Decolonizing the Heart: Resistance & Flow

🗒 Sunday, Nov 16

⏲ 10AM PT ○ 1PM ET ○ 6PM GMT

▶ Join Aviva Arts’ Artistic Director Debórah Eliezer (Central Portugal) and special guest Maya Kosover (Chicago) via Zoom.

◎ Decolonizing the Heart: Resilience Practice for Challenging Times ◎

How do we practice moving towards our edge of growth within ongoing oppressive systems?

Aviva Arts offers a place to listen, question, connect and activate. 

Decolonizing the Heart explores arts practice as a method of systemic disruption.  We’ll call ourselves into the present moment, calm the nervous system and create connection amidst an ever-changing and urgent world that encourages isolation and divisiveness. 

Participatory in nature, each session may include personal check-ins, meditation, drawing, movement, writing or other embodied  exercises.

Facilitated by mixed-identity folks with roots in Europe, occupied Palestine, Israel and the greater SWANA region, we are in solidarity with the struggle for Palestinian liberation and unequivocally oppose the violence and injustices perpetrated by Zionism. We welcome anyone seeking community connection and tools for self-care. 

Registration: Here on Eventbrite!

🤝This is a fee-free space. We encourage you to donate to the extent you are able.

Bring: something to write with or just your imagination and listening

🌎Join us via Zoom!🌎
➥ Zoom Link

Aviva Arts’ mission is to promote growth and transformation through liberatory arts modalities. We center intersectional narratives that champion our relationship to ourselves, each other and the natural world.

______________________________ Meet the facilitators ______________________________

Maya Kosover (she/her) is a community facilitator, artist, and educator based in Chicago. At the core of her work, Maya understands her artistic practice to be a spiritual practice and vice versa, all in service of kinship and thriving futures with all beings. Maya is currently the Director of Learning for Shomeret Shalom, a Co-Steward and Artist Collective Member at the Jewish Museum of Chicago, and a facilitator for Studio Pathways. Maya partners with various organizations and community groups to facilitate healing arts workshops for youth, teens and adults -- workshops that tend to our capacities for embodiment, connection, and radical imagination. To learn more about Maya and her work, her learning lineages and communities, visit www.mayakosover.com.

Debórah Eliezer, (she/her/we) is a mixed-identity Arab Jew, ensemble artist, cultural activist, and California fire survivor. Passionate about the power of human transformation, her work focuses on using embodied skills to disrupt assumptions about art, belonging and society. She is the Artistic Director of Aviva Arts, an Associate Artist with Golden Thread and proudly serves on the inaugural MENA Theater Makers Alliance board. Documentary devised credits include Aviva Arts’ Burning Wild about climate catastrophe and (dis)Place[d], about Iraqi Jews. Recent performances include 11 Reflections created and directed by Andrea Assaf and The Tutor by Torange Yeghiazarian directed by Sahar Assaf. Eliezer holds a B.A. Cum Laude in Drama Cum Laude from SFSU, is a certified Sound, Voice Music Healing practitioner from CIIS, Kaula Tantra Yoga instructor and professional voiceover. www.avivaarts.org