A Day of Workshops in the Garden for Trans Art Fest

[Rain Date: May 10, 12-5 pm] Please note our rain date is on Mother's Day, but we would like to offer the workshops both as a space to gather for those who don't celebrate the day with family, as well as for mothers and their families to spend the day together.

Join Neptune in June for a day of workshops in the garden for Trans Art Fest! Featuring Body Talk: A Healing Movement Workshop led by ?Black Body Productions, Waste-Make: a reclaimed-pottery ?mosaic workshop led by Atlas Thomas, and We Give Us Our ?Flowers flower crown-making led by Cherokaree Tsalagi.

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is a festival dedicated to supporting, connecting, and celebrating trans artists. The event works to:

• Celebrate trans art and artists in galleries, art spaces, and streets
• Connect trans artists to NYC audiences, patrons, gallerists, and to each other
• Provide event space, promotion, and opportunities for trans artists
• Infuse NYC with more trans art & culture
• Connect trans artists of all kinds to each other to strengthen the web of community both within and beyond the art world

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(formerly Ice Cream Social art space) is a nomadic curatorial & community project originally based in Port Chester, NY. It offers exhibitions and interdisciplinary events across the U.S., and provides educational programs to schools throughout Westchester. It is also a co-founder and organizer of the Port Chester Arts Festival. Neptune in June connects artists across geographic and professional silos who are making ambitious, personally meaningful work that typically falls outside commercial art market interests.

Info: Body talking is a poetic approach to somatic healing grounded in creativity, mindfulness, movement, and more. Body Talking involves slow, progressive, somatic engagement with the nervous system (titration). We build intimacy with ourselves and one another through movement, art making, meditation, music, and self-Reiki. This event is focused on black, queer, and trans folk, especially artists, spiritualists, and educators, but is open to all who crave healing community space. For Black Body Productions' first outdoor Body Talk, the founder, Imani Noel, will incorporate sensory play and outdoor sculpture with movement.

Info: [DROP-IN] Things that have been broken still have value, and can be reused in some shape or form. 

Come learn the art of creating beauty with broken things in a reclaimed-pottery-mosaic-making workshop! Participants will be able to select a pre-made bisqueware base for their project, and the broken glazed ceramics for their patterns. The workshop will be spent designing a pattern and applying tiles to a dish or planter form, and then grouting between the tiles to produce a clean finished piece. Anyone may bring damaged ceramic or glass items that they wish to transform! Come with curiosity, and you will be provided instruction, inspiration, and materials to apply your own mosaic pattern to a piece of your choosing.

*This workshop requires a 1-hour drying window after gluing the tiles, before grout can be applied. Please arrive by 3:30 at the latest to ensure you have time to finish. Enjoy our other workshop (listed below) while your planter dries!

Info: [DROP-IN] We Give Us Our Flowers is a flower crown making experience embracing your new level of self awareness with grace and love. Transformations are when you unlearn something unhealthy or a pattern that maybe you recognized you want to change. This experience is you tending to your own crown garden. This process of self empowerment through self development is how we experience new levels of awareness. The flowers are symbolic of acknowledgement, giving us our own flowers for the inner work we have made within ourselves. The flowers we give ourselves will be the most important because they will always show us externally how much growth has happened internally. We Give Us Our Flowers honors the foundations we have instilled within ourselves, for ourselves. The Flower Crown Experience is the ascension you will cherish in times of remembrance. 

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