THE BLACKWOMXNHEALING REUNION EXHIBITION SERIES

Schedule

Fri Jun 02 2023 at 05:00 pm to 08:00 pm

Location

Agency Oakland | Oakland, CA

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a home/coming for homegirls we heal with; an invitation to black womxn +our loved ones to celebrate everyday BlackFeminist artistry +healing
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*PAINTING BY: MAMA MURALISTA, INEZ INOK'T

THE BLACKWOMXNHEALING REUNION IS A HOME/COMING FOR THE HOMEGIRLS WE HEAL WITH.

we invite black womxn + our loved ones to celebrate our everyday roun the way Black feminist healing arts through a series of gatherings that feature 100+ artworks for us, by us, unapologetically.

MAY 13 | MAY 31 | JUNE 2 | JUNE 3


*event specific details below.

BLACKWOMXNHEALING & #BLACKGIRLQUARANTINE

blackwomxnhealing is an intergenerational healing arts collective that hosts biennial exhibitions for and by Black women.

in 2021, we curated #: an exhibition of blackwomxnhealing in the wake of 2020 virtuallly due to the COVID-19 quarantine.

our 2023 exhibition series features an in-person installations of #blackgirlquarantine as the backdrop for community healing events that invite Black women and our loved ones into celebration, restoration, creativity and healing.


*for more information on blackwomxnhealing, visit blackwomxnhealing.com, and to view the virtual exhibition, visit blackwomxnhealing.com/blackgirlquarantine.


I. THE #BLACKGIRLQUARANTINE EXHIBITION OPENING NIGHT
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*COLLAGE BY: COURTNEY LETT



JUNE 2 | 5:00 - 10:00 PST | AGENCY OAKLAND

2150 Livingston Street Oakland, CA 94606


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MUSIC | JOY | ART | HEALING

The #BLACKGIRLQUARANTINE Exhibition Opening Night is the first in-person exhibition installation of #blackgirlquarantine, featuring 100+ artworks for and by black womxn from the COVID-19 pandemic.

with free food, good art + good vibes, this gathering invites community to celebrate the everyday roun the way Black feminist healing arts of Black women who used our creativity to tell stories of survival amidst pandemic times.

on opening night, we extend a special invitation to our folks + our allies to celebrate and invest in Black women’s art.

come prepared to dance to DJ Ignacia's turn table set, eat some yummy treats from Oaklandia, offer up prayers and libations for our ancestors, and purchase from your favorite Black women-owned healing-centered vendors. it will be an evening you don’t want to miss!

*this is a family friendly gathering, and our allies are encouraged to join us!

we'll see you soon, family!!


II. HOME/COMING: THE RETREAT FOR HOMEGIRLS WE HEAL WITH
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JUNE 3rd | 1:00 - 5:00 + 5:00 - 9:00 | AGENCY OAKLAND

2150 Livingston Street Oakland, CA 94606


*FOR SELF-IDENTIFIED BLACK WOMEN + BLACK WOMXN + BLACK WOMYN ONLY


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SOUND BATHS | SISTERHOOD | SACRED ARTS

free food + good music + good art + good vibes



HOME/COMING: FOR THE HOMEGIRLS WE HEAL WITH is an immersive, interactive, and embodied healing offering for black womxn + black womyn + black women only.

this day-long gathering invites black womxn into collective healing and communal care, to experience an array of healing arts within the comfort of sacred sisterhood.

with a focus on somatic, spiritual, and ancestral healing, we make room for all the ways that our wellness wants to take form - from twerk church dance classes to sound baths and sister circles.

it is our hope that Black women feel nurtured, held, seen and affirmed, and walk away with an expanded understanding of how to incorporate Black Feminist Healing Arts into our everyday lives, no matter where we are on your healing journey.


HOME/COMING will take place within the #blackgirlquarantine exhibition installation, an exhibit featuring 100+ works for and by Black women from across the country. this exhibit invites Black women into grief work, ancestral ritual, inner child reclamation, and embodied healing. with three exhibition-focused events leading up to the finale, HOME/COMING will be the culmination of our collective healing season.

*all self-identified black womxn + black women + black womyn are invited to join. we welcome all folks who identify as a part of the diaspora of Black womxnhood, (as coined by Ramona Webb), in all the expansive and varying ways that our identites exist, flourish, and thrive in community.

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*This day long retreat will happen in two parts. You may register for Part One: Homegirl Sanctuary, Part Two: Black Girl Slumber Party, or both. While we encourage folks to attend all day to get the full experience, we honor folks' need to partake in the hal-day experience if need be.


ABOUT OUR HEALING ARTISTS

Brittany Tanner is a musical artist, mother and serial entrepreneur based in the Bay Area. All of her enterprises center the enrichment of community through healing arts. She is the founder of The Song Remedy, a collective of Black and Brown women-identified educators and facilitators cultivating sacred spaces for communities to heal from oppression individually, interpersonally and institutionally through rituals, song, affirmations work, critical consciousness development, and bearing witness to collective struggle and healing. Every session is intended to be accessible for community members, educators, caregivers, and families seeking social, emotional, and spiritual support to combat the spirit-murdering we experience ranging from the violence of carceral schooling, education organizing shaped by white supremacy culture, community violence exacerbated by systemic displacement, disinvestment, and incarceration, or the everyday indignities that BIPOC face navigating a society shaped by oppression.

Brittany is also a member of Emmy award winning group SOL Development, a hip-hop/soul/jazz ensemble and a founding artist of the powerful healing collective BE-IMAGINATIVE collective of artists, healers, and community leaders who are dedicated to healing our black and brown communities through multidimensional storytelling. She’s performed with the likes of artists such as India Arie, opened for Monica, sung with Robert Glasper and D Smoke. She’s been highlighted in publications like KQED, Okay player, The Root, SF Chronicles and had appearances on the World Channel, MLK NOW Revolt TV and curated multiple series of healing events. Through all of her endeavors, she uses her voice, her talents and her vision as a healing agent for herself, her family and her larger community.

@brittctan/ thesongremedy.com


Shirley Johnson - Based in Oakland, CA by way of The Bronx, NY, Shirley has alchemized fifteen years experience of exploration of self and specialized training in astrology, energy work, psychology and yoga into a passionate profession: restoring intimacy and vulnerability in the collective conscious through community building and healing.

Shirley is a sought after speaker for various events and training on mental health and wellness, intimacy, and race. She is also a contributor and lead trainer to yoga teacher trainings based around the country. In her private practice, Shirley works with adults and couples and specializes in codependency recovery, communication, intimacy, and vulnerability, especially in Black women.


Aima Paule is an Oakland, CA based multimedia artist in music, installation art, graphic art, videos, and poetry. Aima is deeply inspired by survival and “thrival” techniques through artistic commentary and expression that they, themself, and their community use to navigate systems of oppression. Aima’s art is also inspired by how we keep and express our joy and love, highlighting the truths of our struggles.


Ramona Laughing Webb is an Afro-Creek Muskogee Queer teaching and performing artist. Mona is the first Poet-in-Residence in the National Center of Excellence In Women’s Health, the Black Women's Health and Livelihood Initiative and the Black Wellness Center at the University of California San Francisco, working at the intersections of art integration into healthcare practices, cultural change and racial health disparities.

Ramona is a conservatory-trained artist who writes and performs in “docu-ritual-drama” theater. "Latimer Lights" (working title) is her current poetic performance piece, it chronicles the life, legacy, and poetry of Lewis Howard Latimer inventor of the permanent carbon filament of the light bulb. Ramona’s pronouns are she, her, them, and they.

Twerk Church - Free The Cheeks is a high energy Twerk class designed to empower women. The focus is on creating a safe environment where women can support one another & are FREE from the social stigmas placed on twerking & on our sexuality. Free The Cheeks focuses on the booty & yoni & ways to giggle, gyrate & ASSolate (isolate) the cheeks simultaneously unlocking the Power & Magic located within a woman by embracing her sensuality.



III. BLACK MUSIC, FEMINIST MEDICINE: HOW SONIC HEALING ARTS SAVED US
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MAY 13 | 1:00 - 4:00 PST | MUSEUM OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA (MoAD)

685 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94105




*CLICK HERE TO FINALIZE YOUR REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT
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Black Music, Feminist Medicine is the #blackgirlquarantine Pop-Up Exhibition + Sonic Artist Talk.

Hosted at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco, California, this gathering features an in-person pop-up installation of the #blackgirlquarantine exhibition, alongside an intimate artist talk and live performances by Destiny Muhammad and the ladies of SOL Development (Brittany Tanner, SoLauren Adams, and Felicia Gangloff-Bailey. By honoring Black feminist music as medicine, and affirming that music is an essential mode of knowledge production, this gathering makes room for Black women to be heard through sacred storytelling, testimonial witnessing, and sonic healing arts.


ABOUT THE PANELISTS

Destiny Muhammad is a Recording/ Performing Artist | Band Leader | Composer & Producer. Her genre Celtic to Coltrane is cool and eclectic with a feel of Jazz & storytelling to round out the sonic experience. Destiny has curated concerts for Grace Cathedral Christmas Concert Series, SFJAZZ Tribute to Jazz Harp Legend Alice Coltrane, S F Symphony SOUNDBOX Series featured guest for GRAMMY Winner Kanye West ‘Sunday Service’, shared the stage with Jazz Masters Marcus Shelby, Omar Sosa, Blue Note Artist Ambrose Akisemuire and Azar Lawrence to name a few. She has headlined The Healdsburg Jazz Festival, Sunday’s in the Redwoods Concert, Seattle’s Fest Sundiata ButcherTown Jazz Fest. Destiny is The Healdsburg Jazz Festival 2022 Artist in Residence Guest Workshop Presenter for Amateur Music Network. Destiny is Governor Emeritus and Educational Chair Emeritus of the Recording Academy, ASCAP Songwriter Awardee, California Entertainers Music Awards Female Jazz Artist of the Year Winner, SFJAZZ Teaching Artist, Bay Area Jazz and Blues Award Winner (BAJABA) and RaiseKarma Virtual Residency Alum.


@harpistfromthehood / destinymuhammad.net


Brittany Tanner is a musical artist, mother and serial entrepreneur based in the Bay Area. All of her enterprises center the enrichment of community through healing arts. She is the founder of The Song Remedy, a collective of Black and Brown women-identified educators and facilitators cultivating sacred spaces for communities to heal from oppression individually, interpersonally and institutionally through rituals, song, affirmations work, critical consciousness development, and bearing witness to collective struggle and healing. Every session is intended to be accessible for community members, educators, caregivers, and families seeking social, emotional, and spiritual support to combat the spirit-murdering we experience ranging from the violence of carceral schooling, education organizing shaped by white supremacy culture, community violence exacerbated by systemic displacement, disinvestment, and incarceration, or the everyday indignities that BIPOC face navigating a society shaped by oppression.


Brittany is also a member of Emmy award winning group SOL Development, a hip-hop/soul/jazz ensemble and a founding artist of the powerful healing collective BE-IMAGINATIVE collective of artists, healers, and community leaders who are dedicated to healing our black and brown communities through multidimensional storytelling. She’s performed with the likes of artists such as India Arie, opened for Monica, sung with Robert Glasper and D Smoke. She’s been highlighted in publications like KQED, Okay player, The Root, SF Chronicles and had appearances on the World Channel, MLK NOW Revolt TV and curated multiple series of healing events. Through all of her endeavors, she uses her voice, her talents and her vision as a healing agent for herself, her family and her larger community.


@brittctan/ thesongremedy.com


SoLauren Adams is an Emmy award winning artist from San Francisco, CA. She is a singer, songwriter, and producer, a proud graduate of Hampton University, and an even prouder Black native of San Francisco. She has seventeen years of experience teaching Music & Theater to students of all ages, and she recently released two solo albums in the summer of 2020. Her musical gifts shine and heal in her role as the Music & Arts Director at The Way Berkeley, and as a co-facilitator & member of Emmy Award winning collectives, SOL Development, & BE-IMAGINATIVE.


@solauren/ solaurenmusic.com


Felicia Gangloff-Bailey is an Angel Mother, Author, and the cofounder of SOL Affirmations, a multi medium providing tools, experiences, and products for self-reflection and the exploration of grief as Love. A graduate of Howard University, Felicia earned her PhD in Educational Psychology. Her research focused on racial socialization messages in hip-hop music and their relationship to African American college students racial identity and achievement motivation. Felicia is also a member of the hip hop, jazz, and soul ensemble, SOL Development and a member of BE-IMAGINATIVE Collective that supports Black and Brown communities through multidimensional story telling of Mothers who have lost children to gun violence. She currently is a data collection and analysis collaborator with Digital Organizing Power-Building and Engagement (DOPE) Labs, and is the cohost of the twice AMBIE nominated podcast SOL Affirmations with Karega and Felicia on the Black Love Podcast Network. Her latest release is SOL Affirmations: A toolkit for Mothers investigating grief's process. She is from Sacramento, California, has a Bachelor's of Arts in Music Education from Hampton University.


@fefemonique/ SolandLove.com


IV. EVERYDAY BLACK FEMINIST ART MAKING IN PANDEMIC TIMES
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MAY 31 | 5:00 - 6:00 PST | VIA ZOOM
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Everyday Black Feminist Art Making in Pandemic Times is the #blackgirlquarantine Virtual Artist Talk.

Hosted virtually, this panel offers audiences an inside look into the #blackgirlquarantine virtual exhibition alongside an intimate dialouge with featured visual artists Lizette London and Jessica Allen.


ABOUT THE PANELISTS

Lizette London (formerly Terry) is a researcher, visual artist, and community organizer from New York. She is a proud Black feminist artist and daughter of two dreamers: mother emigrating from the city center of Manila, Philippines, and father, hailing from the American South. Liz’s love for Black feminist visual art and cultural studies, image-making, and community comes from her love for the archives and temporality. She is most interested in crafting stories that focus on the journeys of Black women and girl protagonists who must deal with the present, past, and future socio-economic-cultural climates of the world using magic and ancestral wisdom whether it be intuitive or skillfully learned. Liz earned her MA in Black Feminist Visual Arts and Cultural Studies from NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study in 2020 and her BA in Comparative Women’s Studies from Spelman College in 2017. While completing her Master’s Thesis from 2018-2020, Liz had the great honor and privilege of TA’ing for Deborah Willis and Spike Lee. Lizette most recently worked as a Researcher and Director’s Assistant on Spike Lee’s HBO NYC Documentary NYC EPICENTERS 9/11➔2021½. Following that project, Lizette worked as an Associate Producer on an indie music doc.


Jessica Allen is a doula, artist, and visionary with a relentless determination to ignite families towards large-scale revolution and intergenerational healing. As a first-generation college student, she is studying Human Geography and African-American studies at UC Berkeley with a commitment to researching black genealogies, the science of epigenetics, and the racialization of poverty and location. Jessica Allen’s leadership has been immense in the UC Berkeley community and the local Bay Area. Currently, she is an executive board member of nonprofit (SFWAR) San Francisco Women Against Rape and a Peter E. Haas Service Leader, which includes her community service project of leading pregnancy and parenting support groups to local Bay Area communities. Through offering community love and care in her doula work, she has proudly supported over a hundred births in her community and addressed chronic stress, social isolation, and emotional hardship within her practice. She has been in service to San Francisco Bay Area’s most disenfranchised populations (LGBTQ youth, formerly incarcerated people, and women’s reproductive health) for over a decade.


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