Listening Salon: The Magnificent Matriarch
Dancing Earth's Bay Area Eco Artivist invites you to this embodied Listening salon, the last in our salon series before our emergent performance ritual on October 5th! Whether you are attending several Listening Project events, or are just joining us for this workshop, we welcome you as our community for an afternoon of potent listening, wisdom share, & movement.
The Listening Project is honored to welcome collaborating Matriarch Lizae Reyes and special guest matriarch elder Mila Anguluan for a Story Circle Workshop honoring Mothers, Grandmothers, and our Filipina Babaylan Legacy.
Following the Story Circle, Dancing Earth Eco Artivists will guide a responsive Eco Artivism movement practice that welcomes All Bodies into embodied Listening to Land & Waters as Matriarch.
About Lizae Reyes
Lizae Cervantes Reyes was born in the beautiful island of Cebu, Philippines and grew up in Metro Manila. She has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for over forty five years. She is a certified sound and music healing practitioner from California Institute of Integral Studies. She studied with practitioners in the field of Integrative Medicine at the Institute for Health and Healing in Marin, with focus on Healing Harp. She plays Harp to offer comfort, inspiration and calm at the bedside of patients and meditation circles.
She draws Inspiration from Ancestral memories and Ancient ways of story-telling. As a multi-modality artist and ritualist, she uses dance, myth, storytelling and poetry as a way to create sacred space for healing. As a student of Indigenous Wisdom, she continuously travels to the Philippines to gain deep insights about her Indigenous roots. She appreciates learning from Filipino Elders and Healers. Her work is rooted in what she calls the Journey to Wholeness,where she recognizes everyone as co-journeyers and offers a quiet announcement to help open the inner doors, and to go even further...creating a swirling mass with no separations.
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Dance Mission Theater is an artist driven space dedicated to inclusiveness, fairness, and justice. We create, produce, present, and teach feminist and multicultural dance/theater, engaging a diverse group of Bay Area artists, audiences, and students. Many female, queer, racially mixed, and culturally specific ensembles consider Dance Mission Theater their artistic home, creating a thriving inter-generational community. Dance Mission Theater is also the home to Krissy Keefer’s Dance Brigade, San Francisco’s groundbreaking, social-change dance company and Grrrl Brigade, Dance Brigade’s youth leadership dance company.