Community Circle: Honoring Black History & Holding Space for Healing
2025-02-25 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WorldBeat Center, 2100 Park Blvd, San Diego, 92101, United States
Coming Together During Challenging Times
A lot has happened over the last few weeks. Many of us are likely feeling overwhelmed by news headlines and concern for ourselves, our loved ones, and the future of our planet. We invite you to join us for a community circle and dialogue, where we can come together, ground ourselves, and share what is on our minds and in our hearts. This gathering offers an opportunity to explore our collective and individual needs, as well as the strengths and support systems available to us.
The community-building circle is an indigenous-based, facilitated dialogue process that provides a space to feel seen, connected, and supported. This is a space for meaningful connection, storytelling, bridge-building, deep listening, and self-expression.

This Black History Month event is a safe space for dialogue among BIPOC-identified individuals.

African Cuisine Workshop
2025-02-28 18:00 - 20:00
WorldBeat Center invites you to learn traditional West African cooking with, Taste of Africa’s jallof rice contest winner, Olivia Layea. She will be making staples like jallof rice and akara patties. Come and try West African cuisine which is still a big influence in African American cuisine.
This will be a demonstration event and no tools or supplies will be needed.

RSVP in link below

Plant Spirit Meditations & Tea Tastings
2025-03-01 10:00 - 11:00 | WorldBeat Center, 2100 Park Blvd, San Diego, 92101, United States
A Circle of Beloved Belonging
The purpose of the meditation and tea tasting is to connect deeply to the self, the earth and the green kingdom. To feel the universal energy that flows through all beings – humans, animals, plants & trees and the elements of earth, water, fire and air. This connection, this belonging to ourselves and to the earth is our birth right and lineage.
Our modern culture has lost this connection at the deepest level. Yet, the connection remains. The way forward is by re-connecting and remembering who we are in the circle of life.
You will learn how to taste tea like an herbalist.
The tea tasting is a way of waking up to the inner knowing, the thinking and intelligence within our bodies. This knowledge allows us to connect to the plants, to hear the plants, to know the plants.
What to bring

A cushion, blanket or towel to sit on. A blanket if you might get cold.
A cup for tasting herbal tea.
A journal or something to write in.
Wear comfortable clothes.
Your beautiful self to feel the love of the earth.
