SWANA COMMUNITY CREATIVE WORKSHOPS
Generative workshops for, by and with our community
bayt: spaces in-between home, homeland, & migrations
Facilitated by Andrea Shaker
February 24, 2024, 10am - 12pm, Sliding Scale Fee
A work-in progress reading and feedback session: Andrea will lead an audience engagement session with readings and image viewing from her in-process book of text and images. Workshop participants will leave with a copy of an in-process section of the book.
Foraging Stories: An Indigenous and Lebanese American Partnership
Facilitated by Lorie Haddad & April Smith
June 27, 2024, 5pm - 8pm, Suggested fee $30
In this workshop, community will forage for wild grape leaves on private land, and connect to stories from Lebanese and Native experiences. They will then cook the food in the traditional manner together.
Physicalizing Solidarity: Dancing Our Body-Homeland with Palestine
2-Part Workshop by Body Watani Dance led by Leila Awadallah and Noelle Awadallah
October 26th & November 16th, 2:00 - 4:00 PM
How do we decolonize our bodies with Palestine as our guide? In this 2 part workshop BWD invites you to move through an offering that holds space for anticolonial grief and rage (Palestine and beyond), and to explore strategies of physicalizing solidarity and healing that can weave our sacred roots and stories in nonverbal ways.