About this Event
Creativity flourishes when the mind has space to wander, integrate, and imagine. Resonance is an immersive community sound bath that invites participants to reconnect with their innate creative capacity through deep listening and restorative sound. Drawing on crystal singing bowls, chimes, gongs, voice, and other resonant instruments, participants are guided into a state of relaxed awareness where habitual patterns of thinking can soften and new ideas may emerge. The experience emphasizes sound as a pathway for reflection, presence, and creative renewal.
Following the sound bath, participants are invited to engage in a brief reflective writing or drawing practice to capture insights, images, sensations, or creative impulses that arise during the session.
Designed for artists, researchers, educators, and community members alike, Resonance offers a welcoming environment to cultivate imagination, restore attention, and deepen one's relationship to creative practice through the transformative power of sound.
Participants Will:
• Experience a restorative immersive sound bath.
• Explore deep listening as a catalyst for creative thinking.
• Cultivate relaxation and mental spaciousness that support innovation and insight.
• Reflect on emerging ideas through optional writing or drawing.
• Leave with practices that can be integrated into their own creative process.
Note: The facilitator provides all sound instruments. Participants are encouraged to bring a yoga mat, blanket, cushion, journal, and water bottle.
Olomidara Abla Yaya (also known as Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle) is an award-winning writer, author, educator, and interdisciplinary creator whose work explores memory, history, material practice, and the transformative possibilities of creative quest. Through writing, teaching, and public projects, Yaya creates spaces for reflection, experimentation, and deeper engagement with the creative process.
Yaya holds an MFA in Art & Critical Studies–Creative Writing from CalArts and is a U.S.
Fulbright Program alumna, having conducted research at the University of Lagos in Nigeria. She is the author of Kentifrications: Convergent Truth(s) & Realities (Occidental College and Sming Sming Books, 2018), SIR (Litmus Press, 2019), and The Evanesced Tarot Deck + Guidebook (Sming Sming Books and KACH Studio Press, 2023).
Her writing has appeared in Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, Supervision: On Motherhood and Surveillance, ENTER>TEXT, Call & Response: Experiments in Joy, Films for the Feminist Classroom, and Among Margins: Critical & Lyrical Writing on Aesthetics. Her work has been reviewed by The Brooklyn Rail and Strange Fire Collective, among others.
Yaya has presented, exhibited, and performed her work at institutions including The Studio Museum in Harlem, Project Row Houses, The Hammer Museum, The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, and The Museum of Art at the University of New Hampshire. Her honors include the SECA Award from SFMOMA, the Litmus Press First Book Prize, the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship for Graduate Study, and a U.S. Fulbright Fellowship.
Through her interdisciplinary practice, Yaya brings together writing, making,research, and embodied approaches to creativity, inviting participants to explore new relationships between materials, memory, sound, and imagination.
Event venue & nearby stays
Center for Creative Inquiry, 2210 Harold Way, Berkeley, United States
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