Velvet Penny Live Performances

Throughout the duration of the ‘All the Flowers’ Art show, Velvet Penny will perform her full length album with accompanying bandmates. In order to celebrate community, gather community members, and inspire individuals to mobilize.

Open Mics

Open at the end of each workshop. All welcome ~ Come to enjoy or come to perform. Our intention is to foster a kind and supportive community space encouraging folks to engage in self expression by providing a safe space to share.

hosted by Project Sister

Defines and explains the characteristics of abusive, unhealthy, and healthy relationships. Focuses on the importance of creating boundaries in order to maintain a satisfying and healthy relationship.

* Parent/adult version teaches adults how to identify and address issues related to dating violence and boundaries with adolescence.

Target Audience: Grades 7-12; Adults Length: 45-50 minutes

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Exquisite Corpse is a collaborative drawing game that can be played with any number of players. Players take turns drawing a section of a picture, without seeing the previous section. Players can only see the previous players's contribution, so they must be creative and collaborative in order to create a cohesive work of art. The picture can be any type of image, but is typically a human figure, hence the name. No one knows what the final product will look like until it's finished. It's always interesting to see how the different pieces come together and in the end you have a unique piece of art to hang on your wall.

Exquisite Corpse is a great way to:

• explore different art styles and to experiment with new ideas.

• spend time bonding and connecting with friends or family.

• To be creative

• Practice problem solving, patience, improved teamwork skills, and confidence.

Hosted by Charlie Quintero (she/her) (sick sad girls)

To build a spiritual base. It is not to build at all, but to allow the destruction of all you’ve built against the love that is the answer, that is the connection, that is the meaning, that is the purpose, and that is the God you are seeking. In this 90 min class, we’ll learn how to make that prayer, how to open to the destruction of what is not real, and surrender to what is. Full Description.

Hosted by Mamaseko (they/them)

Gentle Stretching, Meditation & Zine Making!

Join Karina (they/them) as they guid us through breath work and visual meditation to connect us back to the body, mind and spirit in order to feel and create a safe space within. After grounding, we’ll then create a physical representation of what this feels and looks like to us through zine making.

Karina Trejo (they/them) is a first generation queer non-binary gender expansive healer, creative and community organizer. They are 200hr trauma informed yoga and mediation facilitator. Their work is rooted in creating a safe(r) and brave space of care through art, healing, restoration and transformative justice. They are the founder of a gender expansive grassroots creative holistic wellness collective that centers Black, Indigenous, people of color and all those who identify within the LBGTQIA+ community. They currently provide virtual and in person offerings based in Los Angeles, CA.

To greet the body, to thank the body, and to listen to the body are the opening stages of Paru’s trauma-informed somatic & spiritual dance activation. In their movement-based brave space participants will be invited to explore themes of joyful expression, collective ancestry, natural resilience, and fantasy through guided movement. Full Description

Hosted by Paru Frances (They/Them)

Participants will:

• walk away with a refined understanding of consent as an ongoing practice as a form of empowerment

• have new tools to understand what different kinds of yes and no feels like.

• practice saying no and reframing no as a gift to be grateful for.

• become equipped with elf-care ideas for before, during and after stressful activities.

Hosted by Rebekah Rose (She/They):

I am a queer illustrator/muralist, somatic consent educator, and yoga/mindfulness teacher. I specialize in group facilitation as well as private instruction. I have 8 years experience as a trauma-informed yoga teacher and have been teaching art classes on and off since 2016. I use a combination of trauma-informed approaches to art and movement to help people build up a sense of safety and trust in their bodies and their expressions (be that an artistic expression or otherwise). Through group discussion, lecture style learning, and guided practice I help people identify and strengthen their boundaries both as they relate to themselves and to others. And help people uncover the joy and magic of finding consent in everyday moments. It is important to destigmatize consent, and question our understanding of it. I believe that having an ongoing practice of consent transforms lives and helps people, especially survivors of trauma and those most impacted by systemic oppression, to feel more empowered to be their full authentics selves.

5pm - 7pm Self Defense Workshop hosted by Project Sister

Combination of discussion and activity format. Participants will be introduced to the basic principles of self-defense, and learn and practice strikes, releases, and kicks. Includes awareness and assertiveness exercises in a non-threatening environment.

Target Audience: Girls and women ages 12 and up. Length: 2-3 hours

About Project Sister:

Project Sister Family Services is the foremost agency dedicated to providing services to the women, children, and men survivors of sexual assault and abuse and their families in the East San Gabriel and Inland Valleys in Southern California, a region with a population of over 2.3 million persons. Project Sister Family Services works with local law enforcement, district attorneys, courts, hospital and health care providers, schools, churches and other community groups and agencies.

Project Sister Family Services aggressively pursues a two-pronged approach to addressing the problem of sexual assault and child abuse: providing services to those in crisis with extensive follow-up treatment, and specific sexual assault outreach and prevention education programs. Our mission is to reduce the trauma and risk of sexual violence and child abuse. By alleviating the devastating aftereffects of sexual violence and child abuse, Project Sister Family Services helps to end the cycle of family violence that can occur throughout generations by helping survivors to heal. Project Sister Family Services’ prevention education programs empower people of all ages to avoid dangerous situations in hopes of their never having to experience the trauma of sexual assault.