From Our Mothers to Our Motherlands: Reclaiming the Sewing Circle

As the bedrock of our culture, let's tackle Womxn’s mental health, using a healthy, multicultural environment, where marginalized cultures are centered, interdisciplinary arts practices are utilized to process and engage and social work support is available and encouraged as we spend a day together in the equality and structural resilience of the conversational crafting circles that have borne humanity’s oral history and have been as important to liberation as creating the quilts that held maps to the Underground Railroad. Positive possibilities for solutions to multiple contemporary challenges are set to emerge through our discourse and art created, dispelling patriarchal hierachal structures in exchange for respect for our mutual expertise and our diverse and accepting camaraderie.

BELOW ARE CLIPS FROM 6 OF OUR NYSCA, Stony Brook Medicine and Private FUNDED EVENTS FROM 2023

All our collaborators are celberated in the video.

2024

FROM OUR MOTHERS TO OUR MOTHERLANDS: RECLAIMING THE SEWING CIRCLE

Includes 𝓐𝓻𝓽 𝓔𝔁𝓱𝓲𝓫𝓲𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 & 𝓐𝓾𝓬𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷

And Historical Multicultural Vendor Town Circle-𝚒𝚗𝚏𝚘 𝚝𝚘 𝚌𝚘𝚖e

Artist/ Circle Facilitators/𝙿𝚎𝚛𝚏𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎s

Breakfast & Lunch Served

𝓢𝔂𝓶𝓹𝓸𝓼𝓲𝓾𝓶

• Dr.Nichelle Rivers NiRi Art—Artivist, Art Therapist, Fiber Arts and Historical Artivism

• Terri Ann- Poet and Social Worker, Surviving Patriarchy

• Stephanie Anne- Fiber Arts/ Knitting and Social Worker--Social Knitwork--Affirming chatting & sensory breaks

• Kyle Royce—Men's Circle Workship & Piano and Vocals

∙ Danielle Davis-Opera

• Daemond Ardinell—Men's Circle Workshop, Poet and Teaching Artist

∙ Cassandra Skolnik-The Olympics Circles of inclusion. Breaking stereotypes of Transwomen': and ciswomen's bodies andvabilities.

• Anu Annam-"Get Ready witg me!"makeup and garland-making

∙Meet CirclecArtists--Robyn Bellospirtlito @ more TBA

∙ Meet OASIS, NOW & SEA Mixer.Teens looking for professional mentees are encouraged to attend.

𝓒𝓮𝓵𝓮𝓫𝓻𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 Catered by Curry Club At SaGhar--our longtime Food Sponsor--More TBA

• Maria Tegzes Trio

• Sonali Skandan Bhatatanatyam Dancr

• @Oya Bangura (@ProjectMOVENY)—Drum

N Dance

• rorie kelly—Singer-Songwriter

• Margarita Espada (Teatro Yerbabruja inc.) & Dance Troupe

𝓢𝓹𝓮𝓬𝓲𝓪𝓵 𝓣𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓴𝓼 𝓣𝓸:

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚗𝚎𝚠 𝙴𝚡𝚎𝚌𝚞𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚍 𝙳𝚒𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚆𝚊𝚕𝚝𝚑 𝚆𝚑𝚒𝚝𝚖𝚊𝙽 𝙱𝚒𝚛𝚝𝚑𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚛 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚒𝚗𝚟𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚞𝚜

𝚏𝚘𝚛 Suffolk County Economic Development & Planning, New York State Council on the Arts/ New York Foundation for the Arts, National Guild for Community Arts Education 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚘 𝚒𝚖𝚙𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚕𝚢 Museum Hue _ Colorful. Cultured. Cool...𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚋𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚕𝚎 𝚝𝚞𝚐𝚋𝚘𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍.

𝓣𝓲𝓬𝓴𝓮𝓽𝓼 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓢𝔂𝓶𝓹𝓸𝓼𝓲𝓾𝓶:

ADVANCE DISCOUNT TICKETS (until Sept 10th, additional 15% off):

GENERAL: Symposium $30, Celebration & Fundraiser $20, both $40

ARTIST: Symposium $ 30, Celebration & Fundraiser $20, both $40

DISABLED/ELDERS: Symposium $20, Celebration & Fundraiser $15, both $40

Z Ticket (Teens): $5 each

FREE need-based SCHOLARSHIPS please inquire at [email protected]. Subject Line: Scholarships

DOOR:

Symposium $35, Celebration & Fundraiser $25

𝓕𝓸𝓻 𝓶𝓸𝓻𝓮 𝓘𝓝𝓕𝓞𝓡𝓜𝓐𝓣𝓘𝓞𝓝 𝓪𝓷𝓯 𝓣𝓞 𝓓𝓞𝓝𝓐𝓣𝓔 𝓽𝓸 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓕𝓤𝓝𝓓𝓡𝓐𝓘𝓢𝓔𝓡.

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