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Sunday Medicine #Repost @regineromain with @get_repost ・・・ COME JOIN US TODAY! ANCESTORS: Roots + Reverence at @minkabrooklyn ✨SPOTLIGHT✨ 6:30 pm Panel Discussion w/ African Centered Religious and Spiritual Practitioners - ✨Iyalorisa Osunyoyin Alake @osunyoyinalake,✨ Photo by @regineromain #regineromain ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ✨Osunyoyin Alake Ifarike,✨ is an African American anthro-photo-journalist, fine arts photographer, teaching artist, Osun priestess, Iyanifa, jewelry designer, sidereal astrologer, and poet. Osunyoyin Alake keeps and active lecture schedule where she discusses such topics as traditional African spirituality, the sacred and the feminine in Yoruba culture, the spoken word artist as griot, poetry and international travel for women traveling alone. The "Diaspora Diaries: An Educator’s Guide to MoCADA Artists” (Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art in Brooklyn New York) is a representation of the range of her artistic work. It includes the front cover photograph, twelve photographs inside, a poem called "Eternally Among Us" and a feature article "Home Here: African Art in the Diaspora" She currently lives in Harlem, New York City. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• #ancestors #blackreligion #blackspirituality #orishatraditions #osunyoyinalake #minkabrooklyn https://www.instagram.com/dominicanslovehaitiansmovement/p/Bpw3CgPl4U-/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1kfy91e79u6h2
What I love about this story is how in riding up we appropriated something they believed we should have no access to. And now it’s the soup eaten to commentate Haitian Independence. Now mind you growing up culturally Dominican I was always eating this soup. I can see now how my Liberation was a given from birth. #souojomou #liberation #decolonize #dominicanslovehaitians #dopesister #regineromain #speakingtruth
What can you tell us about your methodological approach to this project? In what conditions did you devise and construct this journey? How long did it take you to complete it – if the idea of closure was ever at stake in this project?
This project is an act of will, memory and cultural recovery that is developing a living archive of images, stories and experiences of a spiritual legacy that refuses to be forgotten.
Brooklyn to Benin brings Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Tell My Horse’ to photographic life, while conveying a feminine vision of Paulo Coelho’s ‘The Alchemist.’ Participatory observation and engagement are key methods in gaining knowledge and sharing wisdom gathered on this sojourn.
Photography, ethnographic research, interviews, archival photographs are being gathered to create a book of visual narrative as well as mobile multi-media performances with international performing artists.
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The time has come to launch my GOFUNDME campaign...
From January to April, I will be traveling in West Africa! In Benin, I will be attending the annual Vodou Festival. In Benin and Togo, I will be studying with traditional healers learning the about the divine alchemy that is Vodou and then off to Guinea for a 4week workshop in traditional dance. This project is a pilgrimage of a daughter born on the other side of the water – delving into depths of an ancient cascade of myth, memory, magic, and mystery.
Please support/follow the journey:
www.gofundme.com/BKtoBenin
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