People’s Creative Workshop: A Soft Fire, Art + Healing

October 9, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

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This is a conversation-based and hands-on workshop about how art can be used for community healing and organizing toward community causes. The session will be held with current and new SISTA Fire members and is open to BIPOC women, femmes, and nonbinary people who are engaged in community organizing or interested in social practice art. We will exchange how we use art for healing and organizing, will engage in hands-on artmaking, and will talk through how to use art in upcoming community actions.

Este taller exploraremos cΓ³mo el arte puede usarse para para organizar hacia causas comunitarias y procesos de sanaciΓ³n. La sesiΓ³n se llevarΓ‘ a cabo con participantes de la organizaciΓ³n SISTA Fire y estΓ‘ abierta a mujeres BIPOC, femmes y personas no binaries que estΓ©n involucrades en acciones comunitarias o interesades en cΓ³mo usar el arte para lograr impacto social. Tendremos un intercambio de experiencias, espacio para crear arte, y conversaremos sobre cΓ³mo usar arte como herramienta para potenciar acciones comunitarias.

About the artist/Sobre la artista

Shey ‘RΓ­ Acu’ Rivera RΓ­os (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist with 12 years of experience in the arts sector with a strong focus on community development and racial and gender justice. They believe art and culture can be catalysts for social change and collective healing by using multiple forms of storytelling to imagine and realize futures of justice and abundance.
Shey ‘RΓ­ Acu’ Rivera RΓ­os (elle) es artista interdisciplinarie con 12 aΓ±os de experiencia en el sector de las artes con enfoque en el desarrollo comunitario y la justicia racial y de gΓ©nero. Para Rivera, el arte y la cultura pueden catalizar el cambio social y la sanaciΓ³n colectiva a travΓ©s de mΓΊltiples formas de narraciΓ³n para imaginar y realizar futuros justos y de abundancia.

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