PR ARCHIVES
Men of Water
A virtual BIPOC Men’s group that meets once a month to discuss and move through edgy and difficult topics.
Virtual BIPOC Men’s group that meets once a month to discuss and move through edgy and difficult topics. Some of the topics that we have covered are: Anti- Black and anti- Asian sentiments, Body Parts, and what does it mean to be a man?
#CancelRent for AAPI
Fundraising for Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence (CAAAV) to #cancelrent through Affinity groups
In response to the difficulties of working class Asian Americans in Chinatown to pay for rent during the beginning of COVID-19 I helped to raise around $3300 for the #CancelRent campaign to prevent evictions through half a dozen affinity spaces for Asian Americans to process what was going on around anti-asian hate and life.
Mourning Ritual
A space for educators to be in their bodies and movement to mourn their losses from COIVD. National Education Association July 15th 2020
80+ educators gently shifted their weight side to side to sense the element of water as they connected to their emotions and grief with loss from COVID-19. And they sensed into the earth through subtle balance shifts. We called out the names of lost loved ones and poured libations literally and metaphorically through our movements.
Breathe Again! Recovery from COVID-19 and State Inflicted Harm for POC
A BIPOC- only, anti-racist embodied healing space. We move and engage in deep reflection and play to address our burning questions in life and access our deep joys and hurts.
WHEN: SUNDAYS 9:30-11am EST (Since March 2020)
Where: Contact Andrew for Zoom Link!
What: This is an BIPOC- only, anti-racist embodied healing space. We move. And we engage in deep reflection and play to address our burning questions in life and access our deep joys and hurts. We welcome all BIPOC across genders, sexualities, age, ability, etc. If you desire to be in a safe processing community, where you can be your full self, this is the place.
Testimony:
Breathe Again! takes gentle and mindful movement to another level. Andrew’s presence as a teacher and guide offers participants comfort and support, so that we may learn how to do the same for our bodies. The thoughts and ideas Andrew offers in movement are eye-opening and bring us closer to the gift of knowing ourselves. When I had Covid symptoms, I felt deeply disconnected. Breathe Again has become important in my healing journey and helps me return to my body with presence and grace.
-Marjorie Grace Milloria
"Each Sunday, Andrew facilitates exercises for BIPOC to take time together to listen to the wisdom in our individual bodies, and collectively move through space. We focus on healing and dismantling old harmful and delusional systems. This experience stays with me throughout the week and I am grateful for the supportive energy this work unearths."
- Joey Christiano Diaz
Classes have continued weekly from March 2020 to the present.
MOMA Divest from Blackrock!
Supporting the bodies of protestors outside of the MOMA during their grand reopening for donors.
Supporting the bodies of protesters outside of the Museum of Modern Art to find resilience in their breath and weight shift to ground and settle. And power in their legs to say No, No to mass incarceration, No to weapon manufacturing, No to the destruction of the environment.
And connection to the heart to say Yes to Sanctuary, Yes to community, Yes to creativity, Yes to Land.
Questioning Disembodied Land Acknowledgements
Deconstructing notions of freedom in Settler Consciousness: Parcon Resilience @ Ontario Jam 2019
In this Parcon Resilience workshop at the Ontario Contact Improvisation Festival we deconstructed notions of freedom in Settler Consciousness. This class was constructed in response to an inadequate land acknowledgement at the beginning of the Festival that did not name the harmed indigenous tribes nor admit settler colonial culpability to being on their land. Participants were guided to access a sense of unbound freedom and exploration, then the history of indigenous genocide was shared, and participants were guided to refind their sense of fullness and expression knowing this history.
Thank you Sarah Jones for making such a wonderful documentary of the PR class on settler consciousness.
Revolution Jam to remove racist statue
Protesting to remove the Marion Sims statue in East Harlem. (white gynecologist who experimented on enslaved African women).
Where: Duke Ellington Circle and J Marion Sims Statue
When: Afternoon in October 15th, 2017
Who: 6 Movers and Activist expert to guide discussion
What: The first hour we held a Parcon class investigating our sense of belonging and our self-determination to bear weight through any surface in relation to others and the environment. The second hour, conversations with a field expert on DACA, and the final hour a Parcon Action on the Marion Sims statue. Sims was the founder of "modern day gynecology," who maimed and killed hundreds of enslaved women to develop his techniques.
TESTIMONY:
"Parcon brings us back to our bodies and our inherent need for play and adventure... Various exercises were explored in such a way that gave each participant to experience what it means for them be in a position of power, and in other cases to be the one who does not have power. Exercises were also culminated with a discussion and feedback. These allowed the participants to have a chance to express more ideas, make connection between the exercises and her daily lives, and also create meaningful conversations with other participants and through their different lens and experience. " - Ea Torrado
Links to more Info:
What's happened to the statue to date?