Name: the ties that Bind Us, the ties that Bond Us
Start: 2024-11-16T13:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-16T15:00:00-05:00
Location: The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery

the ties that Bind Us, the ties that Bond Us

Led by Nickeshia Garrick, this workshop is an embodied exploration of the bonds that physically and emotionally bind our lived experiences.
About this Event

Led by Nickeshia Garrick, this workshop will be an embodied exploration of the bonds that physically and emotionally bind lived experiences. This workshop speaks to the relationships in proximity to Blackness, which have unfortunately been forcibly bound to colonization, enslavement, and scarcity mindsets. However, the relationships we choose to build with ourselves and each other (within the diaspora) — despite these shared ancestral traumas and lived experiences — bond us in resilience, empathy, awareness, and a deep desire/need for love.

Participants are invited to explore these experiences and perceptions of the world through shared pasts and present connectivities or crossings. Together, participants will unearth their inner storyteller through embodied memories surrounding the five senses (touch, taste, smell, sight, and sound) by utilizing voice, body, pen, paper, and rope. Participants who have a movement-based practice or are looking to explore the use of movement and voice are encouraged to attend. However, no experience is necessary to attend this open workshop.

This program is co-produced with DanceWorks, as part of the DanceWorks Emerging-to-Mid-Career Fellowship, and dance Immersion.

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Doors: 12:40 PM | Starts: 1 PM | End: 3 PM

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