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?
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.
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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.
Site-specific Wed Nights
Get in touch with a moving collective you!
Open for all abilities and ages — teenagers and up.
Where: Nelson A Rockefeller Park (West on Chamber st until you get to Battery Park)
When: Wednesday 6:30-9:30pm
Classes are open!
Realizing liberation is impossible without self and relational awareness and the desire to learn.
Parcon Resilience is a POC centered practice. It opens up the practice of liberation to incorporate the mind through the body in relation to itself, others and the environment via creative movement and weight sharing. In this workshop movers will develop their tools for self-care, making boundaries, and making requests of themselves and others to center and get what they want. Participants will also develop active listening skills connecting language to movement, touch and the development of structured improvisations to support the deepening or investigation of experience as a collective. These tools are powerful and give us access to working with the conscious and subconscious. Our lens will be anti-racist and anti-oppressive and the themes will be our relationship to power, self, community and the world we live in.
Classes will be ⅔ majority people of color. That means if you are a white person you must: 1) RSVP with us to see if there is space or 2) bring two non-white friends OR 3) be placed on a waiting list until our ratios balance.
For now while we are recruiting there are open classes in thru the summer; the rate is $15-$35 a class.
*NO ONE WILL BE TURNED AWAY BC OF FINANCES! We will work it out! Email Kimberly with questions! architate@gmail.com
*No class June 26th or July 3rd.
!!!Seniors in East Harlem
Parcon Resilience with Senior Centers in East Harlem, NYC, NY 10029
Parcon Resilience classes are currently offered at two senior centers in East Harlem. Following the overwhelmingly successful Su Casa LMCC spring 2018 series at La Corsi, we were awarded another Su Casa Artist’s in Residency at the Jefferson Senior Center a few blocks away. Their shared mother organization is Union Settlement. They have taken us on financially to continue offering classes at La Corsi without the LMCC grant.
When through 2019
Mondays 10:30-11:30am @ La Corsi Senior Center, 307 E116thst, NYC, NY 10029
Thursdays 10:30- 11:30am @ the Jefferson Senior Center, 2205 First Ave, NYC, NY 10029
Friday 10:45am - 11:30am @ The Carter Burden center 312 E 109th st, NYC, NY 10029
What:
Parcon Resilience
@ La Corsi, we have utilized a modular adapatble gym which you can see below. Ramps, benches, bars, and poles are all adjustable to hang on or to sit on an turn around at whatever angles work best for the bodies at play.
Testimony
Su Casa 2018: La Corsi Senior Center
Seniors at the La Corsi house in East Harlem practice connecting through shared balance. They must stand their ground and lean into one another at the same time!
Above: 7/14/18 10-1pm. Ran free movement workshop and presentation with the seniors of the La Corsi center highlighting Parcon and their experiences with it at the Union Settlement Health fair for 800-1000 seniors of East Harlem, NY.
Andrew Suseno is a participant in SU-CASA. SU-CASA is a collaboration among the New York City Council, the Department of Cultural Affairs, the Department for the Aging and the City's five local arts councils. This program is administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and supported by public funds from the New York City Council in partnership with the Department of Cultural Affairs and the Department for the Aging. LMCC.net.
Seniors learned Parcon. Together we learned how to improve our balance and our embodiment of No and Yes in our lives. Each class brought new discoveries in balance and the stories of our classmates. Consent is key to accessing freedom of expression and intimacy within connection. We formed a wonderfully tight knit group!
Special thanks to my co-teachers: Nancy Allison and Ione Lewis.
Where: La Corsi House Senior Center in East Harlem, NYC, NY, 10029
When: January through June 2018
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