salon salon | Artists Gathering Series
This is a monthly artists’ gathering, held at The Sanctuary, beginning Sunday, January 19th. 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 salons will take place at 5pm on: February 9th, March 16th, and April 20th.
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.
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.