The Juneteenth festivities continue on Sunday, June 20th from 1 to 3:30pm with "After Juneteenth: Black Queer Liberation." Grab your family or some friends and join us for an afternoon of music, food, and fun! Plus there'll even be an Electric Slide tutorial!

For more details or if you have any questions please contact Ashlyn at codirectorashlyn@diversitycenter.org

Free and for all ages. Food options for all diets will be available.

Join us at SubRosa for Juneteenth! Featuring:

• Local BIPOC vendors and artists

• A Black and Pink station where you can write to incarcerated LGBTQ folks

• A soul food pop-up (sliding scale donations $5-$20)

• A mini exhibit commemorating the Black Panther Party & more!

There is room for a few more vendors and more space will open up at 5:30PM. Celebrate black joy, liberation and community! Please contact Ezra on Instagram at @pork_pockets if you are interested in collaborating.

Juneteenth is a special day for anyone who believes in freedom and equality for all people. Join us for music, poetry, dance, delicious soul food, arts & crafts, basketball skills contest, and the annual sack race! This year's theme is LIBERATION!

Line-up currently includes:

• Lisa Taylor

• Lyrical-I

• Tannery World Dance & Cultural Center

• Lee Earl

• Gregory Speed

• And more to come!

Spring is here! Got way too many houseplants? Hoping to swap your wilted fern for some hardy succulents? Planted too many starters this season and want to spread the love? New at gardening? Awesome! Join us for a plant swap where you can exchange houseplants, seeds, garden starters, tips and build community with other LGBTQ folks!

Contact Ezra at (831) 425-5422 or trans@diversitycenter.org with any questions.

Black & Pink Letter Writing Workshop
Saturday, February 20th | 12-2pm | SubRosa Community Space

Join us in SubRosa’s outdoor courtyard for a letter-writing workshop to support incarcerated LGBTQ+ folks. There will be plenty of space to gather while being COVID-safe.

We’ll be using the Black & Pink website to match folks with a pen pal that meets their criteria (and vice versa) to get you started.

Black and Pink is a nationwide organization that support LGBTQ+ inmates by pairing them with pen pals on the outside. Incarceration can be a brutal, lonely time for many—advocacy and kind words from a stranger can help!

To learn more or if you have any questions, please reach out to our Trans Program Coordinator Ezra at trans@diversitycenter.org.

SubRosa & Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In present a free screening of The Watermelon Woman! This queer cinematic classic features a twenty-something black lesbian and aspiring filmmaker working in a video store and navigating life and weaving between the gay and black communities.

For more information, contact Ezra Bowen at trans@diversitycenter.org.

In honor of Black History Month, and in light of the most recent tragedy of the violent attack toward our black queer sibling Jussie Smollett, The Diversity Center is putting together a healing circle for our Queer & Trans People of Color community members. Please join us to show our solidarity with the black queer community. 

This event will center the stories of our black queer siblings to provide a space for healing, self-care, and an open discussion to share stories. We will be showcasing black queer media, create a listening circle, and share self-care tips with each other. We will end the night by practicing some of these self care tips to collectively start our own healing processes.  

We hope to see our beloved QTPOC community to simply be with each other's presence, to laugh or cry, or heal in any means necessary.

*Note: this is a closed QTPOC event.

Please contact MK Veniegas at operations.assistant@diversitycenter.org for any questions, concerns, or comments or call (831) 425-5422.

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