Category: Events

Decolonizing Birth Conference 2017

Decolonizing birth CONFERENCE  

On the weekend of September 23rd-24th, Ancient Song Doula Services will be holding its 2nd annual Decolonizing Birth Conference called “Addressing Systematic Trauma & Oppression Through a Collaborative Care Framework” where we will be examining methods for change in reproductive health, opening a dialogue to discuss the effects of systematic oppression and reproductive health choices, while also providing a space for community based organizations to network and build on resources and methods for advocacy.

*We’ll be presenting Resilience as a Preexisting Condition: Healing in Community on Sunday! Learn more and view the whole schedule here. We are deeply grateful to be returning to this conference after presenting a workshop and facilitating a closing circle in the 2016. Thank you to the team at Ancient Song Doula Services for making this possible!

July Menu

Hey y’all! We have an amazing line up of events for you this July. For more details, check out our Facebook events tab for more details on how you can be connected.  We look forward to seeing you!

Sisterhood Summit 6

Community! We’re coming back to the Sisterhood Summit! We’re super grateful to The Black Girl Project for holding down the space and for allowing us to be a part of the amazing day of offerings. Check out our workshop description below and be sure to get your donation-based tickets for the summit here!

Resilience is a Pre-Existing Condition: Healing in Community

Join the Sister Circle Collective for a healing cypher that will center the ways in which Black and femmes of color have not only resisted over time – but have thrived. At all times, but especially during the era of president #45, it is vital that we practice and share our healing strategies and modalities. It is one thing to be bombarded by the news of the latest policy set back, or harmful and racist policy impacting our people – but in the words of Assata Shakur – we must continue to love and protect each other. In this session, we will share and discuss how to integrate grounding rituals such as meditation, music, journaling, medicine making, light yoga, and other rituals into our everyday practice. Cocreators will conjure their own herbal spray or oil potion to remind them that in order to continue to show up for others, we have to show up to honor and defend ourselves. Our resiliency is not only required, but a pre-existing condition that people of the Diasporas have always utilized.

Rituals of Resistance – Sunday May 7th

Join us for Rituals of Resistance!

When: Sunday, May 7th from 12-3pm
Where:  Prospect Park – Great Lawn, Brooklyn

A community cypher on indigenous and ancestral forms of resistance.

The cypher will honor warrior women of Sacred Stone Camp, who will share traditions that ground them in the Mni Wiconi movement. Other offerings include how to use practical magic and creation as a form of resistance. Be a part of the conversation on Facebook for live updates!

Vibras NYC: powHER!

Peace fam! Please come through next week for a special edition of Vibras: NYC featuring an amazing line of creatives, artists, healers and more! We can’t wait to see you! xoxo the SCC

Vibras NYC is back in Brooklyn (for good!) & we’re bringing you a bada$$, fiery edition of powHER! On this night, we celebrate all of the women/womyn/trans/female-identifying warrior spirits in our lives, in our history & in ourselves! We will be raising funds for the warrior sisters out in Standing Rock (Nasha Paola + C.F. Garden). So…grab your amigxs, siblings, lovers, supportive men & join us for a powerful night!

Get your tickets here! 
Hosted by Loca Vibes Radio!!
Door Reina: Michelle Herrera
Music by DJ BEMBONA & Reddaughter
Performance by Zuzuka Poderosa
Photos & Video by Melanie Gonzalez
Visuals by Fefi of La Liga Zine, Bembona & Jihan
DIY Magia Station by Sister Circle Collective
Art by Ailyn Robles (@feministeando)
Live Art Installation by Dada Coz

 

Mi Gente! Unplugged: Underground System

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Mi Gente! is proud to present Underground System featuring Lorraine Currelley at Mi Gente! Unplugged in collaboration with The Point CDC and BxArts Factory. Mi Gente! Unplugged is a live acoustic show including the featuring of a special Bronx Spoken Word Artist.

We want you to share an intimate space and celebrate the Latinx Diaspora on Saturday, February 18th, 2017, at The Point CDC Theater located at 940 Garrison Avenue, Bronx NY 10474. Advance Tickets are $10/Door $12. Theater doors will open at 7PM.

See you Saturday, February 18th Mi Gente! Get your advanced tickets here! For live updates, check out the Facebook event.

Home: Return, Reclaim, Reframe

Home: Return, Reclaim, Reframe

An all-day healing experience that explores what it means to Return, Reclaim & Reframe our ideas of home. Join Casitas Wisdom, Harriet’s Apothecary, Sacred Vibes Apothecary, and Sister Circle Collective for workshops and drop-in activities on movement, plant medicine, oral and ancestral stories, art-making and a communal altar. An Afro-Puerto Rican meal by Chef Gabriela Àlvarez will reflect recipes of the diaspora and a performance by Legacy Women will ground us as we continue to fight for the liberation of ourselves and our peoples.

When: Saturday | December 3, 2016

Where: CCCADI’s Landmark Firehouse | 120 E 125th St, New York, NY 10035

Time: 11AM to 5PM

Admission: FREE | Includes free lunch for first 100 people

This event is brought to you by CCCADI, Friends of the Highline, Casitas Wisdom, Harriet’s Apothecary, Sacred Vibes Apothecary, and Sister Circle Collective.

*We currently do not have the capacity to provide childcare

#CIRCLEUP – Please join us and Harriet’s Apothecary for Manifestations of Home: Trauma and Transformation, an interactive, embodied, inter-generational circle exploring the manifestations of home within our legacies, our bodies, and the futures we co-create for liberation. Be sure to register here!

Volunteers are also needed! If you have the time and energy to co-create, please email us by November 30th at sisterscirclecollective@gmail.com.