Gather@Grand

Since 2020 the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael have been offering a special Gather@Grand program providing opportunities to explore systemic racism. We hope you will consider joining us this spring for a 2-day seminar: Engaging White Privilege—Courage and Skills Addressing White Racism. This in-person, highly interactive, seven-hour event focuses on two aspects of exploring and

Our next film is Just Mercy. Just Mercy - After graduating from Harvard, Bryan Stevenson heads to Alabama to defend those wrongly condemned or those not afforded proper representation. One of his first cases is that of Walter McMillian, who was sentenced to die in 1987. This movie is based on a true story. DOWNLOAD

Our April discussion in two films: Owned: A Tale of Two Americas and Segregated by Design. 'Owned' is a fever dream vision into the dark history behind the US housing economy. Tracking its overtly racist beginnings to its unbridled commoditization, the doc exposes a foundational story few Americans understand as their own. 'Segregated' tells the

Join us for a May film discussion and last event before a summer break. This film. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, is the story of a Black woman whose cells were used to create the first immortal human cell line. Told through the eyes of her daughter, Deborah Lacks, the film chronicles her search,

REGISTER   You are invited to partner with the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael in exploring and living into our Ladauto Si’ Action Platform. Laudato Si’ is the second encyclical of Pope Francis and includes the subtitle “on care for our common home”. In this challenging address to people of goodwill, the Pope critiques consumerism

Mick Chantler, Instructor REGISTER for Session Two: The Dred Scott Decision and the Coming of the Civil War Wednesday, October 19 10:30-noon Gathering Space (1520 Grand Ave; San Rafael) In 1857 the Supreme Court handed down the most controversial decision in the history of that august body. Chief Justice Roger Taney six of his colleagues

Mick Chantler, Instructor Register for Session Three: Black Americans and Reconstruction Wednesday, November 30 10:30-noon The Civil War may have ended slavery, but it certainly did not solve the conundrum of race relations in America. Northern “radicals” in Congress—led by men like the fiery Thaddeus Stevens—were determined to use this precious window of opportunity to

Mick Chantler, Instructor REGISTER for Session One: The Founding Fathers on Race and Slavery Wednesday, October 5 10:30-noon Gathering Space (1520 Grand Ave; San Rafael) It is worth pondering the fact that most of the key leaders of the American Revolution were slaveholders: Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Patrick Henry, George Mason, and many others in the

REGISTER January 30, 2023 7 pm via Zoom The movie under discussion will be Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten: A Centennial Exploration of the 1921 Race Massacre. (90 minutes) for rent on Prime and PBS passport. A Centennial Exploration of the 1921 Race Massacre: Although rarely mentioned in textbooks, there is no question that

Mick Chantler, Instructor Register for Session Four: Black Americans and Reconstruction Thursday, December 15 (note change of day) 10:30-noon The idealism engendered by the Abolitionist movement during the Civil War era did not survive the period of Reconstruction. By the 1880s, most Americans wanted to forget “the late unpleasantries” and move on with the business

The next film discussion in our ongoing Gather@Grand film series is Monday, November 28, 2022, when we will discuss PBS's "Reconstruction: America After the Civil War." REGISTER Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents the definitive history of the transformative years following the American Civil War when the nation struggled to rebuild itself amidst profound loss, massive

REGISTER In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, "Remember This House." The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and assassinations of three of his close friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin's death in