Imagining Futures / Fall 2021 / Three Part Workshop
Looking for Experts in Reinvention to Imagine Futures !

You qualify as an expert in reinvention if:
--You have created a life in a new country
--You have started over
--You have made a new home for yourself
--You have started a business, changed jobs or learned a new skill
--You have ended something, begun something or overcome something

Do you see yourself in any of these? If so, you are already an expert!

These workshops are open to all abilities and levels, no movement background needed. Come play and experiment with drawing, writing, and moving.  

ALL WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS WILL BE PAID $100 PER SESSION.

** Please note that space is extremely limited, so we will be selecting workshop participants based on their ability to commit to the process and their motivation.

Applicants will be accepted and notified on a rolling basis until September 3, 2021.
Get your application in as soon as possible, as spots will fill up quickly.

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About the Workshops and Facilitators
Saturday, September 18, 1-5PM  RUPTURE AS A CHARACTER
Saturday, October 23, 1-5PM CULTIVATING RESILIENCE
Saturday, November 13, 1-5PM WORLD BUILDING: IMAGINING THE FUTURE

18th Street Arts Center's Olympic Campus
1639 18th Street
Santa Monica, CA, 90404

"Imagining Futures" is an embodied storytelling and creative world-building workshop for immigrants and refugees co-facilitated by choreographer Hope Mohr and visual artist Ranu Mukherjee. This three-part series will explore, through creative practice, themes of rupture, resilience, and world building. In a safe space, we will ground ourselves in our bodies and in sensation, explore experiences of rupture, and give voice to what sustains us. The process will center experiences of rupture as a form of expertise essential to our time and as a catalyst for imaginative capacity and joy.

Through movement, drawing, and writing exercises, these workshops will engage a group of people who, through circumstances and legacies, have become experts in reinventing their lives. Imagining rupture as a character that changes over time, we connect with its lessons,  summon our personal sense of continuity, and build visions of possible futures. We envision how we want to live and create embodied languages of resilience and power.

Snacks and Beverages will be provided.

This workshop will happen over a series of three Saturday afternoons. Priority will be given to participants who can commit to all three sessions, but drop-ins will also considered.

ALL PARTICIPANTS WILL BE PAID $100 PER SESSION ATTENDED.

As needed, all COVID precautions, including distancing and masks, will be observed in order to ensure participant safety. We will confirm workshop location at 18th Street as we get closer to the date. Workshop facilitators are fully vaccinated. Because of the nature of the work we will be doing together, we ask that all participants be fully vaccinated.

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP CO-FACILITATORS

Ranu Mukherjee makes hybrid work in painting, moving image and installation to build new imaginative capacities, drawing on the histories of collage, feminist science fiction and Indian mythological images. She is guided by the forces of ecology and non-human agency, diaspora and migration, motherhood and transnational feminisms. Ranu has produced commissioned projects for the San Jose Museum of Art, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Asian Art Museum, the de Young Museum, the 2019 Karachi Biennale, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the San Francisco Arts Commission. Recent honors include a Lucas Visual Arts Fellowship at Montalvo Arts Center (2019-2022), Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2020) and a residency at 18th Street Arts Center Los Angeles (2022). She is represented by Gallery Wendi Norris. Mukherjee is the Chair of Film at California College of the Arts, San Francisco.  www.ranumukherjee.com

Hope Mohr has woven art and activism for decades as a choreographer, curator, community organizer, and writer. She co-directs The Bridge Project, which creates and supports equity-driven live art that centers artists as agents of change. As a dancer, Mohr trained at S.F. Ballet School and performed in the companies of dance pioneers Lucinda Childs and Trisha Brown. She makes dances that “convey emotional and socio-political contents that just ride underneath the surface of a rigorous vocabulary.” (Dance View Times). She has directed performance projects with breast cancer survivors and military veterans. Her work has been presented at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Highways Performance Space (LA), Moody Center for the Arts (Houston), SFMOMA, ODC Theater, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and others. She was named to the YBCA 100 in 2015. In 2014, Dance Magazine editor-in-chief Wendy Perron named Mohr as one of the “women leaders” in dance.  www.hopemohr.org
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