The Wired - REGISTRATION

DATE: Thursday, November 10

TIME: 5:30 pm-7:30 pm

LOCATION: Location and space access notes will be sent out upon registration

EVENT DESCRIPTION

The Wired is an ever developing, evolving virtual world where existence is fluid and bodies are optional. With this new found freedom, you and your cohort of users are tasked with creating your avatar and exist as a glitch where you will mix reality and the cyber world. Take back your concept of self. Choose a username, create your avatar and join the chat.

This is a closed space for Black folks only with priority and centring of Black queer folks.

Goal: Participants will learn how to use mixed mediums to create an art piece that reflects their desired version of self while exploring themes of identity, gender, and the internet as a tool for liberation

Participants will:

● Learn about various mixed mediums and how the structure of a collage starts
● Use a variety of art tools during our time together
● Discuss the idea of glitch feminism
● Explore individual styles of experiencing self and gender either privately or in group
● Learn the steps of a photo collage with various examples shown
● Develop and implement activity designs using a variety of participatory and creative methodologies, including art storytelling
● Explore the potential of the internet as a space to grow and experiment as a being of change

FACILITATOR BIO

Nailah Nakeng is a ritual based writer, artist and facilitator in Kjipuktuk. They are a black futurist and educator who uses mixed mediums to explore themes of alienation, immigration, afrofuturism and identity . A multidisciplinary artist, her goal is for all of us to find freedom in dissidence and liberation through unconventional methodologies


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As a reminder, this space is closed to Black folks only. Do you identify as Black/ have Black and/or African ancestry? *
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