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FREE / DONATIONS WELCOME (Please RSVP on Eventbrite)
Donations collected will support health efforts in Santiago, Chile and Wallmapu – Mapuche Territory.

 

“From California to Chile, from Wallmapu to Palestine” is a collective exhibit that hopes to visibilize the struggle for justice and the beauty of resistance in different corners of the world with photography and art.

The exhibit features photographs from the occupied territories of Palestine, the fight for self-determination in Mapuche territory (Wallmapu), for independence in Catalunya, and the rebellious awakenings of Colombia, Ecuador and Chile.

The exhibit also includes artwork that honors those rising up against the coup in Bolivia and the resistance in Zapatista communities that denounce the violation of human rights in Latin America.

The Opening Reception features speakers sharing a context of what is happening in their territories, poetry and refreshments. Donations collected at the event will support health efforts in Santiago and Wallmapu.

Curated by Ximena Soza

Artists
Claudia Curiqueo – Fernanda Gallardo – Haitham Khatib – Pancho Peskador – Marc Hors – Yulieth Andrea Rincón López – Cristian Muñoz – Indira Urrutia – Marcelo Garay -Ximena Soza – Pablo Ruiz Arroyo – Luis Hidalgo – Andres Gallegos – Miguel Pérez Guillén – Community members from North California

Es una exhibición colectiva que intenta visibilizar las luchas por justicia y la belleza de la resistencia en diferentes esquinas del planeta. La exhibición comparte fotografía desde el territorio ocupado de Palestina, la lucha por libre determinación del pueblo Mapuche, la independencia catalana y el despertar de la rebeldía en Colombia, Ecuador y Chile, además de arte que honra a aquellos que se levantan en contra del golpe de estado en Bolivia y la resistencia en comunidades Zapatistas que denuncia las violaciones a los derechos humanos en America Latina.

Header photography (clockwise from top left) by: Claudia Curiqueo, Marcelo Garay, Pancho Pescador, Haitham Khatib

FREE WITH RSVP! DONATIONS ACCEPTED!

6:30pm Resource Fair / 7:00pm Doors Open / 7:30pm Event Starts

La Peña Cultural Center & The San Francisco Foundation Present: Tent City

Featuring:

• Live Music by Destiny Muhhammad Trio ft. WolfHawkJaguar
• Film Screening of Tent City
• Resource Fair
• Somatic Release by Namaste Ready
• Libations by Obatayese Ogunlano
• Community Discussion
• Q&A, moderated by Davey D. from KPFA

Film Synopsis:

From Writer & Director Adimu “WolfHawkJaguar” Madyun comes the story of Cicero Jacobs. Jacobs is a loving father and husband who falls into deep depression and mental collapse after his wife dies from cancer. Tent City highlights the impact of unprocessed grief on mental health in America, the toll that gentrification has taken on the city of Oakland (nation wide), and ignites a call to action to reclaim our humanity in the midst of our ever changing world. “In a city of tents, every tent has a story.” It is up to us to change the narrative of homelessness, mental trauma, and despair.

Film length: 30 minutes
Produced by 393films

“A simple drive from one side of Oakland to the other will reveal to anyone just how serious homelessness is in the city. In a new film, Tent City, the compelling story of a search for a homeless family member covers the same geographic ground.” – KQED Arts

About Destiny Muhhammad Trio

Lead by jazz harpist and vocalist, Destiny Muhhammad, the trio will feature Tent City filmmaker/musician WolfHawkJaguar performing original music inspired by the film.

About Adimu “WolfHawkJaguar” Madyun

Passion, Spirit, Prosperity and Pain directly influence the multi talented artist. The California native is currently living in Oakland Ca. He is a prolific musician, actor and award winning film maker. His passion for social justice, culture, mysticism and adventure are all present in his art.

Pre-Event Reception: 4pm-5pm

Main Event: Doors open at 5pm / Event begins at 5:30pm

TICKETS GO ON SALE FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020 AT 5PM!

$15 in Advance / $20 at the Door / $40 Reception (includes light refreshments, intimate book signing and admission to the main event at 5:30pm)

Presented by: La Peña Cultural Center, Bay Area Boricuas, Boricuas in Berkeley, and Alt Breaks Puerto Rico

Join us for an evening of tribute, music and conversation with Puerto Rican patriot and visionary, Oscar López Rivera. This event is part of a national U.S. speaking tour titled “Oscar López Rivera—Two Years Later: Resistance and Resilience”.

Two years after his release as a political prisoner for 36 years, Oscar López Rivera is returning to the Bay Area to share his current work in Puerto Rico post hurricanes Irma and Maria, and against a backdrop of a series of earthquakes that have stricken the island over the last few weeks.

Since his release in 2017, he founded the Oscar López Rivera Foundation, Libertá, through which he has been leading efforts to strengthen grassroots community organizing, demanding the auditing and cancelation of the island’s debt and advocating for the Puerto Rico’s sovereignty.

Pre-event Reception: 4pm-5pm

Tickets are $40 with light refreshments and intimate book signing and includes admission to the main event at 5:30pm. Please note: SPACE IS VERY LIMITED.

Main Event: 5:30pm-7:45pm

Tickets are $15 Advance / $20 Door / $15 Students and Seniors at Door

Featuring a talk, Q&A session and book signing with Oscar López Rivera, and honoring of Mr. López Rivera with music and dance by the Bay Area Bomba y Plena Workshop, poetry by Rico Pabon and more.

Oscar López Rivera Biography:

Serving 36 years in prison, Oscar López Rivera is the longest held Puerto Rican political prisoner in the history of Puerto Rico’s struggle for independence, regarded as the “Nelson Mandela of the Americas.” In 2017, as the result of a broad human rights campaign, Pres. Obama commuted his sentence only days before leaving office.

Since then, he has continued to energetically advocate an end to U.S. colonialism, and resumed his role as an organizer, deepening his relationship to the municipalities of Loiza and Comerio and working to establish a community center in Rio Piedras, from which to train organizers to develop the capacity for community self-reliance, mutual aid, and self-governance.

Of particular interest for Oscar on this Northwest US tour, is to educate students, academics, and communities about the campaign to audit Puerto Rico’s $74 billion debt.