FoCo Cultural Enrichment Center

Come 1 Come All.. we are excited to host a night for ALL youth of Larimer County for an Open Mic Night and youth connection.

We are excited to announce our re-opening of our after school programs starting Tuesday October 18th at 4pm. Programs will be on Tuesday-Thursday from 4pm-6:30pm. Special programs Monday & Friday.
Applications for new participants enrollment are on our website. Fococec.org
START WHERE YOU STAND!!

Check it out. Our very own, Jamal Page- or "Happy", as the kids call him. Well deserved!

BIG THANKS to Music City Hot Chicken for New Worst Fest and creating a wonderful fundraiser for the Cultural Enrichment Center of Fort Collins.

After 2 plus years of hard work. I needed some time off.

Our summer program is over and we are on break for the next couple of weeks! Please watch for a grand re-opening event in our new space Labor Day Weekend

New Worst Fest is Coming!!!
August 20th 2022
Benefit for FoCo Cultural Enrichment Center
Free Admission!
TRVE Brewing Cash Bar
Raffle Giveaways

Hosted by Bang Bang Von Loola

Performances by:
The Savage Blush
Pink Fuzz
Hellgrammites
.future.band


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We are so excited to host Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) Training at the CEC, starting tomorrow! This offering is for our staff, volunteers, and parents of CEC students.

TBRI is a holistic, attachment-based, trauma-informed intervention that is designed to meet the complex needs of vulnerable children. This training will be facilitated by Co-Executive Director of , Erin Zainer, who is a TBRI Practitioner.

The TBRI Caregiver training consists of an introduction and 3 subsequent units, beginning 7/25 and concluding 9/19. Let Monday morning learning begin 🙌🏿 📚

Thank you and for making the series 'Liberation Through Our Relationships' possible. Last night was the final workshop in the series and wanted to capture some memories of our little Wednesday evening community!
Keep your eye on Dr. Cori Wong , she is doing great things

Photos from Beats by Girlz Fort Collins's post

Buti Yoga and mindfulness breathing class was a blast. Chelsea Gressman

TEN DAYS AWAY!!!

Join us for a Community Awareness Ride with RideForRacialJustice] as we make a statement through the city of Fort Collins starting at Spring Canyon/Cottonwood Glen Park. (see Facebook event page for more details)

Please make sure to sign your waivers in advance. Volunteers are still needed and you will receive a free BR4BL 22 T-shirt!

Date: July 17, 2022

Time: 9:00am wheels down

Start: Cottonwood Glen Park
3074 Overland Trail Road
Fort Collins, CO 80526

Route: The ride will start and end at Spring Canyon Park (parking lot off Overland)

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/36688282

Waiver: https://forms.gle/8cUnp1uXLXtAgj2w8

Volunteers: (email [email protected])
1. Help with getting riders to sign waivers at start
2. Stand on certain corners and wave riders in the right direction
3. Be a wave leader for riders to follow (various paces)

Please join in fundraising for the following organizations who are actively aiding the community and fighting for change, with an emphasis on youth this year. All funds will be distributed evenly to: Cultural Enrichment Center , Bruton’s Books , JEM Scholarship, and Ride for Racial Justice RideForRacialJustice]!

https://gofund.me/95e905aa

Week 3 of our anti white supremacy class! Thank you for taking us deep into the Epistemology of Ignorance tonight

Shout out to our Executive Director, Jamal Skinner, for modeling liberation via investing time and energy into making music, his preferred form of creativity
🎧🎶🎛🎙
Thanks for all you do

First day of Drone class with Nate.. This will be a game changer for sure!!

Thank you Joe Buckner for the Life lessons and boxing lessons for the youth.
GREAT DAY!!

Anti-White Supremacy Workshops: Liberation Through Our Relationships -by Dr. Cori Wong Beginning June 22, 5:30-7:00
To create a world where everyone is free, we have to dismantle and replace white supremacy with more liberated ways of being. By first recognizing how white supremacy exists within, among, and between us, we can transform larger cultural and political structures of white supremacy. Anti-white supremacy work in our relationships broadens our capacity to care, connect, and see ourselves and each other more clearly so we can move together, in solidarity, through practices for liberation.
Register here: https://forms.gle/eAFU8E7k2QM88Y57A

Volunteer at Odell's

There are still volunteer spots open.
We're getting close!! Final push!!

Volunteer at Odell's Odell's is offering to donate $10,000 to the Cultural Enrichment Center of Fort Collins if we can provide volunteers for the Small Batch event on May 28th! If you are willing and able to volunteer- please sign up for a shift on this form. Odell's is asking the CEC to provide 70 volunteers (aged 21+)...

Photos from Beats by Girlz Fort Collins's post

Do you know a young person interested in a career in technology? We have 5 scholarships available for 16-20 year olds to complete a certificate program with Digital Workshop Center! Apply for a scholarship here: https://forms.gle/qXxaRvJ1bmcZLhgD7

Volunteer at Odell's

Hooray!! We have filled the first shift of volunteers and now we need the push to fill the second shift.
Sign up with link below and let's get this done Fort Collins.

Volunteer at Odell's Odell's is offering to donate $10,000 to the Cultural Enrichment Center of Fort Collins if we can provide volunteers for the Small Batch event on May 28th! If you are willing and able to volunteer- please sign up for a shift on this form. Odell's is asking the CEC to provide 70 volunteers (aged 21+)...

Photos from Beats by Girlz Fort Collins's post

Photos from Beats by Girlz Fort Collins's post

Volunteer at Odell's

Volunteer at Odell's Odell's is offering to donate $10,000 to the Cultural Enrichment Center of Fort Collins if we can provide volunteers for the Small Batch event on May 28th! If you are willing and able to volunteer- please sign up for a shift on this form. Odell's is asking the CEC to provide 70 volunteers (aged 21+)...

Volunteer at Odell's

Odell's is offering to donate $10,000 to the Cultural Enrichment Center of Fort Collins if we can provide volunteers for the Small Batch event on May 28th! If you are willing and able to volunteer- please sign up for a shift on this form.

Odell's is asking the CEC to provide 70 volunteers (aged 21+) on Saturday, May 28th from 12pm-7pm.

They will be broken into 2 shifts of 35 each.
*We are working out what all of the tasks will be but I think if your team can comfortably lift 40 pounds (a case of bottled beer weighs 36 pounds)

Some tasks we will ask for are including and not limited to:
• helping with trash pick up throughout the day
• waste diversion
• running ice to beer stations
• replenishing water jugs
• replenishing food in the green rooms
• greeting guests and handing out glasses
• way-finding for guests/handing out beer and stage maps

Odell Brewing Company: 800 East Lincoln Avenue, Fort Collins, CO

Volunteer at Odell's Odell's is offering to donate $10,000 to the Cultural Enrichment Center of Fort Collins if we can provide volunteers for the Small Batch event on May 28th! If you are willing and able to volunteer- please sign up for a shift on this form. Odell's is asking the CEC to provide 70 volunteers (aged 21+)...

One hour left to finish the new floor..Mike Naples sleeping on the job again.

Progress..1/3 of computer study room floor done

✨Healing is an interdependent community work.

✨We aren’t “self made” but “community made” we’ve been shaped by our early experiences of community. These experience include our environments, parents, and societal expectations.

✨We’ve all been taught that rugged individualism is critical to taking care of ourselves.

✨”Individualism strengthens the idea that each person progresses through his own efforts, based on dedication, focus, effort, and the personal decisions that are made.”

✨One myth of oppression is that belief that what an individual does ON THEIR OWN is critical too success.

✨ If you are working to the goal is to foster healthy interdependence. To allow yourself to be seen and held in community.

✨Community is rooted in love, it’s showing up authentically and being recognized as a human being with complex emotions.

✨”Community confirms that personal achievements come from shared knowledge, common values, and mutual support. Society is responsible for the success of all”

✨Community thrives on accountability and connection, not passivity and harmful codependency.

✨If you’re looking for a deeper community to engage with join us in our co-conspirators lounge, a space where we are re-imagining a brave new world. www.coconspirators lounge.com

Pizza Painting Party. Great things coming soon for the Cultural Enrichment Center.. Fort Collins HERE WE COME!!

Spring Break in Washington DC ✈

We were able to take a few of our students on vacation this week!!

It was everyone's first time visiting the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Weekly events will be posted this February that will include the Zoom link for the following Black History Month presentations.

Sundays in February at 4pm

Zoom link (same for all 4 sessions): https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86534139831

It was an honor for our youth to be selected as March Leaders and speakers for the 2022 MLK Day Celebration of Fort Collins Colorado

Delicious pizza from thanks, Isaiah! 🍕🍕🍕 Black owned business folks in the making right here.

The kids are getting spoiled this final week of the semester 😉

The Cultural Enrichment Center has been selected to serve as March Leaders for the 2022 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration! This year’s celebration is scheduled to be held on January 17th, 2022.

Washington Park (301 Maple Street), Fort Collins, Colorado.

Please join us for the MLK 2022 march.
For more information: https://lsc.colostate.edu/involvement/campus-activities/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-march-celebration/

Big thanks to OtterBox for teaching our students about marketing, sales, and entrepreneurship today!
Can't wait to watch our young people grow up- hope to see some Black owned businesses out of this crew one day

Been hearing this broad statement for my entire life. Well, what do we do about it? What do you do about it?