Events

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Jan
27
Mon
2020
Black History Month Photo Shoot @ Spreckels Organ Pavilion
Jan 27 @ 3:09 am – 4:09 am

Location: Balboa Park
Spreckels Organ Pavilion, 2125 Pan American Rd E, San Diego, CA 92101

Attire: ALL BLACK (NO EXCEPTIONS)
Afros if possible. Black shades (optional)

EVERYONE IS WELCOME. MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN.

Donations are accepted.
CashApp- $JosephDW
Venmo- @JDW-90

Jan
28
Tue
2020
Black Men and Women United Weekly Meeting @ The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint Office
Jan 28 @ 8:00 am

GENERAL MEETING – OPEN TO ALL

Black Men United is comprised of black men and those who support black men. Members are those who participate in the organization’s activities; live, work, and serve in the organization’s community; advocate for justice on behalf of the organization’s community; and seek to give voice to those without voice. Members are people of faith, clergy, and representatives of diverse, non-profit and community organizations.

Based in San Diego’s 4th Council District, Black Men United’s community is African-American people, African immigrants, American Indian, Latino, and others who, by experience, consciousness and culture, empathize with the black experience.

Black Men United’s vision is to serve as a unifying, empowering and moral influence in its community.

Black Men United’s purpose is convene, guide and galvanize black men (and those who support black men) to enable and empower its members and its community to address their relevant spiritual, individual, interpersonal, societal needs.

Black Men United’s activities and achievements reflect a commitment to faith, constancy, individual and community development, justice, and inclusion. Much of BMU’s work is accomplished through its Committees.

Jan
29
Wed
2020
San Diego Black Film Festival @ Theatre Box San Diego
Jan 29 @ 11:00 am

WEDNESDAY JAN 29
​PRE-OPENING RECEPTION & PANEL

​Chocolate Lounge at Theatre Box  701 Fifth Ave  San Diego, CA 92101 – Directions

THURSDAY JAN 30
​OPENING DAY FILMS & ​FILMMAKERS RECEPTION

​All screenings at Theatre Box  701 Fifth Ave  San Diego, CA 92101 – Directions

FRIDAY
​JAN 31 (FILMS)

​All screenings at Theatre Box  701 Fifth Ave  San Diego, CA 92101 – Directions

SATURDAY
​FEB 1 (FILMS)

​All screenings at Theatre Box  701 Fifth Ave  San Diego, CA 92101 – Directions

PURCHASE

SUNDAY 

​CLOSING DAY FEB 2 (FILMS)

​All screenings at Theatre Box  701 Fifth Ave  San Diego, CA 92101 – Directions

​SCREENING PASS 

​All screenings at Theatre Box  701 Fifth Ave  San Diego, CA 92101 – Directions

​FESTIVAL PASS

​All events and screenings at Theatre Box, Chocolate Factor and Sugar Factory  701 Fifth Ave  San Diego, CA 92101 – Directions

INDUSTRY PARTY ​

Meridian Building  220 West G Street, San Diego, CA 92101Directions

FILMMAKERS BREAKFAST

​Sugar Factory at Theatre Box  701 Fifth Ave  San Diego, CA 92101 – Directions

AWARDS DINNER & GALA 

​Sugar Factory at Theatre Box  701 Fifth Ave  San Diego, CA 92101 – Directions

 

Get ready for the San Diego Black Film Festival. January 29-February 2. Over 100 African American and African Diaspora films screened. Foreign, Drama, Comedy, Documentary, Horror, Religious, Music videos, GLBTQ, Shorts and more. Events includes films each day of festival; Pre-Opening Reception; Opening Day Films & Reception; Panel Discussions; Industry Party; Filmmakers Breakfast; Mixer; Red Carpet; Awards Dinner & Gala; and numerous celebrities. Be a star, or act like one at the 2020 San Diego Black Film Festival. This is a family event. Tickets available now.

Hip-Hop & Poetry Night @ Soda Bar
Jan 29 @ 8:00 pm

Join us for an entertaining night of Hip-Hop & Poetry.

Mike Xavier Presents: Hip-Hop & Poetry Night on Wednesday, January 29th, at Soda Bar in San Diego.

Enjoy live performances by talented Hip-Hop & Spoken Word performers. It’s the perfect blend for an entertaining night out. There will also be an open cypher happening at the show. During this time, any artist in attendance can come up on stage to perform a 16 bar verse or a quick freestyle. The cypher is not to be confused with an open mic, as the line up is, in fact, a curated event.

Hip-Hop & Poetry Night
Doors at 8 PM
Show at 8:30 PM
$10 Pre-sale / $15 Cash at the door / 21+

Event Recap Video: https://youtu.be/B12_iu_mo-I
Mike Xavier’s Website: https://mikexaviermusic.com

 

Jan
30
Thu
2020
San Diego Black Film Festival @ Theatre Box San Diego
Jan 30 @ 11:00 am

WEDNESDAY JAN 29
​PRE-OPENING RECEPTION & PANEL

​Chocolate Lounge at Theatre Box  701 Fifth Ave  San Diego, CA 92101 – Directions

THURSDAY JAN 30
​OPENING DAY FILMS & ​FILMMAKERS RECEPTION

​All screenings at Theatre Box  701 Fifth Ave  San Diego, CA 92101 – Directions

FRIDAY
​JAN 31 (FILMS)

​All screenings at Theatre Box  701 Fifth Ave  San Diego, CA 92101 – Directions

SATURDAY
​FEB 1 (FILMS)

​All screenings at Theatre Box  701 Fifth Ave  San Diego, CA 92101 – Directions

PURCHASE

SUNDAY 

​CLOSING DAY FEB 2 (FILMS)

​All screenings at Theatre Box  701 Fifth Ave  San Diego, CA 92101 – Directions

​SCREENING PASS 

​All screenings at Theatre Box  701 Fifth Ave  San Diego, CA 92101 – Directions

​FESTIVAL PASS

​All events and screenings at Theatre Box, Chocolate Factor and Sugar Factory  701 Fifth Ave  San Diego, CA 92101 – Directions

INDUSTRY PARTY ​

Meridian Building  220 West G Street, San Diego, CA 92101Directions

FILMMAKERS BREAKFAST

​Sugar Factory at Theatre Box  701 Fifth Ave  San Diego, CA 92101 – Directions

AWARDS DINNER & GALA 

​Sugar Factory at Theatre Box  701 Fifth Ave  San Diego, CA 92101 – Directions

 

Get ready for the San Diego Black Film Festival. January 29-February 2. Over 100 African American and African Diaspora films screened. Foreign, Drama, Comedy, Documentary, Horror, Religious, Music videos, GLBTQ, Shorts and more. Events includes films each day of festival; Pre-Opening Reception; Opening Day Films & Reception; Panel Discussions; Industry Party; Filmmakers Breakfast; Mixer; Red Carpet; Awards Dinner & Gala; and numerous celebrities. Be a star, or act like one at the 2020 San Diego Black Film Festival. This is a family event. Tickets available now.

YOU’RE INVITED: COMMUNITY OPEN HOUSE @ Connect All at the Jacobs Center
Jan 30 @ 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm

Check out free business resources, meet local startup companies and get to know CONNECT ALL @ the Jacobs Center leaders at our first open house event. All are welcome to this free event to visit the new space, connect with local entrepreneurs and enjoy some food!

At 6 p.m., hear success and stories learn about our business accelerator program from staff and cohort members past and present in a special panel and Q&A session.

Meet Our Community Partners:
• Accion
• Asian Business Association of San Diego
• CDC Small Business Finance
• Central San Diego Black Chamber of Commerce
• Council for Supplier Diversity
• San Diego Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
• South San Diego SBDC

(RSVP requested, not required)

CAJC is a strategic partnership between the City of San Diego, Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation and CONNECT w/ San Diego Venture Group.

This program is funded in whole or in part with Community Development Block Grant program funds provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to the City of San Diego. Private funding is also provided by partners MUFG Union Bank N.A. and bkm OfficeWorks.

 

Our Food While Living Colored
Jan 30 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

 

Wisdom will be shared by Diane Moss of Project New Village. We will be hosting group discussions on what food means to the Black Womxn community of San Diego. Youth, accomplices and allies are welcome! Free food will be provide. There is limited seating, so please RSVP ASAP! This event has a suggested donation of $25 to fuel the movement, which can be given at our fundly page, fundly.com/march-for-black-womxn-1.

Join us as we discuss Food as Medicine, Afro-Centric Food Justice, Resistance and Power, and Combating Racism in the Food System. Wisdom will be shared by Diane Moss of Project New Village. We will be hosting group discussions on what food means to the Black Womxn community of San Diego. Youth, accomplices and allies are welcome! Free food will be provide. There is LIMITED SEATING, so please RSVP ASAP at m4bwsdfood.eventbrite.com.

ATTENTION: This is an event about food justice and Afro-Centric health! It is not a space for fatphobia, ableism, or weaponizing health. M4BWSD wants to have a discussion about the systems, stereotypes and biases that are in place when it comes to health for Black Womxn. We also want to highlight diversity in bodies and variations in what wellbeing looks like within the Black Womxn community. The conversation we plan on having at this event and in follow-up events to this series (that will take place after the M4BWSD March) are about how food is an ally to our bodies, our culture, our way of thriving. This is a conversation for Black Womxn to take control of their bodies, while accomplices and allies are welcome to listen and learn about ways they can support Black Womxn to reach their health goals ON BLACK WOMXN TERMS, not according to society’s unrealistic beauty standards for womxn. Our dialogues will be real, focusing on racism, fatphobia, food apartheids, and black revolution/resistance through food as medicine. Concern for someone’s health is NOT, we repeat, NOT justification for commenting on their body or food consumption! No one needs to prove their healthiness to anyone else and we will not allow any form of ableism or moralization of health that makes people perform to appeal to other’s expectations. This is about Black Womxn, our bodies as temples of grow/healing/restoration, and honoring the miracle that is the [BLACK] human body.

Jan
31
Fri
2020
San Diego Black Film Festival @ Theatre Box San Diego
Jan 31 @ 11:00 am

WEDNESDAY JAN 29
​PRE-OPENING RECEPTION & PANEL

​Chocolate Lounge at Theatre Box  701 Fifth Ave  San Diego, CA 92101 – Directions

THURSDAY JAN 30
​OPENING DAY FILMS & ​FILMMAKERS RECEPTION

​All screenings at Theatre Box  701 Fifth Ave  San Diego, CA 92101 – Directions

FRIDAY
​JAN 31 (FILMS)

​All screenings at Theatre Box  701 Fifth Ave  San Diego, CA 92101 – Directions

SATURDAY
​FEB 1 (FILMS)

​All screenings at Theatre Box  701 Fifth Ave  San Diego, CA 92101 – Directions

PURCHASE

SUNDAY 

​CLOSING DAY FEB 2 (FILMS)

​All screenings at Theatre Box  701 Fifth Ave  San Diego, CA 92101 – Directions

​SCREENING PASS 

​All screenings at Theatre Box  701 Fifth Ave  San Diego, CA 92101 – Directions

​FESTIVAL PASS

​All events and screenings at Theatre Box, Chocolate Factor and Sugar Factory  701 Fifth Ave  San Diego, CA 92101 – Directions

INDUSTRY PARTY ​

Meridian Building  220 West G Street, San Diego, CA 92101Directions

FILMMAKERS BREAKFAST

​Sugar Factory at Theatre Box  701 Fifth Ave  San Diego, CA 92101 – Directions

AWARDS DINNER & GALA 

​Sugar Factory at Theatre Box  701 Fifth Ave  San Diego, CA 92101 – Directions

 

Get ready for the San Diego Black Film Festival. January 29-February 2. Over 100 African American and African Diaspora films screened. Foreign, Drama, Comedy, Documentary, Horror, Religious, Music videos, GLBTQ, Shorts and more. Events includes films each day of festival; Pre-Opening Reception; Opening Day Films & Reception; Panel Discussions; Industry Party; Filmmakers Breakfast; Mixer; Red Carpet; Awards Dinner & Gala; and numerous celebrities. Be a star, or act like one at the 2020 San Diego Black Film Festival. This is a family event. Tickets available now.

Black Xpression @ La Bodega
Jan 31 @ 8:00 pm
Feb
1
Sat
2020
Women of Color Roar 2020 – From the Ballot Box to the White House @ Jacobs Center
Feb 1 @ 7:30 am – 10:30 am


Join us for “From the Ballot Box to the White House”
2020
Women of Color Roar 2020 is a Black History Month celebration of the historic campaigns and elections of Women of Color from Shirley Chisholm to Kamala Harris. How do we diversify the pipeline? Although we have made gains, there is much work to do. How is it possible that there have only been two Black women in the Senate in 200 years? And how are we going to eliminate the barriers that have kept us from electing a Black woman governor?
Join us for a look at the landscape, the opportunities, and the obstacles facing Women of Color in the 2020 election season and beyond.
If you have a school or community organization that would like to nominate students to receive a complimentary ticket to WOC Roar 2020, please contact us at info@womenofcolorroar.com.
2019
The theme was “Running and Winning” and featured a panel of the most powerful Women of Color in San Diego County – Assemblymember Dr. Shirley Weber, City Council President Georgette Gomez, and City Councilmember Monica Montgomery. We were overjoyed to have set a new record of over 400 tickets sold and over 100 of those were donated to the high school and college-age young women. Thank you so much to all our sponsors and donors.
Our Woman of Distinction Award went to Congresswoman Maxine Waters. See her acceptance speech and video greeting here: https://www.facebook.com/WomenofColorRoar/videos/307176856815488/
2018
Our 2018 Inaugural event, the Women of Color Roar Breakfast was a stunning success. The sold-out event brought 300 women from diverse racial and ethnic groups together to honor Black women leaders who were trailblazers.
We sponsored 80 high school and college-age young women to attend complimentary as our special guests. This unique gathering provided the young women with the opportunity to be surrounded by women in leadership and exposed them to great role models which led to mentorships and internships. The Women of Color Roar breakfast was a transformative experience for them.

Women of Color Roar 2020 will offer mentorships, internships and instill sense of mission encourage young women to run for office. We will be honoring trail-blazing Women of Color in our community. They have been working tirelessly to register disenfranchised voters, to supply medical aid to the refugees at our border and stand up for criminal justice reform.
It is fitting that we launch Black History Month lifting up and amplifying the voice of the women carrying the Democratic Party to victory.
We are energized by this development on a national level and seek to nurture it in our own region. Our mission is to support women in office, uplift women running for office and encourage more women to run for office in San Diego County.
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Delicious Breakfast Buffett.

For information: info@womenofcolorroar.com
The Indivisible Project is a 501 (c) 4 nonprofit corporation. Donations are not tax deductible.

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