University of Orange

Urban Alchemy: Sorted-out City Walk
2021-07-15 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | 35 Cleveland St, 35 Cleveland Street, City of Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
Join us for a “Sorted-Out City” walking tour in Orange, NJ

This walking tour is a part of University of Orange’s Urban Alchemy Summer Reading Group. The reading group is virtual, but this walk is an in-person event in Orange NJ where we will walk together to see both the fracture and sorting of Orange, NJ but also the resources, assets, and treasures that make our city great. This walking tour is free and open to everyone.
We will meet at the HUUB, 35 Cleveland Street, at 6:30PM. There will be an option for dinner and discussion after the walk.

Urban Alchemy Summer Reading Group
2021-07-12 18:00 - 19:00 | NJ
Join UofO’s summer reading group of the seminal text “Urban Alchemy: Restoring Joy in America’s Sorted-Out Cities” by Dr. Mindy Fullilove

What if divided neighborhoods were causing public health problems? What if a new approach to planning and design could tackle both the built environment and collective well-being at the same time? What if cities could help each other?
Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove, the acclaimed author of Root Shock, uses her unique perspective as a public health psychiatrist to explore and identify ways of healing social and spatial fractures simultaneously. Using the work of French urbanist Michel Cantal-Dupart and the American urban design firm Rothschild Doyno Collaborative as guides as well as urban restoration projects from France and the US as exemplary cases, Fullilove identifies nine tools that can mend our broken cities and reconnect our communities to make them whole.
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This reading group will be accompanied by interactive Restoration Urbanism activities and walking tours around Orange, NJ.
You can purchase the book here. Use the code ALCHEMY25 at checkout for a 25% discount.

UofO 13 Graduation!
2021-06-17 17:00 - 18:00 | NJ
Join us for UofO Graduation 2021

UofO Graduation 2021
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. Don’t forget to bring a hat!
In order to graduate you have to:

take two UofO courses (private study also counts!)
volunteer
vote (it doesn’t have to be in a governmental election)
attend a city meeting
have fun with your neighbors

Many exceptions apply! Join us!

Placemaking13 Part 2: Planning to Stay Stroll n Scroll
2021-05-22 14:00 - 16:00 | 35 Cleveland St, 35 Cleveland Street, City of Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
Second half of a community Stroll n Scroll around the Orange Memorial Hospital site

Join us on May 22nd for the second half of our community Stroll n Scroll around the Orange Memorial Hopsital site. This walk is a part of UofO’s 13th annual Placemaking event.
We’ll meet at the HUUB (35 Cleveland Street) at 2pm for a community Stroll & Scroll. We’ll walk the box and circle of Main Street in Orange and visit Orange Memorial Hospital. Using the ‘stroll and scroll’ methodology, we’ll reconvene after the walk at HUUB to create a community scroll with our observations, thoughts, and hopes for Main Street and the Hospital site.
Masks and social distancing required, patties from Lando’s Bakery provided.

Music City Festival: Dancing in the Streets
2021-05-14 - 2021-05-16 | NJ
Music City Festival : Dancing in the Streets
Friday May 14th – Harmony Hop on Central and Lincoln Ave
Saturday May 15th – Tearing Up Main Street
Sunday May 16th – Dancing in the Valley

TURN ON THE LOVE for Orange, NJ! A weekend celebration of food, music, dance and community. May 14th-16th. To get involved or find out more information find us online:
www.universityoforange.org / music.city.orange.nj@gmail.com / @uoforange

¡ENCIENDE EL AMOR para Orange, NJ! Una celebración de fin de semana de comida, música, baile y comunidad. 14-16 de Mayo.

Fè lanmou briye pou vil Orange, NJ! Yon weekenn selebrasyon manje, mizik, dans, ak kominote. Apati de 14 jiska 16 me.

Placemaking 13: Planning to Stay Stroll 'n Scroll
2021-05-01 14:00 - 16:00 | The HUUB, inc, 35 Cleveland Street, City of Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
Join us on May 1st for Placemaking 13!

We’ll meet at the HUUB (35 Cleveland Street) at 2pm for a community Stroll & Scroll. We’ll walk the box and circle of Main Street in Orange and visit Orange Memorial Hospital. After the walk we’ll reconvene at HUUB to create a community scroll with our observations, thoughts, and hopes for Main Street and the Hospital site.
Masks and social distancing required, refereshments provided.

Reflecting on 400 Years: Stories and Tools for a Just Future
2021-04-28 17:00 - 18:30 | Online
A celebration of the 400 Years of Inequality coalition, including readings, reflections, and a showcase unveiling two new digital platforms. Register for free online here.

About this Event

In 1619, the first ships delivering Africans to be sold into bondage arrived in Jamestown, an inciting event in America’s ongoing battle with inequality. 2019 would mark this monumental 400th anniversary, and with it, a call to action would be issued—and answered.
Presented by University of Orange, Reflecting on 400 Years: Stories and Tools for a Just Future is the story of 400 Years of Inequality, a global coalition of activists, scholars, artists, and students—all linked in arms for radical equity. Join us on April, 28th, 2021 as we showcase our groundbreaking coalition, and unveil two new digital platforms that reflect on 4 centuries of inequity, more than 5 years of transformative organizing, 150+ community-based observances—and look toward the future.
A Call Answered: Observing History—Reclaiming the Future
Through immersive multimedia storytelling, A Call Answered… spotlights the change-inspiring work of 5 community-based 400 Years “observances”, events unearthing and acknowledging America’s timeline of inequality, and setting the stage for a new century of recovery.
The Peoples Pathway to Equity
How do you contribute to a sustainable, equitable, historically informed future? It starts with the people and places around you.
In this space, you will engage in multimedia activities and the key concepts most critical to understanding and dismantling the ecology of inequality in your community. Across four chapters, you’ll explore the many insights gathered by the 400 Years of Inequality coalition over five years of learning and organizing together, introducing you to people from a range of places who have boldly answered the call for equality, and helping you embark on your own pathway to equity.

Cooking Galette’s with Khari Johnson Ricks and Robert Sember
2021-02-06 15:00 - 17:00 | NJ
We’ll gather to learn about making a galette with Robert Sember and Khari Johnson Rocks. Feel free to tune in to hang out and watch, or come prepared to cook alongside with a galette filling of your choice and either ingredients to make pastry or come with your pastry remade. Pastry recipe and more information here, register on eventbrite here.

Field Trip: Stroll n Scroll and Share!
2021-01-29 17:30 - 19:30 | NJ
Join UofO Urbanism Team members Aditi Nair and Jacqueline Castañeda for a two session of Stroll’n Scroll and Share! Mindy’s Fullilove’s book Main Street introduced to us a way of exploring our own neighborhoods. In the first session, we will discuss a method of stroll (a walk in the neighborhood) and scroll (a way of documenting your thoughts). In the second session participants will reconvene and share insights from the cohorts neighborhood, we will have guests to give feedback and go deeper into the practice of exploring our neighborhoods. More info here, and register for free on eventbrite here.

Dopefiend’s Redemption Online Book Launch Event
2021-01-24 16:00 - 17:00 | NJ
We will be honoring and celebrating Jim Gilbert’s book launch on January 24th at 4 P.M. If you’d like to join us, and haven’t already received an eventbrite invitation, please send your email address to DopefiendsRedemption@gmail.com. Once we receive your email, we will send you the invite where you may RSVP for the online event. We hope you’re able to join us.
Click here for bios on the speakers at this event.

Cooking Mushroom Risotto with Cesar Presa
2021-01-23 03:00 - 17:00 | NJ
We’ll make mushroom risotto with Cesar. Feel free to tune in to hang out and watch, or come prepared to cook alongside Cesar. Ingredients list will be shared soon.

Lunch ‘n Learn with Andy Merrifield
2021-01-20 07:00 - 08:00 | NJ
Join Andy Merrifield for UofO’s Jan Term seminar on Mushrooms and Marx. Andy Merrifield is a writer, urbanist and independent scholar with a PhD from the University of Oxford. He is author of a dozen books, including works on urbanism and social theory such as Metromarxism, The New Urban Question and Magical Marxism, intellectual biographies of Henri Lefebvre, Guy Debord and John Berger, a popular travelogue, The Wisdom of Donkeys, a manifesto for liberated living, The Amateur, and What We Talk About When We Talk About Cities (and Love), inspired by the writings of Raymond Carver, about falling in and out of love with cities. His journalism has appeared in the Guardian (UK), The Times (UK), The Nation, Harper’s Magazine, Jacobin, Dissent, and Harvard Design Magazine. His latest book, Marx, Dead and Alive, was published in November with Monthly Review Press. More information here.

Developing Community Through Music – Presentation and Panel Discussion
2021-01-17 08:00 - 09:30 | NJ

Reading Group: Dead Epidemiologists
2021-01-04 18:00 - 19:00
Join University of Orange’s Collective Recovery team as we dig into Rob Wallace’s new book of essays on the origins of COVID-19, Dead Epidemiologists.
Guest speakers will include the author Rob Wallace, and renowned epidemiologists Rod Wallace and Deborah Wallace, in conversations with Molly Rose Kaufman, Robert Sember, and Lesley Rennis from UofO’s Collective Recovery team. More information here.

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