UofO’s 14th annual Placemaking event is a four-week series of workshops on Community Land Trusts and alternate development and cooperative models. This course includes an overview of housing rights and development issues with opportunities to get involved in organizing efforts. Program Week 1 – April 11, 7 – 8 pm (EST) Guests: Dominic T. Moulden …
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Four week virtual reading group of “Homeboy Came to Orange” by Ernest Thompson and Mindy Thompson Fullilove As a part of Jan Term 2022: Year of the Programmatic Tiger, UofOrange hosted a four week, free, virtual reading group of “Homeboy Came to Orange”, the memoirs of Ernest Thompson, co-written by his daughter and UofOrange co-founder …
As we begin 2022 with our Jan Term: the Year of the Programmatic Tiger, we are confronted by a new surge in Covid-19 cases, city leadership willing to let real estate developers run amok, and the reality of catastrophic climate change. Ayako Maruyama is an artist, designer, organizer and educator who is a part of …
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The Pandemic ThinkTank, with editing assistance from UofO’s Collective Recovery team, have put together a pandemic guide. The guide outlines a community-based approach to pandemic planning in the face of a chronically undermined and underfunded public health system and neglectful political leadership. Download the guide as a free PDF. Watch the first meeting of CDC’s …
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At UofO we are building the social and cultural infrastructure to address long-standing and emergent issues in the city of Orange and across the nation. To this end we are raising $30,000 to support UofO’s unrestricted general operating fund. This fund supports all of UofO’s efforts in Restoration Urbanism, Collective Recovery, Music City, and our …
Remembering Rosa: A Concert for Peace, is hosted each year by the University of Orange in partnership with Ebenezer Baptist Church and Orange Public Schools. This year Remembering Rosa was pre-recorded and screened live. You can watch all the performances and community testimonials from Remembering Rosa 2021 below. Remembering Rosa is organized by UofO Music …
Solidarity Potluck: Together Again (Outdoors!) & Outdoor Screening of 2.2 Square Miles of Soul About this event Solidarity Potluck: Together Again (Outdoors!) Comida Compartida Solidaria: Juntos de Nuevo (¡al aire libre!) Outdoor Screening of 2.2 Square Miles of Soul: Voices of Orange Proyección al aire libre de 2.2 Square Miles of Soul: Voices of Orangea …
Join UofO’s Collective Recovery Fellow, Dr. Marisela Gomez, for a free 12-week course: “Rebuilding Just Communities = Healing Ourselves”. You can register for the class here, details are below. Title: Rebuilding just communities = healing ourselves Description: This course will instruct participants on mindfulness practices and their effect on ourselves and our work in organizing and working …
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A new essay “What We “Cannot Not Know in America”: 400 Years of Inequality and Seven Sins” written by Dr. Mindy Fullilove, Robert Sember, and Dr. Robert Fullilove is now available for free online. Read it here or below. The 400 Years of Inequality Project was created to call organizations to observe the 400th anniversary of the …
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Thursday, June 17th at 5pm ET on Zoom At UofO we hold our graduation ceremony on or around Juneteenth as one of the ways we express the connection between freedom and our ability to educate each other, and celebrate our accomplishments. This year our graduation will be on Thursday, June 17th at 5pm on Zoom. …
