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Tuesday • October 21 • Wednesday • October 22 • Santa Cruz Black’s last offering in their BLACK On Screen is Unapologetic, a film that challenges viewers to consider what being “unapologetic” demands of those who resist—refusing respectability politics and embracing the discomfort of speaking truth to power.

Thursday, October 16 • MAH • An evening of poetry, music, and art!
Reception starts at 6pm and programming begins at 6:30pm

Sunday •  Oct 12  •  5 – 7 PM  •  Musical Soulmates and Walnut Avenue Family and Women’s Center are proud to co-produce the third annual Let the Caged Bird Sing — a powerful concert in support of survivors during Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

A cabaret-style performance celebrating the legacy of 20th-century Black women artists.
Saturday  •  Sept 20  •  8 PM

Santa Cruz Black’s BLACK On Screen offering for September is Compensation, a film that asks how to navigate the intersection of Blackness, deafness, happiness, status and class identity.

Tuesday • August 19 • Capitola Library • 2005 Wharf Rd • CapitolaWednesday, August 20 • Resource Center for Nonviolence • 612 Ocean St • Santa CruzDoors open at 6 pm, film at 6:30 pmWheelchair accessible • Donation • RSVP requested Gilda Sheppard’s film Since I Been Down brings to life the praxis of abolition within but not confined by prison walls. ToContinue reading ““Since I Been Down” Film Screening and Discussion – TWO SHOWINGS”

Friday  • July 18 (NEW DATE)  • 6-7 PMInstitute of Arts and Sciences • 100 Panetta Ave•  Santa CruzWheelchair accessible  • FreeJoin author Emile Suotonye DeWeaver for a book talk and signing of his first book, Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy and an Abolitionist Future.  During his twenty-one years in prison, DeWeaver covertly organized toContinue reading “Book Launch, Emile Suotonye DeWeaver”

Please join Santa Cruz Black for a screening of Stanley Nelson’s documentary, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, which sheds light on the Black Panther Party from the perspective of its members, its supporters, and those who sought to bring it down.