University of Orange

Steel Pan Class for Kids
2024-10-15 17:30 - 18:45, 2024-10-22 17:30 - 18:45, 2024-10-29 17:30 - 18:45, 2024-11-12 17:30 - 18:45, 2024-11-19 17:30 - 18:45 (America/New_York) | The HUUB, inc, 35 Cleveland Street, City of Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
Steel Pan Band of Orange
The Steel Pan Band of Orange launched this summer during University of Orange’s summer session with both a children’s intensive and an adult intensive! We are continuing the program for kids this fall, weekly from September through December. See below for details. Open to children from Orange and its surrounded cities (incl. East Orange, West Orange, South Orange, Montclair, Irvington, Newark, Maplewood, etc.)

WHAT:
This steel pan class for kids is designed to introduce students to playing Steel Pans, musical instruments originating from Trinidad and Tobago. Participants will get introduced to playing the tenor pan, double guitar pan, double seconds pan, and four-bass pan. Classes are taught by local steel pan musician and educator Jevaun Grant.

WHEN, WHO, WHERE:
Children’s Steel Pan Fall Classes: Weekly on Tuesdays, September 24-December 17. Total of 11 classes for this semester. Classes will not be held on Election Day, Nov. 5, or the week of Thanksgiving, Nov. 26.
Open to children in 5th grade through 9th grade.
@ The HUUB, 35 Cleveland Street, Orange, NJ 07050

COST:
These classes have a sliding scale donation to participate. We suggest a donation of $20-$50 per class ($220-$550 for 11 classes). If those price points don’t work for you, you can indicate that on the application form. We would like these workshops to be available to everyone! All donations go towards supporting Steel Pan classes in Orange.
Reach out to us with any questions at info@universityoforange.org.
TO SIGN UP or EXPRESS INTEREST Check out this page: https://universityoforange.org/archives/4278

Steel Pan Class for Adults
2024-10-15 19:00 - 20:30, 2024-10-22 19:00 - 20:30, 2024-10-29 19:00 - 20:30, 2024-11-05 19:00 - 20:30, 2024-11-12 19:00 - 20:30, 2024-11-19 19:00 - 20:30 | 35 Cleveland St, 35 Cleveland Street, City of Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
WHAT:
Both the adult and children Steel Pan classes are designed to introduce people to playing Steel Pans, musical instruments originating from Trinidad and Tobago. Participants will get introduced to playing the tenor pan, double guitar pan, double seconds pan, and four-bass pan. Classes are taught by local steel pan musician and educator Jevaun Grant.
WHEN, WHO, WHERE:
Adult Steel Pan Classes – Tuesdays, 7:15-8:30PM, starting September 24th
Open to anyone aged 18+.
@ The HUUB, 35 Cleveland Street, Orange, NJ 07050
COST:
Classes are “pay-what-you-can”. We suggest a sliding scale donation of between $20 and $50 per week. If those price points don’t work for you, you can indicate that on the application form. We would like these workshops to be available to everyone! All donations go towards supporting Steel Pan classes in Orange.
Learn more and register here.

What's the Story? A Memoir Writing Class
2024-10-16 11:00 - 12:15, 2024-10-23 11:00 - 12:15, 2024-10-30 11:00 - 12:15, 2024-11-06 11:00 - 12:15, 2024-11-13 11:00 - 12:15, 2024-11-20 11:00 - 12:15 | Online
10-week virtual memoir class offered by UofO, taught by developmental editor Susan Hasho
The class is held on Wednesdays 11:00am to 12:15pm, and will run 18 September – 20 November, 2024.
Do you have some stories you’d like to tell? There may be stories about your life that you want to tell your children or grandchildren, perhaps about another country or culture you came from or your parents came from. Was there an experience that changed your life or your neighborhood? How about if you were in the military and you want to share something about that? If you have a desire to share or describe anything that you are fascinated by, care about or even want to change, this class is a place to do that.
Format
What’s the Story is a 10-week writing class that intends to provoke, free and guide anyone to write a memoir that reflects their own unique voice and life experience. This is a workshop-style interactive course. Participants will take turns sharing their work and have opportunities to receive feedback and guidance from the instructor and the other participants. There is also time to discuss technical skills, confront creative blocks, and set writing goals. All writing is done outside of class at your own pace.

Susan Hasho is a developmental editor which is an editor involved in the mysterious process of enabling writers and anyone interested in writing to find their way through the maze of expectations, judgment and even fear to find the true heart of what they want to write. She has trained and worked as an actor and writer, and moved into the advertising field to work as a copy editor for advertising agencies and Fortune 500 companies. She began working with writers several years ago as an editor and it became her goal to teach a writing class that would enable people to be as free of self-criticism and inhibiting expectations as possible in order to write clearly and openly with joy.

Register here for this event.

Dharma Yoga Level 1
2024-10-19 09:00 - 10:30, 2024-10-26 09:00 - 10:30 | 35 Cleveland St, 35 Cleveland Street, City of Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
Dharma Yoga is a modern interpretation of classical Eight-limbed or Hatha-Raja Yoga, deeply rooted in ethical precepts that includes elements of flowing Vinyasa, inversions and held poses that will help you to discover concentration, meditation, abiding contentedness and deep healing relaxation. Breathing exercises (pranayama) and meditative techniques regulate the heartbeat, de-stress the nervous system and calm the mind. Guided deep healing relaxation or Yoga Nidra relieves stress, slows down the thoughts, calms the mind and recharges one’s physical body. A complete practice that will lead to radiant health, a peaceful life and, eventually self-realization. Dharma Yoga is traditional, yet contemporary — perfect for the fast-paced world of today.
About the practice:
Dharma I – A strong practice with basic yoga concepts, postures, introduction to pranayama (breathwork), and potent meditation techniques.
Participants can join any and all of the fall classes:
Saturday, October 12th, 9am – 10:15am
Saturday, October 19th, 9am – 10:15am
Saturday, October 26th, 9am – 10:15am
About the teacher:
Aditi is a urban researcher, based in New York. Aditi grew up practicing yoga in her community center in Mumbai, India. In 2020, as the pandemic entered our lives, Aditi turned to yoga, to center healing and growth. Since then she has been practicing ashtanga yoga and reaping the benefits of this deeply meditative practice. To share this experience with everyone, Aditi has been teacher training at the Dharma Yoga Center in New York, learning under Shri Dharma Mitra.
As part of her teacher training, Aditi is offering free yoga classes. Participants will be asked to fill out an evaluation form post-practice. This course will be an overview of the practice and we will offer a longer series in the fall.

The Path Reading Group
2024-10-21 18:00 - 19:00, 2024-10-28 18:00 - 19:00, 2024-11-04 18:00 - 19:00, 2024-11-11 18:00 - 19:00 | Hale House, 47 Cleveland Street, Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
Join us for a fall reading group of The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life.
This reading group will be led by social psychiatrist Dr. Mindy Fullilove.
Mindy says: This class will do a “slow read” of The Path, a wonderful book by Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh. The book has the subtitle “What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life.” As a psychiatrist, I am drawn to this book because it offers us such interesting and unexpected advice for seeing our own situation through an ancient lens. Our slow read will allow us to consider the philosophy as well as the life perspectives offered by this lovely book.
Reading is awesome but optional!
This reading group will meet weekly for 6 weeks on Mondays from October 7th through November 11th. The meetings will be hybrid: in person at Hale House (47 Cleveland Street, Orange NJ) and on Zoom.

Register here for the reading group.

Reckoning With Root Shock Webinar
2024-10-23 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
Between 1949 and 1973, 2,532 federal urban renewal projects were carried out in 993 US cities. Seventy-five percent of the people displaced were people of color, leading to James Baldwin’s famous remark, “Urban renewal is Negro removal.” In honor of the 20th anniversary of Dr. Mindy Fullilove’s book Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It, this webinar will revisit the importance of understanding the social and cultural impacts of neighborhood disruption and the displacement of communities of color that has occurred since the federal urban renewal projects.
In this webinar, Dr. Mindy Fullilove will engage in conversation with community development practitioners to discuss how the learnings from Root Shock can help us move towards more sustainable and democratic communities. The path forward must include a reckoning with our past as well as taking up the tasks of reweaving the social fabric and reknitting our physical spaces. Join Molly Rose Kaufman at the University of Orange, Terri Baltimore at the Hill District and Evelyn Burnett at ThirdSpace Action Lab in an engaging conversation around how understanding the history of community displacement and its impacts on neighborhoods’ physical, psychological, cultural and economic well-being can help us navigate the pressures that cities are facing across the country and the world.
This webinar is hosted by Next City and sponsored by The Kresge Foundation.

Reckoning With Root Shock Webinar
2024-10-23 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
Wednesday, October 23rd, 1pm-2pm ET.
Between 1949 – 1973, 2,532 federal urban renewal projects were carried out in 993 US cities. Seventy-five percent of the people displaced were people of color, leading to James Baldwin’s famous remark, “Urban renewal is Negro removal.” In honor of the 20th anniversary of Dr. Mindy Fullilove’s book Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It, this webinar will revisit the importance of understanding the social and cultural impacts of neighborhood disruption and the displacement of communities of color that has occurred since the federal urban renewal projects.
In this webinar, Dr. Mindy Fullilove will engage in conversation with community development practitioners to discuss how the learnings from Root Shock can help us move towards more sustainable and democratic communities. The path forward must include a reckoning with our past as well as taking up the tasks of reweaving the social fabric and reknitting our physical spaces. Join Molly Rose Kaufman at the University of Orange, Terri Baltimore at the Hill District and Evelyn Burnett at ThirdSpace Action Lab in an engaging conversation around how understanding the history of community displacement and its impacts on neighborhoods’ physical, psychological, cultural and economic well-being can help us navigate the pressures that cities are facing across the country and the world.
This webinar is hosted by Next City and sponsored by The Kresge Foundation.
Learn more about the speakers and register for the webinar here.

Lunch and Learn with Rev. Greg Jarrell
2024-10-24 11:00 - 14:00
Rev. Greg Jarrell, author of Our Trespasses: White Churches and the Taking of American Neighborhoods, will be visiting with us on October 24th from 11am to 2pm. We will be touring Orange, having lunch and learning about his study of the role of white churches in urban renewal in Charlotte, NC. You are welcome to join for all or part. You can RSVP to info@universityoforange.org.
Photo description: white man in a suit beginning the bulldozing of Charlotte’s Brooklyn neighborhood, the heart of black Charlotte

Harvest Festival & Solidarity Potluck
2024-10-24 14:30 - 20:00 | The HUUB, inc, 35 Cleveland Street, City of Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
Join our partners at the HUUB for their 3rd annual Harvest Festival! The Harvest Festival will run from 2:30-5pm, followed by the monthly Solidarity Potluck from 6-8pm. Bring a dish, bring a friend!
35 Cleveland Street, Orange, NJ 07050

The Wind Down
2024-10-26 18:00 - 21:00 | The HUUB, inc, 35 Cleveland Street, City of Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
The Wind Down Concert Series is back! Come hear local emerging artists perform at the HUUB on October 26th. There will be performances by Cloud Jae, Janetza, and Amanda is Tall.

Beginner Sewing Class
2024-11-11 18:00 - 21:00, 2024-11-13 18:00 - 21:00 | 35 Cleveland St, 35 Cleveland Street, City of Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
Zaki Michael is offering a Beginner Sewing Class for UofO Fall Term. In this class you’ll discover the art of sewing and create your own custom projects. You will learn essential sewing machine functions and terminology, and gain hands-on experience.
This class will meet twice:
Monday, November 11, 6-9pm
Wednesday, November 13, 6-9pm
Register for Beginner Sewing here.
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Zaki Michael grew up in Orange, New Jersey, and his brand is currently based in Newark, NJ. He is the creative director and designer for Blk Icon, a streetwear brand. Zaki has worked in the Newark public school system for five years and currently works at The HUUB, a community center in Orange, NJ, as a community and program organizer. His love for style and fashion has always been a part of him, but his passion for design began during his time as a wardrobe stylist and consultant. “I wanted to teach myself how to make some of the unique pieces my clients wanted rather than just find them,” he says. In 2020, Zaki launched Blk Icon as a self-taught designer with a vision to create a ready-to-wear streetwear line that utilizes authentic African fabrics and eco-friendly upcycled materials to create custom one-of-a-kind statement pieces. He is current working on his third collection series, entitled “Urban Renewal,” which uses upcycled denim and African mud cloth to create captivating men’s and women’s statement pieces. You can follow him on Instagram at @Zakbstylin_ and @Blk_Icons.
