- Winter 2022: Making Labor Work - Organizing for Power in the 21st Century
- Winter 2021: Pandemic Politics - From Lockdown to Liberation (Virtual)
- Fall 2020 with General Baker Institute: Policing Black Power - From Watts to Detroit (Virtual)
- Fall 2020: Healing Justice (Virtual)
- Winter 2020: Detroit 2020 - People, Power, & Politics
- Fall 2019: Healing Justice Workshop Series
- Winter 2019: Whose Safety? Policing Minds, Bodies, and Borders in Detroit
- Fall 2018 Workshop Series: Healing Justice as Building Cultural Resilience
- Winter 2018: From "Two Societies" to a New Society
- Fall 2017: Reclaiming the Commons
- Summer 2017: Beyond '67 - The City-Wide Citizen's Action Committee
- Winter 2017: Toward Education Justice
- Detroiters Speak Archive
- Fall 2023 - Desti-Nations of Hip Hop
Special edition workshop series for Fall 2018: Healing Justice as Building Cultural Resilience
These workshops, coordinated by SiD faculty member Diana Copeland, were held Tuesdays at the Cass Corridor Commons from 7pm-9pm beginning on October 16, 2018. All workshops were free and open to the public and included a light dinner.
Cultural organizing places culture at the center of an organizing strategy. It can be done to unite people through the humanity of culture and the democracy of participation. This series explored the ways in which healing justice; creativity and arts enhance cultural organizing through a series of unique workshops led by Detroiters that are at the forefront of this movement. This type of creative organizing empowers communities to come together in celebration of culture while developing valuable skills that challenge power and oppression.
Healing Justice was woven through each of the workshops. Dr. Page of the Kindred Healing Justice Collective (often attributed with coining the phrase) describes Healing Justice as identifying how we can holistically respond to and intervene on generational trauma and violence, and to bring collective practices that can impact and transform the consequences of oppression on our bodies, hearts and minds.”
Workshop Schedule:
October 16th: Use of folk magic as defense against colonial structures and community oppression - Introduction to magic mediums for turning inwards and better understanding our own intuition.
Workshop by Gemineye Tarot
October 23rd: Intro to Tarot card reading and using intuition for selfcare
Workshop by Gemineye Tarot
October 30th: Beat back the oppressors! (with smooth Beats): electronic recording, learning, and sharing session with Sacramento Knoxx
Workshop by Aadizookaan
November 6th: Herbs and Ceremony - how ritual can be used for personal and activist self care
Workshop by Adela Nieves Martinez of Healing By Choice!
November 20th: Healing Arts through Movement and Native Dance
Workshop by Aadizookaan
