:30pm-6:00pm Meet & Greet hosted by LFSA | Santa Rosa, Bertolini Student Activities Center |
Participants will have the opportunity to purchase Simon Silva's art and get it signed. While supplies last.
Latinx Carpa: Student Talent Show
Thursday, Sept 29 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 PM
In person: Burbank Auditorium, Santa Rosa Campus
You may also join South County students in the SRJC Petaluma Student Engagement & Success Center Thursday, Sept 29 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 PM for the livestream interactive watch party. We will provide refreshments and an opportunity to be active audience members.
Latinx Carpa is a talent show mainly for students. Carpa means “tent” in Spanish. It was a type of traveling theater very popular in México in the early 20th century featuring a mixture of specialty acts such as burlesque comedy, song and dance. If you have a talent or want to participate you are invited for a night of burlesque, music, dance, magic and perhaps movie clips. For more information and to register to participate go to https://lfsa.santarosa.edu/latinxcarpa
Stand and Deliver: SRJC Theater Production
7:30 pm on Sept 30, Oct 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 2022
2:00 pm on Oct 2, 8, 9, 2022
Based on the screenplay by Ramon Menendez and Tom Musca.
Adapted for the stage by Robert Bella.
Directed by Elizabeth Dale.
Assistant Director/Cultural Advisor: Anakarina Swanson.
Studio Theatre
Based on a true story and an Academy-Award nominated film, Stand and Deliver celebrates Jaime Escalante, a math teacher at an East LA high school who transforms his students' lives with his unorthodox teaching methods. This production features SRJC Theatre Arts alumnus Danny Banales in the lead role, and is dedicated to Sonoma County's own Jaime Escalante, Maestro Roberto Ramirez.
for tickets:
Online -or- call (707) 527-4307
Alejandro Jimenez: "Poetry as the Means We Need"
Tuesday, Oct 4 | 10:30 am -12:30 pm
SR Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380.
Virtual viewing via Instagram Live.
https://www.instagram.com/srjcinterculturalcenter/
Join us as we welcome renown poet, Alejandro Jimenez. Alejandro will share with us an hour of poetry reading from his unique work (10:30 -11:30am), followed by an hour poetry workshop (11:30-12:30). You can attend one or the other or both. Workshop: "Two tongues, two languages". In this workshop, we will explore the languages we carry in our tongues. It will ask the participants to think beyond the immediate benefits and repercussions of being bilingual. We will explore the power, the resistance created when we hold on to our language(s); when we give new meaning to words, when we create new words, when we write in a way that our family understand us, when we do not conform. What does it mean to be bilingual in an era of anti-latinx rhetoric and sentiments? The crux of this workshop is on how our tongues are not a burden but a necessary tool to reclaim ourselves.
ALEJANDRO JIMENEZ is a formerly-undocumented immigrant, poet, writer, and educator from Colima, Mexico, living in New Mexico. He is the 2021 Mexican National Poetry Slam Champion, he is a two-time National Poetry Slam Semi-Finalist (US), multiple time TEDx Speaker/Performer, and regional Emmy-nominated poet. He was featured in TIME Magazine as one of 80 Mexican artists shaping contemporary Mexican culture. His work centers and touches on cultural identity, immigrant narratives, masculinity, memory, and the intersections of them all.
Indigenous Peoples' Day
Monday, October 10
11:00 am - 3:00pm
Visit https://nac.santarosa.edu/event/srjc-indigenous-peoples-day-0 for more information and full schedule
21-22 School year (June - July)
Campus Hubs For Social Justice
Monday, August 16, 10-11am & Wednesday, August 18, 5-6pm
Learn more about the new Intercultural Center in Santa Rosa and "Our House" in Petaluma. Both centers serve as important hubs for antiracism and social justice work at SRJC.
Vaccine Panel *traducción en español
Join us Thursday, September 23 from 5-6 pm. Questions/ concerns over the COVID vaccine? Get your questions answered by experts in the field.
Panel of experts: Dr. Kismet Baldwin, Dr. De Von Jackson, Dr. Brian Prystowsky, Zeke Guzman
Can't make it, send your questions ahead of time to: studenthelthservices@santarosa.edu
Live captioning (CART) provided in English, and event translated in Spanish
Acompáñanos el jueves, 23 de septiembre de 5-6pm. Tiene preguntas o dudas sobre la vacuna del COVID? Expertos médicos le contestaran cualquier duda sobre la vacuna contra el COVID
Expertos incluyen: Dr. Kismet Baldwin, Dr. De Von Jackson, Dr. Brian Prystowsky, Zeke Guzmán
Si no puede asistir, made sus preguntas a: studenthelthservices@santarosa.edu
El evento estará completamente traducido en español por interpretes profesionales. Subtítulos en tiempor real en inglés.
Indigenous People's Day
Oct 11th 11am - 3pm
Join the SRJC Native American Faculty & Staff Association and Native leaders in our local community for a virtual gathering.
Coming out Across Intersections hosted by Yosimar Reyes
Wednesday, October 13. 11am -12pm
Yosimar Reyes, nationally-acclaimed poet and public speaker, will lead the discussion around the nuances of “Coming Out” as it relates to intersectional identities, with a focus on their own experience within Mexican/Chicanx/Latinx Queer Identities. This will be an incredible discussion and we invite folks to join us from 11a.m. to 12pm..
Yosimar Reyes is a nationally acclaimed poet and public speaker. Born in Guerrero, Mexico, and raised in Eastside San Jose, Reyes explores the themes of migration and sexuality in his work. Yosimar is a LAMBDA Literary Fellow, named as one of “13 LGBT Latinos Changing the World” by The Advocate, and Remezcla included Reyes on their list of “10 UP and Coming Latinx Poets You Need to Know”.
MURAL CONVERSATION WITH MARIA DE LOS ANGELES
The SRJC Foundation is commissioning artist and alumna Maria De Los Angeles to create a mural for the Santa Rosa campus.
Come have a conversation with the artist about what you would like to see in the mural that reflects our community. The conversations will be welcoming and fun. The artist will create a safe and respectful space for a fruitful conversation that might inspire visual vocabulary and symbols for the mural design.
Click on the event title for more information.
Native American History Month
Join us for events that center the experiences, lives, and history of Native folks. In collaboration with Sonoma State and SSU's the HUB Cultural Center, we have come together to provide a vast array of events. Click here for more info.
Going Beyond Land Acknowledgments
Friday, December 10th 9:30am - 12:30pm | to RSVP, email mhernandezlegorreta@santarosa.edu
Going Beyond Land Acknowledgements is an interactive 3 hour workshop for individuals seeking to grow their allyship with Native peoples. Participants learn about the strengths and limitations of land acknowledgments and explore concrete, action-oriented strategies for building connections with Native communities and organizations.
Texturas Marrón
Políticas raciales en Latinoamérica. Una conversación con Bocafloja
Diálogo y conversatorio que se adentra en la genealogía de la identidad racial referente a los estados-nación latinoamericanos. El mestizaje como proyecto político en los modelos de colonialismo interno de la región. Intercambio de saberes a partir de una óptica anticolonial desde las epistemologías del sur global.
Bocafloja es un artista interdisciplinario y curador radicado en New York; las películas documentales, música, literatura, fotografía, y el diseño, son algunos de sus medios de creación.
Miercoles, 23 de febrero, 2022 4:30-5:30 PM.
Evento en Español.
This event is part of SRJC's Black History Month series of events. For more events in the series, visit: https://santarosajuniorcollege.formstack.com/forms/bhmeventsregistration
Crossing Borders & Boundaries: Conversation with Bamby Salcedo
Join us in conversation with award-winning activist, community organizer, social justice advocate and professional, Bamby Salcedo. Salcedo will discuss her work from founding Trans Latin@ Coalition, to testifying before congress, and what she’s currently working on. Her work mediates intersections of race, gender, sexuality, age, social class, HIV+ status, immigration status, and more.
Bamby Salcedo is a prominent and celebrated transgender Latina activist, known all over the world for her passionate and productive social, political, and economic influence. As the President and CEO of the TransLatin@ Coalition, Bamby steadily leads this nationally recognized organization that advocates for and addresses the issues of transgender Latinas throughout the United States, as well as countless organizations whose efforts focus on critical topics that include immigration, HIV, at-risk youth, LGBTQIA+ issues, incarceration, and more. Bamby received her Master’s Degree in Mexican and Latin@ Studies from California State University, Los Angeles. She has developed the Center for Violence Prevention & Transgender Wellness, a multimillion, multipurpose, multiservice space for Trans people in Los Angeles. Thanks to her impassioned and impactful influence, Bamby has been invited several times by the White House to participate on a multitude of panels. Just recently, Bamby was invited to testify before Congress to speak on the Equal Rights Amendment with the ERA Coalition, for which Bamby serves as a board member. Bamby was humbly honored to participate in the hearing and always ensures that our elected officials learn firsthand how people are impacted by the policies and laws they create. To learn more about Bamby and her work, visit http://bambysalcedo.com.
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
11 AM -12 PM PT
Part of SRJC's Woman's History Month. Funding provided by the SRJC Foundation Lawrence A. Bertolini Student Center Endowment
"You Want These Hands?" Tips & Tricks for Intercultural Conflict
Wednesday, March 16, 10:00am -11:30am |
This workshop will give hands-on skills and practical skills for identifying your and others' conflict styles
SRJC student participants will have a chance to enter into an opportunity drawing for a $25 gift card
Well-Being Wednesday: Keeping Calm During Midterms & Exams
Wednesday, March 16, 10:00am -11:30am |
A SAFE space to TALK, SHARE, and CONNECT with new people to IMPROVE mental health and RELEASE stress
SRJC student participants will have a chance to enter into an opportunity drawing for a $25 gift card
GOING BEYOND LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Tuesday, April 5th, 10:00am -1:00pm | To be added to the waitlist, email mhernandezlegorreta@santarosa.edu
Going Beyond Land Acknowledgements is an interactive 3-hour workshop for individuals seeking to grow their allyship with Native peoples. Participants learn about the strengths and limitations of land acknowledgments and explore concrete, action-oriented strategies for building connections with Native communities and organizations.
OUR OWN VOICES: SECOND CHANCE PANEL
Tuesday, April 12, 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Hear from 5 past and present second chance students as they share how their experiences have shaped where they are today, including their time at SRJC. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions during this event.
Part of Second Chance Month: https://intercultural.santarosa.edu/second-chance-month
ARab? Middle Eastern? Muslim? South Asian? Mapping our Presence on Campus
Tuesday April 19, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Join SRJC Students, Staff, and Faculty as we discuss what it means to us to identity as part of the AMEMSA community in the United States and at SRJC. Centering our lived experiences within the vast and diverse ethnic and cultural groups known broadly as the “Middle East/AMEMSA”, we will discuss how social, historical, and familial contexts have impacted our notions of self, race, belonging, and our communities.
April holidays & Celebrations
Wednesday, April 20, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Please join AMEMSA in exploring a wide range of Middle Eastern holidays that take place this April! We will share the various ways Ramadan and Easter are observed and practiced in different parts of the Middle East, as well as discuss secular spring celebrations, festivals, and memorials.
Transfer panel
Thursday, April 21, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Getting ready to move: Ready for Transfer? Housing | Roomates | Mental Health | Environment
Come get prepared for your new environment, get other students first hand experience. We will have a panel with past SRJC students who have transferred. It will be a great place to ask questions and get personalized tips!
Panelists from: Out of State, UCs, CSUs, HBCU.
Participants will be entered into a drawing for a $25 grocery card
Bright as the Sun: A look at the lives of women in ancient egypt
A lecture by Dr. Heidi Saleh
Wednesday, April 27, 12:00 pm - 1:30pm
Ancient Egyptian women enjoyed more rights and freedoms than their counterparts in Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome. And even though women played a pivotal role in ancient Egyptian society, they have been traditionally overlooked and/or downplayed by modern scholars. Join us in a lecture that explores the lives and occupations of a wide spectrum of ancient Egyptian women from a variety of socio-economic backgrounds. We will examine women Pharaohs as well as female servants and work to understand their full complexity as leaders and workers as well as wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters.
Sponsored by LFSA and HSI Lanzamiento
FILM SCREENING OF “VINCENT WHO?” AND CONVERSATION WITH CURTIS CHIN
Hosted by Sheryl Cavales Doolan
Thu. April 28, 2022 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm
In recognition of the 40th Anniversary of the Vincent Chin case, you are invited to a film screening of Vincent Who? and Q&A conversation with Director/Producer Curtis Chin. Vincent Who? recounts the 1982 murder of Vincent Chin, a Chinese American who was murdered in Detroit at the height of anti-Japanese sentiments, by two white autoworkers who blamed Chin for the loss of their jobs. Vincent Chin’s killers were given a $3,000 fine and three years probation but no jail time. Outraged by this injustice, Asian Americans around the country united for the first time across ethnic and socioeconomic lines to form a pan-Asian identity and civil rights movement.
TALK STORY WITH DR. ROWENA TOMANENG PRESIDENT OF SAN JOSE CITY COLLEGE
Hosted by Dr. Frank Chong
Wed. May 4, 2022 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm
A first-generation immigrant from the Philippines and community college transfer student, Dr. Rowena Tomaneng has been a multicultural educator in the California Community Colleges for 25 years. Rowena is currently the President of San Jose City College (SJCC) in the San Jose-Jose-Evergreen Valley Community College District. Join us in an hour long talk story with Dr. Rowena Tomaneng about her career trajectory as an Asian American and Pacific Islander woman and her extensive leadership around social justice, student equity, and community engagement.
zoom link: https://santarosa-edu.zoom.us/j/99425654299
DECOLONIZING ASIAN AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER MENTAL HEALTH
Hosted by SRJC PEERS Coalition
Thu. May 5, 2022 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
This presentation will explore the mental health impacts of the pandemic and the rise in API hate on the greater API community. The presentation will take a decolonial framework and lens on the mental health counseling field, address barriers to mental health service access, and present solutions to open up the mental health service access to the API community.
Transfer student mixer
May 11, 2022; 3-5pm
In-Person: Santa Rosa Campus Graduation Lawn (near Bertolini Quad)
Great Place to Find roomates and Friends. Come get to know other students that are transferring this fall and celebrate together with food and music. Claim your transfer medallion. Participants will be entered into a drawing for a $25 grocery card.
AAJC BYSTANDER INTERVENTION TRAINING
Hosted by Asian Americans Advancing Justice- LA
Thu. May 12, 2022 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
In collaboration with SSU
In response to the alarming surge in hate incidents targeting the Asian American community, Advancing Justice – LA, a leading legal and civil rights organization, is launching a bystander intervention initiative. The effort is designed to promote awareness and usage of bystander intervention methods. Intended to prevent verbal harassment from escalating into physical violence, these techniques offer everyday people the chance to assist victims and play a role in keeping their communities safe.
