Parallels and Peripheries: Mobilizing and Creating Coalitions Through Story Circles.

Workshop

PARALLELS AND PERIPHERIES: MOBILIZING AND CREATING COALITIONS THROUGH STORY CIRCLES

Art Center South Florida, 924 Lincoln Rd, Miami Beach | Transportation Options

This session will use story circles as a way of uniting, mobilizing, and honoring the histories of immigrant communities, and as a framework for creating coalitions based on different expressions of power: power within, power with, and power to. The goals of this session are to understand the framework of story circles and how to put it into practice; to draw connections between the stories shared and how these could become tools of organizing. Participants will leave with guidelines and a list of printed resources for mobilizing and creating coalitions among communities, as well as a list of resources for recording, editing, and transcribing stories.

Participants in this session are invited to share food and beverages after the workshop and explore ArtCenter South Florida’s galleries. On view Parallels and Peripheries, an exhibition series curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah. The galleries are open from 12 PM – 6 PM.

ArtCenter/ South Florida is committed to making its programs and facilities accessible to all our visitors. Our building is wheelchair accessible through the front entrance, with elevator access between floors. For additional information or questions about accessibility, please call 305-674-8278.

Lizania Cruz is a Dominican participatory artist living and working in New York City. She is interested in how migration effects notions of citizenship, identity, and ways of belonging. Cruz has been exploring these themes in concepts that translate to printed matter, objects, and photography. Currently, she is a Create Change artists-in-residence at Laundromat Project, where she created We the News, a series of story circles Black immigrants and first-generation Black Americans that are documented through zines and distributed publicly through a roaming newsstand. She is also a Participatory Design Fellow with the Design Trust for Public Space.

Larry Ossei-Mensah’s practice is concerned with historical/biographical themes related to geography that include African diaspora and Native American cultures, and makes use of ethnobotany, geology and the performative as aesthetic vehicles for investigating and making historical/biographical themes.

Esther Park is an arts leader known in South Florida for her risk-taking cultural programming. As ArtCenter/South Florida’s Vice President for Programming, she leads the visual arts organization’s initiatives and artist residency program, among other projects.