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We’ve spent the last 2 months deep in the portal of reviewing all the applications for the LAROTA Healing Arts Residency. We’ve been inspired by the range of practices and possibilities shared by practitioners from more than 50 countries around the world.

Questions about the relationship between personal and collective healing, the role of human-led creativity in transforming communities, what gardening, storytelling, and movement might teach us about grief, and how healing can be both accessible and financial viable for the healers.

Here are just a few of the practitioners who have stayed with us and whose inquiries left us imagining what is possible when we take the time to sit with our questions rather than look for answers. 🙏🏻

@will.siu.md
@erinbelievesinyou @rageflowers
@christopher__rivas
@sisisoulshine @soulshinetheatergarden (photo credit @diyannamonet )
Sunni Dawson

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Had the enormous privilege of attending and photographing a writers’ workshop and book signing last week with @christopher__rivas and @diverse.writers.club. One of several events around campus with Mr. Rivas. The speaker brought so much positive energy, inspiration and enthusiasm to the group of students. Thank you to ASU Gammage for working with the college on this project.

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When those “greaser” films first hit the screen, Juan Crow was the law. Mexican and brown families were segregated, separate schools, separate seats, separate everything. We weren’t “allowed” to share space with white people, let alone star beside them.

And in 1946 the Méndez family sued so their kids could attend school with white children, and they won. Méndez v. Westminster desegregated California’s schools seven years before Brown v. Board of Education, you didn’t get taught that first one by design.

So isn’t it interesting they never teach you about this?

There’s a reason for that. When our people are the heroes, when we’re the ones who cracked this country open and dragged it toward justice, that story has to disappear.

Because a people who know they are powerful, who know they’ve won before, are a people who can’t be controlled.

Erasing us is the whole point, it always has been.

But this shit needs to change for real. We deserve our beautiful films, our scripts, our faces in those theaters too, not as the sidekick, but as the whole, full humans we’ve always been.

And we’re done waiting. We’ve got our own platforms growing now, our own cameras, our own voices, and we are telling our stories ourselves.

So share this. Put it on your story. Comment so the algorithm can’t bury it the way they buried the history. Because not enough of our people know this truth, and this needs to f**king change. 🌽✊🏾

#Juancrow #representation #tellourstories

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As the world descends into apathy, the call to dive into a pool of radical empathy is upon us. But we cannot simply dip our toes in. We must stand on the ledge, slippery and uncertain, and jump into the waters of compassion as if we are being chased into oblivion. This is our only task that can save humanity from total collapse.

You see, kindness, passion, and hope aren’t merely a fantastical idea built on delusion. They are the catalyst to a society that values the very essence of existence. We didn’t come this far to soak up the sun. We came this far to confront our ability to care for one another.

So yes, the water might be cold and shocking at first, but give it five seconds and you’ll feel the pull of self-awareness, love, and a freedom of weightlessness that stirs the soul. You get to decide how bold and daring you’re willing to be, because what’s on the line is - everything.

XO,
@dawngarcia + #TheFWord

#writer #teacher #magazines #divein

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In my happy place when I'm gifted books.

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‼️A Look Back @ FUTURO 26‼️

The New York Latino Film Festival’s acclaimed Digital Conference, FUTURO, took its talent to Uptown, NYC this year for a uber insightful day of panels spotlighting thought leaders and top social influencers.

S/O to the good folks at @un_chin_magazine for doing such an incredible job at producing FUTURO 26.

📸: @slingshotmenace

#FUTURO26 #WeAreNYLFF #NYLFF #NYLFF26 #HispanicHeritageMonth

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Christopher Rivas, your EXPRESSIONS at ASU Gammage emcee, has spoken! 🎤 Join us this Thursday, Oct. 8, at 6 p.m. for a free, fun night of self-expression. It’s not too late to register — secure your spot today!

🎫: asugammage.com/expressions

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Is brown really a color you like...? 🤎

@xorjeo dropped in with this honest question for @christopher__rivas, and the response did not disappoint!

Click the link in bio to catch the full #TakeoutandTalk.

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home can find you anywhere 🇩🇴 I went to NYC as an artist, but I also found community 🫶🏽 thank you @nylatinofilmfestival & @un_chin_magazine for this wholesome moment

#CaribbeanSoul 🌊
#AlmaDelCaribe
#Dominican
#NewYork
#fyp

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✨NYLFF Rewind ⏪: A Look Back @ FUTURO 26✨

The New York Latino Film Festival’s acclaimed Digital Conference, FUTURO, took its talent to Uptown, NYC this year for a uber insightful day of panels spotlighting thought leaders and top social influencers.

S/O to the good folks at @un_chin_magazine for doing such an incredible job at producing FUTURO 26.

📸: @p.a.c.h.o.t.e

#FUTURO26 #WeAreNYLFF #NYLFF #NYLFF26 #HispanicHeritageMonth

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"My coffee is sweeter & blacker. My music has more rhythm more drums more hips. My food is spicier. My land more biodiverse. My people are salt-air and sun-filled, not sun shy. I love being Brown." Christopher Rivas @christopher__rivas

Typically I dont make posts about Hispanic heritage month, black history month , or anything of the sort because when I see things like that it often looks like virtue signaling to me

But yall know I love books; I love reading, I love libraries and I love bookshops

So its appropriate.

Here are some of my favorite latine/hispanic authored books: history, memoires, historical fiction, and yes even a business book. We're in that space too.

Hope you grab your copies from your local bookshop - or borrow from the library-, read them & share them

Brown Enough by @christopher__rivas

For Brown Girls with sharp edges and tender hearts by @priscadorcas

The Distance between us by @writerreynagrande

A Woman of endurance by @dahlmallanosfigueroa

Of Women and Salt by @gabimgarcia

Violeta by @allendeisabel

Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano

Amplify your influence by @learnwithrene

And if you have personal favorites, share them with me

#latinebooks

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“Some of it hits, and some of it doesn’t. Keep making anyway.” 🎨

Christopher Rivas shares un chin of advice for creatives at the NYLFF FUTURO Conference: being an artist isn’t easy, but your voice and the work you create matter.

Keep creating. Keep telling stories. Keep making art.

Interviewer // @haskiri
Video & Edit // @chrisvisualstudios

#UnChin #NYLFF #creativity #LatinoCreatives #latinos

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