About this Event
Water as magic being/as crystal structure/as kin
Water is intrinsic to life—it feeds, moves, cares and makes itself known. In this workshop we will be water mapping and water tracing as a way of connecting and honoring our relationship to what builds and grounds us.
We will be listening to what is underneath. The land & water is always here, they lie beneath the concrete and can still be heard. They reach their way back up so you don’t forget. We are here to hear the waterways/rivers beneath nyc.
Water is one of the easiest ways of practicing somatics. Think on how sound can be traced to build connection. How do we build the sensation of listening in relation to water?
Each session will end with a poem and a writing prompt for reflection.
- "The first water is the body," Natalie Diaz. Emergence Magazine.
- "The River," adrienne marie brown. Open Rivers
- Poems by Jasmine Gibson. Folder Magazine
What’s Included:
- Tea (hydrating & heart healing)
- Spring water
What to Bring:
- Notebook and pen
- A special object you’d like to carry with you for shared altar
- Small vessel for drinking/communing
About alma valdez-garcia
alma (they/them) is a trans herbalist, landworker & poet who is from northern New Mexico. They have resided in NYC going on 9 years and are forever committed to making connections between land being, surviving and dreaming. Their practice emerges from Audre Lorde’s question, “What words do we not have yet?,” and Natalie Diaz’s assertion that “the answer is Palestine.” They are committed to thinking and making work as survival writing, a form of community building and revolutionary articulating against the taxonomies of empire in which we, in different and overlapping ways, live.
About Field Meridians Nature School
FM Nature School is a project to co-create an arts-based urban ecology curriculum that reflects our neighborhood in Brooklyn—aiming to generate tools for resilience.
Field Meridians is an artist collective committed to strengthening local food ecologies. Through site-specific programming, publishing, and radio broadcast, Field Meridians engages the Crown Heights community to lay the foundations for food sovereignty in the heart of Brooklyn. Field Meridians is an extension of MOLD magazine, the critically acclaimed online and print magazine about design and the future of food.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Prospect Park, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, United States
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