The Chef and The Revolutionary!

ANV’s 1st Annual Summer Mixer & Farm Benefit

When: June 14th, 2015
Where: Kingston 11, 2270 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA 94612
Tickets: $50 Early Bird Admission

Farm Benefit- Mixer

On June 14th, 2015, ANV will host its 1st Annual Summer Mixer & Farm Benefit at Kingston 11 in Oakland! The event will feature a 5 course dinner by chef to the stars, Tarik Abdullah, and special guest Elaine Brown, former chairwoman of the Black Panther Party. There will also be live music, wine, and a silent auction. All proceeds will benefit Campership at Acta Non Verba: Youth Urban Farm Project!

About Acta Non Verba’s Campership

A Campership is a scholarship for Acta Non Verba’s camp! ANV offers a camp during the summer that provides fun, hands-on health education that inspires campers to explore nature and find empowerment through outdoor education. During our 8-week summer camp, not only do we provide outdoor education on our quarter acre farm; we also take two overnight camping trips visiting local farms and regional parks! Since our founding in 2010, Camp ANV has inspired over 3,500 local, at-risk youth and families to focus on nutrition, sustainable living, and physical activities that promote wellness. Help us send more kids to camp buy purchasing an event ticket or donating!

About Our Special Guests

Tarik Abdullah is a Seattle based chef to the stars and TV Personality whose food is inspired by North African, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, and Caribbean flavors. A recent alum of ABC’s cooking competition show, “The Taste”, with celebrity chef judges Marcus Samuelsson, Nigella Lawson and Ludo Lefebvre, he was mentored by show creator Anthony Bourdain, helping him get to the competition’s semi-finals. He is the host of five upcoming episodes of Vice Network’s series “Munchies”. When he is not throwing his wildly popular pop-up brunch, Morning Star Café, on Seattle’s southside, he holds culinary skills workshops for children ages 7-14. He will be traveling to Morocco in May to cull menu inspiration, taste wines and buy spices for the event.

A former Black Panther Party chairman, Elaine Brown has been committed to and organized significant efforts towards effecting progressive change in the United States, for the last four decades. She has founded four organizations, authored four books (two to be published this year), and released two vocal music albums. She is currently organizing a re-entry project in California’s Alameda County for formerly incarcerated youth, focused on developing cooperative business enterprises.

Celebrate ANV’s 3rd Annual Epic Oakland Food Day

When: Saturday, October 18, 2014, 12PM – 5PM
Where: Tassafaronga Recreation Center, 1001 83rd Avenue, Oakland, CA 94621
Tickets: Free!

Acta Non Verba and Oakland Parks and Recreation present our 3rd Annual EPIC Oakland FOOD Day on Saturday, October 18 from 12-5!

Preserve the harvest and have FUN doing it!

This free event will have music, kids activities and workshops showcasing different ways you can eat summer fresh produce all winter long!

Learn how you can use vegetables to make natural dyes for clothing, make jams and jellies and can them, how to make a super simple, delicious tomato sauce, and so much more! Plus, there are fun activities for kids!

Exhibitors

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We are looking for folks in the community who can CAN!

Do you know how tobBake breads or crackers? Dry fruits and veggies, ferment krauts, pickle peppers, smoke or salt meat, create healthful teas?

Click here to sign up so we can highlight your work at this event.

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Acta Non Verba Honored At The White House

President Obama Hosts Iftar Dinner at the White House

Last night, President Obama hosted his sixth Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan at the White House, an annual tradition started by First Lady Hillary Clinton when she hosted a Ramadan Eid celebration dinner in 1996. Many consider President Thomas Jefferson to be the first President to host an Iftar dinner, as he hosted a sunset dinner to accommodate the fasts of an envoy from Tunisia over 200 years ago.

The Iftar is the meal after sunset that concludes the day of fasting during the month of Ramadan, a time to pray and reflect, to be reminded that we are equals in humanity, and to reaffirm commitments to helping the less fortunate, including those struggling from economic hardship and inequality.

Last night, guests were welcomed into the East Wing where a copy of the Quran owned by President Thomas Jefferson, one of the founding fathers of the United States, was on display from the Library of Congress. At sunset, guests gathered in the Grand Foyer to break their fast with a date following the traditional melodic Muslim call to prayer led by a local student from the University of Maryland. Then finally, after a 16-hour day of fasting since sunrise, guests gathered in the State Dining Room for a halal meal with the President.

Among attendees were members of the diplomatic corps, White House administration officials, U.S. Government staff, elected officials, and Muslim Americans who have been doing great work to strengthen the fabric and prosperity of our nation. This year’s Iftar celebrated Muslim Americans working tirelessly to fight income inequality by creating opportunities for access, whether through education, health, food security, or at-risk youth development.

Among those at the President’s table was Kelly Carlisle, a former member of the Navy who leads an urban farming program where at-risk children grow and sell fresh food to eat healthier and deposit the profits they earn into individual savings accounts to build toward a better future.

Aala Muhammed’s parents emigrated from Sudan and worked several jobs to send her to a good high school in Chicago, but her hopes of going to college faced financial challenges. With the help of a nonprofit that focuses on young people, she earned admissions to Yale University and now runs her own program to encourage girls of color to pursue science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education.

Also seated with the President was Muhammed Chaudhry, who runs a foundation that works with schools, parents, and local IT startups to better prepare students to embrace science and math and find creative ways to keep academic enrichment programs going for low-income students in the face of summer program budget cuts.

During his remarks, the President thanked the Muslim community for the contributions they’ve made to create opportunities for those who lack access. No matter our faith, race or gender, we are equals in humanity.

Tonight we reaffirm a simple truth.  Fundamental to the character of our country is our freedom of religion — the right to practice our faith as we choose, to change our faith if we choose, or to practice no faith at all and to do all this free from fear of.  All of us are deserving of an equal opportunity to thrive — no matter who we are, what we look like, what we believe, or how we pray.  And all of us have an obligation to do our part — to help others overcome barriers, to reverse the injustice of inequality and to help more of our fellow citizens share in the promise of America.

In Islam, there is a hadith that says God helps the servant as long as the servant helps his brother.  In other words, we’re summoned to serve and lift up one another, and that’s the lesson of several of our guests here tonight.

President Obama also wished Muslim Americans and Muslims all around the world a blessed Ramadan.

Read the President’s Ramadan statement here.

Click here to check out the White House Blog.

 

3rd Annual “Spring Of Green” Open House and After Party

Open House and After Party

10353262_810887618930882_6418002253738549733_oWhen: Saturday, June 7th, until 4PM
Where: Tassafaronga Park, Oakland, CA

FUN for the Whole Family!! This FREE Community Event is not to be missed!

Acta Non Verba: Youth Urban Farm Project presents an amazing line-up of guest speakers, gardening workshops and lots of great kid’s activities planned like Rock Climbing, Face Painting, Arts and Crafts, Cooking Demos and even a Bouncy House!

AND, After the SHOW, It’s the After Party…

Benefit Mixer for Acta Non Verba

When: Saturday, June 7th, 6-9pm
Where: 7631 MacArthur Boulevard, Oakland, CA 94605

The celebration won’’t end at 4 pm on June 7th. Come out and join the ANV Staff, Board Members and Supporters at the Spring of Green Mixer at the ANV Shared Office Space located at 7631 MacArthur Boulevard! Enjoy good eats, craft cocktails made with FRESH ingredients from our farm, and an awesome DJ, all while visiting our shared work space and networking with fellow farmers and friends of farmers! You don’t want to miss this! A donation of $50 gets you in and tickets can be purchased through EventBrite.