Founder This page is dedicated to our Founder and former Executive Director, Cat Willis. TWDCC would not be here today without her innovation, commitment, passion and leadership. As she dedicates herself fulltime to her groundbreaking Black Health Matters Initiative, Cat continues to change the landscape of our community towards equity, positivity and love, and we […]
November Reflection by Thomas Sage Pederson These are the views of Thomas Sage Pedersen, and are not the reflections of TWDCC and The Black health Matters Initiative. The other day I was reading about the spiritual concept of oneness , the idea we are all one, the idea that we are connected with one another
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October Reflection by Thomas Sage Pederson These are the views of Thomas Sage Pedersen, and are not the reflections of TWDCC and The Black health Matters Initiative. In High School I was not a motivated student. I spent a lot of time playing music in my band, partying and ditching classes. Basically I was alienated
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BBQUEER FEST Black, Brown, and Queer all over! An annual dance and arts festival led by and for QTBIPOC artists and community members BBQueer is a collaboration between two dance/art and community centered organizations in Santa Cruz – Motion Pacific Dance (MP), Tannery World Dance and Cultural Center (TWDCC), and Gerald Casel Dance (founding organization
September Reflection by Thomas Sage Pederson There are a lot of themes that come up in The Black Story Project around the black experience here in Santa Cruz, California. Themes such as Isolation, exotification, blatant racism and general sense of “otherness”. As someone who was raised in white dominated space I resonate with these themes.
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