si|embra

Show Box LA

An immersive experience of life and death... inviting guests to honor the parts that have died but exist to  remind you, you are alive.

si|embra Creative concept by: Isis Avalos | Creative altar collaboration with Raquel Cabrera An immersive experience of life and death existing inside one space. Honoring death through pictures in an activated altar inside a live movement celebration… Si la comunidad quiere Zumba pues que más, que a bailar! *OPENING EVENTPlease join Isis Avalos on Thursday, November 11th from 11am to 2pm at Jireh Estética Unisex. Communally, we will be building the altar juntes (together) that will be part of the main event on Saturday, November 13th. Please stop by any time. We invite you to share a picture on the altar.*MAIN EVENTPlease join Isis Avalos on Saturday, November 13th starting at 6pm at Jireh Estética Unisex as we experience si | embra followed by an open sharing around the illuminated altar.Location: Jireh Estética Unisex2636 W Jefferson Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90018A part of SBLA&#x27;s mission for this year is to work with and highlight local immigrant-owned businesses in Los Ángeles, merging artists from all backgrounds and mediums together. Your donations and contributions go towards this collaboration with local business and ongoing partnership for future performances and projects. This residency is funded in part thanks to the support from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.Palabras / Notes From Isis Avalos My experience of wanting to know what the community of Jefferson &amp; 6th wanted to experience in this project, led me to learn that all they really want to do is to move to a Zumba inspired class. How can I create an event that honors what they want to see while I also stay true to the intention of creating an art installation of an Altar honoring life/death? I became more interested in being guided by what was presenting itself as a collaboration with the community instead of trying to fit in “art” installation into a hair salon that wants to be a zumba (inspired) class. This hair salon in particular has held more than just local folks wanting to get a hair cut but it has become a place of gathering after hours --A place of refuge and rest for families and their celebrations. Pictures have helped us see parts of us that we no longer recognize -- a goodbye that we never had with ourselves only until we see that picture again. How do we continue to cultivate ourselves while in transitions of life that often asks us to let something die in order to invite what wants to be born? The act of bringing life into this realm also invites the death of what we once were. Is there a duality or is it one in the same? Like the molcajete, how many curaciones have we had before we ultimately are grounded back into the earth? This Altar would be set up at one corner of the space as the upbeat movement class is happening, Raquel will be posting up pictures of the attendees who shared a picture of a part of themselves that has shifted. I will be be guiding the movement inside the space. Those pictures going up on the altar are a representation of the little death of who they once were while in real-time they are dancing, vivas y vibrando in the space. Both of these elements in one space sare co-existing and both are bound by each other. Setting up an altar after the annual Dia de Muertos holiday also symbolizes that our relationship to life and death is never bound by a holiday, it’s a daily, sacred connection to ourselves.

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