Mamá Spa Botánica workshop SAGE Sculpture & Photography Workshop Thurs November 18 ,11am-1pm @ Bronx River Art Center
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Mamá Spa Botánica workshop
SAGE lgbtqia+ community Sculpture & Photography Workshop
Thursday November 18 ,11am-1pm
@ Bronx River Art Center 1087 East Tremont Ave Bronx, NY 10460
Mama Spa Botanica is a reproductive justice care workshop created by and for non-binary procreative communities of color to heal and navigate the reproductive health crisis in America. Culture is full spectrum medicine in a femilia multisensory salon where matriarchal resistance traditions are celebrated from biological to biographical interdependence and wellness traditions that strengthen our reproductive community's health. Centering BIPOC families (chosen and inherited), the workshop invites SAGE members of the LGBTQIA+ community to collaborate in a free hands-on documentary photography and sculpture casting workshop. To visualize our colorful care support system, workshop participants will make plaster “mother molds” of their faces and hands to engage their embodied wisdom and critical perspectives on transcending trauma while celebrating their matrilineal traditions. Healing rituals are exchanged with reproductive health advocates ranging from community organizers and artists. The sculptures and photographs will join maternal figures in artist Coralina Rodriguez Meyer’s immersive installation at BRAC. Participants will reclaim their work as mementos for future agency building when the exhibition ends on December 12, 2021.
SAGE participants will explore identity constructions within the LGBTQIA+ BIPOC reproductive health community by creating self portraits in a physical and emotional safe space at BRAC’s Mamá Spa Botánica. Celebrating our queer resistance mythologies, survival skills and community building traditions, the workshop will digitally and sculpturally archive participant’s wisdom by filming conversations, photographing retablo portraiture and casting their faces or hands to join the immersive retablos at BRAC. Critiquing and transcending inherited structures of violence that traumatize LGBTQIA+ community’s reproductive health, participants will identify, celebrate and pass on their survival support traditions to future generations of nonbinary youth, elders and ancestors.
RSVP & Free Tix open to all SAGE LGBTQIA+ members
Honoring NYC's beloved trans activist Mama Lorena Borjas, the workshop will envision a monument to House Mothers whose legacy survives in our every-day rituals that resist binary definitions of motherhood. Lorena's tragic passing during the pandemic reminds us that the void mutual aid workers and community organizers leave behind is an invitation to heal and celebrate our traditions with radical acts of non-binary citizenship. A beautiful bio and aural memorial of Lorena is available on NPR Latino podcast. https://www.latinousa.org/2021/05/28/lorenasalcance/
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