This workshop is by invitation only.
As part of its ongoing partnership with FAILSPACE, CPR will host the third and final gathering of Creating/Conjuring/Covenant: A Convergence of Raucous Embodiments by/for BIQTPOC Qwitches, which is facilitated by mayfield brooks and Estrellx through the FAILSPACE 2021 Mentorship Program.
mayfield and Estrellx have initiated a BIQTPOC Coven, inviting BIPOC and BIQTPOC folks into a series of effervescent encounters. we will take time to tune in, gather our energies, and set intentions for the year ahead. we will use our different & intersecting creative practices, to replenish ourselves, reflect, renew. and restore throughout the December 2021 moon cycle. we will offer BIQTPOC-centered somatic explorations, share embodied research, have conversations on lineage, land, love, intimacy, collectivity, abundance/scarcity, labor & inheritance and other topics as they come up from within the group.
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CPR supports the work of mayfield brooks and Estrellx in relationship with FAILSPACE. We encourage you to read the following from mayfield brooks, and to consider contributing Reparations to support mayfield and Estrellx’s restorative and healing work with these BIPOCIA & QTPOCIA artists:
”I don't know about you, but lately I've been exhausted. For me, the task becomes how to rest, repair and regenerate in a moment where we are being asked to balance urgency with slowness. I am continually seeking and learning how to thrive in a world that is gorgeous and giving and at the same time violent and aggressive within the human-made apparatus of militarized capitalism. It is indeed a balancing act to be an artist in these times. It is even more of a balancing act to be an artist of color who may be femme, queer, non binary, disabled, Black, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Latinx (and other queers & folks of color who may not fit into those categories). So in my role as a mentor for FAILSPACE, I decided to collaborate with my mentee, Estrellx, and put out a call to other BIPOCIA & QTPOCIA folks to CONJURE our own healing in these precarious times.
In order to make this happen we wanted to remove all financial constraints and offer a free series of workshops. In order to do this, we are asking for REPARATIVE FUNDING to cover 10 BIPOCIA & QTPOCIA artists to be able to participate in this work for free. We are asking for Reparations, not Donations. We are hoping that this work can grow from 10 to 100 artists in the future and that the magic we create from what we are calling our "Inaugural Qwitch BIPOCIA/QTPOCIA Convening" can have space to breathe and grow. We need to raise $2,500 to support the presence of the 10 BIPOCIA & QTPOCIA artists at these workshops, but welcome more funds to support the work of Estrellx and I, directly, as we share our practices of improvising while black, decomposing dance, attunement, quebrantamiento to renew/restore our bodies, and creating rage rooms against the machine where we get vulnerable, messy, honest, and raw.”
Contribute Reparations through FAILSPACE via PayPal.