Collective Practice Circles: Black Community
ABOUT THE EVENT
Collective Practice Circles for Black Community
Thursday, October 3, 2024
Thursday, January 25, 2025
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Start or sustain your racial healing journey side by side with your community. At two-hour Collective Practice Circles, we invite members of racially specific groups to come together for light food, fellowship, and shared wellness offerings, from guided meditation to sound baths. Our Collective Practice Circles are designed in alignment with racial identity, please inquire for additional information.
Registration now available. Questions? Contact us at boxoffice@penumbratheatre.org or 651.224.3180.
Access Registration
We offer free access tickets to each circle, so that price is never a barrier to participation. Available on a first come, first served basis using promo code CircleAccess – no additional discounts apply. For questions and additional information, please contact Whitney Blount Smith, Sr. Guest and Client Services Manager, at whitney.blountsm@penumbratheatre.org.
MULTIMEDIA AND PRESS
MEET THE PRACTITIONERS
Namir Fearce | Thursday, October 3, 2024 from 6 to 8pm.
Namir is a North Minneapolis-born interdisciplinary folk artist and cultural worker. His studio practice engages experimental film, assemblage, and music under the moniker Blu Bone. Fearce is informed by a constellation of Black Mississippian sites of memory that weave complex emo-political worldscapes in which Black futurity and freedom are conjured. Utilizing the language, fashioning, and tradition of the trickster deity In his work, he engages in relationships across species and land to develop true kinship. He creates sites of ritual and ceremony visually, sonically, and somatically by embodying and reflecting these kin species and phenomena of nature where cross-communication, reverberation, and feedback can create portals for a collective imagination. Fearce holds a BFA in Studio Art with a concentration in Film and sculpture from the University of Illinois at Chicago, a Walker Arts fellow 2021, a Black Harvest Film Festival nominated Director 2023, and founder of the Hi Cotton Experience.
Tamiko French | Saturday, January 25, 2025 from noon to 2pm.
Tamiko French has a background in dance performance, choreography, and jewelry design. Sharing her gift with communities is a sincere passion that has become her full-time business. Her love for science, nature, and the magic between them is carefully considered with each service she delivers. Whether it be crystal consultation, crystal healing, custom functional jewelry, or a unique sound bath, you can discover something that illuminates your soul. Her vibrationally charged work has been featured at Rituals in Midtown Global Market, at various pop-up shops. She is a resident teacher and welding artist at the Chicago Avenue Fire Arts Center. In 2020, she added sound healing to her array of services in response to the rising needs of safe calm space from the murder of George Floyd and the displacement of unhomed individuals. Many volunteers and unhomed people needed some form of calm to affirm thier own healing journey. She is accredited with the International Natural Healers Association and has been a featured practitioner at SALT Salon and Spa, Abbott Hospital and Mother Baby Center, One Yoga, and Watershed Spa, Chicago Avenue Fire Arts Center, and George Floyd Square. Her current and future projects include “Healing House” sound bath music events, “Movement as Language” dance and healing events, “Youth Sound” healing events, “Corporate Reframe/Relax” sound healing sessions, and “Dancing Sound” movement meditation session events.