EMBODIED DREAMSCAPES
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EMBODIED DREAMSCAPES
24.05. & 25.05.2025
11:00 AM – 2:30 PM
AMBi - PRAXIS FÜR INTERSEKTIONALES WOHLBEFINDEN
Embodied Dreamscapes is a weekend retreat for Black and People of Color artists and cultural workers centered around imaginations and practices of joy and envisioning of collective futures during turbulent times.
Embodied Dreamscapes is organized and hosted by Sunanda Mesquita at AMBi – space for intersectional wellbeing in Vienna and takes place as part of the D—Arts Open Call Practices of Resistance.
Participation is free of charge. To register, please fill out the questionnaire.
Programme
DAY 1
24.05.25
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Black to the Future: a Imagination Lab facilitated by Ford Kelly (they/them). This two hour collage and vision making workshop is an invitation to explore Black joy and nourishment for our past, present and future selves.
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Collective Lunch and Hang out Space for Black artists & cultural workers hosted by Ford Kelly (they/them).
Invitation Policy: This workshop is for Black artists and cultural workers and will be centered around queer, femme & trans Black people. The session will be held in English. Please let us know when you register if you need a translation or if you have any additional accessibility requirements for the workshop.
DAY 2
25.05.25
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Joyful connections: Movement Session with Nina Sandino
In this two hour session we’ll explore the joy that arises in connection—with ourselves, each other, and the world that surrounds us. Through movement and interactive exercises with the elements of water, air, fire, and earth, we’ll cultivate a sense of play, belonging, and shared joy. This is a space to reconnect, support one another, and celebrate the power of community.
Invitation Policy: This workshop is open for all BIPoC artists and cultural workers and will be centered around queer, femme & trans BIPoCs. The session will be held in English. Please let us know when you register if you need a translation or if you have any additional accessibility requirements for the workshop.
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Collective Lunch for all BIPoC artists & cultural workers hosted by Sunanda Mesquita
Biographies
Ford Kelly (they/them) is a BLAQALIEN - creative - artistic dreamer based in Berlin. A gender dissident seeking to explore the way our dream worlds and futuristic imaginings of Blackness can fuel our everyday being while creating portals into the expansiveness of what Blackness can mean and be represented. For them Blackness is a limitless journey that extends beyond this realm. All explored within a multi diasporic Afrofuturist framework.
Nina Sandino (she/they) is an architect and movement artivist, working independently as an eco social designer, choreographer/performer and dance facilitator. Their practice focuses on Afro indigenous queer futurism and ancestral communal knowledge. Nina's work is moved by the urgency of artistic expression as a political action, and is interested in holistic practices, where rest, pleasure and joy work as radical tools for personal and collective empowerment.
Sunanda Mesquita (they/them) is a Vienna based transdisciplinary visual artist, curator and Āyurvedic Wellness practitioner. Mesquita studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and is the founder of AMBi, a space for well-being and art in the 7th district that offers safer spaces for BIPoCs and queer people with a focus on massages, bodywork and workshops.
AMBi - Praxis für intersektionales Wohlbefinden: Seidengasse 32/2, 1070 Vienna
is wheelchair accessible incl. bathroom/toilet
image subject: decolonial_killjoy