Was such a privilege to be asked to contribute to this amazing project
“Building a Black British Culture: What are you bringing into the Arkhe?”
@aleeminati and I delivered a healing - informed Capoeira workshop on 13th March 2024
Project background - CURATED BY MAIA @we.are.maia
Meaning ‘first principle’, the Arkhe is a semi-tangible embassy and vessel for Black Brits.
The Arkhe British-born Black people have shared roots with the rest of the Black Afrikan Diaspora, which can often influence our foundational sense of selves. Caribbean, West African, and African American cultures heavily feature in our everyday lives.
As the ‘Black British’ demographic becomes more pronounced, there is an increasing need for a culture that is intentionally built by us, for us.
An Afro-Speculative project, the Arkhe is a morphological Black British Institution, designed to equip British Afro/Black people with
1) historical and contextual education;
2) intentional, foundational Black British culture-building staples and rites;
3) ways to gather, celebrate and organise despite limited access to space.
💫What currently grounds us in our identities?
💫What rites are we missing that could help us actualise?
💫What do we need to add to our life toolkits or our invisible backpacks?
💫How do we preserve knowledge?
💫How can we utilise non-spaces in our culture building efforts?
The workshop: “Capoeira / self - defence & spiritual possibilities”
Aim/ the brief:
♾Build lifeskills / a toolkit that Black British people can hold on to.
♾Build and create new rites and ways of being - understanding what tools we carry ancestrally and what we hope to take with us into the future.
♾Make capoeira available to Black people of all abilities.
♾Build a space that fosters empowerment, joy, solidarity and to craft tools for deescalation or self - defence as a spiritual possibility.
♾Explore creative ways of approaching self - defence as Black British people wishing to create our own culture.
Special thanks to @themeteam.uk 🎥
@poncianinho and @ok4ns_chamber for your capoeira knowledge and wisdom.
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