Create and Heal: The Art of Laughter

1165 Angelina St.,Austin TX 78702

09 December, 2021

Description

Join us for another session of Create & Heal: The Art of Laughter, featuring feature Black Comics, Activists, and Healers of Austin. This event will center on the healing Art of Laughter. Featured speakers include our MC, Rebecca Powe of Bridging the Gap, Activist Chas Moore of the Austin Justice Coalition, Mental Health Advocate Fabian Wood of the D Wood Foundation, and Psychotherapist Keisha Moore of Bridging the Gap, with a Ritual Invocation given by Iya Nailah I. Akinyémi-Sankofa and a live performance from Comedian Aaron Cheatham. Create and Heal is a program of the Carver Museum that focuses on helping our community process the continued state-sanctioned violence against Black and Brown People in the United State. Through this program, we partner with Austin-based artists and activists to provide workshops where participants can share their thoughts and feelings and create art. Through the preservation and exhibition of African American material culture, history, and aesthetic expression, the Carver Museum works to create a space where the global contributions of all Black people are celebrated. We accomplish this by telling stories about our local community and connecting those histories to larger narratives about Blackness.