University of Orange

Managing Shock and Awe: Lessons from Root Shock and Collective Recovery
2025-03-26 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-03-19 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-03-12 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-03-05 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Wednesdays, March 5, 12, 19 and 26
6pm-7pm ET via Zoom
The attacks of the Trump administration have upended the world and this kind of upheaval causes “root shock.” Root shock is the traumatic stress reaction to the loss of some or all of our emotional ecosystem. This four-session course will answer the question: How do we manage root shock and move forward with a collective vision? Drawing on 25 years of work on Collective Recovery, we will look at specific tasks, including staying centered, gathering with others to name the moment, finding what we’re FOR, and building coalitions for the work ahead. The course will include presentations, readings, daily journaling, and interactive activities.
Register for the course here.
Course Director:
Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD, DLFAPA, Hon AIA, is a social psychiatrist, a native of Orange, NJ, and a co-founder of the University of Orange. Since 1986, she has conducted research on AIDS and other epidemics of poor communities, with a special interest in the relationship between the collapse of communities and decline in health. She has published over 100 scientific papers and eight books. Among her books are the highly-regarded Urban Restoration Trilogy, Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It, Urban Alchemy: Restoring Joy in America’s Sorted-Out Cities, and Main Street: How a City’s Heart Connects Us All. She holds two honorary doctorates and is a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and honorary member of the American Institute of Architects. In the Fall of 2023 she delivered the Mary Flexner Lectures at Bryn Mawr College based on her new research and forthcoming book on the “Tao of K-drama.”

What's the Story? A Memoir Writing Class - Winter 2025
2025-03-19 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-03-12 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-03-05 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-02-26 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-02-19 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-02-12 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-02-05 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-01-29 11:00 - 12:30 and 2 more dates | 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 on Zoom, and will run January 15 – March 19, 2025.
What’s the Story? A Memoir Writing Class
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.
Like all UofO events, this class is offered for free, but your tax-deductible donation goes a long way to cover the costs of delivering the course.
Please register for the class here.
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.

March Iftar Solidarity Potluck
2025-03-17 18:00 - 20:00 | 35 Cleveland St, 35 Cleveland Street, City of Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
Join us for this month’s Solidarity Potluck! Bring a dish, bring a friend! More details coming soon.
Monday, March 17th, 6pm-8pm
35 Cleveland Street, Orange, NJ 07050

Life Tapestries - Weaving Workshops
2025-02-22 13:00 - 15:00, 2025-02-15 13:00 - 15:00, 2025-02-08 13:00 - 15:00 | 35 Cleveland St, 35 Cleveland Street, City of Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
Life Tapestries is an interactive workshop series that combines personal storytelling and hands-on crafting. Participants will explore their familial ties to New Jersey through two intertwined mediums; quilting and weaving. This three-part workshop is for artists of all ages interested in drawing connections between cartography, creative writing, and fiber arts. Students will create a personal cartographic map of key moments, relationships, and places. Then, translating that map into a woven tapestry, participants will reflect on the paths they’ve traveled and the connections they’ve formed along the way. This unique process invites self-reflection and community building while teaching basic weaving principles and techniques.

This class will meet on three consecutive Saturdays: February 1, 8, and 15 from 1pm-3:30pm. Taught by fiber artist Donelle Wedderburn. These workshops will be held at 35 Cleveland Street, Orange, NJ. Please register for this class here.

COUSINS Art Show Opening
2025-02-15 15:00 - 17:00 | Hale House, 47 Cleveland Street, Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
Join us on Saturday, February 15th from 3pm-5pm for the opening of the COUSINS art show!
COUSINS an art show and contest on the theme of universal interconnectivity and its implications. There will be works from 21 artists.
Light refreshments will be provided.
47 Cleveland Street, Orange, NJ
Featured artists:
Margaux Simmons
Mindy Fullilove
Eunju Hwang
Kathy Kremins
Ernest Lindsay
Sarah B Howe
Bryelle Rudd
Khailah Beasley
Richard Nasch
Sahnyjah Powell
Karen Marlowe
Frank Barszcz
Marisela B Gomez
Douglas Farrand
Holly Barszcz
Darcy Hall
Bethany Shenise
Jamy Lasell
Priscilla Perez
Dominic Moulden

February Solidarity Potluck
2025-02-10 18:00 - 20:00 | 35 Cleveland St, 35 Cleveland Street, City of Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
Join us for this month’s Solidarity Potluck! Bring a dish, bring a friend! More details coming soon.
Monday, February 10th, 6pm-8pm
35 Cleveland Street, Orange, NJ 07050

Listening with the Prophetic Ear
2025-01-20 11:30 - 14:00 | 35 Cleveland St, 35 Cleveland Street, City of Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
The HUUB Community Campus will hold a special event on January 20th, Martin Luther King Day.
Bishop William Barber, leader of Repairers of the Breach and the Poor People’s Campaign, has called us to a special task on January 20th: listening to the new President’s Inaugural Address with the “prophetic ear.” Bishop Barber proposes that we need to pay careful attention as all the promises of the campaign season are left behind and the new administration begins to take steps. By our careful attention, we can discern which of the myriad things the President-elect has said he would are now actually on the agenda.
We will convene at The HUUB at 11:30am for an opening session, “Clearing Our Listening.” We will talk about what it means to listen with the “prophetic ear.” We will listen to some opening words from Faith+Works UU Congregation minister Rev Dr Edgar Rivera Colon.
At noon, we will turn our attention to lunch and the inauguration. We will listen to the President’s remarks with care and concern. Following his remarks, we will debrief.
We will reconvene at 7pm to hear Bishop Barber and colleagues share with us what they heard and what they see as next steps. Dinner will be served.
Please RSVP to info@universityoforange.org for one or both of these events. That way, we can be sure to put your name in the pot. If you would like to join virtually, please register for the Zoom link here.

MLK Volunteer Day
2025-01-20 10:00 - 12:30 | 33 Cleveland Street, Orange, NJ 07050, 33 Cleveland Street, Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
Join us for a volunteer day at the HUUB on MLK Day!
We will take on some tasks to spruce up the buildings and grounds of the community campus for the coming year.

Monday, January 20th, 10am-12:30pm
35 Cleveland Street, Orange, NJ 07050

New Year Solidarity Potluck
2025-01-13 18:00 - 20:00 | 33 Cleveland Street, Orange, NJ 07050, 33 Cleveland Street, Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
Join us for the first potluck of 2025! Bring a dish, bring a friend!
Monday, January 13th, 6pm-8pm
35 Cleveland Street, Orange, NJ 07050

Trini Holiday Party - Concert and Fundraiser
2024-12-18 18:00 - 20:00 | 35 Cleveland St, 35 Cleveland Street, City of Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
Join the Steel Pan Ensemble of the Oranges for our first end-of-year Trini Holiday Party! This an end-of-year concert for both the Youth and Adult Steel Pan groups, as well as a fundraiser to support classes in 2025.
Join us for an evening of island food, island music, and seasonal cheer. There will be a photo booth, raffle, opportunities to try out the steel pans, and opportunities to sign up for our 2025 steel pan classes.
Event attendance is free. Donations of any amount are welcomed and go towards supporting the steel pan classes and performances.
Register for the Holiday Party here.
Wednesday, December 18th, 6pm-8pm at the HUUB
35 Cleveland Street, Orange NJ.

Steel Pan Class for Adults
2024-12-17 19:00 - 20:30, 2024-12-10 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.

Steel Pan Class for Kids
2024-12-17 17:30 - 18:45, 2024-12-10 17:30 - 18:45 | 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

December Solidarity Potluck
2024-12-16 18:00 - 20:00 | The HUUB, inc, 35 Cleveland Street, City of Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
Join us at the HUUB for our monthly solidarity potluck from 6pm-8pm on Monday, December 16th. Bring a dish, bring a friend!

35 Cleveland Street, Orange NJ 07050

Remembering Rosa
2024-12-06 18:30 - 20:30
Join us on December 6th for the 9th annual Remembering Rosa: A Concert for Peace. This year we are in Heywood Avenue’s auditorium (421 Heywood Ave.), and have a line up featuring music and dance from the Remembering Rosa Community Choir, Ebenezer Baptist Church choir, Heywood Avenue Choir, East Orange Dance, Concepts Dance Academy, and the Steel Pan Ensemble of the Oranges.
Brief remarks will be made by Dr. Mindy Fullilove (OHS Class of ’68), Rev. Bill Rutherford, and Dr. Khemani Gibson (OHS Class of ’10). Three special “HonDoc” awards will be presented to three community leaders.
The concert is free and will also be live-streamed to University of Orange’s facebook and youtube pages.
Remembering Rosa celebrates the legacy of Rosa Parks, as an activist and a life-long learner, and the feat of solidarity that led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott being organized and implemented just 4 days after her act of civil disobedience. Our concert brings together choirs from around Orange and Essex County to sing together in her memory, but also to learn about and honor local histories of community organizing.
