A Practice in Becoming Future Ancestors with Alixa Garcia
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Check out the communal poem we wove:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/aq8yao7ogut6x9t/Rooted_collective_poetic_spells.png?dl=0
This two-hour experience will be a somatic and imagination exercise in becoming the ancestors we want to be. We will discuss the power of poetry as a political practice and a visionary rehearsal. We will write collective poetic spells as future ancestors and leave having created a unique altarpiece that can help us to deepen our personal inquiry.Please bring something to write with!
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The purpose of the monthly workshops is to expose us to different perspectives and ideas related to topics we’re grappling with in our lives and in the world at large. We’re initiating a community-driven process to draw from the community what is most alive and present, and from that creating the scaffolding for an exploration during the monthly workshop. We’re expanding the realm of possibility for how that exploration could look, but we hope it to be a content-rich place of expansion; to challenge us with perspectives and ideas that can create openings to the borderlands.
Alixa García is a Colombian born, globally-raised, multi-disciplinary artist and cultural architect whose work is imbued in ritual, spirit, and deep reverence for our Great Mother, Great Lover: our Earth. She is an award-winning poet, climate organizer, and filmmaker, as well as a visual artist, musician, published author, and facilitator.
She is co-founder of Climbing Poetree and founder of Alixa Garcia Studio. Her performances and keynote speaking have taken her around the globe, from South Africa to Mexico, the UK to Cuba, and beyond. She has presented at hundreds of universities, conferences, and festivals including Harvard University, United Nations, and T.E.D: Ideas Worth Spreading. She performed on the main stage at the first Women’s March in 2016 with over 500K people in attendance, and millions watching world-wide. She has shared the stage with artists such as Janelle Monáe, Maxwell, Danny Glover, and Erykah Badu, and cultural architects such as Alice Walker, Angela Davis, Vandana Shiva, and Cornel West.
As a visual artist, she has exhibited her work in museums and galleries both nationally and internationally, including on the mega-screens in Times Square, New York City; The Kunsthal KAdE Museum, Netherlands; and The Contemporary Museum of Art, Los Angeles. As a writer, García has been published by Whit Press, North Atlantic, AK Press, Institute for Anarchist Studios, and Hachette.García’s words, visions, and music continue to travel the world on a mission to open portals of imagination and imaginal collectivity.
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