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The Meeting Place
May 2, 2024 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT
Interdisciplinary artist Helina Metaferia’s The Meeting Place is 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 project 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.
There will be four workshops taking place over the duration of the Session, known as Meetings, each facilitated by BIPOC femme organizers. Metaferia will open the first event with her signature By Way of Revolution workshop, a performance-as-protest somatic experience open for BIPOC femmes. Guest facilitators will support the following Meetings, some of which are open to everyone. These Meetings include: an Octavia Butler-inspired writing workshop by the Free Black Women’s Library; a Palestinian dance and movement workshop by Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre, and a Juneteenth ancestral meditation and closing Session after party by the Wide Awakes.
Due to the process-based nature of the Session program, this project will undergo constant modifications; the features of this page provide accruing information on the project’s developments. Either the artist or a Recess docent will be available to view the project in process.
Cost
FreeRSVP / Tickets
Just show upArtistic Discipline / Area(s) of Activity
Dance, Multi-Disciplinary / Non-Traditional, Visual Art and OtherType of Work
Experimental Fine Arts, Culturally Specific and ParticipatoryKid/Family Friendliness
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