From Our Mothers to Our Motherlands: Reclaiming the Sewing Circle

As the bedrock of our culture, let's tackle Womxn’s mental health, using a healthy, multicultural environment, where marginalized cultures are centered, interdisciplinary arts practices are utilized to process and engage and social work support is available and encouraged as we spend a day together in the equality and structural resilience of the conversational crafting circles that have borne humanity’s oral history and have been as important to liberation as creating the quilts that held maps to the Underground Railroad. Positive possibilities for solutions to multiple contemporary challenges are set to emerge through our discourse and art created, dispelling patriarchal hierachal structures in exchange for respect for our mutual expertise and our diverse and accepting camaraderie.

BELOW ARE CLIPS FROM 6 OF OUR NYSCA, Stony Brook Medicine and Private FUNDED EVENTS FROM 2023

All our collaborators are celberated in the video.

2024

FROM OUR MOTHERS TO OUR MOTHERLANDS: RECLAIMING THE SEWING CIRCLE

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Artist/ Circle Facilitators/??????????s

Breakfast & Lunch Served

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• Dr.Nichelle Rivers NiRi Art—Artivist, Art Therapist, Fiber Arts and Historical Artivism

• Terri Ann- Poet and Social Worker, Surviving Patriarchy

• Stephanie Anne- Fiber Arts/ Knitting and Social Worker--Social Knitwork--Affirming chatting & sensory breaks

• Kyle Royce—Men's Circle Workship & Piano and Vocals

∙ Danielle Davis-Opera

• Daemond Ardinell—Men's Circle Workshop, Poet and Teaching Artist

∙ Cassandra Skolnik-The Olympics Circles of inclusion. Breaking stereotypes of Transwomen': and ciswomen's bodies andvabilities.

• Anu Annam-"Get Ready witg me!"makeup and garland-making

∙Meet CirclecArtists--Robyn Bellospirtlito @ more TBA

∙ Meet OASIS, NOW & SEA Mixer.Teens looking for professional mentees are encouraged to attend.

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• Maria Tegzes Trio

• Sonali Skandan Bhatatanatyam Dancr

• @Oya Bangura (@ProjectMOVENY)—Drum

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• rorie kelly—Singer-Songwriter

• Margarita Espada (Teatro Yerbabruja inc.) & Dance Troupe

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ADVANCE DISCOUNT TICKETS (until Sept 10th, additional 15% off):

GENERAL: Symposium $30, Celebration & Fundraiser $20, both $40

ARTIST: Symposium $ 30, Celebration & Fundraiser $20, both $40

DISABLED/ELDERS: Symposium $20, Celebration & Fundraiser $15, both $40

Z Ticket (Teens): $5 each

FREE need-based SCHOLARSHIPS please inquire at [email protected]. Subject Line: Scholarships

DOOR:

Symposium $35, Celebration & Fundraiser $25

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Questions?

Email Anu Annam at [email protected]

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Walt Whitman Birthplace Association, 246 Old Walt Whitman Road, Huntington Station, United States