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Yoga At The Sanctuary

Join us for a community, donation based yoga practice every Wednesday at 6:30pm at The Sanctuary. Our practice will be guided by Yoko and Rebecca. Space is available for 10 people. Please sign up to reserve a space. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. 

For our practice, please bring a mat. Blocks are optional. For restorative yoga practice, please bring a blanket & pillow in addition to your mat so that you can have more relaxed experience.

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salon salon | Artists Gathering Series

This is a monthly artists’ gathering, held at The Sanctuary, beginning Sunday, January 19th at 5:00pm. Convened by amalee bea and nkiru oparah, salon salon, is a space for artists—especially Black queer artists—to connect, experiment, and show up authentically around art and process, outside of institutional settings. Each month, a local artist shares work-in-progress, leads a casual talk, or sparks a conversation. Anyone invited can put their name in the hat to lead the next one! The first salon is begins Sunday, January 19th at 5:00pm.

This is a space for Black folks to commune around making + processes, in a non-institutional setting, and as such our grounding values for the gathering are: vulnerability, curiosity, presence, abundance, and unity.
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The Alchemy of Dreams | Vision Board Workshop

Are you ready to step into a life where you wake up giddy with purpose, power, and gratitude? Led by visionary guide Richelle Donigan and inspired by Octavia E. Butler’s A Few Rules for Predicting the Future, this transformative Vision Workshop will help you unlock your potential and design a life lived by your conscious intent—not by default.

In this four-hour workshop, Richelle will introduce you to your inner Alchemist, teaching you to transmute energy into a higher form of expression. This experience is your gateway to creating a future filled with ease, joy, and abundance.
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Ancestors Taught Me: A Poetry-Writing Workshop Series in the Black Radical Tradition

Join us every first Saturday from 1:30-3pm

Led by amalee bea, we will support each other in growing as writers and as people by reading, writing, sharing and discussing poems from prolific Black writers such as Toni Bambara, James Baldwin, etc. The workshops are intended for all experience levels! Whether you’ve never written poetry or have written poetry for years, it will be fun & supportive.

The workshops can be attended on a one-off basis, but/and regular attendance will create a richer experience for all of us as it will allow us to build familiarity with each other, each other’s work, and the poets we’ll be reading, making for better discussions.
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“Each poet gave me a new tool.”– Ruben Antonia Villalobos, “Poetry as Revelation,” in June Jordan’s Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint

  • Engage with and learn from writers in the Black radical tradition

  • Become familiar with various poetic forms and strategies through exploring Black poetics and doing writing exercises intended to expand the idea of what a poem is and can be

  • Be an integral part of a mutual learning space that seeks to disrupt colonial modes of learning.
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