Root & Bloom: A (re)Generative Virtual Retreat - Event Program by Harwood Art Center

ROOT & BLOOM a (re) generative retreat for new mexico’s creatives

MARCH 18 - 22

VIRTUAL RETREAT PROGRAM

ROOT & BLOOM a (re) generative retreat for new mexico’s creatives Dear Beloved Artists, Creatives & Agents of Change, Dear Beloved Friends, Families, Neighbors & Collaborators ~ Welcome, and thank you for being (here). We don’t yet know who you are, exactly, but we do know that you deserve nourishment. We understand that you may feel as galvanized as you do devastated, that you may be carrying wounds as deep as y/our medicines are in/finite. And we acknowledge that – for as much as inspires you alight, in life and in creation – there are myriad forces with vested interest in burning you out. But the world simply cannot afford that loss. We need you and all of your brilliance. Root & Bloom was inspired and formed with you in mind, heart, and spirit, by and for your fellow New Mexico Creatives. It took years to plant and cultivate, with a multitude of gardeners. At every turn, we’ve been reinforced in the beauties of the universe and each of her souls. The intuitive and healing wisdoms of ancestors, elders, and womxn; fierce devotion to arts activism and social justice; our community partners’ shared vision and generosity; and magic and synchronicity all played equivalent roles in making this offering to you. We are grateful to you for all that you are and for all that you root and bloom in the world, just by virtue of your very being. We hope you will allow us and our retreat co-creators the honor of supporting you through Root & Bloom. We look forward to spending time with you, exactly as you are, already more than enough, and however you are able to show up. With light and love, in healing and solidarity, Dani Belvin & Julia Mandeville

Co-Curators, Root & Bloom Cooperative Leadership Team, Harwood Art Center

ROOT & BLOOM a (re) generative retreat for new mexico’s creatives LANDS, PEOPLES & LIVES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

As one step towards honoring truth, nurturing healing, facilitating reparation, and achieving reconciliation, Harwood Art Center and Root & Bloom offer our acknowledgments and commitments. We are on Tiwa Land. These are the traditional Native homelands of 23 Indian Tribes, 19 Pueblos, 3 Apache Tribes, and the Navajo Nation, lands called New Mexico. We recognize that these lands represent wealth of many kinds, wealth conferred on its thieves and occupiers, and that violent repercussions linger for the Indigenous peoples from whom it was taken. We recognize the devastating impacts colonization, patriarchy, bigotry, racism, and white supremacy have on lives and livelihoods every day, with atrociously disproportionate violence afflicting people who are BIPOC, LQBTQIA, and/or womxn. With humility and consciousness of our shared history, we understand that such acknowledgment statements are truly meaningful only when coupled with authentic relationships and sustained dedication. We therefore remain committed beyond words – to actions, platforms, and programs – that support the rights of people who are BIPOC, LGBTQIA, and/or womxn. We center and resource diversely representative creative voices to share and shape their own stories, and to support community in sharing and shaping their own realities. We reinforce our dedication to learning, expression, and amplification, as we recognize they offer the most resilient pathways to global citizenship, justice, and peace. We are grateful to Honor Native Lands, U.S. Department of Arts & Culture, and New Mexico Montessori Network for your frameworks for and frames of reference on acknowledging our lands and her original peoples.

INSPIRATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We are grateful to these forums for teaching, inspiring, and nourishing us this year and for your influence on the ways Root & Bloom has become: • The Nap Ministry • Tara Mandala, Voices of Wisdom Symposium • Art Equity, BIPOC Surviving Predominantly White Institutions • Satyana Institute, Global Interfaith Prayer Circles & New Year’s Retreat • Virtual LemonAid Festival, Santa Fe Community Foundation • Association for Theater in Higher Education, Annual Conference • Society for Shamanic Practice: Creating the New Dream Symposium • SOMOS (Re)Imagined: We Are (Re)Imagining, A Virtual Festival & Love Letter to ABQ • The Deepest Peace: Zenju Earthlyn Manuel & Kaishin Unique Holland, Barre Center for Buddhist Studies • Americans for the Arts, National Convention, Keynote Dialogue: David Brooks & Jessica Solomon • New Mexico Black Leadership Council, Racial Contract Lecture Series

RESOURCE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are grateful to these supporters for making our work possible, and for trusting, allowing and empowering Harwood and our collaborators to nourish, honor, and resource Artists and Creatives as Agents of Change: • Nusenda Credit Union -- your belief seeded this retreat. Thank you for investing in your community. • Escuela del Sol Montessori • Urban Enhancement Trust Fund • The FUNd, The Ties Fund, and Sandia Foundation at Albuquerque Community Foundation • New Mexico Arts & National Endowment for the Arts • McCune Charitable Foundation • LEF Foundation • Youth Conservation Corps • City of Albuquerque: Public Art Board, Cultural Services Department & Mayor’s Office • Marion & Kathryn Crissey and Reggie Gammon Endowments • And most of all: Our individual donors and small business partners!

ROOT & BLOOM a (re) generative retreat for new mexico’s creatives

MARCH 18 - 22 REAL NOURISHING VIRTUAL GATHERING join us for the full retreat weekend, a mini retreat of daily keynote sessions, or make your own schedule. contribute what you can ($0 - $245), or receive what you need, with scholarships & stipends available. REGISTER TODAY AT HARWOODARTCENTER.ORG

ROOT & BLOOM a (re) generative retreat for new mexico’s creatives

MARCH 18 - 22 Full & DIY Retreat (includes keynotes)

Mini Retreat (keynotes only)

Thursday, March 18

9:00a - 7:00p **

5:30 - 7:00p

Friday, March 19

9:00a - 7:00p **

5:30 - 7:00p

Saturday, March 20

10:00a - 7:00p **

10:00a - 11:30a

Sunday, March 21

10:00a - 7:00p **

5:30 - 7:00p

Monday, March 22

New Mexico Creatives

4:00p - 6:00p

Contribute What You Can & Receive What You Need

$15 - $45 $0 - $245 sliding scale, with stipends & scholarships available ** full retreat builds in time & space for rest, creativity, movement & reflection

you are invited for nourishment Root & Bloom is a virtual (re)generative retreat made by and for New Mexico’s Creatives, to serve and support individuals through the bewildering here and now, as well as in visioning and actualizing a just, abundant shared future. The retreat is organized to support meaningful access and participation, so there are many ways to engage. Full & DIY Retreat offers a long weekend of nourishment through daily keynote dialogues, nurturing retreat sessions, and intentional space built in for rest, creativity, movement, and reflection. You are encouraged to participate in the whole and welcome to self-guide your own selection. Mini Retreat offers four single sessions of nourishment through daily keynote dialogues. You are welcome for one, some, or all sessions. New Mexico Creatives offers a special dialogue session on Monday, where local creative organizations and nonprofits will hear about your current needs and aim to connect you with currently available resources. This program introduces our retreat frameworks and retreat session leaders. You are invited to choose your own retreat path at harwoodartcenter.org

ROOT & BLOOM a (re) generative retreat for new mexico’s creatives

THURSDAY, MARCH 18 9:00a - 10:30a

Grant/Funding RESEARCH: How/Where to Look for Funds that Align with Your Work & Projects (part 2) Shira Greenberg, Keshet Ideas and Innovation Community (KIIC) Arts Business Workshops

11:00a - 12:00a

Defining Value(s) & Nurturing Holistic Live/Work Budget Balance Sherri Brueggemann

1:30p - 3:00p

Make a Statement: Writing Workshop for Artists Nancy Zastudil, The Necessarian

3:30p - 4:30p

Navigating Change & Making Space for Becoming Linh Nguyen

5:30p - 7:00p

Keynote Dialogue Session: Cultivating Peace Within Creativity Zenju Earthlyn Manuel & Kaishin Unique Holland

FRIDAY, MARCH 19 9:00a - 10:00a

Grant/Funding RESEARCH: How/Where to Look for Funds that Align with Your Work & Projects (part 2) Shira Greenberg, Keshet Ideas and Innovation Community (KIIC) Arts Business Workshops

10:30a - 12:00p

Making Sense of Your Financial Life as an Artist Olivia Brown & Tamara Brown, The Dots Between

1:30p - 2:30p

(small group)

2:45p - 4:45p

(small group)

3:00 - 4:30p

(small groups)

Seed Circles: Small Peer Groups for Processing, Learning & Connecting Erin Elder, Gibbous Creative Make a Statement: Invitational Work Session Nancy Zastudil, The Necessarian Root, Vision & Express: Engaging with Breath Work, Yoga & Ecstatic Dance Stephanie Cordova Spirit Mapping: Understanding Cartography Practice & Atlas Symbolism for Ascension & Creative Expression Diego Medina Artistic Practice & Vision Boards: Self Care, Self Expression & Self Rejuvenation Lindsey Brenner

5:30p - 7:00p

Keynote Dialogue: Taking Care & Holding Power: Nurturing Radical Wellness & Well Being for the Creative Mind Kim Knight & Shanelle McKenzie, The Villij, Canada & Babsy Sinandile, Blak Gold Wellness Lounge

SATURDAY, MARCH 20 10:00a - 11:30a

Keynote Dialogue Session: Igniting & Sustaining Social Change: Nourishment, Expression, Solidarity & Liberation Nozizwe Madlala-Routeledge, Embrace Dignity, South Africa & Dafina McMillan, McMillan Works

12:00p - 12:50p

Movement and Healing: Collaborative Choreography Workshop Ana Lopes Arechiga & Lara Segura, Keshet Dance Company

1:30p - 2:30p

(small group)

3:00 - 4:30p

(small groups)

Seed Circles: Small Peer Groups for Processing, Learning & Connecting Erin Elder, Gibbous Creative Root, Vision & Express: Engaging with Breath Work, Yoga & Ecstatic Dance Stephanie Cordova Spirit Mapping: Understanding Cartography Practice & Atlas Symbolism for Ascension & Creative Expression Diego Medina Artistic Practice & Vision Boards: Self Care, Self Expression & Self Rejuvenation Lindsey Brenner

5:30p - 7:00p

Scores for Restoration: Performance-Making for Ecological Education (part 1) Kaitlin Bryson, Hollis Moore, Mariko Thomas & Rachel Zollinger, Submergence Collective

SUNDAY, MARCH 21 10:00a - 11:00a Artists 101: A Guide to Artist Calls for Entry & Refining Your Chances for Acceptance Sean Paul Gallegos 11:30a - 12:30p Intellectual Property & Visual Sovereignty Raphael Begay, Artist & Sherri Brueggemann, City of Albuquerque UETF - Public Art Program 1:30p - 2:30p (small group) Seed Circles: Small Peer Groups for Processing, Learning & Connecting Erin Elder, Gibbous Creative 3:00 - 4:30p

Scores for Restoration: Performance-Making for Ecological Education (part 1) Kaitlin Bryson, Hollis Moore, Mariko Thomas & Rachel Zollinger, Submergence Collective

5:30p - 7:00p

Keynote Dialogue Session: Albuquerque Dreaming: Knowledge, Relationship & Insights from Creation, Native & Indigenous Visions for New Realities presented in partnership with Indigenous Dreaming, IndigenousPopX & Red Planet Books & Comics Nani Chacon & Lynnette Haozous, Artists & Lee Francis IV, Red Planet Books & Comics

MONDAY, MARCH 22 4:00p - 5:30p New Mexico Creatives Special Session

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retreat program day 1: Opening

ZENJU EARTHLYN MANUEL

KAISHIN UNIQUE HOLLAND

NANCY ZASTUDIL

LINH NGUYEN

SHIRA GREENB

SHERR BRUEGGEM

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RI MANN

THURSDAY, MARCH 18

** full retreat builds in time & space for rest, creativity, movement & reflection

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retreat program day 2: See(d)ing

SHANELLE MCKENZIE & KIM KNIGHT

BABSY SINANDILE

OLIVIA BROW

TAMARA BATES

STEPHANIE CORDOVA

DIEGO MEDIN

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FRIDAY, MARCH 19

Full Retreat including Keynotes: 9:00a - 7:00p MST ** Mini Retreat only Keynotes: 5:30p - 7:00p MST Full Group Sessions Grant/Funding RESEARCH: How/Where to Look for Funds that Align with Your Work & Projects (part 2) Shira Greenberg, Keshet Ideas and Innovation Community (KIIC) Arts Business Workshops Making Sense of Your Financial Life as an Artist Olivia Brown & Tamara Brown, The Dots Between Keynote Dialogue: Taking Care & Holding Power: Nurturing Radical Wellness & Well Being for the Creative Mind Kim Knight & Shanelle McKenzie, The Villij, Canada & Babsy Sinandile, Blak Gold Wellness Lounge Small Group Sessions Make a Statement: Writing Workshop for Artists Nancy Zastudil, The Necessarian Root, Vision & Express: Engaging with Breath Work, Yoga & Ecstatic Dance Stephanie Cordova Spirit Mapping: Understanding Cartography Practice & Atlas Symbolism for Ascension & Creative Expression Diego Medina Artistic Practice & Vision Boards: Self Care, Self Expression & Self Rejuvenation Lindsey Brenner

** full retreat builds in time & space for rest, creativity, movement & reflection

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retreat program day 3: Sustaining

NOZIZWE MADLALAROUTLEDGE

DAFINA MCMILLAN

KAITL BRYSO

LARA SEGURA

ANA LOPES ARECHIGA

LINDS BRENN

LIN ON

SEY NER

SATURDAY, MARCH 20

Full Retreat including Keynotes: 10:00a - 7:00p MST ** Mini Retreat only Keynotes: 10:00a - 11:30a MST Full Group Sessions Scores for Restoration: Performance-Making for Ecological Education (part 1) Kaitlin Bryson, Hollis Moore, Mariko Thomas & Rachel Zollinger, Submergence Collective Movement and Healing: Collaborative Choreography Workshop Ana Lopes Arechiga & Lara Segura, Keshet Dance Company Keynote Dialogue Session: Igniting & Sustaining Social Change: Nourishment, Expression, Solidarity & Liberation Nozizwe Madlala-Routeledge, Embrace Dignity, South Africa & Dafina McMillan, McMillan Works Small Group Sessions Root, Vision & Express: Engaging with Breath Work, Yoga & Ecstatic Dance Stephanie Cordova Creative Practice & Prayer Maps: Leading with Personal Spiritual and Ancestral Knowledge Diego Medina Artistic Practice & Vision Boards: Self Care, Self Expression & Self Rejuvenation Lindsey Brenner

** full retreat builds in time & space for rest, creativity, movement & reflection

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retreat program day 4: (Re) Imagining

NANI CHACON

LYNNETTE HAOZOUS

SEAN PAUL GALLEGOS

HOLLIS MOORE

LEE FRANCI

MARIK OYAMA TH

E IS IV

KO HOMAS

SUNDAY, MARCH 21

Full Retreat including Keynotes: 10:00a - 7:00p MST ** Mini Retreat only Keynotes: 5:30 - 7:00p MST Full Group Sessions Artists 101: A Guide to Artist Calls for Entry & Refining Your Chances for Acceptance Sean Paul Gallegos Intellectual Property & Visual Sovereignty Raphael Begay, Artist & Sherri Brueggemann, City of Albuquerque UETF - Public Art Program Scores for Restoration: Performance-Making for Ecological Education (part 2) Kaitlin Bryson, Hollis Moore, Mariko Oyama Thomas & Rachel Zollinger, Submergence Collective Keynote Dialogue Session: Albuquerque Dreaming: Knowledge, Relationship & Insights from Creation, Native & Indigenous Visions for New Realities presented in partnership with Indigenous Dreaming, IndigenousPopX & Red Planet Books & Comics Nani Chacon & Lynnette Haozous, Artists & Lee Francis IV, Red Planet Books & Comics

** full retreat builds in time & space for rest, creativity, movement & reflection

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retreat program practices: Realizing

RAPHAEL BEGAY

RACHEL ZOLLINGER

ERIN ELDE

DANI BELVIN

JULIA MANDEVILLE

ZAHR MARWA

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MONDAY, MARCH 22

Special Dialogue Session: 4:00p - 5:30p MST Full Group Session New Mexico Creatives: A special dialogue session, where local creative organizations and nonprofits will hear about your current needs and aim to connect you with currently available resources. Facilitated by Elsa Menendez & Jeff Andersen, on behalf of the New Mexico Creatives Community Dialogue & Action Project. Participating Organizations Include: McMillan Works, Keshet Dance & Center for the Arts, Keshet Ideas & Innovation Community, City of Albuquerque Tipping Points for Creatives, Harwood Art Center, Arts Hub, Red Planet Books & Comics, Gibbous Creative, Wesst, National Institute of Flamenco, Albuquerque Dance Connect, and more

DAILY PRACTICES & PEER CONNECTIONS Small Group & Individual Activities Virtual Conversation Forums Movement & Meditation Sessions Reflection, Rest & Rejuvenation Periods Seed Circles: Small Peer Groups for Processing, Learning & Connecting Erin Elder, Gibbous Creative

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keynote dialogue partners

ZENJU EARTHLYN MANUEL visionary guest

KAISHIN UNIQUE HOLLAND visionary guide

THURSDAY, MARCH 18 5:30p - 7:00p MST register at harwoodartcenter.org

Keynote Dialogue Session Cultivating Peace Within Creativity

Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, born to parents who migrated from rural Louisiana at the start of WWII, has walked through many different doors spiritually and academically. She has a PhD; she’s a Zen Roshi; and she’s also a poet and author. Essentially, she’s a Seer in which she has woven herself into various frameworks to ultimately bring forth her visionary work. Zenju has embraced the active role of Seer, in watching for obstacles to awareness, despite the loss of such a role in the American culture. Her transmissions come through her books including, The Deepest Peace: Contemplations from a Season of Stillness, Sanctuary: A Meditation on Home, Homelessness, and Belonging, The Way of Tenderness: Awakening through Race, Sexuality, and Gender, and Black Angel Cards: 36 Oracles and Messages for Divining Your Life, her first visionary experience. Zenju also teaches from her experience of African and Native American Indigenous ceremony and her own awakening on the intersection of spirituality and systemic oppression. Learn more about Zenju at zenju.org

Kaishin Unique Holland is an educator, facilitator, and cultural strategist who has worked for over two decades developing community-engaged projects centered on racial equity and social justice explorations of community, youth leadership, and public policy. Unique currently leads program development for World Trust Educational Services, a racial equity organization that uses film, dialogue, and transformative education models to expand the capacity for individuals and organizations to create a world free from racism. Unique’s work as a collaborating artist and director has been performed and exhibited in the U.S. and internationally. This work is part of a long-term artistic and social engagement in conversations on equity, both in the arts and beyond. Learn more about Kaishin and World Trust Educational Services at world-trust.org

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keynote dialogue partners

KIM KNIGHT & SHANELLE McKENZIE THE VILLIJ

visionary guests

BABSY SINANDILE

BLAK GOLD WELLNESS

visionary guide

FRIDAY, MARCH 19 5:30p - 7:00p MST

Keynote Dialogue Session // Taking Care & Holding Power: Nurturing Radical Wellness & Well Being for the Creative Mind Kim Knight is a wellness entrepreneur, strategist and co-founder of The Villij. Her work addresses the disparity in access to health and wellness services in underserved communities. Inspired by her experiences as a womxn of colour and world traveler, Kim creates culturally adapted and peoplebased solutions for individual and communal healing. She’s currently building Inner Villij, a digital wellness platform helping womxn of colour grow, move and connect. Her self-care practices include meditating, yoga, reading about tech-philosophy, and spending time outdoors. Shanelle McKenzie is a mother, Wellness Activist, and Co-Founder of The Villij. Raised in the USA, she returned to Canada as a young adult and quickly realized that wellness spaces were nonrepresentative of her community. That’s when she became passionate about shifting the cultural norm. Today, while juggling her 9-5 and raising a family, Shanelle is bringing awareness to the importance of well-being for womxn of colour through hosting conversations and intentional spaces. Her self-care practices include physical workouts, yoga, meditation, and listening to soulful music. The Villij is a wellness community helping womxn of colour nurture their well-being at home, work, and in their communities. Founded by Kim Knight and Shanelle McKenzie, the Villij aims to encourage and support the mental, emotional, spiritual, physical, and financial advancement of womxn of colour. The collective has been featured in VOGUE, Elle Canada, Refinery 29, eTalk, Vice, and The Globe and Mail. Learn more about Kim, Shanelle, and The Villij at thevillij.com Babsy Sinandile is a Transformation Coach, Speaker, Wellness Event curator and the founder of Blak Gold Wellness Lounge. As a Certified Master Life Coach, Sinandile focuses on identifying and reversing mindset blocks that stem from years of generational trauma, through her signature Undoing Method (TM). As a self-proclaimed self-care strategist with a background in community health, she helps her people take excellent care of mind, body and soul through group and 1:1 coaching, educational and healing workshops, as well as inspirational social media content. She is a mother of two amazing girls, loves Salsa dancing and karaoke and indulges in an expensive hobby as a recording singer/songwriter. She has learned the importance of creating a life of joy and peace regardless of ones circumstances, through reading books by inspirational leaders, getting life coaching & therapy and following a spiritual journey that allows her to help others become their best, authentic self. Blak Gold Wellness Lounge is a global tribe of Black and Indigenous People Of Color, who want to reclaim their power, live life on their own terms, and own their value - all while living an abundant lifestyle and taking excellent care of mind, body and soul! From personal development workshops focused on self-care strategies, a growing online community of growth minded individuals, mental health awareness, positive visualization, goal-setting, and more, we can help create a life you love and KNOW you deserve. Learn more about Babsy and Black Gold Wellness at blakgoldwellness.com

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keynote dialogue partners

NOZIZWE MADLALAROUTLEDGE visionary guest

DAFINA TOUSSAINTÉ MCMILLAN visionary guide

SATURDAY, MARCH 20 10:00a - 11:30a MST register at harwoodartcenter.org

Keynote Dialogue Session // Igniting & Sustaining Social Change: Nourishment, Expression, Solidarity & Liberation Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge is a founder of Embrace Dignity, a South African feminist and abolitionist, human rights advocacy NGO established in 2010. She taught a 2020 Spring Semester Course on South Africa’s Peaceful Transition at Haverford College, to a diverse group of students from the Tri-Colleges (Haverford, Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges). The course, named “After the Sunset - Lessons in Transition to Peace - The South African Example” provided an opportunity to reflect on the achievements and shortcomings of the negotiated settlement, thirty years into that transition. She was one of few womxn at the negotiations for South Africa’s transition as part of CODESA (the Convention for a Democratic South Africa) and as a Member of Parliament and the Executive in the transition from apartheid, she served for fifteen years as a Member of Parliament in the South African parliament (1994 – 2009). In 2008 she was elected Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly. Prior to that she served as Deputy Minister of Defence and as Deputy Minister of Health. Nozizwe was a delegate at the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), a multi-party negotiations platform of all political stakeholders, which negotiated South Africa’s transition from apartheid. During the transition she worked as Managing Secretary of the Transitional Executive Council’s Subcouncil on the Status of Women. In 1994 she was elected onto the Constituent Assembly which drafted and adopted South Africa’s new Constitution. She is a recipient of the Tanenbaum Peacemakers Award and an honorary doctorate from Haverford College, Pennsylvania. She has a Bachelor of Social Science honours degree from the University of Cape Town. Learn more about Nozizwe and Embrace Dignity at embracedignity.org.za Dafina Toussainté McMillan has spent her career at the intersection of arts management, technology, philanthropy, equity facilitation, and communications. In addition to co-founding art + tech company, Crux, in 2020, she launched McMillan Works, a consulting business rooted in organizational development, strategic planning, coaching, and the skillful orchestration of comprehensive projects, plans and initiatives. Current and past clients include artEquity, the Center for Cultural Innovation, City of Albuquerque, Mariposa Strategies, National Black Theatre, New Mexico Black Leadership Council, and Penumbra Theatre.While in New York, NY, Dafina was previously a program officer on the arts team of Bloomberg Philanthropies. She also served as the Director of Communications & Conferences for Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national service organization for not-for-profit theatre. Prior to joining TCG, Dafina served as the Associate Managing Director of Penumbra Theatre in St. Paul, MN. She held numerous leadership positions at global public relations agency GCI Group (now Cohn & Wolfe), and consulted with the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts on marketing and community engagement initiatives. Dafina is an alumna of the Kennedy Center’s International Arts Management Fellowship in Washington, D.C. and a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. She serves on the board of the National Performance Network (NPN) and is a certified Zumba® instructor based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Learn more about Dafina and McMillan Works at https://www.mcmworks.co/

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keynote dialogue partners

NANI CHACON & LYNNETTE HAOZOUS

visionary guests

LEE FRANCIS 1V

visionary guide

SUNDAY, MARCH 21 5:30p - 7:00p MST

Keynote Dialogue // Albuquerque Dreaming: Knowledge, Relationship & Insights from Creation, Native & Indigenous Visions for New Realities Nani Chacon has more than twenty years of experience painting in public spaces. Early on, she began as a graffiti artist, learning and growing from the challenges the medium presented. Chacon worked to develop her technical skills as a large-scale painter, excelling in scale, color, design, composition and style. The experience also taught her about the public connection to art, marginalization in a public space, and how to reclaim space through community-based art. Chacon received a Bachelor of Arts in education, and has always felt that the importance of developing a skill and practice was to one day be able to share that knowledge with others. Chacon’s site-specific public art projects are community focused in that she directly collaborates and engages with the people from the community in which the work will be placed. Through conversations and research, her work reflects the landscape and people of that space. Chacon’s murals often address Indigenous thought, aesthetics, and identity, and, in effect, offer visibility to and empower Indigenous people. She places deep value in creating artworks that are accessible and offer the viewer a space in which they might contemplate important cultural and political connotations as they relate to the place in which the work is exhibited. Learn more about Nani at nanichacon.com Lynnette Haozous is Chiricahua Apache (of the San Carlos Apache Tribe), Diné, and Taos Pueblo. Haozous is a multi-medium artist, advocate and teacher, blending art and advocacy to bring attention to the current social conditions and injustices of Indigenous People. Mediums include acrylics, watercolors, and spray paint. Haozous received her Bachelors of Social Work degree in 2016 from New Mexico Highlands University and often blends her social work and art through teaching art at OffCenter Community Arts Project, and at Working Classroom Inc., both in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Haozous has received artist residencies through SWAIA, Nativo Lodge, Ute Mountain A.I.R., and more recently completed a residency at Santa Fe Art Institute for their “Truth & Reconciliation” Artist Residency in 2018. Haozous’ mural works can be found at Nativo Lodge Room 519, Hotel Chaco, OT Circus Gallery and Emerson Elementary School, all in Albuquerque, NM. Learn more about Lynnette at lynnettehaozous.com Lee Francis IV (Laguna Pueblo) is an educator, activist, poet, and comic creator with over fifteen years of experience teaching and conducting workshops with minority populations, especially in and around Indigenous and Native American communities in North America. His career has ranged through all aspects of education, from PreK to Higher Ed, from teaching to administration. His primary focus has always been on positive youth development and student success, with an eye towards the arts and exploring creativity in all aspects of education. He began his career with the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington DC and spent a number of years in New Mexico working with the Pueblo of Laguna Department of Education. He has served as the National Director of a Native American communityyouth development organization, Wordcraft Circle, Inc., that focuses on promoting stories as a means of local development and cultural sustainability. He is an award winning poet and performer, being published in numerous journals and appearing on stages around the U.S. He holds a PhD from Texas State University, and is CEO & Publisher at Native Realities Press. Learn more about Lee at redplanetbooksncomics.com

ROOT & BLOOM a (re) generative retreat for new mexico’s creatives BLOOMED & CURATED BY Dani Belvin, Harwood Art Center Julia Mandeville, Harwood Art Center ROOTED & DEVELOPED BY Helen Atkins, Harwood Art Center Tamara Bates, The Dots Between Dani Belvin, Harwood Art Center Jordyn Bernicke, Harwood Art Center Sherri Brueggemann, City of ABQ UETF - Public Art Program Jennifer DePaolo, Harwood Art Center Lee Francis IV, Indigenous Pop X, Red Planet Books & Comics Shira Greenberg, Keshet Dance & Center for the Art Julia Mandeville, Harwood Art Center Dafina McMillan, McMillan Works Adrian Moore Trask, Keshet Dance & Center for the Arts Carolyn Tobias, Keshet Dance & Center for the Arts Babsy Sinandile, Blak Gold Wellness Lounge Nina Sisneros, Indigenous Pop X, Red Planet Books & Comics SEEDED & SUPPORTED BY John Dubois, Nusenda Credit Union Chriselle Martinez, Nusenda Credit Union Shelle Sanchez, City of ABQ Cultural Services Department SOWN & ILLUSTRATED BY Zahra Marwan, zahramarwan.com

ROOT & BLOOM a (re) generative retreat for new mexico’s creatives COORDINATED BY HARWOOD ART CENTER RED PLANET BOOKS & COMICS KESHET DANCE & CENTER FOR THE ARTS LEADERSHIP SUPPORT FROM CITY OF ABQ:

TIPPING POINTS FOR CREATIVES INITIATIVE

NUSENDA CREDIT UNION

STRATEGIC THOUGHT PARTNERSHIP FROM MCMILLAN WORKS BLAK GOLD WELLNESS LOUNGE THE DOTS BETWEEN ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATION BY ZAHRA MARWAN