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

9-10am: Lecture; Santa Rosa Campus 10:30-11:30 Art Workshop; Santa Rosa Campus 1:30- 3:30pm Lecture and Workshop; Santa Rosa Campus 6-7pm: Art Workshop; Southwest Center September 22, Thursday 11 - 12pm: Lecture; Petaluma Campus 12 - 1pm: Art Workshop; Petaluma 4:30- 6pm: Meet and Greet hosted by LFSA: Santa Rosa Campus

Participants will have the opportunity to purchase Simon Silva's art and get it signed. While supplies last.

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. 

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

Familia Hour Movie Screening with Puente

Tuesday, October 11 | 2:30- 5pm

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

Familia Hour Mask Making with Puente

Tuesday, October 25 | 2:30 5pm

Karaoke Night

Thursday, October 27 | 5-7pm

Cultural Fire

Wednesday, November 9

1:30-2:45

Traditional Food Making with Lori Laiwa Thomas

Tuesday, November 15

2-3:30

Pizza and Movie Night

Wednesday, November 16 | 5-7pm

History of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria

Thursday, November 17

1-2:15pm

Folklorico: History and Dance

Friday, December 2 | 10 am - 12pm

Lunar New Year with APASS

Tuesday, January 24 | 11 - 12 pm

Conversation with Kyle Mays

Thursday, February 2

12-1pm