BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//6.3//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:536@rcnv.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260716T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260716T203000 DTSTAMP:20260619T205239Z URL:https://rcnv.org/events/sila-kalaallit-nunaat-greenland-santa-cruz-pre miere/ SUMMARY:SILA — Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland)\, Santa Cruz Premiere DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nJoin us for the Santa Cruz premiere of SAND's SILA\, foll owed by a Q&\;A with directors Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo. This is a rar e opportunity to experience the film in community\, on a big screen and sh are a conversation with the film directors. Doors open at 6 PM. Film begin s at 6:30 PM.\n\n\n\n\n\nFor 50 years\, the Resource Center for Nonviolen ce (RCNV) has equipped our community with tools to build a just and peace ful world. We’re proud to collaborate with Science and Nonduality (SAND )—an organization exploring our interconnectedness and humanity’s plac e within the web of life—to host the Santa Cruz Premieres of the Wisdom of the Ancestors film series. These films hold transformative power\, an d we believe viewing and contemplating them together can help disrupt cycl es of violence and nurture Beloved Community.\n\nEveryone is welcome. Com plimentary tickets are available to ensure no one is turned away for lack of funds. Click here to secure your complimentary ticket.\n\nTicket sal es support both RCNV and SAND’s vital work\, and 50% of proceeds after f ilm production costs directly fund Indigenous-led initiatives in the featu red communities.\n\n \;\nAbout the film:\nSILA—The life within every thing\n\nIn Greenland\, the word Sila holds everything at once — the wea ther\, the breath\, the consciousness connecting all living things. This t ender\, nonlinear documentary follows Inuit women moving through three hun dred years of Danish colonialism: forced baptisms\, children sent abroad t o be remade\, and a systematic medical programme that inserted contracepti ve devices into girls as young as thirteen\, without consent\, without war ning\, without asking. Their bodies became a site of colonial administrati on. Their wombs\, silenced.\n\nThe film journeys into ceremony — the sha man's call home\, the heartbeat of the drum\, the slow needle-drawn return of ancestral body markings erased within a century of missionary arrival. Visually luminous and spiritually attuned\, Sila holds grief and remember ing in the same breath: a remembering that travels through bone and nerve and the long line of mothers\, all the way back to the first conscious hum an being. Still there. Still listening.\n\nListen to Drumdancing by Varna Marianne Nielsen from the film.\nContent Advisory &\; Our Commitment to Care:\nThe films in this series honor the profound resilience of Indigeno us cultures while addressing the brutal legacies of colonization. They may include references to physical and sexual violence\, substance abuse\, an d intergenerational trauma. We acknowledge that this content can be deeply impactful\, especially for those with lived or inherited experiences of s uch trauma.\n\nTo foster a respectful environment for all attendees\, we w ill share clear Community Agreements at each screening. These include guid elines on privacy\, consent\, respectful sharing\, and the right to exit a nd re-enter the space as needed. Our goal is to create a container where l earning and reflection can happen with care for everyone's well-being.\n\n \n\n\nSpecial thanks to our promotional partners:\nCenter for Spiritual Li ving\, Center for World Networking\, Romero Institute\, Santa Cruz Muse um of Art and History (MAH)\, SURJ Showing Up for Racial Justice—Santa Cruz County\, and UCSC American Indian Resource Center\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://i0.wp.com/rcnv.org/wp-content/uploads/20 26/06/La-Ofrenda-Save-the-Date-2160-x-1080-px-1880-x-940-px-8.5-x-11-in-In stagram-Post-45.png?fit=1080%2C1350&ssl=1 CATEGORIES:Antiracism,Beloved Community,Film Screening,Nonviolence,Racial Equity,Social Change LOCATION:Resource Center for Nonviolence\, 612 Ocean St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\ , 95060\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=612 Ocean St.\, Santa Cruz\ , CA\, 95060\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Resource Center fo r Nonviolence:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR