Healing the Black Body

19/08/2024

Hi NYC FB fam!!!!! My org Healing the Black Body is hosting our first ever FESTIVAL 🥳🥳🥳 Black Abundance is THIS Wednesday at Weeksville Heritage Center! Come through for free movement workshops, herbal workshops, performances, vendors and more! We are celebrating the healing and liberation work in our Black communities. Hope to see you there!

13/04/2024

Hi Facebook Fam! We are celebrating our 5 year anniversary! And we have just launched our new fundraising campaign! Can you support and share?

Support Healing the Black Body - an organization with a mission to create, build, and practice healing and liberation in Black communities through performance art, Black feminism, and movement!

11/01/2024

We are hosting auditions for our groundbreaking residency, The Kinetic Altar Residency! OPEN CALL for Black, q***r, trans, and gender expansive folks aged 21 - 26! Our audition is for healing artists, movers, and creators who use performance art as a healing tool. Residents get paid a total of $2500 in five monthly installments! Apply here: http://bit.ly/KineticAltar by January 19th!

28/11/2023

Happy Giving Tuesday! Support Healing the Black Body as we prepare for our 2024 programming! Donate here:

Healing the Black Body is an offering to create, build, and practice healing and liberation in Black q***r and trans communities through performance, Black Feminism, and movement. We offer performance rituals, youth leadership cultivation, and cultural organizing to make worlds and create futures of...

29/04/2023

Join us in welcoming these twelve nonprofit Executive Directors as this year's Cause Effective Focus on Fundraising cohort! See someone you know? Tag them and leave a congratulatory note below!

Since 2021, this program has equipped Executive Directors of color to build and enhance their fundraising skills across their staff and organization. These Executive Directors will participate in conversations and exercises to develop their ability to work with their Boards to establish an effective fundraising team. This program enables greater mission-centered growth and impact as Executive Directors lead their organizations in raising more money in a more sustainable fashion.

Organizations represented in the cohort are: The New York Immigration Coalition; Teachers & Writers Collaborative; We Are Not Afraid Community Resource Center; Poderistas; Healing the Black Body; The Supportive Housing Network of New York; LOUD For Tomorrow; The National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC); Getting Out and Staying Out - GOSO; Navigate the Maze to Achievement; New York Professional Advisors for Entrepreneurs; and Faith in New York.

29/04/2023

Check out We Are Family Foundation!!! Call for artists 🌹

Art is a necessary component of social justice work. And this generation of Creatives is committed to transformative change. Here’s how several of our Frontliners are using Performing Arts as a medium to address systemic injustice:

Eltee Skillz - ODG Amapiano (Ayibi Yibiyo) Official Dance Video (2022) https://youtu.be/Yv5LWUTxm34
🎥 ChezaCheza Dance Foundation, Francis Odhiambo

ode to the future (2022) – Original poem performance at IFC 2022 https://youtu.be/FlJaeIuLevk
🎥 Word Smash Poetry, Vanessa Chisakula

Confessional (Performance Ritual from 2019, shared in 2022) https://instagram.com/p/Caztg42A171/
🎥 Healing the Black Body, Nana “Na” Chinara

Comikk MG Slam Poetry Performance Hosted by The Verso Vivo Foundation at SlamPoeticoFestivalColombia (2019) https://youtu.be/ZCxPrv2tTp4
🎥 Fundación Verso Vivo, Oscar Adrian Gómez Avella, Comikk MG

Are you using the “power of art” to shift the narrative, to inspire change through a social justice lens?

Then learn more about Youth To The Front Fund’s invitation for Creatives — With grants up to $20,000, we designed this special call for young BIPOC or BIPOC-Ally Creative Organizers, Cultural Storytellers, and Artist Collectives who are using their voice and creative mediums to fight systemic racism, inequality, inequity and injustice in local and global communities.

Click here to find out everything you need to know about the funding opportunity & submit your application before the deadline on May 18, 2023, at 11:59PM EST: https://www.wearefamilyfoundation.org/creatives-fund

29/04/2023

Art is a necessary component of social justice work. And this generation of Creatives is committed to transformative change. Here’s how several of our Frontliners are using Performing Arts as a medium to address systemic injustice:

Eltee Skillz - ODG Amapiano (Ayibi Yibiyo) Official Dance Video (2022) https://youtu.be/Yv5LWUTxm34
🎥 ChezaCheza Dance Foundation, Francis Odhiambo

ode to the future (2022) – Original poem performance at IFC 2022 https://youtu.be/FlJaeIuLevk
🎥 Word Smash Poetry, Vanessa Chisakula

Confessional (Performance Ritual from 2019, shared in 2022) https://instagram.com/p/Caztg42A171/
🎥 Healing the Black Body, Nana “Na” Chinara

Comikk MG Slam Poetry Performance Hosted by The Verso Vivo Foundation at SlamPoeticoFestivalColombia (2019) https://youtu.be/ZCxPrv2tTp4
🎥 Fundación Verso Vivo, Oscar Adrian Gómez Avella, Comikk MG

Are you using the “power of art” to shift the narrative, to inspire change through a social justice lens?

Then learn more about Youth To The Front Fund’s invitation for Creatives — With grants up to $20,000, we designed this special call for young BIPOC or BIPOC-Ally Creative Organizers, Cultural Storytellers, and Artist Collectives who are using their voice and creative mediums to fight systemic racism, inequality, inequity and injustice in local and global communities.

Click here to find out everything you need to know about the funding opportunity & submit your application before the deadline on May 18, 2023, at 11:59PM EST: https://www.wearefamilyfoundation.org/creatives-fund

04/03/2021

One final Mantra for your Healing!

NYALLAH
they/sheyallah

I am pure.
I am powerful.
I am valued.
I am valuable.
I am soft and strong at the same time.
I am wise.
I am intentional.
I am present.
I burn like fire.
I move like air.
I ground like earth.
I flow like water.
I am gifted, and appreciative fo these gifts.
I am doing my absolute best, and that is enough.

Even when others do not see, I am putting my best foot forward.
I am honest, with myself and others.

I am the best version of myself to date.
I am thankful for how far I’ve come.

And I give thanks to where I’m going.

NYALLAH they/she .yallah NYALLAH is a bi-coastal, multifaceted and community-centric musical artist with a passion for social change through multiple artistic…

01/03/2021

Today is the last day of our project of digital spells. Thank y’all for witnessing this Black q***r and trans enchantment. Black healing is all year long, and we hope this magic is something you return to from time to time, at the right time.

alx moon
they/love/we


Black as Resistance/ Trans as Transcendent: a love letter to my sibs, lovers, & kin

alx moon they/love/we Alx Moon is q***r agender nonbinary trans Black/Haitian/Arawak/ French third culture kid; freak, lover, dreamer, warrior and…

28/02/2021

Happy ! All month long, we will be sharing digital spells for healing and liberation, made by Black q***r and trans artists! We invite you to feel, embody, live, breathe, internalize, witness, question, and heal with these spells!

TJ
they/them


a message.

channeled from my ears, to my heart, to you all.

Transcript:
been giving away myself too easily
forgetting how much that i mean to me
the power inside equals divinity
journeying to higher frequencies

mastering solitude
thats what im spose to do
silence my attitude
ancestors told me to

ego getting small
boundaries getting tall

been giving away myself too easily
forgetting how much that i mean to me
the power inside equals divinity
journeying to higher frequencies

TJ they/them TJ is a mover, lover and mystic . A Brooklyn native who doesn’t stop fighting, ever. They hope to create art that exposes the…

27/02/2021

Happy ! All month long, we will be sharing digital spells for healing and liberation, made by Black q***r and trans artists! We invite you to feel, embody, live, breathe, internalize, witness, question, and heal with these spells!

jah elyse sayers
they/them
/ .makes

having received the imperative to supply theories, answers, explanations, “quiet” comes from a place of refusal, from the inward turn that decimates and dissolves the self and willfully spirals into the mass/ the black hole/ the nothing that will become of us all.
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everything feels forced

and nothing’s been fluid

lots of stuck little rest
too much space between breaths
so much space between words

don’t even wanna be heard

quiet
like got no answers
quiet
like back of the hearse

quiet
like low whistle
of the wind at your back

quiet
like coal black
knowin that coal can be crystal

everything feels forced

and I want it to be easeful

so i quiet
down
can’t move me out of peaceful

quiet
like I can hear myself
like my soul reinforced
like not gonna drown
and not gonna produce
i’m gon’ find my own blissful
and share it with you

we can hold quiet
like prayer
strip all the sound bare

quiet
like defiance
like we treasure our air

elements in alliance
there will be no compliance
not even giving a No
quiet
like gaining mass
and the density grow

that’s quiet
like black hole
and nothing escapes it
and there is no control
that’s quiet
like chaos
and the nothing that shapes it

everything feels forced

til you be quiet
and be coal
and be chaos
and be stone
and defiance

everything feels forced
til you be quiet
force that guide it

jah elyse sayers they/them / .makes jah elyse sayers (they/them) is moved by desire, defiance, refusal, and transformation. through a blend of…

26/02/2021

Today's Spell Artist: 2/2 Shanel Edwards
Happy ! All month long, we will be sharing digital spells for healing and liberation, made by Black q***r and trans artists! We invite you to feel, embody, live, breathe, internalize, witness, question, and heal with these spells!

Shanel Edwards
They/them/we/us


shanel edwards is a Philadelphia rooted, first-generation Jamaican, Black, Q***r, Non- binary, artist, and world-builder. They utilize movement, filmmaking, hairstyling, poetry, and photography as channels. Their creations are birthed through their Black q***r and trans existence, tenderness, water, intimacy, and collective dreaming. shanel is a 2020 Mural Arts fellow and was a 2019 Artist in Residence with Urban Movement Arts (Philadelphia). They have choreographed for productions at The University of the Arts (2019), and Princeton University (2020). shanel works closely with spirit and their ancestors through herbal knowledge, divination, and channeling through movement to envoke and envision a world where Black trans women are liberated.

how to build a home pt. 1

a black q***r femme, wearing an orange shirt in their salmon pink room with their locs and cowrie shells in their hair. images moving of them are moving.The background is a nebula sky.

Shanel Edwards They/them/we/us shanel edwards is a Philadelphia rooted, first-generation Jamaican, Black, Q***r, Non- binary, artist, and world-builder.…