Attention youth, check out our FREE summer workshops!
Bring your friends! You don’t want to miss this!
Register by emailing us at [email protected]
6/25 1pm-2pm: The Institute is a community-building entity focused on wellness and strengths of the Chicana/o/x community through the lens of Chicana/o/x Psychology & Mesoamerican wisdom. In our work, we address the risk factors and protective factors related to the wellness of the Chicana/o/x community, including historical factors of oppression as well as ancestral strengths and wisdom.
“Identity, Wounds & Healing – (Re)connecting to Our Own Brown Wellness” will be a circle where we intentionally deepen our understanding of our collective cultural wisdom while we address the individual and community struggles and pains we experience on our path to wellness. We will discuss specific ancestral wisdom and specific contemporary cultural wisdom that can help guide our healing by strengthening our identity.
06/26 12pm-1pm: Red Salmon Arts (RSA) houses the People’s Library of Resistance/Biblioteca del pueblo de Resistencia (PLR), which is a multimedia, multigenre depository that centers on the emerging stories of cultural arts and resistance from the perspectives of the prisoners, Native Americans, Chicana/o/x/Latina/o/xs, African Americans, working-class, and queer folk of Austin and across the Southwest.
This class will be an opportunity for students to learn about the Chicana/o/x, Latina/o/x, Indigenous-centered social justice, grassroots arts, and politics of East Austin. Moverover, class will concentrate on examining and discussing PLR materials as well as asking students to be part of the PLR’s preservation, content analysis, indexing, and gain a commitment toward democratizing libraries, collections, and archives.
6/27 10:30am-2pm: Barrio Writers is a youth centered and youth led creative writing workshop for youth 13-18 years old. Barrio Writers creative writing program aims to empower teens through creative writing (poetry, fiction writing, personal narratives, zine-making) and cultural arts that represent their experiences. Youth will discuss and write about issues of social justice that are important to them as well as community solidarity and care. Barrio Writers is supported by our community partner, Red Salmon Arts.
Barrio Writers Workshops are free and open to youth 13-18 and will take place at Resistencia Bookstore on Thursdays, June 20th and June 27th 10:40am-2pm (includes lunch) with a youth reading and celebration on Saturday, July 13th, including the presentation of a youth created zine. All materials and snacks for these materials will be provided.
7/2 10:30am-12pm: Austin History Center
Your family’s history is important. How will you ensure that their stories and legacies are preserved for future generations? Join the Austin History Center for a workshop on how to identify what to keep and on best practices for how to preserve photos and artifacts. Walk away with a free family archival kit to get you started!
What is your story? How did you and your family come to be in these lands that we now call Austin? Join the Austin History Center in a creative exercise to share your family’s story. Bring a photo or photos that exemplify your favorite memories of Austin. Write a story or poem and create a collage to represent your history!
This FREE workshop is geared towards ages 13-17 and will take place on July 2nd from 10:30am-11:50pm.
7/2 1pm-2pm: The Institute is a community-building entity focused on wellness and strengths of the Chicana/o/x community through the lens of Chicana/o/x Psychology & Mesoamerican wisdom. In our work, we address the risk factors and protective factors related to the wellness of the Chicana/o/x community, including historical factors of oppression as well as ancestral strengths and wisdom.
“Identity, Wounds & Healing – (Re)connecting to Our Own Brown Wellness” will be a circle where we intentionally deepen our understanding of our collective cultural wisdom while we address the individual and community struggles and pains we experience on our path to wellness. We will discuss specific ancestral wisdom and specific contemporary cultural wisdom that can help guide our healing by strengthening our identity.
This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.