Writing Workshop: Walking Together: From Grief to Collective Liberation

"Walking Together: From Grief to Collective Liberation" is part of a series of events bringing BIPOC artists and writers together.
About this Event

"Walking Together: From Grief to Collective Liberation" is a writing workshop created out of personal and collectives losses, for BIPOC artists and writers to come together to process individual and collective grief in community.

Using art and writing as tools in an expression of love, Eddie Garcia, in partnership with Houston Writers of Color and the Houston Climate Justice Museum, will hold space for folks to hold one another and move through grief toward dismantling systems that keep us grieving in private and alone, metabolizing that grief toward practices rooted in healing, joy, and collective liberation. Honoring relatives whose lives have been cut short by the extreme violence of colonization and who have transitioned has always been a collective tradition toward healing.

This event series will center that tradition so BIPOC artists can learn together and carry the practices back to their communities.

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR

Eddie Garcia, aka Inspires (he/him), First Resident Artist-in-Community at the Houston Climate Justice Museum:

‍Eddie Garcia is an interdisciplinary community collaborative artist and producer. His heritage includes the ancient original People of what is known as Texas and surrounding areas. Eddie's creative arts inspire normalizing respect and protecting our natural native habitats, all living species and everyone’s Humyn rights. His career includes spoken word poetry, theater acting, storytelling, photography, videography, murals, banner making, writing, as well as co-producing festivals, concerts and co-curating multimedia arts events. He's currently co-producing a short film with an environmental theme that he'll reveal soon.

SPONSOR

Thank you to Voqal Partners for their support.