Movie screening at FilmScene in partnership between Beloved Community Initiative and Sankofa Community Outreach Connection. This event is FREE and open to the public. Seats are first come first served. Doors will open approximately 30 minutes before showtime.
An opportunity for students to connect with others, encounter new ideas, and strengthen their leadership and advocacy skills. This year, we have an amazing group of guest presenters to inspire us to reflect on the role we all play as leaders for diversity, equity, and advocacy and help us gain skills for becoming more equipped for leadership in our schools and communities.
Our mission is to organize for social equity, first and foremost for persons of color.
Our mission is to organize for social equity, first and foremost for persons of color.
Our mission is to organize for social equity, first and foremost for persons of color.
Our mission is to organize for social equity, first and foremost for persons of color.
Our mission is to organize for social equity, first and foremost for persons of color.
Our mission is to organize for social equity, first and foremost for persons of color.
Our mission is to organize for social equity, first and foremost for persons of color.
Our mission is to organize for social equity, first and foremost for persons of color.
Designed for students entering 6th grade, each of the 4-day camps meet online for one hour a day with host, Dawson Davenport and a teacher. In addition to writing skills, each class will also include an introduction to different Indigenous histories and stories. Each class is taught by an Indigenous writer/artist who will also share some of their own work.
The fight to save the lives of Black mothers and their babies is real. Black women die at 6x times the rate of white women for preventable pregnancy-related issues in IOWA. The national rate for Black maternal death is 3-4 times more likely than white mothers. We have work to do Iowa.
Our mission is to organize for social equity, first and foremost for persons of color.
This summer, Beloved Community Initiative is partnering with several local groups to provide the Summer Science Booster Club ONLINE via YouTube and in-person (socially distanced) at Mercer Park in Iowa City. For youth ages 5-15. Registration is only necessary for the ONLINE version.
A gathering of people of all faiths to address racism in our community, to repent for the ways in which we participate in individual and systemic racism, and to focus on the repair that needs to happen to work towards becoming an anti-racist community. Hosted by the Johnson County Interfaith Coalition.
Our mission is to organize for social equity, first and foremost for persons of color.
Our mission is to organize for social equity, first and foremost for persons of color.
Our mission is to organize for social equity, first and foremost for persons of color.
PLEASE JOIN US!
VISION 2019 invites you to connect and co-create with others in the local community who want to make a difference. Leading local action? Looking for others who want to help in your efforts? Looking for ways to plug in to community? Or need a place to share ideas or explore where you might make/play/sing/dance/write change into being?
LEARN MORE at: https://www.ourhearth.net/vision-2019
Join us for an evening of story, art, dance, fashion, music and food. Dawson Davenport will share his story of Living in Two Worlds and how art and hip-hop led him to learn about climate change, social justice for Native peoples, love and self-awareness.
Free food provided by Red Earth Gardens and Meskwaki chef Desse Davenport. Dancers include: Rosie and Micah Youngbear
Our mission is to organize for social equity, first and foremost for persons of color.
Old Brick, The Iowa Writers' House, and Iowa Baroque (A New Visual Arts Magazine) present INTERWOVEN // vanitas.
This event celebrates the interweaving of identity with vanitas, a genre of painting containing symbols of death or change as a reminder of their inevitability.
Readers include three contributors to the BiCultural Writers' Fellowship Anthology We The Interwoven: Chuy Renteria; Anthony Mielke; and Sarah Elgatian, Writers' Workshop Alum Siyanda Mohutsiwa, and Midwest Writing Center Director Ryan Collins
The visual arts show will consist of five visual artists displaying their interpretation of vanitas. Visual artists include Lara Williams, Billy Pearson, Gabrielle Bakanec Rogers, J. Elgatian Romero, and Amber Morris.
The night's MC will be Royce Barnett from Stuck In The Middle Podcast.
Join us for a free movie and discussion.
NASA astronaut Jeanette J Epps joins a celebration of Black History Month, with this FREE dinner and a movie. All are welcome!
Our mission is to organize for social equity, first and foremost for persons of color.
In August of 2014, the Great March for Climate Action came through Iowa City during its 3,100-mile march across America. Ed Fallon, a former Iowa lawmaker and director of the 2014 March, wrote a just-released memoir about the experience: MARCHER, WALKER, PILGRIM.
(Learn more at www.boldiowa.com/marcher-walker-pilgrim.)
Ed will discuss the book, read selections, and take questions. Hardcover and paperback books will be available for purchase and for Ed to sign. All proceeds go to Climate March, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
On the 3,100-mile, 8-month walk from LA to DC in 2014, dozens of marchers became a mobile village — weathering harsh conditions, sharing joys and sorrows, and intensifying their commitment to the cause as they sounded the alarm about the climate crisis.
Through humor and candid introspection, Ed shares his experience on the March and how it brought into focus his lifelong search for love and meaning -- even as intense, interpersonal dramas threatened to tear the March community apart.
Our mission is to organize for social equity, first and foremost for persons of color.
Our mission is to organize for social equity, first and foremost for persons of color.
We invite you to a day of learning about the historic and ongoing impacts of the Doctrine of Discovery. Our goal is to raise our level of knowledge and concern about these impacts, recognize them in ourselves and our institutions, and explore how we can begin to take actions toward “right relationship.”
In the Doctrine of Discovery we find the roots of injustice. In the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, we find the seeds of change. How can we nurture those seeds to bring forth the fruits of right relationship with all peoples?
This workshop is open to all people, high school age or older. There is no fee to attend the program but pre-registration is required as space is limited.
Join us in our new office (upper level) for the monthly meeting of the Johnson County Interfaith Cluster. Please let us know if you have mobility issues and we can arrange to use the lift.
