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Thangs Taken: Rethinking Thanksgiving FOR KIDS!

$5 for kids, $10 for adults and $15 for families

La Peña Cultural Center and the Free Land Project present:

The 10th Annual Thangs Taken: Rethinking Thanksgiving For Kids!

A day of art and culture celebrating Indigenous resilience

Thangs Taken: Rethinking Thanksgiving FOR KIDS is an annual cultural arts event that brings artists, activists and communities together to explore the complex history of Thanksgiving and to acknowledge the legacy of U.S. colonialism and celebrate Indigenous resilience.

This event is a family-friendly interactive presentation featuring Corrina Gould, Hartman Deetz, and other invited guests! Stories, Songs and Fun Activities for elementary school-aged children and their families. Join us as we learn the traditional Wampanoag Duck dance, hear Ohlone Hummingbird stories and more.

Check out Thangs Taken evening program here!

Thangs Taken: Rethinking Thanksgiving

$10-$25 Sliding Scale

La Peña Cultural Center and the Free Land Project present:

The 10th Annual Thangs Taken: Rethinking Thanksgiving

A day of art and culture celebrating Indigenous resilience

Thangs Taken: Rethinking Thanksgiving is an annual cultural arts event that brings artists, activists and communities together to explore the complex history of Thanksgiving and to acknowledge the legacy of U.S. colonialism and celebrate Indigenous resilience.

Produced by the Free Land Project, Thangs Taken features live music, dance, film, spoken word poetry, hip hop theater and visual art installations from Native and non-Native artists.

Grounded in grassroots activism, Thangs Taken also features leaders from local social and environmental justice organizations to provide information on current campaigns and concrete ways to take action in the community. With the arts at the center, people from diverse backgrounds gather to engage in critical dialogue and to stand in the power of our collective ability to create a world based in peace and justice that we can truly be thankful for.

Featuring Corrina Gould (Lisjan/Ohlone), Hartman Deetz (Wampanoag), Rupa Marya, Stewie G, Justin Ancheta and more!

Hosted by Ariel Luckey

 

Click here to check out Thangs Taken for Kids!

Check out this Thangs Taken video from a previous year:

More information at: www.arielluckey.com/projects/thangs-taken/

 

Peace and Justice in Wallmapu – Mapuche Support Committee

FREE / Donations Encouraged!

The Wallmapu Support Committee‘s goal is to bring global attention to the human rights violations that are being committed against the Mapuche people in Chile and Argentina. The criminalization of mapuche demands, imprisonment of community leaders, police violence and discriminatory use of anti-terrorist laws has reached a culminating point. We stand together and denounce these atrocities. We demand peace and justice in Wallmapu.

Dr. Ruth Vargas will present her book “Pewmas/Sueños de justicia, Lonkos y dirigentes mapuches versus Chile en la Corte Interamericana” and talk about the traumatic consequences of state repression and imprisonment against Mapuche leaders and their communities. She will focus specifically on how the “Anti-terrorist Law” established the Chilean government is impacting indigenous people.

Also, we will present the photographic exhibition “Life and Resistance in Mapuche Territory”, by photographer Camilo Tapia. His work reflects the pride, strength and the pain of the mapuche people. Camilo has been part of the Mapuche communities for many years. This connection has provided a unique opportunity to capture the true reality of the Mapuche conflict through his photos.

Finally, we will close the event with MUSIC from Monreal Latin Jazz.

See you there!

Ernesto Olmos Art Sale and Jaguar of the Light Project Fundraiser

Free/Donations Encouraged!
You can donate directly to Ernesto’s campaign here.
Art prints: starting at $20
Original art: starting at $300
Ernesto Olmos, multifaceted sculptor and painter of pre-Columbian Meso-American cultural forms and beloved community member, has lost his home and studio in Sonoma due to the recent fires. With your support Ernesto can continue realizing his work.
We are hosting this fundraiser to help Ernesto fund his upcoming expedition to Oaxaca to participate in an international jaguar conservatory project and to offset his costs of being displaced due to the fires.He is scheduled to travel to his hometown of Oaxaca, Mexico to take part in the first International Jaguar of the Light project in November, to bring consciousness about the preservation of sacred Jaguars through the sharing of Mixe and Zapotec oral traditions. By using art, music, and dance this project reconnects children and teachers to their cultural heritage.

As a continuing part of this project Ernesto will be offering free art classes to children from the Sierra Mixe and Sierra Juarez villages in Oaxaca till January 2018. These classes teach the importance of ecological conservation and the preservation of Jaguars. In these classes he shares the cosmovision and oral stories given to us by our Ancestors to teach how to respect Mother Earth and the Sacred Jaguar.

During this trip he will also meet Chief Tashka Peshaho from the Yawanawa nation and Spiritual Leader Tii Antonio Chiriap Shamich from the Shuar Nation to visit sacred sites in Oaxaca and offer ceremonies for the Jaguar.

Your financial support will fund Ernesto’s project costs including: paying for materials to use in the children’s classes, including a digital projector, art supplies, musical instruments, educational handouts, travel, ground transportation, food and lodging. It will also pay for equipment to document the trip including external memory drive and SD cards.

Ernesto was able to rescue his original artwork and prints, which will be for sale at La Peña Friday, November 10 to help him rebuild a studio as well as help him travel to Oaxaca for the Jaguar preservation project.

You can support Ernesto by purchasing his original art or prints, or by DONATING ANY AMOUNT at the door!

Original Art, Prints and handmade instruments will be for sale:
Prints start at $20
Original art starts at $300

Los Cilantros will be donating a percentage of their drinks!

We hope to see you at La Peña Friday, November 10, 7pm-10pm for this great cause!

Unnatural Disaster in Puerto Rico: Reportback from the Frontline

FREE / DONATIONS ENCOURAGED

Jason Negrón-Gonzales, an experienced trauma nurse and trained community organizer, recently returned from Puerto Rico where he was doing post-hurricane medical response and relief work for one week. He will be joined by Amanda Bloom, a long time activist and Physician Assistant who spent 25 years working in a community clinic in East Oakland and is also returning from the relief effort. Working with groups on the ground, they treated people in some of the most neglected and devastated communities on the island. Join us for a reportback.

It’s been 27 days since hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, and the slow-moving disaster is still unfolding. Most of the island continues without electricity, huge areas without fresh water, and the response from government has been weak and insufficient.

Jason and Amanda will share photos of post-hurricane Puerto Rico, discuss the current conditions on the island, share stories of the response and relief work, and situate this destruction within the context of climate change, colonialism, and disaster capitalism.

Co-sponsored by Bay Area Boricuas, the School Of Unity and Liberation, the Movement Generation Justice and Ecology Project, and Climate Workers.