For the LOVE of bell: Part 1 | A Soils Lab with Danielle Dominique | Practice Map
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for the love of bell: part 1
Soils Lab with Danielle Dominique | Practice Map
monday | 14 february 2022 | 6pm Est
In remembrance of bell hooks and appreciation for all the great works she left behind, I am kicking off a bell hooks Love Series for the Garden. I will be using her trilogy on love as our topic guides and we will explore the dimensions of love using bell hooks’ perspective as inspiration for our own discoveries about love. The first session will be on the first book in the trilogy, All About Love: New Visions.
I had a rough December, no need to really go into it but losing bell hooks in the middle of it really was the kick in the face to an already rough first few weeks in the month. Her brilliance deserves to be celebrated and who better to celebrate with than The Garden? Also the comprehensive way she discusses love, an already complex subject, is outstanding and liberating. Frankly, she doesn't get enough recognition in my opinion, so I felt compelled to explore it here.
The first session in the For the LOVE of bell series explores the first book in her love trilogy, All About Love: New Visions.
Each session of For the LOVE of bell will feature allotted time for creations: artistic and written. So bringing your own materials for these expressions will be necessary. Let’s do it big and make beautiful pieces to share with each other! I’m excited about these sessions and hope you will be too!
Revisit the later sessions in the For the Love of bell series:
Part 2: Salvation: Black People and Love
Part 3: Communion: The Female Search for Love
what to bring:
magazines to cut
glue to paste, tape
color pencils, crayons, markers
any other materials for collage making
journal
poster board, construction paper
this soils lab includes these elements:
Workshop in development/experimental practice
Writing practice
Visual arts practice
Danielle Dominique also recommends reading this feature on bell hooks in the Los Angeles Review of Books, A Tribute to bell hooks to learn more about her life and work.
meet the creator
Danielle Dominique
Danielle Dominique is a Dreamer and a Creatress, dedicated to finding language for the indescribable, she is also a longwinded, tangent-loving storyteller that can trace any subject back to her Mama (she’s gifted). So far she has two podcasts that can be found on every platform: Queen of the Killer Bees: From Grief to Clarity and Success and Serenity Sis, with more in the works. She is also a 2021 graduate from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University.
Follow @Danidominique_theconglomerate on Instagram
about our soils lab
Soils Lab is a central component of Mother Mother’s evolving creative practice methodology, An Introduction to Soils: Preparing the Heart, Mind and Body for Deeply Generative Creations.
Soils Labs are where we explore practices that nourish our soil of creation, the substance from which we create everything we do. Soils Labs journey into diverse creative realms like writing, storytelling, visual art, sacred rituals, healing practices, movement, birth and fertility studies, and so much more. Every creator shares from the wealth of her brilliance, and we all grow from there.
attending soils lab
Soils Labs are collaborative-time (live), virtual gatherings. To honor and protect the intimacy of our sharing, Soils Labs are not recorded. We are a Come As You Are congregation and you are welcome to attend as much or as little of the lab as you like. You must be a creator in the Garden who has confirmed conscious participation to receive the access link for the labs. Please visit the Fertility Abundance Garden Welcome Center to join the Garden and begin attending Soils Labs. If you have recently or previously joined the Garden, visit the Sanctuary to confirm or reconfirm your conscious participation.
ABOUT SOFT-TIME
The Garden thrives in soft-time expansions. While the Soils Lab is a collaborative-time gathering, we consciously create multiple points of engagement for all creators to participate in the majesty of our explorations and experiments, whether or not you attend the lab. In addition to the practice maps, our Soils Labs are archived in multiple places inside the Creators Portal and the Creators Shared Diary. We also extend conversations and discovery opportunities in the Creators Channel and Fertile Majesties groups. Mattering soft-time practice spaces is a vital way that we disrupt mandates of capitalism, and continue to decentralize fixed-time and cumpulsory-time standards as universally legitimate and relevant. In making space for the diversity of our life rhythms and labors, we take great care to develop generative, nourishing methodologies that honor the fluid nature of our lives as creators.
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