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

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

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$5

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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 cรณmo el arte puede usarse para para organizar hacia causas comunitarias y procesos de sanaciรณn. La sesiรณn se llevarรก a cabo con participantes de la organizaciรณn SISTA Fire y estรก abierta a mujeres BIPOC, femmes y personas no binaries que estรฉn involucrades en acciones comunitarias o interesades en cรณmo usar el arte para lograr impacto social. Tendremos un intercambio de experiencias, espacio para crear arte, y conversaremos sobre cรณmo usar arte como herramienta para potenciar acciones comunitarias.

About the artist/Sobre la artista

Shey ‘Rรญ Acu’ Rivera Rรญos (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 ‘Rรญ Acu’ Rivera Rรญos (elle) es artista interdisciplinarie con 12 aรฑos de experiencia en el sector de las artes con enfoque en el desarrollo comunitario y la justicia racial y de gรฉnero. Para Rivera, el arte y la cultura pueden catalizar el cambio social y la sanaciรณn colectiva a travรฉs de mรบltiples formas de narraciรณn para imaginar y realizar futuros justos y de abundancia.

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Venue

Join @rwpmuseum for a Winter Bird Walk Saturday morning at 10 AM! See wintering waterfowl and many more feathered friends during this guided walk. Tickets are $3 (register online). ๐Ÿฆ†

Canโ€™t make it tomorrow? Winter Bird Walks also take place February 14 and March 14!
Reserve your spot early for one of three free Mahjong for Beginners at RWP sessions this winter (January 15, February 26, or March 12)! Hosted by @thegildedbirds and taking place amid the greenery of @rwpbotanicalcenter, these beginners-only classes just might lead you to the discovery of your new favorite game! ๐Ÿ€„๐ŸŒฟ

Space is limited to 12 people per session; one session only per person. 

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