THIS WEEK'S EVENT & NEWS SUMMARY
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2019 Community MLK Celebration: Women in the Movement
January 19-February 1 | Various Times and Locations
Join us as we commemorate the life and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during events planned January 19th - February 1st, 2019. The theme for the 2019 Community MLK Celebration is “Women in the Movement.”
"WOMEN IN THE MOVEMENT"
“Women have been the backbone of the whole Civil Rights movement,” Coretta Scott King observed in 1966. Women played pivotal roles in the fight for Civil Rights during the 1950s and 60s, yet they are sometimes overlooked in history books and conversations about these crucial events. At present, women have assumed leadership and/or founding roles in Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, and other significant social movements.
This year’s theme “Women in the Movement” encourages the exploration of the various roles women have played and are playing in social movements throughout history and currently.
“Women” and gender should be interpreted broadly, inclusive of trans people and those whose identities do not conform unambiguously to conventional gender roles.
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Race and Place in Charlottesville
Monday, January 21 | 6-8pm | Wilson Hall
Who is my neighbor?
Learn one answer to that question at a first-ever public screening of a video series of African-American history interpreted through the streets, buildings, monuments, and spaces of Charlottesville’s university and downtown communities. This tour is led by Professor of Architectural History Louis Nelson and features interviews with local experts, public historians, and residents.
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Something's in the Water
Monday, January 22 and Tuesday, January 23 | 2pm | Studio Two Three
2019 marks the 400th year observance of Jamestown, Virginia, and specifically, the earliest record of enslaved Africans arriving in 1619 to a strange new world - the tumultuous beginnings of a nation-state called the United States of America. With increased national and global efforts to center inclusive histories, truth and reconciliation processes, and racial equity today, we ask, how far have we come in 400 years?
January’s National Day of Racial Healing is as much about grappling with ongoing structures of racism, trauma, loss and injustice as it is about journeying toward healing and reconciliation.
What remains hidden beneath the water?
What floats to the surface?
Something’s in the Water is a recognition of patterns of collective thinking and behaviors that are odd, off and in need of course correction. It is also where emergent bubbles rise to the top, resisting the waves of history to push to the shore of a new day.
Initiatives of Change USA contemplates the conditions of our making as a city, state, and country through this exciting 2-day event that kicks off on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Jan. 21) and continues on the National Day of Racial Healing (Jan. 22).
Join us as we partner with #Spacebomb, #SacredHeartCenter, leading artists, cultural historians, creative influencers, grassroots activists and other organizations in a range of activities including conversations, installations, exhibitions, workshops, film screenings, live music and performances.
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National Day of Racial Healing is a nationwide event, created by the Kellogg Foundation, under the thematic approach of Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation. Initiatives of Change USA is leading this process in Richmond, one of 14 cities that has received a multi-year grant to conduct this work, and will be producing activities on January 22, 2019.
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Race in the Decade Since Obama
with Melody Barnes, Kevin Gaines, Lauretta Charlton
Tuesday, January 22 | 4:00PM - 5:30PM | The Miller Center
It's been a decade since President Barack Obama's inauguration. In those 10 years, how have things changed—or not changed—for people of color in the United States? Hear the Miller Center's Melody Barnes, UVA scholar Kevin Gaines, and The New York Times' Lauretta Charlton explore race in America today. Was the "post-racial" era a mirage? Have politics become more or less racialized in the past 10 years? Join us for this timely discussion by reserving a spot below.
This event is part of the 2019 Community MLK Celebration. It is also being held on the third annual National Day of Racial Healing, part of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation effort—"a national and community-based process to plan for and bring about transformational and sustainable change, and to address the historical and contemporary effects of racism."
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Brittney Cooper on Eloquent Rage in 2019
Tuesday, January 22, 2019 | 6 PM – 8 PM | Minor Hall
Brittney Cooper is an assistant professor in the Departments of Women and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers. Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower is her third book.
Eloquent Rage was listed as a Best Book of 2018 by The New York Public Library, Mashable, The Atlantic, Bustle, The Root, NPR, and Fast Company.
This event is part of the Community MLK Celebration. Find more events in this series at UVA and in Charlottesville at mlk.virginia.edu.
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MIMA Music Workshop
MIMA Music is an educational nonprofit that hosts collaborative songwriting programs for youth and adults in the Central Virginia area. MIMA is growing and needs to train and employ more musicians and educators interested in teaching classes during the upcoming academic year.
Participants of the upcoming workshop (Jan. 26 and 27) will experience the MIMA Method and learn the basic principles of delivering the Method in MIMA classrooms. As such, the workshop is primarily intended for those interested in working as paid MIMA Teaching Artists. It may also be of interest to educators in the arts looking to expand their pedagogical repertoire and musicians interested in learning new approaches to collaborative songwriting. For everyone, we promise an engaging musical experience and the opportunity to meet like-minded creative folks.
The workshop will be led by veteran MIMA Teaching Artists Caleb Dance and Jordan Perry. Over the course of ~15 hours, Caleb and Jordan will lead trainees and current MIMA Teaching Artists to produce and perform an original composition using the MIMA Method. After completing the workshop, participants will receive preliminary certification as MIMA Teaching Artists, the primary requirement to work in the MIMA classroom.
New trainees are asked to pay a $120 tuition for the training. Contact info@mimamusic.org to apply for a tuition waiver.
Email info@mimamusic.org to register, for more info about the training and MIMA’s upcoming work in Central VA, or to say hi.
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Race Matters: How to Talk Effectively About Race
February 5 & 6 | 8am-5:30pm | Omni Charlottesville Hotel
Sponsored by: Counseling Alliance of Virginia, Community Mental Health and Wellness Coalition, The Women's Initiative & The City of Charlottesville
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President Ryan's Community Working Group Survey
This winter, UVA President, Jim Ryan, convened a University-Community Working Group with this charge:
"One of my priorities as UVA’s president is to strengthen the University’s relationship with the Charlottesville community. Toward that end, I am forming a working group that, over the next few months, will assess UVA’s collaborations with the community and determine the highest-priority issues for consideration, which might include wages, housing, education, health care, and other matters. The group will be charged to identify the issues but not to solve them, and also to think about the best long-term structure for developing solutions, possibly through the establishment of a more permanent council or board."
More details are available about the working group membership and its charge here: https://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/uva/members-of-ryan-s-town-gown-working-group-named/article_1ac011c0-d32c-11e8-b9fe-73b0cbac5632.html
The Working Group seeks feedback from community members, organizations, and coalitions to identify the highest-priority issues where the university and the community can work together over the next five years to promote a healthy community for all.
With this survey, as well as through face-to- face conversations across our community, the Working Group is asking community members, organizations, and coalitions to help prioritize these focus areas worthy of our collective effort in the next five years.
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Building Experiences
Our Mission
Building Experiences supports young adults to have successful college, work, and life experiences through goal setting, coaching, referrals and networking, community building and having fun.
The Need for Building Experiences
- Young adults may successfully graduate from high school, but are unprepared for the many choices that post-high school life offers, and may be unprepared for the autonomy and responsibility that attending college or holding a job requires.
- Young adults may have supportive families, but their families may be inexperienced in navigating college, or may not have the knowledge, or network to assist them in appropriate job placements.
- Young adults may be ambitious and want to participate in volunteering, internships and/or other resume-building activities, but must prioritize paying bills and supporting their families and themselves over these critical, but unpaid opportunities.
- Young adults may be smart, hard-working, eager and outgoing, but they may lack the self-confidence to go into a completely unfamiliar venue and ask for assistance, support or employment.
The Goal of Building Experiences is to provide support to successful young adults as they navigate these years of transition. BE strives to:
- Improve member access to and success in college by providing support with the processes of admissions, financial aid, course selection, coursework, transferring and selecting a major,
- Increase the members’ number and quality of community, academic and professional networks, including supportive peer networks,
- Facilitate members participation in volunteer, internship, and employment opportunities, and
- Provide enriching and fun activities that affirm and develop members’ skills, talents and achievements.
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By: ARI SHAPIRO | Original Publication: NPR
"As the government shutdown enters its fourth week — becoming the longest in United States history — federal workers around the country are struggling to make ends meet. But according to Jamiles Lartey, a reporter with The Guardian, the shutdown is having a disproportionate effect on black workers and their families.
African-Americans make up a higher percentage of federal workers than they do of the non-government workforce. That's in part because, for generations, government work has provided good wages and job security to African-Americans who faced more overt discrimination in the private sector.
Ari Shapiro of NPR's All Things Considered sat down with Lartey to talk about some of the ways this disparity is playing out right now..."
Image: The US Capitol in Washington, DC, January 14, 2019, is seen following a snowstorm. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
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By: Anthony P. de Bruyn | Original Publication: UVA Today
"A new working group made up of University of Virginia faculty, staff and students and local community members has identified seven pressing issues facing the Central Virginia area.
As challenging as the task was for the working group, that was the easy part.
For the hard part, the working group is turning to the community.
The group, formed by new UVA President Jim Ryan, is asking for the community to prioritize those issues....
The seven areas identified by the working group are:
- Affordable housing.
- Jobs/wages at UVA.
- Youth and education.
- Law enforcement and criminal justice reform.
- Public health care.
- Transportation.
- Institutional accountability at UVA..."
Photo: by Sanjay Suchak, University Communications
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"In response to the events of August 11 and 12, 2017, the Charlottesville to Jamestown pilgrimage, sponsored by the Charlottesville Clergy Collective, provided a constructive opportunity for us to take the next step in addressing racism in America and its attending systemic injustices. During our journey, over four hundred pilgrims heard stories and untold histories, we built relationships, and we identified common concerns that need to be transformed in order to bring about racial equity..."
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Save the Date for the 9th Annual Lemon Project Symposium, "Celebrating Legacies, Constructing Futures: Four Hundred Years of Black Community and Culture"
When: March 15-16, 2019
Where: William and Mary
The Universities Studying Slavery (USS) Consortium Meeting will be held at William & Mary on March 14th, 2019, followed by the 9th Annual Lemon Project Spring Symposium, "Celebrating Legacies, Constructing Futures: Four Hundred Years of Black Community and Culture," on March 15-16, 2019.
Click here for the Call for Proposals for the Lemon Project Symposium. Please share the CFP far and wide! Submissions are due by January 11, 2019.
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Notes on the State
Podcast Series
Notes on the State is a six-part podcast series produced at UVA’s Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies. The podcast engages with the state of our nation today through the history of one of its most complicated figures: Thomas Jefferson.
In addition to featuring conversations about Jefferson’s legacy, the series also engages with the future of UVa as an institution. Among others, it poses the following questions:
How does an institution like UVa update its narratives while preserving its traditions?
Can the University reach its highest ideals despite its greatest contradictions?
What responsibility, if any, does UVa as an institution have to the very people that have historically been excluded?
Notes on the State launches in February 2019. For updates, promotional materials, and extras, follow the series on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
Carter G. Woodson for African-American and African Studies
Website: woodson.as.virginia.edu
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1st Harambee Family Events
January-December 2019 | Various Times | Various Locations
Charlottesville, VA - Harambee Family Events is a calendar that highlights African American Cultural Activities in Charlottesville and surrounding areas. The calendar, created and designed by author, award winner, Mr. Alex-Zan, presents 18 events from January 2019 - December 2019.
The Harambee (Swahili - All Pull Together) culture events objectives are to inspire and unify area citizens to communicate more effectively and create/maintain a positive environment for change and civility. The calendar also strives to strengthen family relations and culture awareness, particularly African Americans who have experienced a lack of inclusion in many area events.
The Harambee Family Event Calendar will be distributed throughout Central VA. - schools, churches, businesses, clubs/organizations and social media to name a few. The calendar sponsors are: (CAT) Charlottesville Area Transit, Wegmans, Blue Ridge Graphics and Carter Myers Automotive.
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UCARE is a coalition of community and university members, founded with the goal of understanding and addressing racial harms that may be seen in the community and at the university, in areas such as housing, employment, health, education, the justice system, and more. UCARE has connected community and university groups and individuals. We have prompted changes in how UVa understands and represents its history. We have called attention to and prompted action addressing racial disparities in student admissions and faculty recruitment as well as in conditions of workers, including support for a living wage. But we have much more to do; the quest for racial equity is a long ways from being over. We are grateful to Westminster Presbyterian Church for their financial support the last two years. And we are pleased that the W. W. Kellogg Foundation has offered us a grant for two years. Among other items, this will allow UCARE to convene Charlottesville Acts for Racial Equity (CARE). Stay tuned for ways you can be involved in 2018.
If you have community events of interest please email us at ucarestaff@gmail.com.
You will reach UCARE project manager Frank Dukes.
And, as always, if you have ideas for funding sources to support this work, please contact us at that same address.
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Submissions
Please submit information about someone or an organization that have positively impacted the community. Submit at UCAREStaff@Gmail.com.
Deadline: Every Thursday
Feedback
Please share your opinions about the new design of the newsletter to us at UCAREStaff@Gmail.com.
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