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Friday October 18, 2024 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
Co-presented with 48 Hills

To thrive in the present we must connect to the past, but when that past is fragmented by colonization, oppression, and the pressure to assimilate, how can we tap into the wisdom of the generations that came before us? What did our elders know that we are struggling to rediscover? Using traditions that range from curanderismo to community outreach, Sandhya Rani Jha, Alie Jones, Shanthi Sekaran, and Atava Garcia Swiecicki discuss the path before us and the answers within us. Moderated by SFSU professor of journalism Venise Wagner. This event opens and closes with a healing meditation offered by Sagrada Arts proprietor Rebecca Sanders. $25

Book sales for this event coordinated by Sagrada.
Moderators
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Venise Wagner

Venise Wagner has been a professor of journalism at San Francisco State University since 2001. Before her appointment, she worked 12 years as a journalist for a variety of California daily newspapers covering border issues, religion and ethics, education, and the Bay Area’s Black... Read More →
Authors and Participants
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Sandhya Jha

Founder and former director of the Oakland Peace Center, Sandhya Jha (they/them) is a twenty-year resident of Oakland and a decades-long community organizer and activist currently working on a PhD in Philadelphia. Inspired by what they learned about the sustaining power of ancestors... Read More →
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Alie Jones

Alie Jones is a self-care advocate, writer, artist, and Creole mermaid. She believes that the best writing spaces are generative and embodied. Jones is deeply inspired by scholars like bell hooks, Ntozake Shange, June Jordan, and Gloria Anzaldúa. As an educator, she explores the... Read More →
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Rebecca Sanders

Rebecca Sanders has been a practicing witch and intuitive healer for over twenty years. She has been a lifelong student of ceremonial and angel magic. Classically trained as a vocalist at The Colburn School, Rebecca loves using sound as a healing modality to transform the energetic... Read More →
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Shanthi Sekaran

Shanthi Sekaran is a novelist and television writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Salon. Her novel Lucky Boy was named an Indie Next Great Read, an Amazon Editor's Pick and a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Barnes & Noble, Library Journal... Read More →
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Atava Garcia Swiecicki

Atava Garcia Swiecicki is dedicated to remembering the healing traditions of her ancestors and supporting others to reconnect with their own ancestral medicine. She loves helping people build relationships with plants, whom she considers some of our greatest teachers and healers... Read More →
Friday October 18, 2024 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
SAGRADA (4926 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA 94609, USA)

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