Indigenous Images on Gentrified Lands: Mural & Graffiti Artivism in Highland Park, Northeast Los Angeles

Brenda is a First generation Indigenous Mexican and American/ Chicana activist and founder of Restorative Justice for the Arts, a grassroots community project. The project is an artivist platform to preserve murals and sacred imagery, cultivate decolonial pedagogies, and protect cultural monuments and identities narrated through community art.

 

Chia Cafe Collective "Refocusing Your Cultural Lens with Native Plants"

Join us as we welcome back Chia Cafe Collective, a grassroots group of individuals who share a philosophy that is action-based, a way of life connected to honoring all the Indigenous peoples of Southern CA and of our mother earth. Abe Sanchez and Craig Torres will lead an interactive workshop to share about the healing properties of our plant relatives and their cultural contexts.