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Day 14 (Week 2, Day 7)
Day 14 (Week 2, Day 7)
Marjani Fortè
Marjani Fortè
Healer
INTIMACY- An integration of the week
INTIMACY- An integration of the week
Theme
LIVE ZOOM Dance Meditation
LIVE ZOOM Dance Meditation
3PM PACIFIC/ 6PM EASTERN
Guided Practice
On this day...
On this day...
As we arrive at the 7th Month of #quarantine, living 5 to 6 generations since the legal abolishment of slavery, and nearly 8 generations since the first European Pirates on Indigenous soil, we find ourselves at the precipice of momentous change. A moment that has already claimed too many of our lives.
And yet, we have an opportunity, unlike any other, to shape this future. We posit, the labor of manifesting a liberated future, is poetically and fundamentally parallel to the labor of bringing forth new life. Diverse in its path, all birthing demands intimate rigor, endurance, strategy, and surrendering.
Join us in an embodied meditation that invites us to practice rigorous states of endurance, strategy, and surrendering. We hope to inspire corporal reminders of our collective and individual capacities to survive/thrive as we forge a new and revolutionary path forward!
Meditation Practices
Meditation Practices
ABOUT Marjani Forté-Saunders
ABOUT Marjani Forté-Saunders
Marjani is a Mother, choreographer, performer, and community organizer. Her work as an artist and organizer is informed by years in anti-racist organizer training with the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond and as a lead facilitator with Urban Bush Women’s Builders Organizers and Leaders through Dance. Humbly, she defines her work by its lineage stemming from culturally rich, vibrant, historic, loving, irreverent conjurers! As a choreographer and performing artist, Marjani is a 2020 recipient of the Foundation of Contemporary Arts Grants for Artists Award and an inaugural fellow of the UBW Choreographic Center, the Jerome Artist Fellowship, and the DanceUSA Fellowship. She is a 2x Princess Grace Foundation awardee and a 2018 Bessie Award winner for her latest work Memoirs of a… Unicorn. She is also proudly, one of 21 Black Womyn and Gender Non-Conforming artists curated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa, now operating as the collective Skeleton Architecture. The collective was awarded a 2017 Bessie Award for Outstanding Performance.
Anchored in a steady collaboration with partner and composer Everett Asis Saunders (New Music USA Awardee), the duo are now identified as 7NMS.They’ve begun research and development on 7NMS|A Prophet’s Tale (premiering 2022), tracing the mystic pilgrimage of Emcees/Lyricists, seen through the hallmarks of Everett's biographical story. 7NMS are also founding directors of the emerging platform ART & POWER, dedicated to Black Purpose and Innovation. Noting resistance, endurance, and dreaming as critical to #BlackFuturity, in this onslaught of viral pandemic and revolution, they are piloting a "Satellite Residency Initiative" to support Artists, radically experimenting at the intersections of art, philosophy, spirituality, and culture.
Marjani is deeply honored to have joined the team of creative cultural organizers of Street Dance Activism in a 28 day Global Dance Meditation.
Liberation Journal Prompt
Liberation Journal Prompt
"The kind of change we are after is cellular as well as institutional, is personal and intimate, is collective as well as cultural. We are making love synonymous with justice." -Prentis Hemphill
"The kind of change we are after is cellular as well as institutional, is personal and intimate, is collective as well as cultural. We are making love synonymous with justice." -Prentis Hemphill
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Vocabulary
Vocabulary
GDM_Day 14 Vocab [NO DATES].pdfWeekly Questions: What are the masks that I wear that are ready to be put down? What is my relationship to accountability; with myself and to others I care for and value? How do I show up in authentic allyship without inviting the performance of my ego to steer? Where can I practice transformative justice within my most intimate relationships and interactions to be liberatory? Am I aware of the microaggressions committed in my presence, how will I begin responding to microaggressions? Can I relinquish my conditioned responses enough to invite expanded beliefs of liberation into my awareness
Song of the Day
Song of the Day
Listen to the full 28 Day Meditation for Black Liberation playlist made by Mark Gutierrez on Spotify.
““AQUELE ABRAÇO”
““AQUELE ABRAÇO”
By Gilberto GIl
By Gilberto GIl
Afro-Brazilian Singer/Songwriter Gilberto Gil wrote this song shortly after being released from prison and just before being exiled to Europe. At the time, the Brazilian government was enforcing censorship and punishing artists who spoke out against the regime or who celebrated the use of psychedelic drugs that were prominent in the 60’s and 70’s. The song is a celebration of Brazil’s joyful culture, which, at the time, Gilberto Gil felt was absent from the country. Gil’s song looks forward to “Aquele Abraco,” or “that embrace” that he dreams of feeling when Brazilians are free to express themselves again.
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