Mind Power Collective provides creative spaces and resources
in celebration and appreciation of progressive educators to build community and inform action.
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MIND POWER COLLECTIVE
We see potential and possibility for revolution in the creative spaces between our personal and professional lives.
By nourishing and replenishing educator spirits and energies through fun and creative events and useful resources, we can better sustain our commitment to justice and equity while building stronger relationships.
We see the arts as a vehicle for social change, movement building and criticial pedagogy. We are using the creative space to redefine what professional development and networking means in a region that has so many educators, activists, artists and cultural workers striving for a common vision.
By building connection and trust with each other, in spaces uniquely devoted to socially conscious educators, artists and activists, we support transforming the landscape of education...
SPACES
Willie Adams on stage at La Pena Cultural Center
2007 Flier for T4SJ Conference After Party
Roberts Redwood Regional Park
2007 _ El Rio
Facilitated by Levana Saxon and Evan Hastings, December 2009
Mind Power Collective regularly volunteers or tables at the annual Power to the Peaceful celebrations in SF.
Soulstice '08 - at Oasis in Oakland
OUSD Summer Arts Institute, 2008
Postcard quilt project, Historic Sweets Ballroom, June 2006
Summer Soulstice 2007, La Pena Cultural Center
1st National Education Circle of Change gathering, Haley Farm, Tennessee
Oakland Youth Arts Festival, May 2007
Summer soulstice 2007, La Pena Cultural Center
Summer Soulstice 2006, Historic Sweets Ballroom in Oakland
Parkway Theater, Oakland
T4SJ Lunch Session 2007
Summer Soulstice 2006 at Historic Sweets Ballroom
Summer Soulstice collaborative art, 2007, La Pena Cultural Center
US Social Foru,
501(c)(3)-ing!
Hosted by Mind Power COlle
Facilitated by Levana Saxon & Evan Hastings, December 2009
Ren the Vinyl Archaeologist, Manny Black, Sake 1 at La Pena Cultural Center, June 2007
RESOURCES
THE 411: NEWS & DOWNLOW
Bay Area/Local
Oakland Tribune's Education Blo g
Oakland Local
Oakland Seen
Scenes from Oakland
California/State
Ed Data: California Department of Education
Teach California
USA/National
Ed Change
EdWeek
Rethinking Schools
Teaching Tolerance
Teachers Unite (NY)
Global/International
Link TV
BBC News Education
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THE MOVEMENT: KNOWLEDGE & JUSTICE
Alternative Educational Resource Organization
Bay Area Coalition for Equitable Schools: BayCES
Californians for Justice
Education for Liberation
Justice Matters
Movement Strategy Center
New York Collective of Radical Educators (NYCoRE)
Paolo Freire Institute
People of Color in Independent Schools (PoCIS)
Teachers for Social Justice (Chicago)
Teachers 4 Social Justice (SF)
Youth In Focus
Youth Together
Youth Uprising
THE HEART: ROOTS & CULTURE
Ariel Luckey
Destiny Arts
DJ Sake 1
headRush Crew
L a Pena Cultural Center
Manny Black/fresh love ink
Michael Franti & Power to the Peaceful
Micia Moseley/ nursha project
Museum of Childrens Art
Ren the Vinyl Archaeologist & True Skool
Theatre of the Oppressed (International)
Violet Juno/reversicon
Youth Roots
THE MIND: DEGREES & CREDS
Center X _ UCLA
CSU East Bay Urban Education Leadership Program
SFSU Equity & Social Justice in Education Program
U Mass Amherst Social Justice in Education Program
USF TEAMS/ AmeriCorps
ABOUT US
Mind Power Collective was founded in 2005 with the idea of just having a party for youth and cultural workers by two creatively inclined, hip hop influenced educators while in grad school over drinks in Oakland. There were clearly a lot of people working hard to create social change, but the environment seemed fractured as folks rarely had spaces to just relax, kick it and get to really know each other. Bringing educators, artists. youth and cultural workers together through music, art and dance seemed like a great way to build community and connection while networking, learning, growing and creating with each other.
Since this intial concept of co-founders Aaron Nakai and Jayeesha Dutta, Mind Power Collective has grown in membership to a listserv of over 1600 and has hosted many events in the Bay Area including an annual Summer Soulstice celebration, Sunday Salons, "Creating Equity" Summer Arts Institute, the Oakland Youth Arts Festival, and post-T4SJ conference celebration.
We are also excited to now be building connections with colleagues, friends and allies across the country.
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