Hetep! Habari Gani!!! Kuchijagulia!!! I'm teaching "Conjure Relics", a free cultural-arts workshop Saturday, 28 December at the George Washington Carver Museum, Cultural and Genealogy Center from 11am-3pm. Conjure Relics Is a free four-hour cultural-arts workshop taught by Nailah I. Akinyemi-Sankofa on understanding and creating a version of an "Igi" (a traditional West Afrikan ancestral staff or walking staff) and a Spirit-Message Bottle. This workshop, also on the Kwanzaa principle Ujimaa. It will include informal discussions on Afrikan Diaspora cultural traditions related to the workshop projects and the works featured in the "Alaase: Messages Within the Conjure" exhibition currently showing at the Carver Museum. Participants will select either the Igi or Spirit Bottle project to work on (not both). To give your project a personal touch we suggest participants bring fabric scraps or garments (to be cut up), buttons, string, ribbon, shells, beads/sequins, a clean glass bottle (coloured, clear or textured) and other natural sentimental/decorative items that reflect your cultural heritage and/or lineage to embellish your Igi or Spirit-Message Bottle. The Igi and Bottles created in the workshop will be setup as a temporary installation that recall bottle trees in the Diaspora. No art experience necessary. For ages 13 and up. Space is limited (5-15). Please RSVP by signing up on the Eventbrite link by 9pm Friday, 27 December at: https://conjurerelicsculturalartsworkshop.eventbrite.com For more Alaase: Messages Within the Conjure programming please visit the Carver Museum and AlaaseConjurer Facebook pages. #carvermuseumaustintx #alaasemessageswithintheconjure #blackculturalartsinaustin #kwanzaa #kwanzaaaustin (at George Washington Carver Museum, Cultural and Genealogy Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6lhnKclOFn/?igshid=4a8m6x66hfhw
