Neighborhood Clinic Healing Installations: Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy

Intergenerational and interactive practices of community wellness through connectedness including:

  • Conversation with Ifetayo IWA, Council of Elders, and the Ifetayo Youth Ensemble. Topic: What hurts? What helps? Healing through sharing and hearing.

  • Quilt making and the Healing Qualities of Color with Sister Tamika Albertini

  • The Legacy and Symbology of the Ring Shout (Presentation) + Community Ringshout led by Dr. Angela Fatou Gittens

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June 23, 2021

3:00pm – 5:15pm

Weeksville Heritage Center

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Brooklyn Arts Council's Neighborhood Clinic Healing Installations amplify the healing power of art and cultural traditions. Mounted at Weeksville Heritage Center, these installations continue Brooklyn's legacy of self-determination by allowing each featured artist to define "healing" in the terms of their own culture and practice. The Neighborhood Clinic installations make space for community healing and for self-determination, just as Weeksville offered a space of community independence, thriving, and wellness. These installations claim safe space for community healing by affirming the right to community expression, cultural preservation, and creative vision.

Each of these installations will be activated, recorded, and livestreamed.

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