Akwesasne Freedom School: Flute Making Workshop for Children

The Theoria Foundation at White Feather Farm provides  residencies, multidisciplinary performances and educational programming for artists, innovators, and organizations whose work explores  connections between creativity and sustainability. Learn more about us at www.theoria.org.

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Make a clay flute and go on a sound walk around White Feather Farm!

White Feather Farm

The Akwesasne Freedom School (AFS) emerged as a center of Mohawk cultural resurgence in 1979 and continues to play a critical role in revitalizing a rich and diverse language and culture within the community of Akwesasne. It is a model of self-determination and best practices in language and cultural revitalization. AFS provides Mohawk immersion education, beginning each day with the Thanksgiving address, which forms the foundation of their culturally-rooted curriculum.Instructor Koyoltzintli will lead a children’s globular flute making and sound walk workshop in the afternoon before the Akwesasne Freedom School Celebration concert. The workshop will guide participants in the process of clay flute making and engaging sonically with the land. Playfully exploring the dynamic connections to our ancestors and the land through instrument making and listening practices promises generative potential for youth participants. The event will take place on the beautiful grounds of White Feather Farm.This event is outdoors, weather permittingFood and refreshments by Joust$10 for childrenTo learn more about the school and get involved visit www.underwaterpanther.com

About Koyoltzintli:“My art is rooted in the land that shaped me, and the stories it continuously tells.” Koyoltzintli, is an interdisciplinary artist, healer, and educator living in the USA. She grew up on the pacific coast and the Andean mountains in Ecuador, these are geographies that permeate her work. She focuses on sound, ancestral technologies, ritual, and storytelling through collaborative processes and personal narratives. Intersectional theories and earth-based healing inform her practice. Nominated for Prix Pictet in 2019, her work has been exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, the United Nations, Aperture Foundation in NYC, and Paris Photo, among others. She has been an artist in residence in the US, France, and Italy and has taught at CalArts, SVA, ICP, and CUNY. She has received multiple awards and fellowships including the Photographic Fellowship at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, the NYFA Fellowship, and the IA grant by the Queens Council of the Arts. Her first monograph Other Stories was published in 2017 by Autograph ABP, and her work was featured in the Native issue of Aperture Magazine (no. 240). In 2021, her work was included in the book Latinx Photography in the United States by Elizabeth Ferrer chief curator at BRIC. In 2022 she is one of the artists in residence at Socrates Sculpture Park and she has been awarded the Latinx Artist Fellowship by US Latinx Art Forum (USLAF).

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