At a complicated time in our history, when the news can be polarizing and narratives are frequently weaponized, Emmy Award–winning artist Jon Boogz (who was last here celebrating Juneteenth in 2025 ) and Time magazine–featured storytelling activist Mohsin Mohi Ud Din are coming together, in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB), to bring Santa Barbara an immersive community gathering and performance exploring how communication and storytelling shape our mental health and human rights.
The free event — which takes place on Sunday, February 15, 2-4 p.m., at the museum in Paseo Nuevo — is a storytelling ceremony with live dance, spoken word, and guided storytelling activities from Boogz and Mohsin, who is the founder of #MeWe International Inc. (#MeWeIntl), a global nonprofit that builds communications and storytelling interventions for psychological well-being, leadership development, and community engagement. He leads a global network of artists, program developers, community facilitators, and scientists who for more than 10 years, across 15 countries, innovate communications interventions that enable individuals to transform themselves so that they can transform the world.
His work has reached thousands of people across more than 12 countries, beginning with his Fulbright Scholarship in 2010, and he has been a featured speaker at the World Economic Forum, United Nations, MIT, and TEDx, and his work on #MeWeSyria has been published on UNHCR Innovation, Vice, and Al Jazeera.