Her Rising Jam for Healers, Artists and Change-Makers

Calling all artists, healers, peacemakers, filmmakers, and change-makers to join for an afternoon jam in Oakland!

Join a diverse, intergenerational group of people interested in exploring how we can unleash our power, creativity and healing gifts to support each other and Her Rising

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Date: Friday, January 18, 2013

Time: 12:30pm to 5pm, 2273 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, CA, 94612

Where: Interplayce, Oakland, CA

Please bring your lunch or something to share; we'll have drinks and snacks

Cost: $25-70. No one turned away for lack of funds.

Co-hosted by: YES! and Her Rising

We will engage in a variety of activities to examine our life journeys, our diverse identities, our relationships, our sense of generosity, our work, and our visions of a better world. It is a great community space to explore authentically where you’re at in relation to where you want to go in this New Year.

What is Her Rising?

Her Rising is a transformational community founded by Dancing without Borders focused on unleashing the power of the feminine and supporting the rise of embodied visionary change-makers. The Her Rising Community enable its members to rise in the fullness of their capacity through dance, art, healing and activism. We produce and facilitate transformative workshops, ritual street performance art, theater, story-telling, community gatherings and create space for skill sharing.

What is a Jam?

A jam is a space to collaboratively inquire, cross-pollinate, reflect, dialogue, unlearn, explore and connect our personal journeys, with our relationships, with what the world is calling for. The Her Rising Jam will be facilitated by Shilpa Jain and Renee Wilson.

Shilpa Jain is the Executive Director of YES!. (http://www.yesworld.org/) YES! works with social changemakers at the meeting point of internal, interpersonal and systemic change, and aims to co-create a thriving, just and balanced world for all. Prior to taking on this role, She has facilitated dozens of transformative leadership gatherings in India, Jordan, Senegal, Lebanon, Egypt, Thailand, Canada, Peru, and the US, working with hundreds of young leaders from over 50 countries.

Renee Wilson is an actor, singer, songwriter, and filmmaker, living life to the fullest. Since leaving her hometown of New Orleans, she has worked on runways in New York, Miami and Los Angeles; taught acting, singing and songwriting internationally; starred in the Academy Award-winning film Ray with Jamie Foxx, co-produced and directed her first film; and released her debut CD, Voodoo Queen. Renee' is also actively involved with life-changing organizations in the Bay Area, such as the Pride Foundation (the largest employer of people with disabilities), HOPE (Helping Other People Everywhere), and YES!, where she is a board member, Jam alum and facilitator.

More info:

www.herrising.org (http://www.herrising.org/)

www.yesworld.org (http://www.yesworld.org/)

Or contact directly Shilpa Jain at (510) 922-8556