2023 Completed Events
Rewire Community completed 10 years of service: A Small Celebration
Rewire Community had the honor and joy of celebrating our 10 years of work in community with…well, the community :). While the actual 10 year anniversary was on 3rd December, 2022, we had a small gathering early 2023. Joined by friends, family, allies, advocates, activists, supporters, volunteers…we closed out a decade and welcomed whatever the future holds now. Together.
Through the hugs, smiles, tears and love, all that we hold close, we thank each of you for being part of our journey! Check out this short video where we tried to capture moments of the evening. It was one big beating heart #creatingwavesofchange.
When/Where
Sunday, February 12
5pm - 8pm
San Ramon, CA
Community Vigil- In Honor of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month
On October 26, Rewire Community stood in solidarity with our community and sister organizations, Narika, Tri-Valley Haven and PFLAG SRV, for our annual community vigil to honor National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
We came together to create a space where we can break the silence around interpersonal violence, to honor those standing with us here and the many not with us anymore. To remove the stigma and re-traumatization a survivor goes through in the silence. With war and terror and pain all around us and lives that are impacted and lost to senseless acts of violence – domestic violence, gun violence, international conflict – we speak to condemn any and all violence! We promise to practice non-violence!
Thank you to all who joined us! Thank you for speaking up, for showing up. It matters. You matter!
𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞. 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝐰𝐞 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞, 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐲, 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐧-𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞.
WHEN/WHERE
Thursday, Oct 26
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Civic Center, Dublin
Move-a-Thon
In October, Rewire Community welcomed all to a virtual fundraiser- our very first Move-A-Thon! We invited all to swim, dance, run, walk, bike…whatever movement one chose, to come together to raise awareness and funds for families impacted by domestic violence and assault. 𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 $𝟔,𝟑𝟎𝟎 was 𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭! With the funds raised, Rewire Community provided families with relief care-kits and monetary support to help with safe shelter, utilities such as water and gas, essentials such as food, medicine and clothes, and legal and therapy support.
To every single person who chose to be part of this, every sponsor and donor…thank you all for choosing to be advocates of change. We have this moment to celebrate because of you!!
As we close this out, we do want to give a shout out to all the participants … Sundar Gopalan, Inika Arya, Parul Tayal, Sanvi, Ruchi Mehta, Vidyuth, Shailaja Dixit, Vishal Bansal, Rohan Goyal, Surya Mantrala, Annanya Bansal, Sheetal Pandya, Aarti Malhotra, Junior Troop 30168 with Penny Bendezu, Arya Mangat, Violet Camacho, Zooey Liu, Alina Loi, Caelyn Oromonde, Audrey Rashcko, Cassidy Sales, Ava Colbert!
We cannot thank you all enough! We hope each of you continues to find your movements and ways to create healthy relationships and safe communities for all!
when/where
Oct 1 - Oct 31, 2023
Virtual
San Ramon Culture in the Community
Rewire Community had the wonderful opportunity on October 15 to take our dance of empowerment to the City of San Ramon’s annual Culture in the Community. Thank you to all who showed up to support us and so many other artists. It was a colorful day celebrating people.
Rewire brought a dance of empowerment -- the dance had two parts, the message of standing up for yourself, honoring yourself. As always, standing for love and courage.
See the dance video here.
When/Where
Sunday, October 15
10:15am
San Ramon Central Park
Back-to-School drive
In Aug, we wrapped up our 2023 back-to-school drive and delivered 48 backpacks to the Asian Women's Shelter! With deep gratitude we share that we met our goal of raising $706 for the 48 backpacks within a few hours of starting the drive!!!
As always, this could not have been done without the immediate support we received from the community when we put the request out last week. Thank you all for enabling Rewire Community to continue our work!
The photos are of the backpacks, school supplies and tiny hands that helped us assemble them— for confidentiality and safety reasons, no other pics of the children receiving the bags will be shared.
When/Where
August 23
Virtual
Rewire Community at San Ramon PRIDE
“the moon does not have to ask, before it changes, the moon has never learnt to apologise, when it shines greater than the sun.” - by Anureet Watta, queer youth poet in India, recited by Shailaja Dixit today at the San Ramon PRIDE celebration!
An evening of words, poetry, music, movement, breathing and books. A reminder of the love that exists around us, and the hope and power it lends to the fight for justice. A continued time of solidarity as we stand against hateful acts hurting the LGBTQ++ community. A time of peace & anger, pain & joy, silence & hugs.
Rewire Community was represented by our youth, Sanaa (10 yr) and Reyah (6 yr), who asked for a world where people can love and live as they want, to stop hurting people because they choose to be a certain way and create safe spaces for everyone.
Thank you PFLAG SRV, San Ramon Valley Diversity Coalition and City of San Ramon for bringing us all together to speak as one voice! May the colors always shine bright.
WHEN/WHERE
Thursday, June 15
4:30pm - 8:30pm
Amphitheater, San Ramon Central Park
Rewire Community at Dublin Progress PRIDE Flag raising
Solidarity is that movement that continues to turn the course of history.
And on June 1, Rewire Community volunteers, young and adults, once again showed up at the Progress PRIDE raising ceremony by the City of Dublin, CA— standing together as neighbors, friends, community members, in solidarity, as allies and members of the LGBTQ++ community!
Let’s keep showing up, because we cannot stop celebrating love!
When/Where
Thursday, June 1
5pm
Dublin City Hall
Dublin, CA
Rewire Community at Chitresh Das Institute's annual performance, Aranya Katha
Of music and movement, colors and joy, stories and activism…it was an evening of being part of Chitresh Das Institute’s annual performance. Rewire Community had the honor to be the inaugural organization to be spotlighted at the event… an opportunity to connect with the youth and speak with the adults, doing interactive activities to get us all thinking about equity and equality, of justice and empowerment. Of healthy relations.
We thank Chitresh Das Institute for the invite, and are so proud to be a small part of the evening!
Shout out to our volunteer, Archana Patil, for the beautiful tree she made for our activity. We cut out paper leaves where people wrote what equality means to them, and created a vision together.
When/Where
Sunday, May 21
6pm - 9pm
Samuel Johnson Jr Ctr for the Performing Arts
San Bruno, CA
Art in Nature
“Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. But first— REFUSE!” We all screamed in unison!
Our Art in Nature session was an afternoon with the youth in our community, ages 10-18 years, talking about climate justice and how each person is a change agent! Age never a bar.
Walking through the creek, grass, mud, streets, picking up stuff and figuring how to create something new with them, learning about ‘upcycling’. Wind chimes with styrofoam, beads, rocks from the walk, Cards with colors, leaves, twigs, their interpretation of environment and nature; talking about how we change our behaviors.
At the end, we hope a seed was laid…a reminder that those of us who hold the power of hope, have the responsibility to care and do.
Here’s to being Changemakers!
Climate justice is gender justice
When/Where
Saturday, April 29
3pm - 4:30pm
Dublin, CA
InterFaith EarthFest
Rewire Community joined the first InterFaith EarthFest in Danville, CA in April, to celebrate Earth Day with the community. Through movement and words, we represented the culture of equity, justice and empowerment. It was a community effort…and we were proud to show up to support the collaborations on the ground.
In honor of Earth Day. For climate justice is gender justice!
#Climatejustice #EnvironmentalJustice #GenderJustice
When/Where
Sunday, April 23
1pm - 4pm
Peace Lutheran Church
Danville, CA
Celebrating women who tell our stories
Rewire Community took this Women History Month theme forward to honor and recognize those who have created, changed, lived and chronicled stories for us all! Through March 2023, we shared some of these stories -- of women who have inspired and trailblazed, activists and advocates, changemakers and peace seekers, rebels and community organizers, artists and scientists, great-grandparents and great-friends, from our past and our present! Check out our facebook page to see these stories: www.facebook.com/rewirecommunity
Women have been instrumental in passing on our heritage and communicating the lessons of those who came before us. Women’s stories, and the larger human story, continue to expand our understanding and strengthen our connections with each other. So let us build on these...together!
Making His-story, Their-Story too!
When/Where
March 2023
All month
Online
#EmbraceEquity video series for Women History Month
Through the month of March, Rewire Community embarked on a journey of speaking to 'equity' and what it means to embrace it. Megha Sharma Narang, co-ED of Rewire Community, and a social emotional well-being counselor for elementary kids, shared some of her own learnings.
In the three-part video series, we talked about --
What is equity?: https://fb.watch/jtwSNFj5zj/?mibextid=qC1gEa
How does equity show up in our daily lives, and what prevents us from truly embracing it? https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=515641334074279
How does one finally embrace equity? "What do I do?": https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=515641334074279
We hope this has helped build conversations and action to create equitable spaces for all!
When/Where
March 2023
All month
Online
Rewire International Womxn's Day (IWD) Pledge
For IWD 2023, once again Rewire Community invited all to join us in celebrating in solidarity, this year asking all to give equity a huge embrace!
Gender equity is core to gender justice, what our team stands for, as part of our value, mission and action. Equitable spaces create inclusivity. Inclusive spaces create equity.
Throughout the day, we posted photos sent in by our family, friends, allies, community members, that we posted on our Rewire Community facebook page.
Here's to #EmbracingEquity! Today and every day!
When/Where
Wednesday, March 8
All day
International Women's Day with SAVE (Safe Alternatives for Violent Environments)
Big thanks to SAVE for a beautiful gathering in celebration of International Women’s Day and for inviting Rewire Community to be part of the movement.
It was wonderful to see the local organizations present there, learn of all the work they do and the resources and support they offer to all, to hear the many stories of scars and hope, inspiring us, listen to the powerful poetry from our youth, their experience their voice, watch the warm spaces created for the mess and chaos of the younger kids, and a community that came together to honor it all.
Standing next to Narika and SAVE advocates as we all danced together was a powerful moment of solidarity that we are proud to be part of!
A shout out to all the other organizations present there for all they do to create healthy communities! Thank you!
Here’s to #EmbracingEquity…together.
#ourstories #thestorieswetell #breakthebias #IWD2023
When/Where
Saturday, March 4
1pm - 3pm
Niles Discovery Church, Fremont, CA
Martin Luther King, Jr. Open Mic
Rewire Community had the wonderful opportunity and honor to join the open mic at the San Ramon City Hall, in honor of MLK Day. We are grateful for the safe space that was created for us and all gathered there, to share our thoughts and action, in any expression we chose. Rewire Community did so through movement to a song called ‘Tod do’ ('break them, the biases and barriers holding you back'), powerful words written by one of our co-founders, Shailaja. It was also moving to hear from community members about their stories and journeys, from leaders and elected officials about the work that is being done for social reform, and how all come together to acknowledge much is yet to be done. One of our favorite parts was hearing from our youth! So glad they took the mic. May their voices soar!
And we march on.
When/Where
Monday, January 16
2pm - 4pm
San Ramon City Hall, San Ramon, CA