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:530@rcnv.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260529T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260529T200000 DTSTAMP:20260513T195502Z URL:https://rcnv.org/events/threads-of-grief-threads-of-love-a-blessingway -for-gazas-children/ SUMMARY:Threads of Grief\, Threads of Love: A Blessingway for Gaza’s Chil dren DESCRIPTION:36 handmade quilts. 720 infants remembered. A community gatheri ng to hold grief\, witness\, and care together.\n\nFor 50 years\, the Reso urce Center for Nonviolence (RCNV) has equipped our community with tools t o build a just and peaceful world. This event is part of RCNV's Loving Jus tice: A Transformational Path Towards Interbeing initiative initiative cul tivating Beloved Community\, shared learning\, and solidarity. We hope you 'll join us as we continue to deepen our collective integrity and accounta bility.\n\nSince ancient times\, textiles have offered both shelter and st ory—threads that hold together what might otherwise come apart.\n\nThis gathering accompanies an exhibit of 36 baby quilts sewn by community membe rs in Santa Cruz\, commemorating 720 infants in Gaza killed before their f irst birthday.\n\nCommunity members made these quilts because watching fro m a distance—in a country whose government is implicated—was not beara ble. We cannot disentangle our lives from this harm. But we can refuse ind ifference\, and in that refusal\, we stitched with care\, imagining the ba bies who should have been wrapped in them.\n\nPlease RSVP at https://www.e ventbrite.com/e/threads-of-grief-threads-of-love-a-blessingway-for-gazas-c hildren-tickets-1988797463751\n\nThe Gathering\n\nWe gather in community f or reflection\, witness\, and conversation—a passage toward presence and responsibility.\n\nWe do not equate our grief with that of families who h ave endured these losses. But we can allow their loss to deepen our attent ion and shape how we live with one another.\n\nIn a democracy\, what is ca rried out in our name asks something of us. This gathering is an invitatio n to remember these children with care—and to consider how remembrance m ight move us toward greater responsibility in the choices we accept\, and the futures we help shape.\n\nPanelists include:\n\n Mo Sati—Mo is a Pa lestinian writer\, playwright\, poet\, documentarian\, and podcaster whose work centers on witness\, memory\, and the full humanity of Palestinians too often reduced to numbers. He is the creator of They Have Names\, a nom adic theater and storytelling project carrying Palestinian names and stori es into communities through performance\, film\, and audio.\n Rolla Alayd i—Rolla is an educator\, author\, and community advocate seeking to ampl ify voices of resilience and foster compassion\, cultural understanding\, and human connection. She is the author of NORAH: From My Grandmother’s Kitchen: Palestinian Recipes and Memories\, preserving Palestinian heritag e through storytelling\, memory\, and tradition.\n Unhae Langis—Unhae i s a literature teacher turned writer\, artist\, and organizer. Her recent works include Common Sense in the Time of Genocide\, a civic meditation on war\, empire\, and conscience\, and Shakespeare and Wisdom (with Julia Re inhard Lupton). For her\, quilting brings together political expression\, poetry\, calligraphy\, and textile art.\n Rami Chahine—Rami is a Lebane se artist and educator whose work explores imagination\, ecology\, death\, and regeneration. Living among the redwoods of California\, he draws on b oth the natural world and collective memory in his artistic practice.\n M aha Taitano—Maha is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture\ , installation\, textiles\, and mixed media. Born in Baghdad and raised ac ross Lebanon\, Guåhan (Guam)\, Morocco\, and California\, her work explor es identity\, memory\, decolonization\, and the layered histories carried through materials and process.\n\nTogether\, they will share lived experie nce\, artistic practice\, and reflections on grief\, memory\, and care.\n\ nJoin Us\n\nHonor these children by remembering them.\nHonor them by refus ing indifference.\nHonor them by choosing care\, in the quiet and public w ays available to us.\n\nEveryone is welcome.\n\nSliding scale ticket donat ions ($0-50) support RCNV's vital work. 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