Category: Events

Date/Location Update – #SCCTurns3 Celebration and Open Mic!

Peace Community–

UPDATE! We have a new date and time for the ‪#‎SCCTurns3‬ celebration!

When: Saturday, December 12, starting at 5pm
Where: Mainchance, 120 East 32nd Street, New York, NY 10016

We will have goodies in a bazaar with amazing starting at 5pm, an open mic starting at 7pm and a dance party at 9pm to close out.

This event is open to all genders and will be a sober space. Bring the kids and tell a friend to tell a friend!

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CALL FOR ARTISTS:
Want to share your gift of song, dance or poetry? Contact us at sisterscirclecollective@gmail.com to help conjure this space!

CALL FOR VENDORS:
Have goodies you’d like to share with the community? Drop a line at sisterscirclecollective@gmail.com and let us know what you’d like to offer.

Spread the word and see you soon!

Much love,
the SCC

Dear Sister Soul: Meet Jamie McGhee

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Jamie is a poet, novelist, and a screenwriter. In October 2014, Jamie published her poetry novel, Don’t Date a Writer, and has managed to garner a following of over 6,500 subscribers on her poetry blog. Her work has been featured in several literary magazines under the pseudonym Maj Alyasa. She has also produced content alongside renowned creators, such as Issa Rae of the Mis-Adventures of Awkward Black Girl. Now, she is in the process of creating and developing her own web-series.

Read our interview below in which Jamie shares her personal thoughts on life, success, race, and womanhood as a young woman of color creative:

How would you define yourself and your place in this world?

I define myself as a writer. I think my place in this world is to influence public ideology and public thought with my words. That’s all I want to do.

How has your experience as a woman of color…

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CALL TO ACTION: 11/17 Demonstration to Save Community Gardens on HPD Sites

Peace community–

At the beginning of the year the city announced 17 community gardens across NYC will be seized to develop new “affordable” housing. We are sharing this call to action in solidarity with community gardens on Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) sites that are under the threat of being shut down.

We will be demonstrating outside of the 6th annual Brooklyn Real Estate Conference hosted at the Brooklyn Museum. We cannot ignore how gentrification is also tied to the displacement and seizure of community operated green spaces.

This is an important issue to the work we do as a collective. In our  “Healing Wisdom of Herbs” workshop, we discussed the importance of supporting and preserving community controlled green spaces as a vital resource for generating communal healing.

We hope you all can join, if not, please share with your networks.

WE DEMAND COMMUNITY GARDENS + REAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING!

Here is more information posted on the NYC Community Garden Coalition page:

Tuesday, 11/17: Action to save gardens on HPD land

Call to Action by NYCCGC released on NOVEMBER 14, 2015

Join us and gardens on HPD land to protest the 6th Annual Brooklyn Real Estate Summit at the Brooklyn Museum, organized by the Brooklyn Anti-Gentrification Network (BAN). Land grabs by real estate developers are causing widespread displacement, particularly of people of color, across the borough. With this onslaught of gentrification includes the threat of all community gardens, particularly those on HPD land. Join us to protest this summit and save community gardens!

WHEN: 11/17, 11:30am
WHERE: Brooklyn Museum

Please let us know if you can attend by contacting us at united@nyccgc.org!

Much love,
the SCC

#SCCTurns3 Celebration and Open Mic!

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Save the date for the Sister Circle Collective’s third year anniversary celebration and open mic! There will be music, dancing, and much more!

BACKGOUND:
Founded in 2012, the Sister Circle Collective is a transnational feminist grassroots group of color that grew out of the Transnational Feminisms course taught by Dr. Griselda Rodriguez. Almost three years later, we’ve continued to put theory in to practice by creating a culture of understanding, compassion, and resistance.

DETAILS:
When: Friday, December 18th starting at 6pm
Where: Mainchance, 120 East 20th Street, New York, NY 10016

This event is open to all genders and will be a sober space. Bring the kids and tell a friend to tell a friend!

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CALL FOR ARTISTS:
Want to share your gift of song, dance or poetry? Contact us at sisterscirclecollective@gmail.com to help conjure this space!

CALL FOR VENDORS:
Have goodies you’d like to share with the community? Drop a line at sisterscirclecollective@gmail.com and let us know what you’d like to offer.

See you soon!
‪#‎SCCTurns3‬ ‪#‎CircleUp‬

Dear Sister Soul: Meet Aura Jones

“We’re in such a patriarchal society where you’re taught all your life that you come from a man’s rib and not a woman’s womb… I love women. We’re literally capable of the most amazing things.”

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Aura Jones is a woman-of-color event coordinator, writer, and performance poet on Tumblr, Instagram, and Twitter. For three years now, she has hosted a monthly showcase known as The Homeroom to shed light on the creative community in South Florida. Hip-hop artists, vocalists, poets, and producers are invited to gather for this laid-back “jam session” of sorts and share in one another’s creativity.

Below is my interview with Aura in which she shares her thoughts on life, success, and womanhood as a young woman of color creative:

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Gathering Our Journey’s Wisdom

Peace Community–

We’re please to invite you to join us for our final workshop, Gathering Our Journey’s Wisdom, as a part of The First Line of Defense Is Our Bodies series! The final session will focus on the energies of the Fall Equinox, and will be intergenerational space with filled with music, food and discussion. The session, facilitated by Ynanna Djehuty, will utilize writing and other mediums that will help participants identify how their identities have been influenced by their personal and collective histories.

When: Saturday, October 3rd starting at 5pm.
Where: Justice Center en El Barrio, 1637 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10029.
RSVP: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-first-line-of-defense-is-our-bodies-closing-workshop-tickets-18786645362

About the Justice Center en El Barrio:

The Justice Center en El Barrio is a dynamic new space for social justice and community organizing, committed to building the people’s movements. The Justice Center is home to five organizations focused on everything from fitness justice, to fighting police brutality, recovering workers’ unpaid wages and defending women’s reproductive rights. Regular programs include community forums, book clubs, film showings, free and low cost fitness classes and open mics.

About Ynanna Djehuty:

Ynanna Djehuty is an Afro-Dominicana born and raised in the Bronx. She is a midwife, reproductive health activist and writer. The focus of her work is the empowerment of women and people of the African Diaspora. Ynanna is the creator of These Waters Run Deep, a multimedia journey into the lives and struggle of Afro-descendant women. Using reproductive and maternal health as a lens,These Waters Run Deep artfully weaves narratives that highlight the socio-political landscape by through which women of color have learned to endure for generations. In October 2009, the Afro-Dominican speaker published ‘Hija De Mi Madre’ (My Mother’s Daughter), a combination of memoirs, poems and research material focusing on the effects of race on identity. Ynanna is the co-founder and associate editor of La Galería Magazine, an online publication for Dominicans of the Diaspora.

We hope to see you on Saturday!

Much love,
the SCC

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