Events

Register here Join us virtually on Thursday, Feb. 5 as we share insights about the first ever long bridge canvass in Orange County, California. Organizers from OCCCO (the Orange County Congregation Community Organization) led a long bridge canvass in the...

Register here In the United States, immigrants of color have been treated as an exploitable and ultimately disposable labor force, especially now. Beyond unlivable wages and a lack of upward mobility, low-wage work in the U.S. is rife with danger...

Register Now Share your views about the impact of the Trump administration's first year at this live community discussion led by KALW's Rose Aguilar. Join KALW for a live and in-person edition of The Authoritarian Playbook from Your Call, discussing...

General Tickets OMCA Member Tickets OBI and the Belonging Resident Company are excited to continue our Community Conversations series in partnership with OMCA’s Spotlight Sundays. This annual series creates a space to foster public dialogue, deepen understanding, and cultivate connection...

Locations: Monday and Tuesday: Art Research Center Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday: Disability Cultural Community Center Weeklong residency with working group meetings taking place during the mornings. Planting Disabled Futures installation performances at the end of the week. Participation in Working...

Join us to celebrate the release of Tourmaline’s much anticipated book, "Marsha," with Angela Y. Davis and Eric Stanley.

REGISTER HERE Join us in-person for the launch of Advancing Peace: Ending Urban Gun Violence Through the Power of Redemptive Love, a new book from co-authors Jason Corburn and DeVone Boggan. This talk will take place on December 2nd at...

The Bush Foundation and MPR News are excited to welcome john a. powell, the inspiring author of “The Power of Bridging: How to Build a World Where We All Belong” to the historic Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, December 2, 2025. We look forward to an evening of conversation and community building—and that it inspires you to find ways to build bridges across differences in your everyday lives.

Dr. Feroze Sidhwa volunteered with the World Health Organization at the European Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, March 25 – April 8, 2024, and again from March 3 – April 1, 2025, with MedGlobal, an American Non-governmental Organization (NGO). In...

THIS TALK HAS BEEN POSTPONED Join us in person at UC Berkeley on Oct. 29 at 4pm for a dynamic conversation featuring OBI Assistant Director Stephen Menendian and other Berkeley scholars to discuss the nature and causes of racial inequality...

Register here The current attacks on low income people, trans people, immigrants, Black folks, and other groups being othered require our movements to prioritize measures to defend their dignity and safety. Focusing on defense is necessary but not sufficient because...

Register for a Zoom link Descrpition: In the spirit of Evicted, a property law scholar uses the stories of two grandfathers—one white, one Black—who arrived in Detroit at the turn of the twentieth century to reveal how racist policies weaken...

Acclaimed historian and journalist Jelani Cobb will be in conversation with john powell to discuss "Three or More is a Riot." Join us for this City Arts & Lecture Salon event in San Francisco on October 16, 2025.

Join this virtual livestream conversation with OBI director john a. powell on Wednesday, Oct. 15.

European identity – as opposed to national identities in Europe – is often imagined as being inclusive or even cosmopolitan. But in the long history of ideas of Europe, it has been defined against a series of Others. In the...