Community Creative Space

Create, reflect, and connect through writing, art, learning, and wellness at our monthly Community Creative Space!Join us for a monthly Community Creative Space bringing together Cal Poly Pomona students, faculty, staff, and members of the surrounding Pomona community for creativity, reflection, and connection.

Hosted by Cal Poly Pomona’s Office of Interdisciplinary Ethnic Studies, this series centers bell hooks’ love ethic, a framework rooted in love, care, and community. This space grounds itself in the Ethnic Studies practice of building and centering the needs of community through an intersectional lens.Participants are invited to gather, write, exchange ideas, work independently, or begin something new in a welcoming shared space grounded in wellness, healing, and community care.

Event Dates and Times

Saturday, September 12 | 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
Saturday, October 10 | 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
Saturday, November 14 | 10 a.m.–4 p.m.

Location

Community Innovation Hub
101 W. Mission Blvd., Suite 111
Pomona, CA 91766

What to Expect

This is an open and flexible space where participants can engage in parallel play and creative activities such as:

• Journaling or creative writing
• Working on a paper or homework
• Coloring, drawing, or sketching
• Developing an individual or collaborative project
• Connecting and exchanging ideas with others

Participants are welcome to drop in, stay for as long as they would like, and move through the space at their own pace.

Children Are Welcome*

Children are invited to join and explore their creativity with new monthly activities:

• September: Slime-making Station 12pm-2pm
• October: Tie Dye Activity 12pm-2pm
• November: Make your own stress ball 12pm-2pm

* A coloring book station will be available from 10am-4pm

Provided Materials

Paper, coloring books, colored pencils, and markers will be available. Participants may also bring their own projects and materials.

About the Host

The series is hosted by Dr. Shayda Kafai (she/her), director of the Office of Interdisciplinary Ethnic Studies and associate professor in Cal Poly Pomona’s Department of Ethnic and Women’s Studies. Her work creates opportunities for conversation, reflection, creativity, and community-building.