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SUMMARY:Our Language\, Our Story: Photos by Joyce Xi
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, June 12\, 20266-8 pmFREE (registration requested) 								\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n				\n							\n			\n		\n						\n				\n				\n				\n									Join us for Opening Doorways for Belonging and Liberation\, an experiential workshop that invites us to slow down and experience what it means to belong—to ourselves\, each other and the natural world. This workshop weaves together meditation\, healing rituals\, sacred reflection\, community care circles and a screening of Kirthi Nath’s film PARAMITA.    PARAMITA is a 24-minute documentary that bears witness to Prajna Choudhury’s 25-year coming out process with her traditional Bangladeshi mother and her journey of connecting with Buddhist practices and nature as gateways for acceptance and intergenerational healing.    Together\, let’s explore healing and belonging as living practices of resistance and renewal\, where resilience meets joy\, and where we cultivate the connections needed for a more whole and liberated future. This experience will be facilitated by filmmaker Kirthi Nath.   This event is free to attend\, but registration is requested at the link below. 								\n				\n				\n				\n							\n			\n		\n						\n				\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n									\n					\n						\n									Register for Free Tickets\n					\n					\n				\n								\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n				\n							\n			\n		\n						\n				\n				\n				\n							\n			\n						\n		\n						\n				\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																														\n				\n				\n				\n							\n			\n		\n						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n									About the Filmmaker  Kirthi Nath is an award-winning South Asian lesbian filmmaker whose work centers BIPOC voices and storytelling as a pathway for healing\, belonging and collective liberation. Her body of work fluidly straddles genres\, occupying a fertile landscape of cultural poetics\, social justice and spirituality. Kirthi’s films have been featured at Mill Valley Film Festival\, CAAMFest\, Frameline\, Bengal International Shorts\, DisOrient\, SF Doc Fest and more. She has received grants from the Center for Asian American Media\, V-Day\, Re-Present Media and the Center for Cultural Innovation\, and has been selected to participate in A-Doc Allies\, BGDM MafiaMind\, Bitchitra Curated Programs\, RePresent Media Fellowship and Looky Looky’s Impact Producer Incubator. Kirthi is also the founder and lead filmmaker at Cinemagical Media\, a woman of color-led creative agency specializing in filmmaking\, creative strategy and impact producing that partners with organizations\, communities and changemakers to produce films and workshops that uplift marginalized voices\, invite cultural transformation and reimagine liberation. 								\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n				\n							\n			\n		\n						\n				\n		\n					\n				\n				\n							\n			\n						\n		\n						\n				\n				\n				\n									Praise for Opening Doorways for Belonging and Liberation  “Watching PARAMITA and participating in the healing workshop afterward reminded me that healing is possible\, even when it hasn’t happened within my own family. It gave me peace\, teaching me that healing can flow both forward to future generations and backward to my ancestors. This practice of healing\, rooted in love and understanding\, has become a source of strength for me.” – Carletta Bullock\, Buddhist Practitioner  “PARAMITA is a beautiful film… reflective\, quietly stirring\, beautiful\, hopeful\, and helps me remember who I am… who we all are.” – Phoenix Song\, Performer/Writer/Facilitator  “As a queer South Asian\, it was powerful and healing to see an experience that affirmed we are not separate from our culture if we are queer. The film and healing workshop gave me a sense of belonging—affirming my own experience and reminding me that I am not alone.” – Anonymous
URL:https://oacc.cc/event/joyce-xi/
LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Upcoming Events,Upcoming Exhibitions
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