Birds Flying Backwards: Healing Arts for Caribbean Solidarity

Join us for a day of healing arts for Caribbean solidarity at MoCADA on Saturday, July 19 from 1-5 pm. We encourage folks to stay for the full program, and will be using the RSVP headcount to provide nourishment. Please let us know if your RSVP status changes.

🌺POLITICAL & COMMUNAL GROUNDING

🌺VOICE HEALING WORKSHOP

🌺GUIDED MEDITATION

🌺DEEP LISTENING SESSION

🌺ZINE MAKING

🌺TAROT

🌺CARIBBEAN FOOD & DRINK

🌺BUILDING with NYC-based organizations that you can join for the long haul

& so much more.

📌 The aim of Birds Flying Backwards is to build solidarity across NYC’s expansive Caribbean community. Together we will center the lived experience of those most impacted by gender-based violence, seed new relationships, and align our collective visions for a most liberated future. Utilizing the transformative power of art, we’ll strategize plans for further educating/agitating/organizing our communities.

🌈🏳️‍⚧️ This space will prioritize the safety of our queer and trans Caribbean siblings, and in doing so will make sure everyone, including those most impacted by gender-based violence and racism in our community, are well and cared for.

💸 Birds Flying Backwards is free and open to all, but donations are encouraged (especially from allies) and will be going towards: Connek JA, a resource center for LGBTQIA+ Caribbean people worldwide, and Connecting Humanity to provide e-sims for G@Z@ns resisting g3n0cid3.

♿️ The space is wheelchair accessible via elevator. Otherwise, you can enter the space via stairs or escalator.

😷 As we prepare to gather in person, we ask everyone to please take a Covid test before arriving on July 19, and bring a photo of their negative test. For those who can’t test at home, we will have tests onsite but if someone tests positive they will be turned away, hence the importance of them testing before. Masks will also be available at the event.

🎀 Organized by Priya Florence Dadlani and supported by Asian American Arts Alliance and MoCADA, stewards of the 2024-2025 Bandung Residency.

🎨 Flyer by the one & only Neha Shetty.