Connect with the Earth, Dance with the Clay with Alicia Rodriguez

Presented by the Resource Center for Nonviolence and the UCSC Center for Racial Justice
Monday • June 9 • 6:30-8:30 pm 
RCNV • 612 Ocean St • Wheelchair accessible • Donation
Join the director and teacher of Taller Guaguarey (Clay Arts Center) in Cayey, Puerto Rico, for an informal conversation about her work, the center, and the vital role it plays in a community impacted by U.S. colonial policies and the climate crisis. 

A former political prisoner, Alicia learned pottery in prison and knows firsthand the healing and therapeutic benefits of working with clay. Alicia and Taller Guaguarey offer free pottery classes to adults and children in a communal setting in Cayey, a mountain town in Puerto Rico with a population of 6,000 people, of which 54.2% live in poverty. 

Donations will help enable Taller Guaguarey to grow into a self-sustaining regional Clay Arts Center by covering costs of supplies, tools, equipment, and teacher’s stipends