Date and Time: Wednesday, June 19, 2024, 6-9pm
Where: Recess 46 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205
Please complete this form to register your attendance and participation in this workshop. You will receive an email with detailed instructions a few days before the event.
Celebrate Juneteenth with the Wide Awakes at a closing event designed as a meditative space for grounding and celebration, highlighting our shared values and aspirations for collective change. We will illuminate the historical significance of Juneteenth and draw on the history of the Wide Awakes as champions of justice. We'll offer a meditation to connect with our ancestors and the spirit of liberation, as well as calligraphy rituals to honor and celebrate our ancestors. The conclusion of the program at Recess will lead into a night of celebration at a location close by, which will embody the joy and community spirit of Juneteenth (after-party details forthcoming).
About the Facilitators:
Adelle Lin Yingxi is a Malaysian artist, activist, and creative technologist based in Brooklyn. With a foundation in architecture and engineering, she crafts magical objects, performance rituals, and interactive installations that merge the tangible with the digital, in order to heal and connect through joy and contemplation.
Manushka Magloire is a global strategic leader and cultural impact expert that has delivered transformative social change programs for lifestyle and culture shifting brands and companies solving for real issues at the intersection of commerce and social justice, while fostering culturally relevant and sustainable practices.
Nour Batyne is an interdisciplinary artist and facilitator— her work lies at the intersection of immersive storytelling, and futures thinking for collective liberation. She co-founded One of Many Studio, an experience design studio at the intersection of healing and justice work connecting people with what it means to be a Future Ancestor.
Wildcat Ebony Brown is a Brooklyn-based artist, activist and cultural provocateur whose vibrant and exhilarating, cross disciplinary work is actualized through an intuitively experimental process. Her experience as a fashion model, industry insider and performer influences her broad range of design aesthetics. A founding member and key collaborator of the Wide Awakes, she conceptualizes and curates site specific activations, exhibitions and community events, rooted in joy.
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This workshop is part of a larger project by Interdisciplinary artist Helina Metaferia. 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. Metaferia has invited several BIPOC women led organizations to facilitate workshops as part of this project.
OPTIONAL: All participants who identify as QTBIPOC women/femmes (cis, trans, or GNC) have the option to sit for photographed portrait which will be used for Helina Metaferia’s signature collages at the conclusion of the workshop.
The workshop is for adults 18 years and older, though minors 12 years and older can attend if accompanied by a parent or with a parental waiver form.
Deadline for registration is Sunday June 16, 2024. Registration is required, space is limited.
To learn more about the artist, visit: www.helinametaferia.com
