This workshop series focuses on the question: how can we put our artistic practice in service of frontline communities facing climate disaster, land dispossession, poverty, and repression? In answering, we find new avenues for growth in our own artistic expression, more meanings for art’s uses, and methods for both individual and community expression. In this session we learn how activists use a shared analysis of Philippine society to build a comprehensive movement across class and sectors. We’ll learn about repression and collective resistance from Philippine political prisoners and human rights organizations that Liyang supports through their Defend the Defenders campaign. We will paint placards that express solidarity, build unity, mobilize resistance, and replenish a culture of hope in the face of state violence against the people. These workshops are co-facilitated by members of Liyang Western Massachusetts who have visited and integrated with anti-imperialist community organizations in the Philippines. We will share creative activities and practical tools informed by stories and forms of struggle across Indigenous, youth, queer, women, urban, and rural communities.

Ujima Café is our version of a community hangout: a relaxed space to sip, snack, and catch up with Ujima’s work in real time. Part social hour, part open office, this is a place to try curated menus, and engage in real talk with staff and members alike.

The Boston Ujima Project, in partnership with the ICA/Boston, presents a special screening of TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing, a biography of the influential writer, filmmaker and cultural worker, who with humor and deep insight, inspired a generation of artists to dedicate themselves to community empowerment. The film is structured as a series of lessons on cultural organizing, gleaned from Bambara’s life and shared by her friends, colleagues and students. Filmmaker Louis Massiah will be in attendance for post-screening talkback.

Join us in a discussion on wellness as a currency. Reflecting on what people are going through right now. The day to day attacks on people's physical wellness (environmental factors). Disaster relief that’s often withheld (or misplaced), which are tax payer funded. Who actually ends up on the scene? The holistic healers.

We welcome you to grab your copy and celebrate the launch of our print magazine with founding directors Mark Hernandez-Motaghy and Cierra Peters, and co-Editor-in-Chief Alula Hunsen, at Foxglove Terrace in Allston! Each purchased ticket will get you two drink tickets for the bar, and a copy of the magazine.

What are some hard truths around money? Join us for a talkback with Dr. Ericka Brown and Dr. Jared Ball on what hard currencies are and how we live, interact and navigate the world today. Referencing Dr. Jared Ball’s The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power, and his two part Mythbusting march workshop series, Dr. Ball will revisit the myths we've picked up along the way, and why. Join us as we transition from holy currencies, and practices of bartering to hard currencies.