$5 per show, or $8 for both–a cultural bargain!
There will be a blend of jazz, gospel, Celtic, hip-hop and Caribbean music, foods from around the world, game tents, prizes, and more family fun, all for the sake of promoting the National Center for Race Amity’s mission which has the cultivation of race amity as its key tool as well as its end goal in advancing access and equity, and unity domestically and internationally. The Center accomplishes this through K-12 education and higher education programs, a national conference on race, and through creating public discourse on race equity and amity.
Here is a link to the event info, as well as the website for the National Center for Race Amity.
To read about my experience at the 2013 National Center for Race Amity Conference, click here.
I wanted to share two soul-shakin’ cultural events going on this weekend, and Monday.
The film is about an inspiring community of Rastafarian environmental activists, who have reforested hillsides and restored their water table. There will be a post-film discussion and refreshments. Invite your friends! Even if you can’t come, you can help spread the word!
Next, I was lucky enough to have a serendipitous meeting with author of the new book, Waking Up White, Debby Irving, at the Grub Street Muse and the Marketplace Writers’ Conference a few years ago. I remember her talking about the book she was writing on recognizing her lack of awareness of how her upbringing and, in her words, how wanting to help people of color revealed to her how each of these well-intentioned mindsets actually perpetuated her ill-conceived ideas about race.
The book’s publication was this month, and Debby is now launching a book tour–next stop, Monday, February 3rd at friend and Executive Director (I’m so lucky to have such accomplished, artistic friends) Catherine Carr Kelly’s, Central Square Theater in Cambridge, Mass.
Debby will be interviewed by Executive Director, Shay Stewart-Bouley, of the non-profit racial equity organization, Community Change. The interview will be followed by a question and answer session.
The event is co-sponsored by and being held Monday, February 3, 2014 at 7pm.at the Central Square Theater (450 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA). Free.
Copies of Waking Up White will be available for purchase at $20 and Debby Irving will be available for signing. All proceeds from this night’s book sales will be donated to Community Change.