Where:
The Democracy Center
45 Mount Auburn St
Cambridge, MA 02138
Admission:
Unknown
Categories:
Art, Date Idea, Kid Friendly, LGBT, Lectures & Conferences, Meetup, Social Good, University
Event website:
bit.ly/xplicitcare
Pampi, the Democracy Center's first ever Artist in Residence, offers this workshop series applying the expressive arts for building communities of care and our own self-care practices. LUNCH PROVIDED.
REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://goo.gl/forms/q8Ai2nEtMs02cAay2
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Why self care in community? We must always integrate care of self with care for community. Who holds us up?
Why explicit care? We must explicitly center self care in community for our collective wellbeing to manifest and flourish!
Sunday, 4/23, 12 pm - 2 pm
Developing a Habit of Care
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Sunday, 5/7, 12 pm - 2 pm
Unpacking Attachment and Security
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Sunday, 5/21, 12 pm - 2 pm
Vision, Manifest, Worldbuild
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By registering and pledging to put these workshop times on your calendar and attending them regularly you will be acknowledging the artist's labor and dedication to community work and supporting the center for offering this workshop series for FREE. We invite you in this exercise of holding space in community.
If you have means, by all means! Please help Pampi earn a living wage by mini-commissioning their creative work (suggested donation $30-$60 for 3 hour self care workshops); no one turned away due to inability to pay.
We will seek childcare, language (including ASL) interpretation, and other accommodations upon request.
All information will be kept confidential to event organizers.
NOTE The Democracy Center is not wheelchair accessible: there are 8 steep steps to get in the front door. Please contact [email protected] or 617 492 8855 to discuss improvement plans or your accessibility needs.
BIO A near-20 year settler-resident of Massachuset and Wompanoag territories - the so-called greater Boston area - Pampi is a darker skinned gender non-conforming second genx casteD Bengali (S. Asian) person who acknowledges their complicity in erasing people who may identify as Afro and Asian and continued participation in anti-black anti-Dalit and anti-indigenous infrastructures, benefiting from so-called US birth privileges and a middle class upbringing, which allowed them access to matriculation from a recognized magnet public HS and an elite engineering school, among much other support. They have protectionist living parents who adore them and therefore struggle to understand and support them. They have endured childhood and workplace bullying, domestic and sexual violence, and struggle with mental and physical illness. Pampi is committed to channeling whatever resources they have access to for visioning with communities in love and liberation, breaking the numbing isolation that too is genocide. As a culture worker who flourishes the intersection of culture, social justice, healing and education, they help develop community-centered art that aims to release creative potential and drive collective change-making.