Gathering the Imaginal with Alixa García
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This talk and experiential practice connect the critical role of creativity and the relationship between nature and our soul’s inherent movement towards interconnectedness.
What can we learn from the oak tree’s response in a forest fire? What do we have in common with the cellular workings of a dying caterpillar? What does the transition between pioneering and succession species have to do with the spiritual contract humans have with planet Earth? In nature we find powerful teachings that serve our unfolding towards something beyond the crises of the now.
When we work with our bodies through a creativity-infused somatic practice that centers the Earth and brings to focus our cosmic existence, we begin to reweave the torn threads between self, each other, and our only Home. This sacred space is what I call the Imaginal Expanse.
Through creative writing, visualization, and somatic practices we will weave our four days together into a collective poetic visioning. A form of spellcasting for the future(s).
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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