Calling all FreeFolk to conjure under each new and full moon. We meet at the water adorned in Black for new moons, white & color for full moons. 8:30pm Lake Merritt columns (Grand Ave & El Embarcadero, Oakland). Please bring bowls to catch abundance invoked. Bring candles, an offering for the altar if you like. Bring your people, the ones who are close. We gather in the depth of darkness, centering expansive (QTGNC) Blackness, reflecting our collective Brilliance. This is a circle of safety specifically for folks of the Afro-Indigenous Diaspora. A circle of Black radical dreaming & imagination.
#ThePeopleCouldFly
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In response to the recent and ongoing violence against Black bodies, #DignityInProcess hosts healing circles centering Queer, Tans, GNC Black Lives. As people-of-color the wear of systemic and interpersonal acts of oppression requires that we lovingly care for our bodies and spirits. Together we ground in the tools of our ancestors creating space for healing, collective grief, and always- Black LOVE! All circles feature powerful local Black & Brown healers. New Orleans conjurers have included Monica McIntyre, Ellenie Cruz, Michaela Harrison, Soraya Jean-Louis McElroy, Jahslyn BlackLifeMagic, Yeye Luisah Teish, and #DignityInProcess Artistic Director, ChE.
Healing Circle Offerings have included:
Sound Healing
Reiki
Liberation Collage/ Afro-Futures Art Station
Centering/ Grounding Practices
Face Painting Divination
Ancestral Ritual
Freedom Song Circle
Community Building
More about #DignityInProcess:
A pilot for Afro-Indigenous Liberatory Practice, #DignityInProcess is a multidisciplinary platform in response to the Black Lives Matter movement merging art activism, ancestral healing, and intersectional identity evolution within the Afro-Indigenous Diaspora. Bringing together movement, ritual, storytelling, and collective artmaking, #DignityInProcess draws upon the practices that have sourced the resilience of our ancestors for generations. Gathering Wisdom Councils of Mixed Race, African-Native American, and Creole elders, multi-generational conversations lay the foundation for embodied accountability to sustain a movement of Black Liberation. Afro-futures emerge through this series of site-specific performances, arts-based direct actions, and community workshops celebrating the dignity of Black evolution.