RECLAMATION: A Black Arts Gathering is a series of events for Black creatives and arts workers, centred around live performance presented by the Black Pledge Collective. Join in for over 6 days in Toronto, featuring workshops, performances and hang outs. There are amazing facilitators like Djanet Sears, Diane Roberts and Natasha Eck, Peter Bailey, Janelle Cooper, Velvet Wells, Alicia Richardson, and Nikola Steer to name a few, and free performances. The Black Pledge invites us to come together in joy toward our collective liberation.
No cost spots are available. Email ggrant@theblackpledge.ca for a promo code. Compassion funds, provided by Balancing Act are available for registered attendees – $50 toward child care, transport, and other care costs. Attendees can indicate they need it in the registration form.
Thursday, August 7 @ 10:30am
Wild Seed Centre for Art & Activism
24 Cecil Street, Toronto
Our Team: Diane Roberts and Natasha Eck
Arrivals Legacy Project’s Weaving New Legacies of Knowing
What are the legacies we carry in our mind, body and spirit? What legacies call us and what must we leave behind? This workshop invites you into an exploration of your root cultural voice, rhythm and performance. Through this offering you will be invited to enter an embodied self-reflexive moment to engage your culturally storied bodies in a dynamic dance between self and other. Join Arrivals Legacy Project AD Diane Roberts and co-facilitator Natasha Eck as they lead you through an embodied story-weaving process that explores ancestry as a jump-off point for creative expression.
Arrivals Alum Kamana Ntibarikure talks about her experiences with Arrivals Legacy Project in this two and a half minute clip from her series, Real Blackity Talk.