In-Person Workshop: By Way Of Revolution

Maximum participant size per workshop for social distancing: 15 / RSVP

This in-person performance art workshop, led by artist Helina Metaferia, is designed with women-identifying Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) in mind who are Gallatin students, staff, and faculty. The workshop investigates how histories of protest inform our present-day moment, and the powerful yet often overlooked role that BIPOC women play in them. The workshop will rely on performative gestures of resilience to explore how institutionalized and systemic trauma gets stored in the body and will provide creative and tangible tools for self-care and communal care to help sustain ourselves. Metaferia will lead participants through a series of writing, mindfulness, and performance exercises based on histories of social change movements and creative activism. Participants also have the option to volunteer to be photographed for a series of artworks that combine archives of historical liberation movements with the images of workshop participants. This workshop will be held in conjunction with Metaferia’s solo exhibition in The Gallatin Galleries from January 25-March 12, 2021. All NYU social distancing protocols for in-person gatherings will be followed, including testing, masks, maintaining six feet distance, and hand hygiene.