Local to Global Forum and Festival

Each year Local to Global Justice presents the Forum and Festival, an annual event that seeks to connect local diversity, sustainability, social justice, and human rights issues to larger global struggles. This event provides an outstanding space for the sharing of experiences and knowledge between scholars and activists working on a wide range of social justice, human rights and sustainability issues. All are welcome! 

Registration and check-in starts at 5 p.m. on the Patio on the north side of Ed Lecture Hall on ASU Tempe Campus. Ed Lecture Hall is just north of ASU Gammage theater.

Attendees are encouraged to bring non-perishable food items and personal care products for donation to the mutual aid group NOURISHPhoenix.

Agenda: 

Friday, February 16

5:30 p.m. • Vegan dinner - Catered by Green New American Vegetarian

6:30 p.m. • Welcome and poetry reading by Suzette Shaw 

7:00 p.m. • Film Screening - "Queer, Broke, and Amazing" (2023) 

Discussion with the filmmakers after screening - H.L.T. Quan and C.A. Griffith 

Saturday, February 17

9:00 a.m. • Registration and breakfast 

9:30 a.m.-10:15 a.m. • SESSION 1

1. Healing the Self, Healing the Society: Yoga Nidra Building an Antiracist Toolkit with Sarai Richter (They/Them), PhD Student in Sociology at ASU

2. The Preservation of Art is the Preservation of Humanity with Cara Elzie

10:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m. • SESSION 2

1. Bridging Worlds: A Fusion of Fiction and Nonfiction with Onyekachi Ekeogu

2. Panel: Higher Education and Activism in Texas and Columbia with Ame Min-Venditti, Flora Farago and Bekisizwe Ndimande

11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. • SESSION 3

1. Creating Healing from Crisis through Connection, Embodiment and Narratives with Ame Min-Venditti, Lulu Castro, Orlene Carlos, Khampha Stempel, Sophie Neems and Lívia Cruz

2. Cease Fire Now! Arizona voices on Gaza with Students for Justice in Palestine

10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. • Art Experiences (Cultural Coalition will lead art activities for children)

12:15 p.m.-1:30 p.m. • Vegan lunch catered by Mario Etsitty of Rez Catering

1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m. • Plenary Panel with Gloria Martinez-Granados and Suzette Shaw

3:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. • CLOSING DISCUSSION AND CLEAN UP