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White History Week (WHW) Returns to Albuquerque

White History Week is a community event featuring theater, art, poetry, film and workshops to raise the issue of racial identity and race. It is a time for people to think and talk about how to confront the issue of racism in our communities. Entering its fourth year, WHW was started by two African American Albuquerque residents in 2005. These visionary women, Stefanie Willis and Virginia Hampton, turned the tables on Black History Month and created this unique and controversial event, which begins April 15th and runs through April 21st, 2009. This week long event takes place at 1kind Studios, the Guild Cinema Theater, and the South Broadway Cultural Center.

WORKSHOP/EVENT DESCRIPTIONS BELOW

See Schedule and Location Information to the Right


EXHIBIT OPENING AND ART PARTY

Exploring: racial identity, racism and its effects, and people’s movements to challenge and eliminate racism.
WEDNESDAY APRIL 15th 5-8 - 1Kind Studios 1016 Coal Ave SW #3 Albuquerque, NM 8710

Every once in a while there is an opening, a space in the cultural fabric where the direction has not yet been decided, where there is potential for many kinds of change.
Now is one of those times.

TRACES OF TRADE: A STORY FROM THE DEEP NORTH

FILM SHOWING FOLLOWED BY DISCUSSION WITH HAROLD FIELDS, NATIONAL TRAINING DIRECTOR FOR THE FILM

First-time filmmaker Katrina Browne makes a troubling discovery - her New England ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. She and nine fellow descendants set off to retrace the Triangle Trade: from their old hometown in Rhode Island to slave forts in Ghana to sugar plantations ruins in Cuba.

Guild Cinema, 3405 Central Ave NE - 505-255-1848
Tickets $7/adult and $5/student/senior/under 12
Please visit: www.tracesofthetrade.org

The film will be followed with a discussion facilitated by Harold Fields, the National Training Director for the film. He facilitates a monthly city-wide racial dialogue in Denver that has lasted for ten years. He participated in the documentary because of his connections with two family members, Holly and Keila. He is active in restorative justice and racial reconciliation projects across the nation. He has over 30 years of systems development experience with IBM and the airline industry.

A RAISIN IN THE SUN THEATER PRODUCTION SYNOPSIS

Sunday, April 19th 6p.m. to 9p.m. @ 1kind Studios.              

An all white theatre troupe in northern Michigan wants to do A Raisin in the Sun for Black History Month. They hire a director from Howard University's Theatre Program to come direct the show. Zany hyjinx ensue during the rehearsal process, including some questioning about whether the theatre addage that "anyone can/should play any role convincingly." Deeper questions include: What kind of white family wouldn't be welcome in a white neighborhood? What kind of white neighbors would pay money to keep these white folks out?



BUILDING BRIDGES BETWEEN COMMUNITIES THROUGH MUSIC & THEATER

Saturday, April 18th at 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. & 2:45 to 3:45p.m. @ Media Arts Community Charter School. Led by Somos los otros... and they are us!

A SOMATIC APPROACH TO RACIAL IDENTITY: discussions that start in our core

Saturday, April 18th from 2p.m. to 5:00p.m. @ 1kind Studios.         This workshop will be open to anti‐racist activists and allies seeking to ground their activism and effect real shifts in their own and their community’s response to racism and racial privilege. Built on current understandings of human neurological responses to threat, this workshop will introduce activists to essential skills of stress regulation and stabilization in themselves and those they witness when doing anti‐racist action. With these skills the prospect of effective intervention, education, and innovation in ending racism are more likely to succeed and minimize the burnout of those committed to the struggle.


This will be limited to 10 participants, to deepen the experience. The workshop will be conducted by Jered Ebenreck, a massage therapist (LMT 4680) with a background in anti‐racist activism.

Please RSVP by Saturday morning, 4/18/09. We accept donations, but this is open and free to committed participants. Please RSVP to

bodycaster@gmail.com; whitehistoryweeks@gmail.com; or 505 235 2572

SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE POETS

Saturday, April 18th, 7pm at SBCC:

The 2nd Annual Some of My Best Friends Are Poets
Featured Poets include Andrea Serrano, Richard Vargas, Hakim Bellamy, Michelle Otero, Mary Oishi, Cathy Arellano, Amanda Rich & Jenifer Rae Vernon, courtesy of West End Press.
Followed by a round robin open mike of community poests.
Open mike sign-up from 6:30 – 7pm.
Reception immediately following event.

SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE POETS

SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE POETS
Saturday April 18th Performance and Open Mic

BLACK/JEWISH DIALOG

Sunday, April 19th 2:00p.m.-4:00p.m. @1kind Studios
The history of Jewish/African American relations has been one of conflict and of close alliances. How can we confront this history and be allies for each other against a system invested in keeping us apart?

GENTRIFICATION: DECONSTRUCTING ENTITLEMENT - WHOSE PLACE, WHOSE ECONOMY?

Sunday, April 19th 6:00p.m.-9:00p.m. @ 1kind Studios.      

A panel moderated by Aztatl featuring Claudia Isaac, Ricky Lee Allen and Virginia Hampton.

Is whiteness a form of property? What do you think?

WHITE RACISM: CAN WE END IT?

Monday, April 20th 7:00p.m. to 9:00p.m.
White people created racism, and it is our job to end it. Through deep listening and action we can confront this major wound in ourselves and in the oppressive society that causes it, in order to move towards a world that is free of oppression.

SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE BORDERLANDS

Tuesday April 21st 6:30 to 8:00 pm - Las Flores del Valle.

Social Justice in the Borderlands.

Sharing a history not well known through smooth harmonies and compelling images to illustrate struggles and accomplishments in Mexico and the Southwest Borderlands.

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