Facilitator: Collective of practitioners, artists, healers
An online creative circle, sharing and gathering space for Black people with marginalised genders. Actively creating generative healing, imagining and energetic space for and by Black trans, non-binary, cis, women, femmes, gender non-conforming, transmasc people*. Holding these creative-spiritual queered contributions and experiences to be in Liberatory portal time. Recognising the beautiful insights, activations and survivals that our visions, dreams and art bring forth in transforming this world.
This gathering space will form the closing ceremony of this curated-community programme.
*Including, but not limited to these ways of being. In regards to terms and framings of self-definition - we want to acknowledge, hold and give voice, to the multiple ways of unconstructed ungendered realities that exist. That you may identify/feel OUTSIDE of the white supremacist construct of gender and may speak to African-heritage indigenous diasporic perspectives, traditions and spiritual formations of gender identity. You are welcomed!
exploring//returning to...
portals. resistance. futures.
This gathering space will be collectively guided by curator-conjurer Lateisha and artist-healers Amarnah, Danielle, Ada, Nicky, Ãssia, Cyan cian and Ma’at.
A call to invite us into creative pathways of inter-earth connection across international time-zones and ancestral time-frames.
A collaborative exploration into the elements, multi-species life and diasporic multi-dimensions relationships.
A call to be with each other for transformative regenerative justice: rest and healing, pleasure and abundance, life force sustainability and intersectional nurturing as a deep embodied knowing…. in our belonging.
We will guide you-our bodies to unearth, share and witness creative collective care - art and energetic practices as visions and tools towards inhabiting OUR decolonised Future(s).
We will welcome you-our joy, grief, silence and laughter.
…..The freedom space…..
The format will consist of :
- meditative energetic practice
- film screenings
- readings, poetry, incantation
- embodiment, movement ritual
- Conversation, reflection, roundtable
- Sound, singing and sonic baths
The feeling of the space will be vibey, responsive and open - with emphasis placed on the nurturing of each other's power, community - ancestral support, encouraging sharing of practice of healing and interconnection in this supported container. FUN!
Access info: All events will be free, hosted on zoom, will have live transcription notes provided using otter.ai. Please email info@12ocollective.com for any access questions.
Full Artists Bios + Offerings:
Danielle DZA Osajivbe-Williams is an integrative counsellor & psychotherapist and movement artist who plants seeds for liberation via wellness technologies of past/present/future. Concerned with the sensual, the spiritual and the ancestral, they are intent on bridging the gap between western psychology and traditional West African and ancestral healing practices, as a decolonial, regenerative and practical resolve of the timeline we currently find ourselves in. Through her work, they intend to connect themselves and those engaging with her work to inner knowing; the knowledge of our bodies and its interdependence to the knowledge of other living systems seen and unseen. This is grounded in their belief of wellness and liberation as the ability to trust our being and move from a place of awareness, resource and activation of personal power.
Danielle will offer an embodied invocation where we call in and on a state of being that supports us in our awareness, resource and personal power. @thisisdreamroots
Nicky Chue is a queer BPOC filmmaker from Berlin based in London, who spends a lot of their time creating narrative playlists & sitting in nature identifying bees. Their narratives, heavily influenced by folklore and mythology, centre queer and trans people of colour and explore the complicated concepts of solitude, loneliness, rest, and togetherness in contemporary, historical and futuristic contexts. nickychue.com
Nicky will be sharing their film "plant portals: breath", and hold space to organically reflect / engage / respond to its themes. "plant portals: breath" is an experimental meditation on the unspoken history many queer and trans people of colour carry daily that connects bumblebees, colonial trauma, alternate universes and the complicated concept of "rest" to ask: Can nature heal us?
cyan cian is performance artist and dancer, Paris Cian Williams. cyan cian is working with and through various interdisciplinary forms of movement, film, photography, and sound. cyan’s creative work has been described as obsession in process, meditative conjuring, and formations of love and lineage. Her practice crosses at the intersections of Black girlhood, ecology, and spirituality, centering re-memory and repetition play through Black (queer) feminist methodologies.
Website: pariscw.com / Instagram: @shecyancian
Cyan cian will be sharing her film 2323BlackLuna along with a collective imagining to meditate on creating our own mooring, darkening, loving portal space. While enquiring about the spiral, this exercise is flexible in making and interpretation, by way of movement, sound, and/or drawing. We will create a collective deepening portal, loving the spaces that are often neglected and are worthy of tending to. This offering is inspired and stems from her process of making the film.
Ada M. Patterson (Bridgetown, 1994) is a visual artist, writer and educator based between Barbados, London and Rotterdam. They work with masquerade, textiles, performance, video and poetry, telling new stories or rethinking old stories in new recuperative ways.
Trying to account for the complexities of bodies otherwise unaccounted for, bodies queered by crisis, bodies named invisible, dispensable or ungrievable, bodies confronted with the very real material conditions of a world not built for their survival, their ongoing work hopes to imagine elegies for bodies and moments always already out of time.
Ada will conjure images of other worlds, stories, lives and possibilities, through poetry.
ãssia is a multidisciplinary artist using the sonic (the voice) and the soma (the body) to express the before and beyond. Their work is a conjuring of resonant selfhood from a pit of abstraction and judgement. A desolate and euphoric reanimation. Their current practice is rooted in exploring the malleable and the hostile in their daily environment, gathering threads that map the realms of healing, history, identity, trauma, grief, family, lineage, blood, otherness, prayer before religion, queerness. At all times seeking to escape the suffocation of delineation, instead confronting meaning as transient and modal, of the body.
Ãssia will offer a chant or wail according to the group, what is needed and sensed, to recall remembrance. Inviting us to reconnect to non-verbal communication.
A remembering of all the possibilities, inviting our imagination to stretch, expand.
A momentum of what the ancestors had not yet begun, remembering what is known of the unknown, to carry on what has not been done or couldn't be started.
Offering embodied sounds to explore ways to help connect/reconnect to LOVE.
Love at its simplest form: the space before thoughts, before any act of love from thoughts, (by thoughts they mean any kind of internal or external analyse and self-criticism of worth, before values and belief systems)
Ma'at is a sound artist, musician, composer and sonic producer - weaving ethereal soundscapes into the present, past and future.
Ma’at will be offering a closing sonic meditation to heal the body, cleanse the heart, and rejuvenate the mind.
To make space to find lasting comfort in healing sounds during these trying times.
This offering will gently assist you to find a moment of surrendering and finding peace within the heart.
The intention is to offer a warm, all encompassing sound bath that will help you in your personal growth and alignment.
Amarnah Osajivbe-Amuludun is a London - born Nigerian Contemporary dance artist and choreographer, yoga and fitness teacher and actress. Since graduating from London Contemporary Dance School in 2015, Amarnah has worked across Dance and Theatre forms, T.V, Short Films, Music Videos and Gallery spaces worldwide. Amarnah is inspired by her emotions, music, the sun, the moon, trees, animals, presence and her voice. Her philosophy is that no matter your body type, age, limitations, gender, beliefs, histories, herstories, one of the most important things when dancing or moving is to listen to the voice of your body and spirit - to be mindful of its limitations, encouraging challenges but with kindness.
Amarnah will offer a guided movement improvisation. A chance for you to move from a place of need, desire and joy. What does your body need right now? What will make you feel good, bring you joy to be moving in the body you find yourself in today? How does music create ways of moving from a place of instinct and flow? To close we will end with reflection to our body/self/spirit. To remember, acknowledge and honour thoughts, feelings, movements or sensations that occur”
Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson is a multi-disciplinary artist, community healer and socio-cultural systems change educator. Working with performance, somatics-movement, writing and facilitation to follow the spiritual call to create spaces for healing and resistance towards liberation.
Lateisha uses their radical pedagogy as tools and practice towards decolonising how we relate to ourselves, each other and the world(s) around. Through collective care methodologies, they draw upon the power of prophecy and ancestral knowledge, Black feminist futurist traditions, climate justice ecology practices and queered ways of being to faciliate imaginative creative pathways towards interconnection.
Lateisha will be opening and closing the space through poetry and embodied check ins, reflective prompts and vibessss a plenty. To the ritual knowledge of remembering.
This event is part of To the ritual knowledge of remembering, a curatorial project led by artist and community healer Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson as part of an online curation residency with 12ø collective. To find out about future events and more information about the project go to www.ritualknowledge.com.