Cultural & Creative Arts Center of Santa Maria Valley

100 Thousand Poets for Change

The Dreams Journal project is looking for folks who, in this current state of the pandemic and crisis, are wanting or needing an opportunity to collectively reflect and dream through a community journaling project. This project will center the perspectives of communities that are historically unheard, underrepresented, or under-resourced. Sign up to receive a journal to keep for 2 weeks to share your thoughts in sketches, painting, words, collages, etc. After the 2 weeks, yo...u send the journal back so it can go to the next dreamer. All postage is paid. Entries from the journals will eventually be viewable on the Central Coast Covid-19 Snapshots project site (centralcoastsnapshots.online). Journals will be archived at Cal Poly Kennedy Library's Special Collections. More information and the sign up can be found here: tinyurl.com/dreamsjournal. This project is supported by the Central Coast Public Humanities Collaborative, Cal Poly’s Kennedy Library’s Creative Works and Special Collections and Archives, Cal Poly Ethnic Studies Department, Cal Poly Student Diversity and Belonging, with funding from the Center for Expressive Technologies and the Student-Community Liaison Committee of Cal Poly, the City of SLO, and SLO County.

Submissions Wanted! Disability Truth. Due Nov. 30, 2020. A magazine spotlighting artists with disability from the Central Coast in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Share your writing, poetry, music, visual art, photography, and other creations. ... See bit.ly/DisabilityTruth to get inspired by other Central Cost artists with disabilities. Email [email protected] with submissions or questions!

attended last night's Women Making Waves in Leadership online conference to listen and learn from distinguished local women leaders, like Cultural Creations edu...cator and artist Sandra Sarrouf and Candidate for California State Assembly Dawn Addis . I never expected Dawn Addis to recognize me, say she is excited about my webinar on cultural humility next week, and plug my webinar after telling me she has already spread the word about it in SLO!! Thank you, Dawn! I am still reeling from the recognition and am so appreciative of your support! Please join Dawn and the 1034 (and counting!) registrants next Wed., Oct. 28, 11 am-noon Pacific, for my free webinar on Cultural Humility for Leaders. It's not too late to register! Here is the registration link: https://register.gotowebinar.com/regist/5180875010478623245 See more

It’s Indigenous Peoples Day, not Columbus Day. Via @dineaesthetics: within what is now known as the US, IPD is on the second Monday in October. This year, it... is Oct. 12, 2020. Artwork made by my three cousins; Aari T., Aaryan T., and Aadon T. Background harp audio by @hannah_harpist Made in collaboration with @breakthroughtv #DineAesthetics #IndigenousPeoplesDay #IndigenousPeoplesDay2020 #HappyIndigenousPeoplesDay #IPD #IPD2020 #500PlusYearsofResistance #CelebrateIndigenousPeoples #IndigenousResistance #IndigenousResilience #Dine #Navajo #Native #NativeAmerican #Indigenous #IndigenousPeoples #HappyIndigenousPeoplesDay See more

Please share to support 2 #IndigenousYouth initiatives on the frontlines of #Covid19 & #LandDefense this year on #IndigenousPeoplesDay We’re almost to our goal! https://donorbox.org/ipd-wisdom-art-activism #Indigenous #MutualAid #Skoden #IPD #NotColumbusDay #LANDBACK

Coming up this week on Thursday evening at 5:30pm! Sex-Ed & Quarantinis with Planned Parenthood California Central Coast RSVP for the Zoom link at https://bit.ly/3kkFl7c

Join the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives on Saturday, October 10th at 2:00 PM PST for a virtual book reading and conversation with host Suzette Zazueta and the award-winning Chicana, Latinx, LGBTQ poet Verónica Reyes. Verónica Reyes is the author of Chopper! Chopper! Poetry from Borderlands (Arktoi Books 2013). She is a Chicana, Latinx LGBTQ poet from East Los Angeles. She won International Latino Book Award 2014 and Golden Crown Literary Society Award 2014 and a Finalist for ...Lambda Literary Award 2014. Reyes earned a BA from California State University, Long Beach (1995), and MFA from University of Texas, El Paso (2000). Presently, she is faculty in the Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies program, and Department of English at Cal State LA. Her poetry shares the lives of her communities: Mexican American, brown queers, immigrants, Latinx, and la jotería; it contributes to the growing narrative of Chicana/o/x literature. This is a Zoom event so please RSVP to get the Zoom link on the day of the event: https://tinyurl.com/y62e7w29 Donations are welcome and much appreciated! Questions? Contact [email protected]. or 310 659-2478.

Are you a Central Coast artist who identifies as a person with a disability? Are you interested in sharing your work with others in the community? Submit your work to Disability Truth, a magazine spotlighting artists with disabilities from the Central Coast. Be a part of a magazine that commemorates the 30th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, known as the A.D.A. We are looking for artists to share their writing, poetry, music, visual art, photography, and m...ore. The magazine will be available online and distributed throughout the Central Coast. If you need an idea for a submission, go to http://bit.ly/DisabilityTruth to get inspired by other Central Coast artists with disabilities. For more info or to submit a piece, contact [email protected]. Submissions must be received by Saturday, October 31, 2020.