To love is to grieve. The cost of love is grief.
There are no words to express how acutely we feel the loss of Palestinian and Israeli lives. We deeply mourn those that have been killed and continue to be displaced by the war in Palestine and Israel. We vehemently condemn all violence and terrorism arising from this current escalation and from the decades prior. We call for immediate de-escalation of the violence.
Welcome to Aviva Arts, an arts and wellness hub for innovative cultural practice. We value personal relationships and champion innovative models of connection that build bridges of empathy for today's world.
“The theater of epic vision, purpose, recovery, repair, and care needs new rituals. We don’t need to be entertained. We need to gather. ”
–Peter Sellars, World Theatre Day
We do this by:
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CONVENING
Facilitating community gatherings such as webinars, dialogues and in-person retreats which align artistic inspiration with the natural world.
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CREATING
Producing performance experiences that interrogate form, center underrepresented bodies and endeavor to respond to the prompt: what is the artist’s role in society now?
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CO-LEARNING
Facilitating liberatory public workshops through a social justice lens.
“As our activities are shared digitally to the internet, we also consider the legacy of colonization embedded within technological structures. This includes the equipment and high speed internet which are not available in many indigenous communities. The technologies that are central to much of the art we make also leave a significant carbon footprint, contributing to changing climates that disproportionately affect indigenous and marginalized peoples worldwide. We invite you to join us in acknowledging all this, as well as our shared responsibility to consider our roles in reconciliation and decolonization.”-Based on Adrienne Wong of SpiderWebShow and from Dr. H “Herukhuti” Sharif Williams from CUNY Racial Justice and Performance Conference.