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CROSS-CULTURAL CENTER

Honoring Our Joy: All People's Recognition Ceremony and Community Celebration

Thursday, May 21 from 5-8PM at the Cross-Cultural Center

 

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Join Us for an evening of JOY!


All People's is an annual community celebration to recognize people on campus who contribute their time, effort, and energy to increase social justice and diversity at UCSD and in the surrounding community. 

 This year the theme is "Honoring Our Joy", which was chosen from our reflection on all the ways we have found joy throughout the year in this space.

We are honoring those things that bring us joy: art, community creation, learning, music, friends, activism, and watching people come alive and find a home here at the Cross-Cultural Center. We are also honoring our dearly missed Joy de la Cruz and the spirit of art and activism that she embodied.

This free event will include:

  • “Soulful (re)Visions”, a gallery exhibit by artist Loralei Rose Bingamon

  • Poetry performances by the Freedom Writers

  • Live Music

  • Interactive arts and crafts

  • Appetizer buffet

  • And more!
The All People's Celebration will take place on Thursday, May 21, 2009 from 5-8PM at the Cross-Cultural Center.


All are welcome and encouraged to attend. The program will include free food, music, art, and a recognition ceremony.

† Directions to the Cross-Cultural Center


For more information please email us or call 858.534.9689

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Tribute to Joy de la Cruz



For our girlfriend-sister-daughter-babae-Picana-activista-freedom,


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This is in honor of our beloved joy, an inspiration and heart to our community. We don't know how to write this because it doesn't seem real. We are leFt to struggle with words for someone who could wield them effortlessly. We miss you, Joy. We miss you more than words or thoughts. You are and always will be bigger than life. Joy: the one who dances like an octopus.

Joy is a lineage of sisters, mothers, and daughters. Women of color full of strength and beauty, they radiate. The tongue, soul, and corrido of our people. Joy is a poet, artist, confidant, mentor, student, teacher goddess. To UCSD, Joy is the Freedom Writer. She is the one who never leaves the Cross-Cultural Center intern office. She is the CCC newsletter editor. She was the organizer of the UC-wide Woman of Color Conference. She is the free spirit -a Leo. She puts the smackdown! Joy is that feeling you get when you are about to be really naughty and are going to enjoy it. She is the coy one, soliciting gifts from strangers.

Joy is the soft-spoken voice that deafens and inspires. Joy is our poetry. She is our imagination. She is in every raised fist, and she will be there every time we resist. When our bodies are tired and our souls are taxed, our sister gives us breath to scream back. She is the feeling you have when you feel you are too tired and broken, but push on and achieve. You are the dance that we shut the door to be. You have gone to join Mexican womb spirits to make the sun rise, and as we watch you each morning we know that we will see you on the other side.

Joy we want you to feed yourself. You nourish us.

Life is life.
joy is Joy.
peace.love.joy

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