Leticia Nieto
With Dr. Leticia Nieto
Open Dates
Love as activism, Trust as musculature. Sunday, November 17th 2024 Through appreciative autobiography, we will explore experiences of sturdiness and stamina that have helped us build up the musculature of trust in life. Re-examining ideas of safer space in the context of trauma-informed engagement, we will invite a blueprint of love as activism. When we choose to love we choose to move against fear – against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect – to find ourselves in the other. - (bell hooks, All about Love, p. 125) We will be working with embodied enactment.…
Screening of Cannes Independent Shorts Official Selection,”Dark and Tender,” with Director Q&A, and Song Circle
With Aaron Johnson
Flexible Dates
The Whidbey Institute - Thomas Berry Hall
A Screening of the Film Recorded at Whidbey Institute Dark and Tender interrupts the Black Brute archetype and traces the earnest, compelling paths black men take to reclaim caring closeness and recover tender, platonic touch. With close-up encounters with nature, uncommon images of gentle Black masculinity, and the men facing, together, internalized obstacles to closeness, the short film captures the capacity of their nervous systems’ to heal when violence, rough sports, and tough play are replaced with tenderness and intimacy. Dark and Tender reveals the spirit of a movement, The Chronically UnderTouched (CUT) Project, and how it is restoring a…
Screening of “Bad Ass Women Doing Kick Ass Shit” with Director Q&A
With Abie Ekenezar
November 3, 2024
The Whidbey Institute - Thomas Berry Hall
Sunday November 3, 2024, 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM The film Bad Ass Women Doing Kick Ass Shit is an award-winning feature-length documentary that won Best Director in 2024 at the Cannes 7th Art Awards. Co-produced by Abie Ekenezar and A'Noelle Jackson, this compelling film spotlights at its center the unique experiences of Washington State Senator Mona Das and seven other BIPOC women as they ran for political office in the United States. Comprised of a series of authentic, personal conversations, this film shines a light on the daily lives and struggles these magnetic women faced during their individual campaigns. Screening of…