This virtual program facilitated by Jasmine Hayden is for creatives, allies, and change-makers who are ready to deeply engage with a highly interactive transformational process to embody a regenerative personal and professional lifestyle and practice. Explorations will include mindfulness as activism, intersectional social justice, physical embodiment as anti-oppression work, and creative liberation. We will be re-imagining our current society through an innovative immersion of modern (virtual) and ancient (bodily wisdom) technology.
Thriving Change-Makers will take place over the course of 7 weekends from May to June. Each session will be interwoven with a through line of creative expression, personal transformation, and collective healing, with an intersectional activist framework comprising of:
Anti-Racism
Class & Community
Anti-Oppressive Strategy
Ablism & The Body
Gender & Sexuality
Ecofeminism
Environmental Justice
Each session will include:
Mindfulness through breath and body connection
Education, investigation, exploration through conversation, games, and exercises
Expansive co-creation & play
Action-orientation activation
What you will get:
Deeper authenticity and integrity out of your creative, personal, and professional practice
Knowledge by experts on Anti-Racism, Class-Oppression, Gender & Sexuality, and Environmental Justice, AND how you can live EMPOWERED in your agency
Drastic increase in social awareness and regenerative living
Body Awareness and Mindfulness Techniques to apply to your health and well-being
Creative inspiration and collaboration with a group of powerful change-makers
An innovative virtual experience unique to other workshop spaces (no zoom room here!)
The push, accountability, & challenge to think of your creative practice and activism more intentionally
A brave space for transformative healing and engagement
There will be 7 guest BIPOC speakers & educators throughout the course of the program. Explore the weekly break down of the sessions here.
Jasmine Hayden is a CultureHub Resident Curator (2020-2021). Learn more about her work in the residency program here.
Participants will embark on a transformative empowerment journey of 3 hour playshop sessions (5-8pm EDT/2-5pm PDT) on the following dates and must be able to attend the entirety of the program:
Sunday, May 2, 2021
Sunday, May 9, 2021
Saturday, May 15, 2021
Sunday, May 23, 2021
Sunday, May 30, 2021
Saturday, June 5, 2021
Sunday, June 13, 2021
5-8pm EDT / 2-5pm PDT
Full Program Cost: $375
If you are unable to afford the full program cost, there are scholarships available for members of the BIPOC community here.
Registration closes April 30, 2021.
Dr. Daphnie Sicre (she/her/ella) is an assistant professor at Loyola Marymount University, where she teaches directing, Latinx theatre and theatre for social change. She shares a deep passion for discovering multiple Latinx and African-American perspectives in theatre. Focusing on Afro-Latinx performance, she completed her Ph.D. at NYU. She’s written multiple publications and her chapters can be found in The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance and Black Acting Methods to name a few. Engaging in anti-racist and cultural competent theatre practices, Daphnie facilitates Theatre of the Oppressed workshops remixed with Hip Hop Pedagogy to teach about equity, diversity and inclusion in theatre. When she is not writing, teaching, or conducting workshops, she can be found directing or serving as a dramaturge.
Shaina Simmons (she/her) is a multi-hyphenate artist. Her work seeks to inspire healing within the past, present, and future realities of the Black diaspora. By using personal experience as an organic archaeology to provide insight into the history of race in America. Shaina employs theater, dance, multimedia, song, and a multitude of art forms in her process. At the interstice of activism and performative praxis, Shaina’s work highlights and heals Black women. The artist earned her MFA in Acting from the California Institute of the Arts. She is currently studying to receive her MFA in Social and Environmental Practice at Prescott College. @theshainalynn
Andrea Ambam (she/her) is a politically-engaged performance artist who interrogates the art’s potential for movement-building, truth telling, and transformative justice. Holding a master's degree in Art and Public Policy from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Andrea uses the manipulation of time, poetic text and ethnographic material to write and perform stories where Black identity fills, overwhelms, and disrupts the center. She has developed her practice as an Artist-in-Residence for Anna Deavere Smith and as an EmergeNYC fellow at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. She is currently developing her debut one woman show as an inaugural Artivism Fellow with Broadway Advocacy Coalition. @andreaambam // www.andreaambam.com
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Jen Katshunga (they/theirs/elles) is a Baluba-diasporic interdisciplinary artist, writer, researcher and cultural worker raised and based in Tkaronto/Treaty 13 (Toronto). In their expansive approaches to making: painting, writing, photography and performance, their work is invested in liberation and justice focusing on genders and sexualities, memory, space and healing as conduits for these explorations. Jen’s art-making and cultural work is a testament of the many body knowledges they encompass as a storyteller and aspiring healer. Jen is an incoming doctoral student in York University’s Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies program.
JP/ Themme (They/Them) is a Nuero Divergent Diasporic Street Scholar, Cultural Worker, and organizer born and raised on Lenape Land, presently known as NYC. They engage in TGNC/SWer Centered Advocacy work, and consulting. Their work focuses on collaboratively building towards a world with self determination and care for all Trans Folx. They do Gender and Body Affirming Drag as "Themme", while engaging in active care work and support roles for folx, and causes in their community. They currently sit on the Board of CKlife with their Mentor Kim Watson, while doing freelance art and consulting work. @ReinaProjectny @ReinaHealing_
Photo by Gaspar Marquez