We answer the call to social action
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SisterScene Gatherings
Wild Life Photography Gallery Exhibit
Wild Portrait Photographer, Nan Walker, photos taken in Zimbabwe, Gallapogos, Antarctic, Kenya, oh my!!
Wild Life Photography Gallery Exhibit
Wild Portrait Photographer, Nan Walker, photos taken in Zimbabwe, Gallapogos, Antarctic, Kenya, oh my!!
Wild Life Photography Gallery Exhibit
Wild Portrait Photographer, Nan Walker, photos taken in Zimbabwe, Gallapogos, Antarctic, Kenya, oh my!!
Wild Life Photography Gallery Exhibit
Wild Portrait Photographer, Nan Walker, photos taken in Zimbabwe, Gallapogos, Antarctic, Kenya, oh my!!
2023 Season NC Courage
Join SisterScene in support of one of our own: Brianna Pinto, midfielder of NWSL’s NC Courage.
Season Tickets on sale now.
Season Starts March 23
Jambalaya Soul Slam Fall Full of Poems
Wanna be a CARPOOL DRIVER? SS is INVITING Charles E. Jordan High School students to this Slam Poetry in a Historic Black Durham community space with GORGEOUS Stain Glassed Windows and KIckAsS creAtive expreSSIon!!!
We got the Jambalaya Soul Slam Fall Full of Poems is Saturday 10/21/23 at 8:00pm. Doors at 7:30pm. $10 general admission. Come enjoy a poetry event that you don’t want to miss. We welcome the best poets from all over the Triangle and beyond to come slam for their chance to make the 2024 Bull City Slam Team and compete this June in Pompano Beach, FL. We will have brunch refreshments while they last. Cash prizes and giveaways!
Hayti Heritage Center/St. Joseph's Historic Foundation, Inc., 804 Old Fayetteville St, Durham, NC!
Art, Culture, Cuisine & Conversation
Make a Date. Meet people. Try new things.
Join us at Vimala’s Curryblossom Cafe in the courtyard
Durham Pride Parade
Join us for solidarity
Saturday, Sept 23:
Family Friendly Parade Watch Party, 1030AM - 1230PM at Branches Community School (903 Broad Street)
Low Sensory Space, 1030AM - 1230PM at Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association (904 Broad Street)
Pilgrim UCC Festival Communion, 1PM at the East Campus Gazebo
Dollyweird Art Show, 8PM - 10PM at PS37 Durham (600 Foster Street)
Conjure Pride Party, 10PM at the Pinhook (117 W. Main Street)
Club Era w/ Naomi Dix, 10PM at the Fruit (305 S. Dillard Street)
Interactive Art Storytelling Brunch
Interactive Solo-Solidarity Show & Tell Documentary Making Brunch
Designed under the direction of Emily Cox, MSW, LCSW, art therapist and art and entrepreneurship intern for the SisterScene, Asha Gupta, please join us on a community building journey through story, photo and video taking. Bring your iPhone, iPad, smart phones and plan with Emily via your feedback form in advance, about what to bring!
We will be exploring the connection between our personal stories of mementos, objects and materials that represent our individual identity. Then re-gathering our personal stories to see what happens when we appreciate and understand our differences, our rich cultural heritage and our potential to recognize the “collective” in our group identity.
SIGN UP, Preparation and Time Commitment all required for this special community gathering in the home of a Durham artist. SIGN UP HERE: https://forms.gle/RUSdGw3T9yerijos8
MovieWednesdays5:00 Chevalier & Goorsha
Get Your Movie TICKET in advance or at the kiosk before the show.
Plan to sit in the middle toward the front (not the actual front) 5:00 CHEVALIER (it'a an English language film, fyi).
Meet or plan to CARPOOL to SouthPoint Cinema at the SouthPoint Mall!
After the movie, we will move on to GOORSHA for Ethiopian dinner and Conversation about Chevalier. Let's get to know each other and lift UP the arts! Let's keep it positive. Locally owned, renowned RESTURANT:
Goorsha Ethiopian (BestRestaurantsDurham) 910 W Main St, Durham, NC.
This is a girls/women/LGBTQ++-centered gathering for teen girls/trans LGBTQ youth, ages 15 and up to build social solidarity and cross-cultural understanding. Come with an open-mind, deep listening. This is a compassionate circle. We are multicultural, multifaith, multigenerational people, ages 15 and up.
Text questions: 9194140580
Viewing Party. Solidarity Seekers: “The 1619 Project”
CityWell United Methodist is hosting six (6) SisterScene Sunday Conversations. Starting Sunday, Feb 26, 2-4pm through Sunday, March 26, 2-4pm. CITYWELL 2317 Chapel Hill Road, Durham, NC. Join our Circle of Compassion, watch one of the six, 55 minute episodes of "The1619Project" docmentary series, and share refreshments and discussion. This a viewing and discussion, not view-only event.
This is an intentional social solidarity exchange for multiracial, women, LGBTQ++ supporters (ages 15 and up). If you are passionate about carving out time to create compassionate, cross-cultural connections for justice-for-all-bodies, and multicultural community, the SisterScene invites you to join us.
Community Conversation with Lunch RE: Reparations “From Here to Equality,” authors Darity & Mullen
The public is invited to gather with justice-seeking neighbors for lunch, compliments of the SisterScene Community for Solidarity and Vimala’s Curryblossom Cafe at CityWell Lakewood Church. Sunday, April 16, 2023, 1:00-2:30 pm.
RSVP HERE: SisterScene FromHereToEquality Lunch Conversation
Sister Scene Multicultural Women facilitate a community conversation about the future of the reparations movement, centering the great work of “From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century,” by William Darity, Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen. Please contact Emily Cox, MSW, for more information by email sisterscene2000@gmail.com or text 919.414.0580. www.sisterscene.net
Calling In: Creating Change Without Cancel Culture
Lectures & QA
FOUR Tuesdays | 7pm-9pm EST | March 28 and April 4, 11, and 18
Learning Labs
FOUR Thursdays | 7pm-8:30pm EST | March 30 and April 6, 13, and 20
Fees
$5 for the first session or $20.00 total for the full Course (includes Learning Labs)
Join Professor Loretta J. Ross and Loan Tran on this transformative four-week course where we will:
Contextualize call-out culture as a logical result of systems of domination and control, such as white supremacy and patriarchy
Develop new language and frameworks for creating positive social change
Go beyond a diagnosis of the problems to engage in new practices with each other
Incorporate somatic or body-based practices into our toolbox
Gain clarity on a sense of belonging and purpose in a broader human rights movement
We share practical, immediately applicable ways to build towards a Calling In culture where each of us is more equipped to tackle the problems of our times head-on with more love, compassion, and joy.
Viewing Party. Solidarity Seekers: “The 1619 Project”
CityWell United Methodist is hosting five (5) SisterScene Sunday Conversations. Starting Sunday, Feb 26, 2-4pm through Sunday, March 26, 2-4pm. CITYWELL 2317 Chapel Hill Road, Durham, NC. Join our Circle of Compassion, watch one of the six, 55 minute episodes of "The1619Project" docmentary series, and share refreshments and discussion. This a viewing and discussion, not view-only event.
This is an intentional social solidarity exchange for multiracial, women, LGBTQ++ supporters (ages 15 and up). If you are passionate about carving out time to create compassionate, cross-cultural connections for justice-for-all-bodies, and multicultural community, the SisterScene invites you to join us.
1619 Viewing Parties. Solidarity Seekers’ Conversations with NC Justice Leaders.
CityWell United Methodist is hosting SisterScene Sunday Conversations. SUN, MAR 5, with Jasmé Kelly, music teacher, St. Mark’s AME choir director. SUN, March 12 with Senator Floyd McKissick. SUN, MAR 19 with Rep. Vernetta Alston. Join our Circle of Compassion, watch one of the six, 55 minute episodes of "The1619Project" docmentary series, and share refreshments and discussion. Starting Sunday, Feb 26, 2:00-4:15 pm through spring date (TBD).
++APRIL 16, 12:30-2:30PM VimalasCurryBlossomFoodJustice LUNCH with Dr. SANDY DARITY, “FROM HERE TO EQUALITY.”
CityWell 2317 Chapel Hill Road, Durham, NC.
This is an intentional social solidarity exchange for multiracial, women, LGBTQ++ supporters (ages 15 and up). If you are passionate about carving out time to create compassionate, cross-cultural connections for empathy, fairness and justice-for-all-bodies, and you believe in the value of multicultural community gatherings, the SisterScene invites you to join us.
Viewing Party. Solidarity Seekers: “The 1619 Project”
CityWell United Methodist is hosting five (5) SisterScene Sunday Conversations. Starting Sunday, Feb 26, 2-4pm through Sunday, March 26, 2-4pm. CITYWELL 2317 Chapel Hill Road, Durham, NC. Join our Circle of Compassion, watch one of the six, 55 minute episodes of "The1619Project" docmentary series, and share refreshments and discussion. This a viewing and discussion, not view-only event.
This is an intentional social solidarity exchange for multiracial, women, LGBTQ++ supporters (ages 15 and up). If you are passionate about carving out time to create compassionate, cross-cultural connections for justice-for-all-bodies, and multicultural community, the SisterScene invites you to join us.
P.S. Fun fact: SisterScene co-founder, associate director, Marie Cox-McMahon (22) was a production assistant on the music episode of the HULU docuseries on The1619Project, the piece that was filmed in North Carolina.
Viewing Party. Solidarity Seekers: “The 1619 Project”
CityWell United Methodist is hosting five (5) SisterScene Sunday Conversations. Starting Sunday, Feb 26, 2-4pm through Sunday, March 26, 2-4pm. Join our Circle of Compassion, watch one of the six, 55 minute episodes of "The1619Project" docmentary series, and share refreshments and discussion. This a viewing and discussion, not view-only event.
This is an intentional social solidarity exchange for multiracial, women, LGBTQ++ supporters (ages 15 and up). If you are passionate about carving out time to create compassionate, cross-cultural connections for justice-for-all-bodies, and multicultural community, the SisterScene invites you to join us.
blueblood rivalry 5K
Run or walk with SisterScene at the annual blue blood rivalry 5k.
Register here.
Toni Scott Art + CrossCulturalCommunity Reception/Conversation
Event schedule:
I. Experience the Toni Scott multimedia, collaborative exhibit entitled, "If we must die, we will fight to the death: Resistance and Revolt on the Slave Ship." at the UNC Stone Center Gallery.
II. DINNER/Beverages/Dessert: Serve yourself from the beautiful dinner offerings of @VimalasCurryBlossom. Meet new people.
III. Join a Cross Cultural Community Conversation with multiracial women+ to practice intersectional community-building.
FREE parking at the adjacent Bell Tower Deck, 150 South Rd, Chapel Hill, NC.
If you haven't already registered, please use this link to sign up: https://mobilize.us/s/u5uaYs
Conversation will be live streamed https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9194140580?pwd=OVlvdHFPZ0NUQlI2QmpKVEJNR3hmdz09 Meeting ID: 919 414 0580 Passcode: 0580
Viewing Party. Solidarity Seekers: “The 1619 Project”
CityWell, United Methodist is hosting five (5) SisterScene Sunday Conversations. Starting Sunday, Feb 26, 2-4pm through Sunday, March 26, 2-4pm. Join our Circle of Compassion, watch one of the six, 55 minute episodes of "The1619Project" docmentary series, and share refreshments and discussion. This a viewing and discussion, not view-only event.
This is an intentional social solidarity exchange for multiracial, women, LGBTQ++ supporters (ages 15 and up). If you are passionate about carving out time to create compassionate, cross-cultural connections for justice-for-all-bodies, and multicultural community, the SisterScene invites you to join us.
P.S. Fun fact: SisterScene co-founder, associate director, Marie Cox-McMahon (22) was a production assistant on the music episode of the HULU docuseries on The1619Project, the piece that was filmed in North Carolina.
SisterScene Presents Gilbert King in a Community Conversation at UNC Stone Center for Black Culture & History
(Chapel Hill, NC) Calling all Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ++ supporters, and justice-seekers into a SisterScene: Gilbert King Community Conversation on Wed, Feb 15, 2023, 6:00-8:30 pm. RSVP via mobilize.us.
Friday Action Hour
Bring a friend and join Us Every Friday at 11am-Noon Eastern #UUJusticeNC facilitates. Hot topic justice education with 2-3 actions, music with a coalition of community allies. Save this recurring Zoom Link.
Special ZOOM JusticeActionHour
There will be another Action Hour where you can get all the tools you need to call your elected officials about expanding Medicaid.
REGISTER HERE:
https://ncjustice.salsalabs.org/haplovethyneighborpostcardsignupform/index.html
WINTER 2022
SisterScene Sunday Conversations, Carolina Courage Soccer Scrimmages, Justice Action Hour Fridays, BlueBloodRivalry 5K—join three generations of women, lgbtq+ allies to bring the SOCIAL FORWARD on the Social Justice Scene.
SisterScene: BigPicAdventure 1619/WholeBrainLiving
Explore the way Two Visionary Teachers help us learn ways to shift culture toward a better understanding of our history, our behavior, and our role in a multiracial democracy. Featuring “The 1619 Project,” Nikole Hannah Jones & “Whole Brain Living,” Jill Bolte Taylor.
PauliMurrayCenter Online Bookclub Monthly, WED eves
Zoom book discussion. Monthly. Authors and thought leaders show up for panel discussions and moderated Q/A. TOPICS: Racial/Lgbtq+/Pride/Feminism/TransRights/U.S.History-centered books.
Sister Scene, Racism/Antiracism in Our Everyday Lives
Sister Scene & AntiRacism in our Everyday Lives 4:00-5:30pm, SAT, May 14, 2021 on FB and in our zoom room.
Join Sister Scene Home Team Leaders as we discuss how racism and antiracism live in our bodies and show up in our everyday lives. You are personally invited to join us for this discussion, to get to know why we gather as the "Sister Scene," no prerequisite reading or credentials expected.
We believe the power to dismantle racism grows when we work/have conversations together across race/religion/age as well as working on our internal lives.
https://tfk.zoom.us/j/99990425503?pwd=NDlhZkkxL1EyU25uUXg0VVB4YTBGUT09
Previous Events
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Solidarity
The SisterScene hosted 60 people at Cary's Waverly Place Mall outside Triangle Wine. Our featured guest speaker, Senator Floyd McKissick, (NC Utilities Commissioner) set our hearts aflame with his fury remembering the right wing conservatives’ 2020 attack on our elections process and the Voting Rights of all marginalized people around the country. Our action on Jan 6, 2022 was one of over 250 actions across the U.S.!
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Education & Connection
Sunday Conversations by Zoom.
More than a bookclub.
Fostering understanding, connection, and solidarity. -
Simply Social
Having fun together