🪚The Root and Hatchspace woodworking affinity spaces continues!

🗓️ Every Monday except Holidays
⏰ 5:30PM–8:30PM
📍@ Hatch Space: 22 High Street, Third Floor in Brattleboro

We've partnered with HatchSpace to bring our community a FREE BIPOC affinity woodworking space!!

Whether you're a woodworking newbie or pro this space is for you! Come explore something fun or new to you within a safer BIPOC centered space.

Bring your own project or build something new! Materials Provided!

📢 SAVE THE DATE! Join the Asylum Seeker, Refugee and Immigrant Community Program (ARC) for a Powerful Day of Storytelling & Cultural Celebration on Saturday April 26th!! 🌍🎶🍲

📩 For more details or to support, contact Bibimba at ARC@therootsjc.org

join us for the pilot session of dreaming into being: the Black womanist listening sessions, a transformative space for Black women, femmes, non-binary and gender expansive folks to engage in healing, reflection and collective dreaming, hosted in collaboration with SUSU commUNITY farm

The BIPOC Hair Shop (launched as the Mini BIPOC Hair Clinic) is about creating local access to culturally competent and skilled stylists who specialize in textured, natural, and other BIPOC hair types. This initiative is designed to connect BIPOC clients with trusted stylists while supporting local small business entrepreneurs.

BIPOC Legal Aid Clinic
🗓️ Thursday, April 24th (and the last Thursday of each month)
⏰ 2:30PM–3:30PM (time changed for this month only-usually 2:30p-6p)
📍 The Root: 28 Williams Street, Brattleboro VT

📞 Call Jeannette with Vermont Legal Aid for more information: 802-885-5181

Free BIPOC-centered legal support open to all identities.

✨🌎Calling BIPOC Adoptees🌎✨
Join us IN PERSON at The Root (28 Williams Street in Brattelboro) every 4th Wednesday of the month from 5:30 to 7:30 PM for our BIPOC Adoptees Group!

For more information, contact Gillian: bipocadoptees@therootsjc.org

🪚The Root and Hatchspace woodworking affinity spaces continues!

🗓️ Every Monday except Holidays
⏰ 5:30PM–8:30PM
📍@ Hatch Space: 22 High Street, Third Floor in Brattleboro

We've partnered with HatchSpace to bring our community a FREE BIPOC affinity woodworking space!!

Whether you're a woodworking newbie or pro this space is for you! Come explore something fun or new to you within a safer BIPOC centered space.

Bring your own project or build something new! Materials Provided!

Can’t wait to see all your smiling faces and hear your wonderful writing! Let’s make it a night of inspiration and community.

👉🏾Join us for the next Ready Response Team meeting April 16th (new date!)

Join the Ready Response Team!

A collaborative initiative of The Root Social Justice Center & Lost River Racial Justice, working together for community safety, support, and solidarity.

🪚The Root and Hatchspace woodworking affinity spaces continues!

🗓️ Every Monday except Holidays
⏰ 5:30PM–8:30PM
📍@ Hatch Space: 22 High Street, Third Floor in Brattleboro

We've partnered with HatchSpace to bring our community a FREE BIPOC affinity woodworking space!!

Whether you're a woodworking newbie or pro this space is for you! Come explore something fun or new to you within a safer BIPOC centered space.

Bring your own project or build something new! Materials Provided!

Palestine Film Series, Sunday, April 13, 4-6 p.m. Latchis Theater, Brattleboro: The Teacher is the story of a Palestinian teacher grieving the loss of his teenage son and struggling to reconcile his commitment to political resistance with his support for two students. By donation. sovt4palestine.org

Soul Food Sunday is now going to feature limited catering from BIPOC owned businesses!
If you missed this months SFS with catering from Changezi Food Mart we hope you can join for April!

Next Soul Food Sunday is happening
April 13th from 1-4pm
at The Root SJC (28 Williams St, Brattleboro, VT)
Featuring catering from Soul'N'Rico!!

Soul'N'Rico features Puerto Rican and Soul Food, we're excited to get to try them and share with you!

This is a BIPOC Affinity potluck style gathering so if you identify as Black Indigenous or a Person of Color we invite you to bring a dish to share and come early to make sure you get a plate from our featured monthly caterer!

Join the conversation: Racial Disparities in the Criminal and Juvenile Systems Panel (RDAP) on Zoom

Tuesday 4/8 and every 2nd Tuesday of the Month

6p-8p

Shela Linton, Executive Director of The Root Social Justice Center is an appointee by the attorney general to The RDAP. She has served on this panel since its creation in 2017 as a Black/BIPOC community member and is helping to bring Most Impacted Voices to the discussion on eliminating racial disparities in the juvenile/DCF and criminal justice systems.

This is an open public meeting where everyone is welcome to join. Community participation is encouraged, and if you'd like to speak or add to the discussion, you can do so during the meeting!

Can’t make it? Orca Media TV records the sessions, and notes are available for review. You can also watch the meeting live online.

To get on the agenda, email our chair Etan at sarnnidde@gmail.com.

Join the Zoom meeting using the link below:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89361602448...

Meeting ID: 893 6160 2448

Passcode: 719234

Learn more about the panel here:

https://ago.vermont.gov/.../racial-disparities-criminal...

#RacialJustice#CommunityAction#PublicMeeting#JoinUs

🪚The Root and Hatchspace woodworking affinity spaces continues!

🗓️ Every Monday except Holidays
⏰ 5:30PM–8:30PM
📍@ Hatch Space: 22 High Street, Third Floor in Brattleboro

We've partnered with HatchSpace to bring our community a FREE BIPOC affinity woodworking space!!

Whether you're a woodworking newbie or pro this space is for you! Come explore something fun or new to you within a safer BIPOC centered space.

Bring your own project or build something new! Materials Provided!

Palestine Film Series, Sunday, April 6, Walled Off: View from Banksy's Walled Off Hotel, 4-6 p.m. Latchis Theater, Brattleboro: Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel, art gallery and history museum overlooking Israel’s apartheid wall serves as an anchor for this eclectic documentary, which spotlights the creative ways the Palestinian people and their supporters have been using the arts and other means of nonviolent protest to resist occupation. By donation. sovt4palestine.org

Dungeons and Dragons Game Night at The Root Social Justice Center

RSVP or learn more: BTN@therootsjc.org

Don't miss this incredible opportunity! Rev Yolanda and The Circle of Love Band will be performing a special concert on Saturday, April 5th at 7 PM at the Dummerston Church. A $20 suggested donation at the door or pay what you can. This benefit concert will raise funds for the annual AIDS Walk in Brattleboro,VT and The AIDS Project of Southern Vermont. Check out Yolanda's website below to learn more! For more information, please call The AIDS Project at 802-254-4444! Hope to see you there!

Can’t wait to see all your smiling faces and hear your wonderful writing! Let’s make it a night of inspiration and community.

✨🌎Calling BIPOC Adoptees🌎✨
Join us every 4th Wednesday of the month from 5:30 to 7:30 PM for our BIPOC Adoptees Group!

This space is for adoptees of ALL ages who identify as Black Indigenous, and People of Color.

Many adoptees are expected to be grateful to have been adopted, without consideration of the hardships and trauma childhood separation can bring. For transnational and/or transracial adoptees the forced loss and erasure of cultural identity and heritage is often a part of our experiences as well. When adoptees try to speak on our experiences, challenges, or needs we are often faced with disbelief, dismissiveness or a complete lack of awareness.

Yet, when we get to connect with a community of our peers, we're more likely to be heard, understood, believed, and affirmed.

Adoptees deserve a space to share our whole selves, the painful truths, the unmet needs, our journeys with trauma, healing and more.
The Root aims to provide exactly that and more in our new BIPOC Adoptee Affinity group. Together, we'll center our narratives, experiences and needs, while affirming all the complexities of our identities as BIPOC Adoptees!

Come to build connections, share ideas for future experiences and projects, and simply to be seen, affirmed and loved! 💜

🗓 When: Every 4th Wednesday of the month, 5:30 - 7:30 PM
📍 Location: The Root (28 Williams Street, Brattleboro, VT)
♿️ Wheelchair Accessible
Bonus: Free food!

For more information, contact Gillian at bipocadoptees@therootsjc.org

Let’s uplift each other through the power of our stories!

#bipocadoptees #bipocvermont #bipocaffinity
#Affirmed #healing #freefood

🪚The Root and Hatchspace woodworking affinity spaces continues!

In the photo: At last week’s space folks made wooden coasters from start to finish for the first time!

🗓️ Every Monday except Holidays
⏰ 5:30PM–8:30PM
📍@ Hatch Space: 22 High Street, Third Floor in Brattleboro

We've partnered with HatchSpace to bring our community a FREE BIPOC affinity woodworking space!!

Whether you're a woodworking newbie or pro this space is for you! Come explore something fun or new to you within a safer BIPOC centered space.

Bring your own project or build something new! Materials Provided!

DM us or email therootsjc@gmail.com for more information!

#BIPOC #AffinitySpaces #BrattleboroVT
#MakingTogether #WoodworkingForAll #DIYProjects #CommunityBuilding

Palestine Film Series, Sunday, March 30, From Ground Zero, 4-6 p.m. Latchis Theater, Brattleboro: Oscar-shortlisted for best international feature film, this collection of 22 short films (3-7 minutes each) made by Palestinian filmmakers in Gaza portrays the steadfastness of the human spirit and the will to live in a time of peril and devastation. By donation. sovt4palestine.org

The BIPOC Hair Shop (launched as the Mini BIPOC Hair Clinic) is about creating local access to culturally competent and skilled stylists who specialize in textured, natural, and other BIPOC hair types. This initiative is designed to connect BIPOC clients with trusted stylists while supporting local small business entrepreneurs.

Palestine Film Series, Sunday, March 23, No Other Land, 4-6 p.m. Latchis Theater, Brattleboro: Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary 2025, the film chronicles the resistance of villagers in the West Bank communities of Musafer Yatta to the ongoing violence perpetrated by Israeli settlers and soldiers – violence that continues today in Musafer Yatta and throughout the West Bank. By donation. sovt4palestine.org

🪚The Root and Hatchspace woodworking affinity spaces continues!

In the photo: At last week’s space folks made wooden coasters from start to finish for the first time!

🗓️ Every Monday except Holidays
⏰ 5:30PM–8:30PM
📍@ Hatch Space: 22 High Street, Third Floor in Brattleboro

We've partnered with HatchSpace to bring our community a FREE BIPOC affinity woodworking space!!

Whether you're a woodworking newbie or pro this space is for you! Come explore something fun or new to you within a safer BIPOC centered space.

Bring your own project or build something new! Materials Provided!

DM us or email therootsjc@gmail.com for more information!

#BIPOC #AffinitySpaces #BrattleboroVT
#MakingTogether #WoodworkingForAll #DIYProjects #CommunityBuilding

In the midst of our dedicated efforts to combat the social and political challenges facing our communities, it's important to take a moment to breathe and reconnect. We’re excited to invite you to an evening of relaxation and camaraderie at our upcoming RRT Community Game Night. This is a wonderful opportunity to decompress from the constant bombardment of challenges we face while building stronger bonds within our team.

🪚The Root and Hatchspace woodworking affinity spaces continues!

In the photo: At last week’s space folks made wooden coasters from start to finish for the first time!

🗓️ Every Monday except Holidays
⏰ 5:30PM–8:30PM
📍@ Hatch Space: 22 High Street, Third Floor in Brattleboro

We've partnered with HatchSpace to bring our community a FREE BIPOC affinity woodworking space!!

Whether you're a woodworking newbie or pro this space is for you! Come explore something fun or new to you within a safer BIPOC centered space.

Bring your own project or build something new! Materials Provided!

DM us or email therootsjc@gmail.com for more information!

#BIPOC #AffinitySpaces #BrattleboroVT
#MakingTogether #WoodworkingForAll #DIYProjects #CommunityBuilding

One of our favorite BIPOC affinity spaces. We love gathering with friends, old and new, at this potluck style gathering!

🎉 Save the Date: The Black Experience 2025 is Coming February 22! 🎉

We’re thrilled that The Root is part of this year’s BX Steering Committee!

Stay tuned for more details, and mark your calendars for this unforgettable celebration!

🎟️ Event Info & Tickets Available Now:
🌐 flynnvt.org/Events/2025/2/The-Black-Experience-25

#BX25 #BlackExperienceVT #BlackHistoryMonth

The Black Experience 2025 (BX25) is a ticketed event and flagship celebration of Vermont’s Black lived experience (cultural, communal, educational), and an addition to Burlington’s observation of Black History Month.