2025 Global Racial and Social Justice Summit Highlights
Another World is Possible: A Global Racial and Social Justice Summit
FEB 13 - 16, 2025
SUMMIT HIGHLIGHTS & TICKETED EVENTS
Herndon Gallery Art Exhibition:
Visit the Herndon Gallery throughout the summit for an exhibition of artwork by artist attending the summit. There will be a performance art installation by the following groups:
- On Friday, February 14, 2025, the Bridge Club will perform BAN from 11:20 AM – 1:00 PM. Summit attendees are invited to come and go as they please throughout the duration of the performance: https://www.thebridgeclub.net/#/ban/
- The Deep Roots Experience will have 10 pieces of art on display in the gallery that attendees can view. They will also offer discussion and interactive workshops on Saturday at 10:10 AM and Sunday at 10:50 AM about the artwork on display. Find out about the Deep Roots Collaborative here: https://wearedeeproots.com/
Mareas/Tides:
The summit will also feature a dance performance, “Mareas/Tides,” by Denison University dance faculty, Marion Ramirez and Ojeya Cruz Banks, and music faculty, celebrating sacred celestial-ocean relationships through story-telling, song, and improvisation. It traces the storied geographies between and through Puerto Rico, Guåhan to Aotearoa to Alabama to Senegal. The performance braids the artists’ distinct island cosmologies together and embodies the gravitational power of the African diaspora flowing through the Caribbean and Indigenous Pacific worlds. The program features musicians Pete Mills, Timothy Carpenter, Matthew Dixon, and Dean Hullet.
- Friday, February 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM at the Foundry Theater at Antioch College
- If you are interested in attending Mareas/Tides, but cannot participate in the full summit tickets can be purchased online.
Coretta Scott King Remembrance Day Fireside Chat at the Foundry Theater:
On Saturday, Feb. 15, which is Coretta Scott King Remembrance Day in Yellow Springs, Ohio, participants will be invited to a Fireside Chat. The chat will consist of a panel featuring the President of Antioch College, Dr. Jane Fernandes, in conversation with Shelby Chestnut, Antioch College Board of Trustees Chairperson and Executive Director of the Transgender Law Center; Dr. Kimberley Richards Executive Director of the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond; and Elba “Alicia” Pagan, Ohio State Director of the League of United Latin American Citizen about challenges in the contemporary moment and ways to move into a more just and inclusive present and future.
- Saturday, February 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM at the Foundry Theater at Antioch College
- If you are interested in attending the Fireside Chat, but cannot participate in the full summit tickets can be purchased online.
Sincerely the Black Kids:
The summit will feature screening of the film Sincerely the Black Kids, followed by a panel discussion featuring the director of the film, Miles Iton, about building more inclusive campus communities. Miles Iton is also the founder and director of Lo-Fi Language Learning, which is a Taiwan-based English as a Foreign Language program that uses hip-hop to teach language and build bridges across cultural divides.
- Lo-Fi Language
- Sincerely the Black Kids Description and Trailer
- Join MIles Iton will be at the Summit Opening Session and Dialogue with Truth Garret on Hip Hop, Justice, and Education as well as a luncheon screening of his film at 11:30 AM and Student Organizing session at 1:50 PM.
Summit Opening and Dialogue Information:
- Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM at Herndon Gallery
- The Un/Commoning Pedagogies Collective: A collective of 7 scholar/artist/activists in the humanities and social sciences who have written and conducted workshops on how to incorporate embodied anti-racist pedagogies into the higher education classroom. These scholars who work in Haiti, Trinidad, Mali, Senegal, and the United States bring a global perspective to their anti-racist pedagogies. They will facilitate a workshop as well as present dance research or performances at the summit.
- “Un/Commoning Pedagogies: Forging Collectivity Through Difference in the Embodied Classroom and Beyond”:
- Workshop on Friday, Feb. 14th at 3:20 PM.
