Monthly Activities
Teen/Adult Coloring
- We provide the opportunity and space to color pages or create your own designs for coloring. Contact us at 860-491-0387 for details.
African Drumming
Thursday Nights 6pm @ 25 Main Street Torrington, CT 06790
Culture Conversations
Virtual conversations during lunch & learn for 30 minutes. Topics includes: Creating postive emotions,
Building resilience, Relationships mending, Storytellingand more. Contact 860-491-0387 for details.
Monthly Meetings are the 4TH Monday at 7:00PM
Our monthly meeting are virtual every 4th Monday from 7:00m to 8:15pm. Contact us for more details Ocisbeautiful@gmail.com
Our Programs
Volunteer Service and support needed
Volunteer Service and support needed
Volunteer Service and support needed
- Volunteer your time to help us achieve our goals
- We put you in touch with other individuals and organizations that we believe share our vision
- Become apart of our African Drumming circle
- Join our network of Storytelling
- Make a financial contribution of any amount
- $20 helps fund publicity and refreshments for our community events
- $100 makes you
- Volunteer your time to help us achieve our goals
- We put you in touch with other individuals and organizations that we believe share our vision
- Become apart of our African Drumming circle
- Join our network of Storytelling
- Make a financial contribution of any amount
- $20 helps fund publicity and refreshments for our community events
- $100 makes you a provider
- $500 buys books about cultural diversity and anti-racism practices
- $ Your donations covers the cost to bring a financial literacy workshop series to any location
- $ Your donations covers the cost to bring an anti-racism, cultural diversity, cultural appreciations series to the community
Community Connections
Volunteer Service and support needed
Volunteer Service and support needed
Our community is full of people who want to help. We work to connect the people providing services with the people who need them. Come connect with people in new ways.
Accomplishments
- Monthly meetings every 4th Monday- to establish an organizational structure, clarify goals, objectives , and conduct trainings for community residents.
- In the past years, we held large community workshops at Torrington City Hall attended by 75 people or more. Those workshops features African and Latinx musical and dance performances with breakout workshops to discuss racism in the schools or the community and ideas for change.
- Several meetings with Torrington Mayor, heads of various City Departments, and the Chief of Police to raise awareness of problems in communities. Major goals of these meetings are To create a better understanding of conduct towards people of diverse cultures. Torrington is active in culture history, language, arts and more.
- During 2019- 2022 - We held workshops for students to learn about cultural diversity, mindfulness techniques, identity discussions, and anti - bullying at Torrington High School and Oliver Wolcott Technical High School.
- Ongoing discussions with school staff or community agencies regarding services such as: storytelling, african drumming, diversity conversations, mindfulness practices and cultural understanding.
- September- May with specific dates to be determined we provide training and skill steps to students with cultural differences to share their own perspective and experiences. At the end of the school year, students will create a community base video using diverse poetry and speeches.
- During 2021, Community events for Black History Month, Juneteenth response to George Floyd’s murder. Civil rights mural in Torrington CT- Martin Luther King Jr, John Brown, Amanda Gorman.
- Weekly telephone call-in to discuss topics related to cultural diversity 860-491-0387.
- During 2018- 2022 We continued to offer collaborations with other community groups; including Connecticut Citizens Action Group, Unity in the Community, Various Women’s Group, the Arts and Culture Commission, Noelke Gallery, Five Points Arts Center, local churches, Torrington Historical Society, and Sawyer’s Bar and Grill a minority owned small businesses.
Future events
Diversity Workshop 2024- 2025
Language etiquette class 2024 - 2025
Faces of diversity photography 2024-2025
Eight women drummers & Storytelling
Culture diversity conversations with students