Gumbo YaYa Sista Circle for Women of the African Diaspora Continues~~~
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Greetings,
Gumbo YaYa/ or this is why we speak in tongues continues Jan. 18 at 3:00 pm. Please invite your mothers, grand mothers, daughters, and granddaughters, sisters, cousins, and sister friends to journey through Gumbo YaYa with you. We are located at 214 Broadway St. in Durham, NC at the Healing With CAARE facilities.
Please bring your children, as we will provide child care for you. Refreshments will also be provided.
Here are the specifics:
1. bring an item that you feel comfortable leaving in the sacred space during our time together.
2. wear clothes you are comfortable moving in.
3. bring your journal and your favorite pen
4. bring a picture of one of your sisters (spiritual, physical, or other wise)
Our Jan. 18 session will feature an interactive creative performance workshop led by Gumbo YaYa’s creative director, Ebony Noelle Golden.
Workshop Description- How are black women taught to sister? What are the some of the rites, rituals, and performances of sistering? How can we honor the space and practice of sistering? In this session, participants will engage in poetry, performance, music, and movement activities that help us create a vocabulary for active, present, and radical sistering.
The workshop is informed by the work and scholarship of Alice Coltrane, Romare Bearden, Ntozake Shange, Augosto Boal, Anna Deveare Smith, Nina Simone, Zora Neale Hurston, Soyini Madison, among others.