Resource Center for Nonviolence

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Resource Center for Nonviolence Santa Cruz County nonprofit. Social justice community center. Cultivating Beloved Community since 1976.🕊️🌏 Nonviolence education, events, and workshops.

Everyone welcome. www.rcnv.org
612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz, CA 95060 The Resource Center for Nonviolence promotes the practice of nonviolence in personal and social change to create a more just, peaceful and sustainable world.

THIS SATURDAY: We Charge GenocideJoin us this Saturday, October 10, as we learn how our First Amendment rights are being...
10/09/2026

THIS SATURDAY: We Charge Genocide

Join us this Saturday, October 10, as we learn how our First Amendment rights are being used to hold elected officials accountable for enabling genocide through the International Criminal Court - ICC. We will examine the roles our top leaders—and our local Central Coast officials on both sides of the aisle—are playing in eroding longstanding human rights laws.

Through recourse to the ICC, the only institution in the world that can prosecute leaders for crimes against humanity, this grassroots mass movement can open the door to prosecuting other U.S. imperialist crimes, including against Cuba and Haiti.

We are honored to host:
Seth Donnelly (Co-founder, Taxpayers Against Genocide) who will share information about the fight to submit evidence against top-level U.S. officials.

Iyas Sartawi (Founder, Project Hope for Palestine) who will offer updates from the ground in Palestine and Project Hope.ar

DETAILS:
📅 Saturday, October 10
🚪 Doors: 5:30 PM
🎤 Program: 6:00 PM
📍 Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St, Santa Cruz
👉 RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeRY0kdn4I66CfjYVthmyEpWQ38g6wBbTdOwGVDBukzR5h3Bg/viewform?blm_aid=18165

Bring a friend. Bring a neighbor. Bring someone who’s been wondering what they can do.

#𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞

10/08/2026

We believe art is a powerful tool for nonviolence and connection. 🎨🕊️

The Resource Center for Nonviolence is honored to partner with Arts Council Santa Cruz County for the Open Studio Art Tour! We are opening our doors to four talented local artists—Lilie Pham, Isabelle Quinn-Rodriguez, Arthur Waidhofer, and Karina North—who are new to the local art scene.

As our Executive Director Silvia Morales puts it: "Our goal was to help expand access... We were especially interested in hosting artists who identify as BIPOC or LGBTQ and with whom our antiracist nonviolence work resonates."

Join us in welcoming them! Swipe to meet the artists and get a sneak peek of their work. ➡️

Details:
🗓 Oct 10, 11, 17, & 18
🕚 11 AM - 5 PM
📍 Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz (across from Hotel Paradox, Autograph Collection)

Let’s celebrate local art equity, and loving justice together!

🎨 Tomorrow Night: First Friday Art Opening at RCNV!We hope you can join us tomorrow night for a special First Friday San...
10/02/2026

🎨 Tomorrow Night: First Friday Art Opening at RCNV!

We hope you can join us tomorrow night for a special First Friday Santa Cruz at the Resource Center for Nonviolence! 🌟

We’re honored to partner with Arts Council Santa Cruz County to welcome four up-and-coming local artists—Lilie Pham, Isabella Quinn-Rodriguez, Arthur Waidhofer, and Karina North—as part of the 2026 Open Studio Art Tour.

Join us for the Preview:
📅 Tomorrow (Friday, Oct 2)
🕕 6:00 – 8:00 PM (Doors open at 5:30 PM)
📍 Resource Center for Nonviolence
🥂 Sangria, charcuterie boards, and fun tunes provided!

Why We’re Doing This:
Our goal is to expand access to the Open Studio Tour by offering space to artists without a studio to open to the public. We were especially interested in hosting artists who identify as BIPOC or LGBTQ+ and whose work resonates with our antiracist nonviolence mission.

We are loving displaying the work of Lilie, Isabella, Arthur, and Karina and can’t wait for you to see it.

Can’t make it Friday?
The works will also be available for viewing during the Open Studio Tour:
🗓 Oct 10 & 11 | 11 AM - 5 PM
🗓 Oct 17 & 18 | 11 AM - 5 PM

Let’s celebrate local art, equity, and loving justice together! ✊❤️

10/01/2026

Looking for plans for tomorrow's First Friday? Come through to the Resource Center for Nonviolence! ✨

Check out this video artist Arthur Waidhofer made yesterday while hanging his work at RCNV — a little behind-the-scenes look at what's coming your way this Friday! 🙏

We are honored to open our doors to preview artwork by four up-and-coming local artists: Lilie Pham, Isabelle Quinn-Rodriguez, Arthur Waidhofer, and Karina North. This is a special preview for the Arts Council Santa Cruz County Open Studio Art Tour.

Stop by between 6:00 PM and 8:00 PM this Friday, Oct 2nd. Doors open at 5:30 PM, and light refreshments will be served. Let's celebrate local art together! 🖼️🥂

📍 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Can't make it this Friday? The works will also be available for viewing during the Open Studio Tour:
📅 Oct 10 & 11 | 11 AM - 5 PM
📅 Oct 17 & 18 | 11 AM - 5 PM

Looking for plans this First Friday Santa Cruz? Join us for a fun night at the Resource Center for Nonviolence! ✨We are ...
09/29/2026

Looking for plans this First Friday Santa Cruz? Join us for a fun night at the Resource Center for Nonviolence! ✨

We are honored to open our doors to preview artwork by four amazing local artists: Lilie Pham, Isabelle Quinn-Rodriguez, Arthur Waidhofer, and Karina North.

This is a special preview for the Arts Council Santa Cruz County Open Studio Art Tour.

Stop by between 6:00 PM and 8:00 PM this Friday, Oct 2nd. Doors open at 5:30 PM. Light refreshments will be served. Let’s celebrate local art together! 🖼️🥂

📍 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Can’t make it this Friday? The works will also be available for viewing during the Open Studio Tour:

📅 Oct 10 & 11 | 11 AM - 5 PM
📅 Oct 17 & 18 | 11 AM - 5 PM

08/28/2026

TONIGHT AT Resource Center for Nonviolence! 🎬✨

Join us as we welcome Zaya & Maurizio Benazzo back for the Santa Cruz premiere of Flowers of the Earth, the latest film in Science and Nonduality's Eternal Song series.

Come for an evening of storytelling, community, and reflection.

🎬 Flowers of the Earth – Santa Cruz Premiere
📅 Friday, August 28 | Doors 6 PM | Film 6:30 PM
📍 RCNV, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz
🔗 RSVP https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1997503212881

🎟️ Sliding scale + complimentary tickets available. 50% of proceeds support Indigenous-led initiatives. No one turned away.

We also invite you to register now for the online Global Premiere & Live Gathering on September 22 to continue the conversation with Guarani-Kaiowá Elders, healers, and land defenders. Link in bio! 🔗

✨ Special thanks to our promotional partners: Center for Spiritual Living, Center for World Networking, Romero Institute, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH), SURJ Showing Up for Racial Justice—Santa Cruz County, UCSC American Indian Resource Center, UCSC Community Studies, Conflict Resolution Center of Santa Cruz County, KSQD Community Radio, Watsonville Film Festival, and Friends of Juristac

TOMORROW AT RCNV!Join us tomorrow night as we welcome Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo back to RCNV for the Santa Cruz premiere...
08/28/2026

TOMORROW AT RCNV!

Join us tomorrow night as we welcome Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo back to RCNV for the Santa Cruz premiere of Flowers of the Earth, the latest film in Science and Nonduality's Eternal Song series.

This profound documentary follows the Guarani-Kaiowá of Mato Grosso do Sul—a people for whom the land is not simply ground beneath their feet, but their skin, bones, and living mother. Through elders, healers, and young women leading the Retomada (the return to ancestral lands), the film invites us to reforest not only the land, but the mind.

Come for an evening of storytelling, community, and reflection.

🎬 Flowers of the Earth – Santa Cruz Premiere
📅 Friday, August 28 | Doors 6 PM | Film 6:30 PM
📍 RCNV, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz
🔗 RSVP https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1997503212881

🎟️ Sliding scale + complimentary tickets available. 50% of proceeds support Indigenous-led initiatives. No one turned away.

We also invite you to register now for the online Global Premiere & Live Gathering on September 22 to continue the conversation with Guarani-Kaiowá Elders, healers, and land defenders. Link in bio! 🔗

✨ Special thanks to our promotional partners: Center for Spiritual Living, Center for World Networking, Romero Institute, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH), SURJ Showing Up for Racial Justice—Santa Cruz County, UCSC American Indian Resource Center, UCSC Community Studies, Conflict Resolution Center of Santa Cruz County, KSQD Community Radio, Watsonville Film Festival, and Friends of Juristac

08/25/2026

🎬 The full trailer for Flowers of the Earth is here.

In Brazil's Cerrado, the world's most biodiverse savanna, live a people known to the world as the Guarani-Kaiowá. They call themselves Ivy Poty: Flowers of the Earth. Their sacred purpose: to admire, honor, and protect the natural world.

Today, they fight for their lives—with prayer, sacred seeds, and the courage to reclaim their ancestral land.

The trailer ends with an invitation:

🌿 "By reforesting the mind, you reforest territories worldwide."

We hope you can join us this Friday as we learn from their story...

🎬 Flowers of the Earth – Santa Cruz Premiere
📅 Friday, August 28 | Doors 6 PM | Film 6:30 PM
📍 RCNV, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1997503212881

Post-screening conversation with directors Zaya & Maurizio Benazzo.

🎟️ Sliding scale + complimentary tickets available. 50% of proceeds support Indigenous-led initiatives. No one turned away.

✨ Special thanks to our promotional partners: Center for Spiritual Living, Center for World Networking, Romero Institute, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH), SURJ Showing Up for Racial Justice—Santa Cruz County, UCSC American Indian Resource Center, UCSC Community Studies, Conflict Resolution Center of Santa Cruz County, KSQD Community Radio, Watsonville Film Festival, and Friends of Juristac

08/25/2026

🌺 "Our name is Flores da Terra—Flowers of the Earth. Admirers of the work of God. We are Nature. The land is our skin."

These are the words of the Guarani-Kaiowá people of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Their story is not one of loss—but of love. Love for a mother wounded by fences and fire. Love that refuses to vanish.

Come listen. Come witness.

🎬 Flowers of the Earth – Santa Cruz Premiere
📅 Friday, August 28 | Doors 6 PM | Film 6:30 PM
📍 RCNV, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz
🔗 Details & Tickets https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1997503212881

Post-screening conversation with directors Zaya & Maurizio Benazzo.

🎟️ Sliding scale + complimentary tickets available. 50% of proceeds support Indigenous-led initiatives. No one turned away.



✨ Special thanks to our promotional partners: Center for Spiritual Living, Center for World Networking, Romero Institute, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH), SURJ Showing Up for Racial Justice—Santa Cruz County, UCSC American Indian Resource Center, UCSC Community Studies, Conflict Resolution Center of Santa Cruz County, KSQD Community Radio, Watsonville Film Festival, and Friends of Juristac

08/19/2026

Our Programs Manager Bree Booth shares an invitation to join a Loving Justice book circle to read bell hooks’ all about love: new visions.

We offer these book circles as learning for how to show up for others in the fight for justice.

Our hope is that this series cultivates an awareness of loving justice—uniting us in love against war, environmental devastation, and racial oppression.

📅 Circles will meet between September 1 – October 2, 2026.
⏳ Sign up by August 23rd to secure your spot.
🔗 Click on the link in our bio to sign up.
💌 Our Programs Manager, Bree Booth, will follow up with more details.

This program is offered on a donation basis (suggested $25; no one turned away for lack of funds). We look forward to having this journey together.

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