RECLAIM:
an invitation in ancestral exploration through creative practice and our first online offering
When we make, our hands sing a love song to our ancestors, and they listen.
When we re-learn lost crafts we repair broken lineages and pave the way for future ancestors.
When we re-write stories, histories, our words are healing spells that can manifest our desires.
To all of us who grew far from our motherlands, caught between cultures and ways of being, who yearned for something that was not there…
to all of us who wanted to create but never thought we could and for all of us that create and want connect to that which is beyond reach.
This is an invitation to conjure some modern heirlooms…
Taking place in the digital realm in March 2023, Across 6 sessions led by Corinne Aivazian, Blue Firth, Ani Carla Kalafian and Taymour Soomro we will write Incations, use our hands to weave spells and tune into the whispers of our ancestors to support you in your journey of ancestral reclamation through your creative practice. Early bird booking is currently open.
More about your guides and the portals they will open:
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Blue Firth
POTTER, DESIGNER & WITCH
Blue has Orcadian, Russian and Ukrainian heritage. Her other outputs include Dohm ceramics, podcasts on witchcraft, tarot readings and bespoke rituals She leads us through an altar making class using air drying clay that you will make yourself and infuse with symbology that calls you home.
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Taymour Soomro
WRITER
Taymour is the author of the exquisite novel Other Names for Love and is the co-editor, with Deepa Anappara, of Letters to a Writer of Colour. He shares his experience of writing about his homeland as well as other places and people that no longer exist, and guides us through workshopping our own texts which act as love letters to people and places otherwise untouchable.
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Ani Carla Kalafian
MASTER COFFEE READER
Ani Carla Kalafian comes from a long line of ancestral seers. She uses a combination of sharing intuitive information, deep wisdom through symbols and signs, psychometry and channeling spirit. She will share a little of her story and incredible gifts as an expert in the art of divination through ancestral coffee reading.
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Corinne Aivazian
CERAMIST, POET & FILMAKER
Corinne is founder of Terra Ancestral and Casa Julfa she shares her experience of more than a decade of ancestral reclamation and transformation across various art forms and supporting others to do the same.
