SPRING REFRESH FOR CREATIVE SOULS ✨ One of our core 3 pillars is LIBERATE SPACE,, a strategy for creating spaces to deepen connection and creativity. Liberate your space and your ARTISTIC SPIRIT! Here are our offerings to help RISE UP in your creative practice: 🔥 [SLIDE 1:] MORNING PAGES Before the world gets loud, fill 3 pages with unfiltered thoughts each morning. No judgment, no rules. Just you and the page. (Quick Trivia: This practice was made famous by Julia Cameron’s timeless book, ‘The Artist’s Way’, a book Doechii attributes for unlocking her creative fire!) [SLIDE 2:] NATURE IMMERSION Connect with the earth. Ocean waves, park benches, sidewalk cracks, the world holds patterns and rhythms your art is hungry for. Move your body through space and watch inspiration flow. [SLIDE 3:] FILL YOUR CUP Surround yourself with other artists’ work. Galleries, museums, street art, let their vision inspire you. Creative energy is CONTAGIOUS. Catch it. (Photo by Wakanda, Worldbuilding and Afrofuturism for a World Without Violence PUBLISHED 10/21/2019 by WAKANDA DREAM LAB AND RESONANCE NETWORK) [SLIDE 4:] ANCESTOR DIALOGUES Sit with the work of those who came before you. What would your artistic ancestors tell you about your blocks? Their struggles and breakthroughs live in your creative DNA. Your practice is SACRED. Your voice is NECESSARY. Now go, CREATE! #CreativeRituals #ArtistRenewal #SpringRefresh #BettiOno #CreativePractice #ArtistsSupport (fb)

ONE OF THE LAST ONES. DON’T MISS THIS. 🖤 @exhalecollective returns with “eros and responsibility”—a powerful, love-rooted workshop inspired by bell hooks’ Sisters of the Yam and Audre Lorde’s Uses of the Erotic. Through meditation, dialogue, and applique quilting, we’ll reflect on eros as a practice of healing and self-determined care—for ourselves, for each other, and for Black women and girls in Oakland. 🧵 Each block created will become part of a community quilt—a love letter stitched with intention, memory, and resistance. Curated by @exhalecollective and presented by the Betti Ono Foundation This is part of the “one black woman breathing” series. Come through. Come whole. Come ready to honor the threads that bind us. 📅 Saturday, May 31 🕚 11 AM – 2 PM PDT 📍 1411 Center St, Oakland, CA 94607 #ExhaleCollective #OneBlackWomanBreathing #CommunityQuilt #BlackWomensHealing #ErosAsPower #AudreLorde #bellhooks #OaklandArt Photo Credit: @bychidera photography Eventbrite Link in Bio! (fb)