Every year on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, World Dance for Humanity invites the Santa Barbara community to join them in One Billion Rising, a worldwide action protesting violence against women. The Zoom event includes community activities, and performances of “Break the Chain,” a powerful song/dance celebrating unity and strength.

This year, World Dance invites women and women of all ages to dance in solidarity and strength at 10 a.m. Sunday. World Dance will be teaching a dance to “Break the Chain” and playing music that celebrates the cause of women worldwide.

“Break the Chain” is part of the free dance classes offered every morning by World Dance for Humanity, which invites participants to “come as you are and dance as you desire.” Visit http://worlddanceforhumanity.org/schedule/.

Zoom video link for “Break the Chain” with World Dance is here.

One Billion Rising refers to the statistic that one in three women across the planet will be beaten or raped during her lifetime — that’s one billion women and girls.

This year’s worldwide theme is Rising Gardens, with organizers calling on people everywhere to rise in honor and celebration of women workers, and to create and grow Rising Gardens. The One Billion 2021 message is:

“Gardens remind us of our enduring connection to life, to each other and to Earth, which compels us to do everything in our power to protect and nurture life and all that is sacred without doing harm. Tending to a garden, like nurturing our own communities, requires patience, creativity, love, care, attentiveness, presence, diligence, mindfulness and commitment.

“Gardening centralizes growing and giving, it is not about taking or acquiring. Gardens place us firmly and deeply in the art of honoring life, becoming artistic beds of Creative Resistance. Rising Gardens are a creative call for revival, restoration and transformation.”