September 2024: Anchor Workshop: A Liberatory Practice for Just & Thriving Worlds with Alixa Garcia, Part I
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August 2024: Entering the Home of Imagination: A Liberatory Practice for Just & Thriving Worlds with Alixa Garcia, Part I
Note from Alixa:
Working towards just and thriving worlds requires profound imagination. To have a strong liberatory practice, we need to diligently exercise our visionary and somatic muscles.
In this two-part workshop, we will use creative writing, communal creation, visualization, art-making, and what I call Creative Somatics to make a home for intuition and coax the artist within so that it can play with full permission to fail, explore, and reinvent, eventually finding homeostasis within us.
Because joy shares its palms with sorrow, in our second session, we will be with grief as a ceremony to create more space within our particular portal for the visions wanting to come through.
What to bring for Part II of Alixa's Workshop:
+ Create a Safe Zone
+ Blindfold
+ Speaker or wireless headphones
+ Journal and pen
+ Colored pencils, crayons, marker,
+ Something to sage with, a bell to ring, a drum to hit
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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