Workshop in the garden: Experimental Black Dance

5045 South Laflin Street,Chicago IL 60609

29 May, 2021

Description

In partnership with Music Moves Chicago at the Old Town School of Folk Music This event will be outdoors and in person at the Breathing Room Space & Su Casa garden, 5045 S Laflin. Masks required—please practice care for community. The Visualizing Breath (1:30-2:00PM) workshop will be led by Patricia Nguyen, artist, educator, and award-winning memorial designer for the Chicago Torture Justice Memorial, the first monument in the United States to honor survivors of police violence. Experimental Black Dance (2:00-4:00PM) engages participants in trauma-informed dance education, which uses movement to investigate historical pain and somatic memory in order to heal and construct wellness-centered perspectives. This session will offer a preview of a more extensive 8-week summer series we'll offer in partnership with Old Town School of Folk Music this June! Registration is donation-based and we warmly welcome all regardless of contribution. The event will stream live on Facebook and Youtube from the Chicago Torture Justice Center. Register to receive links and updates about this and other events! To donate to the Chicago Torture Justice Center, please click here!To donate to Chicago Torture Justice Memorials, please click here!Accessibility requests: Please reach out to Gina Tarullo at [email protected] with any accessibility requests and we will do our best to meet them. With thanks to our event partners: the Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation, the People's Law Office, #LetUsBreathe Collective, the Old Town School of Folk Music, and HotHouse Global.