Visions of M(other)ing through Radical Collaging

Who is this workshop for?

• Mamas and their children ages 5 years and up
• Childcare support provided for children younger than 5 years old (must RSVP, limited capacity)

Workshop Purpose/Intention:

This workshop invites us to visualize ourselves as mamas and in all of our complex and unique journies to healing and cycle breaking while raising children in worlds of possibility, where we create new ways of being in and with one another.

Overview:

• Prepare for some time to reflect, enjoy good music, and reminisce through photos of you and/or of you with your child(ren).
• You will collage with a self portrait, photos, and symbols that come to you.

No prior knowledge or skill required. Materials provided including a polaroid photo we will take at the gathering!

Checkin: 10-10:30am

Time for getting settled, mingling and getting yourself a donation-based beverage from our friends Coffee Bueno popup!

Agenda:

1. introduction/storytelling of Victoria's journey
2. guiding thorugh framework reflection
3. creative workshop and 30 mins of sharing

About the Artist Facilitator:

Victoria is 2nd generation Xicana from East San Jose with P’urhépecha, Huichol, Hopi and Arapaho roots. Victoria is a double Pisces who finds peace grounded in fluidity of life. She is the mama of three bold, determined, and fierce children who proudly know their Black and Brown roots. Victoria's inner child loves listening and dancing to 80s and 90s hip hop and r&b, painting and crafting and as a mama she loves sharing these with her little ones.

Victoria’s intersectional identities as mother, teacher, student, and activist is shaped by her homemade framework Mama Academic Liberatory Activista (MALA) Maintain hope Audacious Love Determination Restful resilience Emancipation (MADRE) a reclamation of what it means for Black, Indigenous, mothers of color to not adhere to the standards of white motherhood while raising children in times of state sanctioned violence and dehumanization.

Victoria is a lover of love, and is committed to cycle breaking, healing, and honoring radical joy. Decolonization, self-determination, and abolition have guided Victoria as a transformative educator of 17 years in learning and teaching through a deep knowledge of how to transcend the systems of oppression through creating another way, a way that centers collective care. Victoria loves collaging as a tribute to her 91 year old grandma who incorporates poetry as linguistic and cultural expressions and in lineage of Black Radical Imagination. Victoria’s workshop offering will include a variety of mediums of collaging in physical and digital art form to share hopes and visions of what it means to break from these systems and mother from a place of healing and transformation.

Follow Victoria on Instagram at @XingonaMalaMadre

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This project is sponsored by the San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs Creative Ambassador Program. The Creative Ambassadorship is made possible through the City of San Jose Office of Economic Development and Cultural Affairs with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Thank you to our fiscal sponsor and host Local Color!

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