Becoming Crew x Azul Carolina Duque (GTDF): Facing Denials & Unlearning our Colonial Habits of Being

Facing Denials & Unlearning our Colonial Habits of Being

In our 2nd sessions of the series, we are joined by Artist and Educator - Azul Carolina Duque of Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Collective.

This is a participative, experimental online workshop, offering fertiliser from our guest teacher as well as practices to creatively respond to the session as a way of being in relationship with the 'content' offered.

The session is hosted by Dan Burgess and Evva Semenowicz.

About the session

What if the systems that create our sense of prosperity and that give us hope, enjoyment and a sense of safety are both inherently violent and unsustainable?

Facing the magnitude of the task of enabling a world without violent and unsustainable relations requires more than a change of values, narratives, convictions or protocols: it requires an interruption of conscious and unconscious harmful desires hidden behind promises of entitlements and securities that people hold on to, particularly when they are afraid of pain, loss, scarcity and belittlement.

In this session we will set the bases for the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures pedagogy: we will explore diffractive tools to hold multiplicity, social cartographies as navigation tools to find ways of moving in spaces of volatility, ambiguity, complexity and uncertainty, as well as visibilize the denials that uphold the violent system(s) both within and around us.

About this series of online events:

Becoming Crew is collaborating with a faculty of guest teachers to bring participative, (un)learning sessions, exploring how might we compost & re-imagine the dominant story of our times, the story of our separation

Session 1 | Departing 28th of May

Guest Teacher Bayo Akomolafe - The Age of Fugitivity >register here

Session 2  | Descending 25th of June

Guest Teacher Azul (Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures) - Facing Denials & Unlearning our Colonial Habits of Being  > register here

Session 3 | Dreaming 16th of July

Guest Teacher Ella Saltmarshe - How being polytemporal can help us meet this moment.

3 months 3 gatherings - everyone welcome.

Pick one, two or all three .

For curious people, longing to create more beautiful, peaceful, life-sustaining cultures.

*After attending this event you'll have access to our ongoing community of practice, which includes seasonal online gatherings around the Wheel of The Year *
About Becoming Crew

Becoming Crew is a platform for relational (un)learning, composting & radically reimagining the dominant story of our times; the story of our separation. We practice & uphold the change we want to see in the world through (un)learning experiences and communities of practice that bring us back to belonging with the Web of Life.

Becoming Crew is born from The Spaceship Earth Podcast.

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