Writing With The Ancestors | Symposium 2023

Culture Pushis an arts organization that creates programs to nurture artists and other creatives who are approaching common problems through hands-on civic participation and imaginative problem-solving.The mission of Culture Push is to create a lively exchange of ideas between many different communities; artists and non-artists, professional practitioners and laypeople, across generations, neighborhoods, and cultures. We support the process of creating new modes of thinking and doing and serves a diverse community of creative people. Our programs focus on collaboration and group learning through active, participatory experiences, and appear in many different locations, taking many different forms.

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Writing with the Ancestors, an event by Ancestors in Training, guides you to connect with your ancestors and heal through writing.

Show Don't Tell 2023

Experience the Culture Push Fellows and Associated Artists' work at the 6th Show Don’t Tell Symposium. Engage in workshops, screenings, and presentations intersecting imagination, social change, and civic participation.

<p>In Writing with the Ancestors, attendees will be guided on how to foster a relationship with their elevated ancestors and experience a healing through writing practice. Participants will also gain access to the Ancestor In Training Syllabus, and a digital journal with bonus prompts to support their journey as Ancestors in Training. </p><p>Ancestors in Training (AIT) is an educational project and lived experience that centers sacred traditions, new technologies, intergenerational healing, and grief work. Evolving with the times, AIT as a praxis examines how to apply the lessons of the past as a means to shape a better present, and future for those that come after us. Through inquiry-based creative processes, critical race and media theories, and archival memory - Ancestors In Training allows all those who enter to leave with a better sense of self and how they relate to the world.</p>

<h3>About the Artist:</h3><h3>VERONICA AGARD (IFÁṢADÙN FÁSANMÍ)ASSOCIATED ARTIST</h3><h3>Veronica Agard (Ifáṣadùn Fásanmí) (she/her) is a poet, writer, community educator, and connector at the intersections of Black identity, wellness, representation, and culture. She experiments with creative healing modalities and puts theories learned into practice. She curated the Who Heals the Healer series and the conference of the same name and facilitates the Ancestors in Training educational project. Her initiatives are housed in her freelance platform, Vera Icon LLC. Described as living in the future, Veronica is guided by the past, and carries out her dreams in the present.</h3>

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