What is “Decolonizing the Heart”?
An ongoing series of community art circles exploring how we reclaim connection, presence, and creativity within complex social systems. Each gathering focuses on a unique theme, offering space to reflect on how we navigate movement and stillness, growth and rest, identity and belonging.
What to expect ?
Aviva Arts offers a place to listen, question, connect and activate.
Decolonizing the Heart explores arts practice as a method of systemic disruption.
We’ll call ourselves into the present moment, calm the nervous system and create connection amidst an ever-changing and urgent world that encourages isolation and divisiveness.
Participatory in nature, each session may include personal check-ins, meditation, drawing, movement, writing or other embodied exercises.
Next Editions
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DTH: Celebrating the Song of the Mother
Join Amal Bisharat and Debórah Eliezer on Mother’s Day for a creative dedication to all the ways we honor the Mother. Through songs, ritual, and guided meditation, we’ll explore practices that root us in our lineage, collective care, and compassion.
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DTH: Poetry as Resistance
Through guided writing, listening and embodied presence, we will explore poetry as a practice of resistance and remembrance. Together, we’ll practice drawing on the natural world for inspiration to illustrate our emotional landscape in fun, surprising, and moving ways.
Past Editions
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DTH: Resistance & Flow
Facilitated by mixed-identity folks with roots in Europe, occupied Palestine, Israel and the greater SWANA region, we are in solidarity with the struggle for Palestinian liberation and unequivocally oppose the violence and injustices perpetrated by Zionism. We welcome anyone seeking community connection and tools for self-care.
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DTH: Dancing the Political
Our bodies carry stories, pain, and memory that extend beyond our personal experience, shaped by ancestry, identity, and the political and social worlds we move through. In this workshop, we will explore and embody these layers of perception through movement, improvisation, and creative expression.
Aviva Arts’ mission is to promote growth and transformation through liberatory arts modalities.
We center intersectional narratives that champion our relationship to ourselves, each other and the natural world.