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SRIC Archive: 2025-2026

Summer 2025

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Curanderismo en nuestras vidas

Viernes, Julio 25, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 8:00pm Sabado, Julio 26, 8:30 am - 4:00 pm

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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.

Financiado gracias a una subvención del Fondo de Enriquecimiento Cultural Randolph Newman de la Fundación Santa Rosa Junior College.


 

Fall 2025

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Sanacion con Hierbas

Viernes, 22 de agosto, 2025 | 6:30pm - 8:00pm Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380 

Venga a aprender como sanar con hierbas, nuestro conocimiento ancestral de sanación debe continuar. Herbalistas dará este taller donde podrá aprender y compartir sobre el uso de hierbas.

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Santa Rosa Intercultural Center Open House

Monday, August 25, 2025 | 11:30am - 1:00pm Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380 

Tour the center, meet the staff, learn about the different resources available, decorate a tote bag & get some lunch (while supplies last).

Black Learning & Opportunity Center Open House

Tuesday, August 26, 2025 | 11:30am - 11:00pm Sawubona BLOC, Pioneer 360 

Tour the center, meet the staff, learn about the different resources available, create essential oil rollers, and get some lunch (while supplies last).

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Queer Resource Center Open House

Wednesday, August 27, 2025 | 11:30pm - 1:00pm Queer Resource Center, Pioneer 380 

Tour the center, meet the staff, learn about the different resources available, make zines, and get some lunch (while supplies last)

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Native American Center Open House

Thursday, August 28, 2025 | 11:30am - 1:00pm Native American Center Center, Pioneer 380 

Tour the center, meet the staff, learn about the different resources available, join us for a goal declaration workshop and get some lunch (while supplies last).

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APASS Family Night

Thursday, September 11 | 5:30pm - 7:30pm, Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380

**Closed event, only for APASS Learning Community students and their families. Reach out to jthao@santarosa.edu for any questions

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Sanación Con Hierbas

Viernes, 19 de septiembre| 5:00pm - 7:00pm, **CAMBIO DE LUGAR: Newman Auditorium, Santa Rosa.

Venga a aprender como sanar con hierbas, nuestro conocimiento ancestral de sanación debe continuar. Herbalistas darán cada taller donde podrá aprender y compartir sobre el uso de hierbas.

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SGA Townhall

Monday, September 22, 2025 | 1:30-3:00 pm, Santa Rosa Intercultural Center.

Join SGA executive council and get to know them, share comments, concerns, and hear from SRJC president and superintendent, Dr. Angelica Garcia.

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Superfest Disability Movie Screening

Wednesday, September 24, 2025 | 12:00pm - 1:30pm, Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380.

Superfest provides a platform for disabled filmmakers, actors, creators, and visionaries to share their stories with the world. Organized by SRJC Disability Cultural Center

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Baile: Noche de Selena

Viernes, 26 de septiembre | 7:00pm - 10:00pm, Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380

Baile con música de cumbia. Este evento trendrá a DJ spooky.

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Mobility and Justice for All: Moving Beyond our Broken and Unequal Transportation System

Thursday, October 2, 2025 | 3:30pm - 4pm, Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380

In a 30-minute lecture, followed by 30 minutes of discussion, Dr. Alexa Forrester will synthesize recent transportation justice scholarship to argue that we will never make good on the promise of liberty and justice for all without first fixing our transportation system. The good news is a better future is well within reach, and there are avenues for action for anyone who’d like to help get us there. Scheduled to correspond with the National Week Without Driving.

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Capturing Resistance, with Bocafloja

Thursday, October 9, 2025 | 1:30pm - 2:30pm, Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380

Using an anti-colonial epistemology, Bocafloja will share the ways photography and narrative writing can be used as a tool to challenge colonial expectations, norms, and representation. 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. Bocafloja is recognized as a leading voice within artistic communities in the Spanish speaking diaspora and one of the first artists in Latin America who utilized Rap and poetry as an effective model of critical pedagogy amongst impoverished communities.  To learn more about him, visit: https://www.emancipassion.com

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SRJC Indigenous Peoples' Day

Monday, October 13, 2025 | 11:00am - 3:00 pm Burbank Outdoor Stage 

The Santa Rosa Intercultural Center will be closed all day to support the event. Please visit the Native American Center Website for more information

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"Peanut Butter Falcon" Film Screening

Monday, October 13, 2025 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 360 

More info coming soon.

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Art Journaling for Liberation

Tuesday, October 21, 2025 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm, Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380 or virtually 

The purpose of this event is to bring awareness about sexual assault and domestic violence. This event is focused to on incorporating creative and healing. SAVE provides a supportive environment that will include education and advocacy for the SRJC community around sexual harassment and will incorporate creativity, imagination, and healing for those who have experienced trauma, and/or would like to learn more about the issues surrounding this challenging topic. 

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"And So I Stayed" Documentary & Q&A

Monday, October 27, 2025 | 3:00pm - 5:00pm, Bertolini Student Activities Center (SAC)

Join us for the showing of "And So I Stayed", an "award-winning documentary by Natalie Pattillo and Daniel A. Nelson about survivors of abuse fighting for their lives and spending years behind bars". A story of how the legal system gets domestic violence wrong. This will be a film screening followed by a student panel where they share their experiences and answer audience questions. Free food provided and open to all. Event is a collaboration between the Second Chance Program, Student Health PEERS, and the Santa Rosa Intercultural Center.

 

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"We Survived the night" Book Conversation

Tuesday, November 4, 2025 | 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 360 

More info coming soon.

Curious Conversations: Exploring Text-Based Communication

Wednesday, November 5, 2025 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm | Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 360

A welcoming dialogue on connection, cognition, and the many ways people communicate. Join us for a brief and engaging overview of text-based and other forms of nonspoken communication, including insights from the Telepathy Tapes project. Featuring a discussion panel of AAC users and other non-speaking communicators, followed by a community Q&A exploring how we share meaning, emotion, and understanding in diverse and dynamic ways. Everyone is welcome. Come listen, learn, and be part of a conversation that expands what communication can be. Registration REQUIRED.

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Lawyer Pipeline Pods

Saturday, November 8, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 360

Interested in pursing a career in Law to make positive change in your communities? Organized by MEChA de SRJC, local attorneys mentor high school and SRJC students who are interested in learning more about the process of transferring to a university and purse Law School. Registration REQUIRED. 

Know your rights

Don't Talk to the police: A Know your rights training

Wednesday, November 12, 2025 | 12:00pm - 1:30pm | Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 360 

Join Robert Edmonds, local community organizer and SRJC alumni, as he shares with us the importance of knowing your rights when interacting with the police. The focus will be on learning your constitutional rights, regardless of immigration status. Participants will get a chance to practice and take away some lessons they can use in their daily lives. In collaboration with Sawubona BLOC, Umoja, and SR Intercultural Center.

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Chinese History in Sonoma County

Tuesday, November 18, 2025 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm | Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 360 

International Education Week (IEW) is a nationwide celebration of the benefits of international education and cultural exchange. As part of SRJC’s IEW programming, the Redwood Empire Chinese Association (RECA) will present on Chinese culture, traditions, and community connections. This event will give students and the campus community the opportunity to learn directly from local cultural leaders and deepen their understanding of global perspectives.

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Sanacion con Hierbas

Viernes, 21 de noviembre, 2025 | 6:30pm - 8:00pm Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380 

Venga a aprender como sanar con hierbas, nuestro conocimiento ancestral de sanación debe continuar. Herbalistas dará este taller donde podrá aprender y compartir sobre el uso de hierbas.

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La Posada

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 | 5:00pm - 8:00pm | Bertolini Dining Commons

Be in community with us while enjoying tamales, atole, pan dulce, music, craft activities, posada songs, ballet folklorico by Espejo de Mi Alma, and more fun! Back by popular demand: Atole competition! Join us and bring your family. Free family friendly event, including free parking. Evento gratis! ¡Concurso de atole! ¡Disfruta de tamales, atoles, pan dulce, música, actividades de loteria, villacicos, y mucha más diversión! ¡Trae a toda la familia! Free event: Atole competition! Enjoy some tamales, atole, pan dulce, music, activities like lotería, posada songs, and lots more of fun! Bring the whole family!

coming soon, stay tuned

Lawyer Pipeline Pods

Saturday, November 8, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 360

Interested in pursing a career in Law to make positive change in your communities? Organized by MEChA de SRJC, local attorneys mentor high school and SRJC students who are interested in learning more about the process of transferring to a university and purse Law School. Registration REQUIRED. 

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Sanacion con Hierbas

Viernes, 22 de agosto, 2025 | 6:30pm - 8:00pm Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380 

Venga a aprender como sanar con hierbas, nuestro conocimiento ancestral de sanación debe continuar. Herbalistas dará este taller donde podrá aprender y compartir sobre el uso de hierbas

 

Spring 2026

 

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Sanacion con Hierbas

Viernes, 23 de enero, 2026 |6:00pm - 8:00pm 

Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380 

Venga a aprender como sanar con hierbas, nuestro conocimiento ancestral de sanación debe continuar. Herbalistas dará este taller donde podrá aprender y compartir sobre el uso de hierbas. Si tiene preguntas, por favor comunicarse con rvazquezguzman@santarosa.edu.  

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BSU Film Screening: The Negro Baseball League: "An American Legacy"

Wednesday, February 4 |12:00- 3:30 pm

Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380

“The League”, directed by Sam Pollard and co-produced with Academy Award winner “Questlove”, chronicles Byron’s late father Bob Motley (a Negro League umpire) throughout the film. The film, lecture presentation along with a Q&A with Motlely, will be a tremendous learning curb for students as well as highly entertaining. This is a great opportunity for your students to learn about this little-known era of American history which greatly influenced the Civil Rights movement in our country. This event was in collaboration with SRIC, Sawubona BLOC and BSU. For questions, please email intercultural@santarosa.edu

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Defending Education & Academic Freedom in a Time of Far-Right Attacks: A west Coast Speaking Tour with Professor Tom Alter

Wednesday, February 11, 2026 | 11:30pm - 1:00pm 

Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380 

Come learn more about the defense campaign for Dr. Tom Alter and why education unions, activist groups, and professional associations across the country have mobilized to defend him. for questions, please reach out to mhale@santarosa.edu

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Sanacion con Hierbas

Miercoles, 25 de febrero, 2026 |6:00pm - 8:00pm 

Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380 

Venga a aprender como sanar con hierbas, nuestro conocimiento ancestral de sanación debe continuar. Herbalistas dará este taller donde podrá aprender y compartir sobre el uso de hierbas. Si tiene preguntas, por favor comunicarse con rvazquezguzman@santarosa.edu.  

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2. Queer & Trans Student Experiences: Storytelling for Community Action (Womxn’s History Month)

Monday, March 23, 2026 | 3:00 - 5:00pm

Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380 

Join us for a panel to showcase student experiences and to call our community into meaningful dialogue and action. Hosted by the Queer Resource Center. For questions, please reach out to abarraza@santarosa.edu

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Cupcakes with the Coordinator

Thursday, March 26, 2026 | 1:30 - 3:30 pm

Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380 

Come meet Bree, the new QRC Coordinator, and enjoy a sweet treat on us! Event hosted by the Queer Resource Center. For questions, email bclark@santarosa.edu

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Alice Wong Celebration of Life

Wednesday, March 25, 2026 | 11:00 am - 12:30pm;

Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380 

Come and join the SRJC Disability Cultural Center and APASS in celebrating the life and legacy of the disabled Asian American Activist Alice Wong. The celebration will include a livestream of the speakers from the celebration in San Francisco followed by a virtual reception, as well as Dim Sum and refreshments for those joining us in person. For questions, please contact jkaldunski@santarosa.edu

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Sanacion con Hierbas

Jueves, 26 de marzo, 2026 |6:00pm - 8:00pm 

Zoom/ virtual

Venga a aprender como sanar con hierbas, nuestro conocimiento ancestral de sanación debe continuar. Herbalistas dará este taller donde podrá aprender y compartir sobre el uso de hierbas. Para el enlace de zoom o si tiene preguntas, por favor comunicarse con rvazquezguzman@santarosa.edu.  

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Talking About Abolition, with Sonali Kolhatkar

Thursday, April 16, 2026 | 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Bertolini Student Activities Center

In a time of increased policing, immigration crackdowns, and rising inequality, an abolitionist understanding of the world can help us realize an economy built on the funding of public goods rather than harsh enforcement. For questions, please email intercultural@santarosa.edu

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Breaking Fast: Eritrean Celebration

Thursday, April 16, 2026 | 4:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Bertolini Dinning Commons and Student Activities Center

This event is centered around honoring and celebrating Eritean and Habesha culture, community, traditions, and people. This is a community wide event for students, staff, faculty, family, community members and allies. There will be food, music, celebration, and community. Family Friendly Event! Free parking in Zumwalt Parking Pavilion and Emeritus "E" parking lot. Event in collaboration with Sawubona BLOC, BSU, QRC, Petaluma Intercultural Center, and SR Intercultural Center. For questions, please email intercultural@santarosa.edu

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Sanacion con Hierbas

Viernes, 24 de Abril, 2026 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm 

Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380 

Venga a aprender como sanar con hierbas, nuestro conocimiento ancestral de sanación debe continuar. Herbalistas dará este taller donde podrá aprender y compartir sobre el uso de hierbas. Si tiene preguntas, por favor comunicarse con rvazquezguzman@santarosa.edu.  

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Cubpalooza: A Community Celebration

Saturday, April 25, 2026 | 10:00 am - 2:30 pm

Burbank and Bertolini Quad

Join us for a fun, family friendly event to build community and social justice awareness! Join the parade from 10-10:30am. Then, enjoy a variety of music, vendors, food vendors w/ free food for the first 200 guests, kids activities, local resources, and a baile with banda! Free parking in Zumwalt Parking Pavilioin and Emeritus "E" lot.

Disabled and Queer Joy Night

Disabled & Queer Joy Night!

Thursday, April 29, 2026 | 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Santa Rosa Intercultural Center, Pioneer 380

We will have food, games, crafts, and more! Come and have fun, build community, and meet new people. Open to students, staff, community members, and anyone in between! Come build community, share space, and celebrate Disabled & Queer Joy together. For questions, please contact jkaldunski@santarosa.edu

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