12:30 - 2pm Pacific and AZ Time/ 3:30 - 5pm ET, March 30th

The Border Futures Narrative Showcase

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From the Ford Foundation Registration page: “Join us for the launch of Border Futures: A Guide for Impact Storytelling, a showcase of creative and movement projects and interventions, and a conversation. Border Futures was inspired by the brilliant work of artists, storytellers, and activists from the border region who participated in the Center for Cultural Power and the Reclaiming the Border Narrative Project cohort. The guide is designed as a narrative change tool that can be used to amplify the stories that advance the values and vision emerging out of the transformative practices in the United States-Mexico border region communities. Our goal is to highlight stories that reflect the dignity, truth, aspirations, and struggles of migrants and border communities. It is a reminder to audiences that we all belong. 

This session is designed for border stakeholders, creatives, narrative strategists, and funders looking for ways to uplift and amplify the voices and stories in border communities that reflect a vibrant, diverse, and expansive vision of the United States-Mexico border region and its future.

Reclaiming the Border Narrative is an effort to penetrate and shape the national attention on migration and the United States-Mexico border by supporting authentic storytelling by affected communities on the cultures and socio-political dynamics that comprise the region. Ford Foundation is partnering with the Center for Cultural Power, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures and Grantees (including Naomi Ortiz) on this initiative.”

Revolutionary Grounds Books and Coffee - 4675 E Speedway Blvd. Tucson, AZ 85712

To be Rescheduled — HIVES is planning a virtual conversation on Friday, February 17 at 2:00pm Eastern Time to discuss the release of the Buzz-Zine. Contributors to read their work and talk about the zine-making process.

Live-streamed Discussion. Archive can be found at - http://disabilityclimatechange.georgetown.domains/

November 7 from 4-5:30 pm eastern time

Self-Care Workshop for the Center for Cultural Innovation’s CAL-Now program.

https://www.cciarts.org/

Poetry Performance

Women Enabled International (WEI), a nonprofit organization that advocates for the rights of people living at the intersection of gender and disability, world wide, on October 20, from 11 AM to 12:30 PM ET, are holding a an event to celebrate WEI's 10th anniversary at the Ford foundation, in New York City.

More at: https://www.womenenabled.org

Opening Plenary Artist for the 2022 HR Retreat for the Council of Foundations.

September 8-9, 2022

More information can be found at: https://cof.org/event/2022-hr-retreat

Self-Care workshop and book discussion with Still Harbor Fellowship program participants.

Talk - Ecocrip Sensibilities: Mending, Care, and Love Affairs

With Naomi Ortiz

Cultivating love affairs with ourselves, communities, and places means loving within states of stress. The disability community has unique knowledge in working towards accessibility and care in times of perpetual uncertainty. Join us as we discuss how to draw from our lineages, cultures, and ancestors to gently touch vulnerability and create our own definitions of sustainability.

Hosted by the Office of Interdisciplinary Programs and Outreach at the Burton Blatt Institute and Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature, the series “(Dis)courses: Interdisciplinary Disability Dialogues” returns this semester with four exciting conversations—with luminaries who are engaged variously with many forms of innovative and intersectional Disability cultural work.

This 90-minute webinar will include American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation, live captioning, image descriptions, and an opportunity for registered Zoom webinar participants to engage with the featured presenter and discussant. [Any additional accommodations requests should be made by Thursday, March 31st.]

Thursday, April 7, 2022

5:00–6:30 p.m. EST via Zoom Open to the Public

Sustaining Justice: Maintaining Hope and Conviction for the Long Haul with adrienne maree brown, Aurora Levins Morales and Naomi Ortiz

April 3, 2022, 4pm Pacific Time on Zoom.

ASL interpretation and live closed captioning provided

“Join Kehilla Community Synagogue on Sunday, April 3, 2022 at 4pm Pacific for this live virtual event!

Thought leaders and activists Aurora Levins Morales, Naomi Ortiz and adrienne maree brown explore the core principles of sustainable activism – deeply rooted in the speakers’ own histories, community interdependence and disability justice.  Aurora Levins Morales will join us live from the mountains of Puerto Rico and Naomi Ortiz live from New Mexico. adrienne maree brown will join us on recorded video. 

How do we understand the difference between urgency and importance, between speed and hurry? How do we make our activism slow, deep, and irreversible? In the face of numerous economic, social and environmental crises, how can we tell we are doing enough, or even what enough means? In this Jewish Shmita year of rest and renewal, we invite you to join us as we do the vital work of building sustainability in ourselves and our movements for change over the long-term.

About the Speakers

adrienne maree brown is a writer, poet, podcaster, and facilitator committed to learning and developing models for action, community strength, movement building and transformation. Her books include Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good. adrienne maree brown's photo by aniali pinto.

Aurora Levins Morales is a Puerto Rican Ashkenazi writer and liberationist who lives with and learns from chronic illness and disability. She is the author of seven books and her writing is widely taught and translated. She has been part of the Kehilla community since the 1990s. 

Naomi Ortiz is a poet, writer, facilitator, and visual artist whose intersectional work focuses on self-care for activists, disability justice, climate action, and relationship with place. Ortiz is the author of Sustaining Spirit: Self-Care for Social Justice.

Kehilla Community Synagogue is a progressive synagogue at the leading edge of social and racial justice and economic equity in the San Francisco Bay Area. Proceeds from this fundraiser directly support Kehilla's extensive activism in our wider communities. Learn more here.”

Self-Care Workshop for Yale Child Study Center Social Work Fellows [not open to the public]

Class self-care workshop

Author discussion between Naomi Ortiz and Shayda Kafai
as they discuss disability justice, disabled, queer of color artmaking, and ways to queer and crip our collective futures.
November 11th 4pm Pacific time/7pm Eastern time
Online hosted by Bluestockings Cooperative Bookstore, NY

Sierra Pacific Synod
October 28th 6pm pacific time
The livestream for Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SPSELCA

NBA Staff Self-Care Workshop
National Basketball Association (NBA)

Disabled Artists on Joy and Justice
NALAC National Latinx Summit
October 1st, 2021
2:30-4pm Pacific Time

Poetry, Queerness, Disability Justice

#LiberatingWebinars
Autistic Women’s and Non-binary Network
September 22nd 2021

Community Conversations: Ableism, Ageism, Racism

Detroit Disability Power

September 3rd, 2021

Claiming Connection: Cultivating a Relationship with Place as Disabled Artists

Hosted by the Portland Art Museum

Interdependence and Self-Care

Fellowship Workshop

Join for Justice Org

Environmental Policy Work and Self-Care Workshop
Civic Spark AmeriCorps CA