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As part of their Session project, The Meeting Place, artist Helina Metaferia has invited Wildcat Ebony Brown, Nour Batyne, Adelle Lin & Manushka Magloire of the Wide Awakes to host a Juneteenth event designed as a meditative space for grounding and celebration, highlighting our shared values and aspirations for collective change. We will illuminate the historical significance of Juneteenth and draw on the history of the Wide Awakes as champions of justice. We'll offer a meditation to connect with our ancestors and the spirit of liberation, as well as calligraphy rituals to honor and celebrate our ancestors. The conclusion of the program at Recess will lead into a night of celebration at a location close by, which will embody the joy and community spirit of Juneteenth (after-party details forthcoming).
Part of Interdisciplinary artist Helina Metaferia’s The Meeting Place— a site for transformative gatherings by and for Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) women (cis and transgender), who wish to engage in embodied and somatic practices as a way of activating epigenetics in order to release lived or inherited trauma of systemic oppression stored in the body. The project is designed to provide a supportive structure to an open-ended question: what does rest, love, care, and liberation look like for BIPOC women in the 21st century? The Meeting Place takes as inspiration the many meetings that women have historically organized throughout the global diaspora to strengthen each other in community, including the rituals of celebration, family gatherings, places of worship, protest, political organizing, and care work.
Cost
FREEHow
Registration via Google Forms is required.
