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Beading Workshop with Wawi
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Bothwell Arts Center 2466 8th Street Livermore, CA 94550
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Join us for a fun, Creative, educational and meditative bead making workshop with the talented Wawi Amasha of Mami Afrika designs. Create your own waist beads that can be used as a necklace, bracelet, anklet, hairline tie or belt using Wawi's collection of beautiful african and tradebeads.
(Great activity for girlfriends, mothers and daughters)
"Waist beads are an age old African tradition. They are worn for vast reasons and purposes to celebrate femininity, healing, spirituality, power, balancing, attracting and keeping a mate, rites of passage, rejuvenation, initiations, first menses, energy, and body shaping. African women have traditionally worn waist beads beneath their clothing placed beneath the belly button and can be single or multiple strands. In ancient Egypt, waist beads were called “girdles.