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Racial Awareness and Mindfulness 2021 - A Viritual Event

A Virtual Mini-Festival of the Arts, Awareness, Healing and Justice

On Saturday October 16, 2021, people across the globe are invited to come together in unity to experience a festival designed to help average people develop greater racial awareness and a deeper reflection on the harmful and sometimes unconscious effects of lingering racial disparities and racist systems in U.S. society and across the globe.

WHAT: Workshops and creative arts to help melanated peoples and people of pallor understand and address the reality of racism.

WHERE: Online. Link will be sent before the event.

WHO: Daoud Nassar, Tent of Nations, Bethlehem, Palestine; Jen Marlowe, Producer-Filmmaker “There Is a Field” Donkey Saddle Films

SPONSORS: Absalom Jones Episcopal Center for Racial Healing; Coming to the Table Montgomery County, Maryland; Horizon Prison Initiative (Ohio); Lola Georg/Vivienne Hawkins; Interwoven; Life Calls Coaching; NEXT Church (PCUSA); Shalem Institute; Spirituality Network of Ohio; Spiritual Directors of Color Network, Ltd.; Urban Ministries Network; Renee Wormack-Keels

Schedule

9:45AM-10:15AM eastern: OPENING CEREMONY: drumming, mindfulness meditation, logistics for the day

10:15AM-11:15AM eastern: KEYNOTE: Daoud Nassar, “Tent of Nations,” Palestine

11:30AM-12:30PM and 1:30PM-2:30PM eastern: DEEPINING YOUR RACIAL AWARENESS

  • Drumming Circle w/ Katy Gaughan

  • Multicultural Healing Circle w/ Cathy Roberts and Venetia Bailey

  • Emotional Emancipation Circle℠ w/ Alanna Taylor and E. Ursula Young (African Diaspora Only)

  • Interplay! It's in the Cards--How To Play With Race and Win! w/ Caroline Blackwell and Mosi Kamau Kitwana

  • White Caucus w/ Pat Jackson and Phyllis Lerner

  • The Humanity of Our Heros w/ Tejai Beluah

  • What’s Happening Now? (Discussion on Current Events)w/ Renee Wormack-Keels

12:30PM-1:30PM eastern: LUNCH: on your own or gathered in small community in breakout rooms (Opportunity to share your experience thus far)

Music provided by Clarence Turner Blues

2:45PM-4:15PM eastern: FILM: “There Is a Field,” followed by Qs and As and discussion with Director-Playwright Jen Marlowe

4:15PM-4:30PM eastern: CLOSING RITUAL: Lament, Confession, (Re)conciliation, Healing

4:30PM-5:15PM eastern: POST-FESTIVAL WINE DOWN w/Soyinka Rahim, Clarence “Bluesman” Turner, and Eric Wilson

4:30PM-5:15PM eastern: SUPPORT CIRCLES


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