Around the Community: The River Connects Us Conversation at the Ruby
Around the Community: The River Connects Us Conversation at the Ruby

The Ruby is hosting a discussion with Sangamithra Iyer, Vijaya Nagarajan and Shruti Swamy on Monday, April 13th, from 6:30–7:30 PM. The work of the featured writers holds a keen interest in the interwoven lives of plants, humans, and animals, an attention to the sacred, and explorations of ancestral knowledge. They will speak about the complexities of writing memoir and the shared concerns of their work. An intimate, joyful conversation between South Asian women writers not to be missed. 

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Around the Community: Native Seas: Traditional Micronesian Navigators Visit the Bay Area
Around the Community: Native Seas: Traditional Micronesian Navigators Visit the Bay Area

From March 9 to 12, 2026, we will be hosting our Native Seas series, a week-long educational program curated by Sophia Perez, Indigenous Technologies coordinator and UC Berkeley PhD, and presented in collaboration with the Critical Pacific Islands Studies Collective (CPISC) and the Pacific Islander (PI) Initiative, that will bring several traditional navigators, including students and relatives of Papa Mau Piailug, from the Northern Mariana Islands to the Bay Area.

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