Atelier Céladon

We are not Earth-bound. Our ancestors' mythologies and cosmological beginnings were deeply interwoven in intergalactic origins, which have been deemed invalid, but what if they were true? In this workshop, we will step in the path of our ancestors and create our own mythologies through deep inner listening and movement work. We will collectively create own cosmic myths through the making of a zine, the modern-day hieroglyph. Modern-day media is no different than the paintings, scrolls and scriptures of our ancestor's past. Black Cosmic Mythologies takes participants on a journey in understanding story through the physical body and translating the findings that the body communicates through the collective production of a zine that archives the myths imagined.

Sharrae Lyon is a filmmaker, dancer, writer and facilitator who believes in the powerful role of science fiction and futurism to answer the spiritual and internal questions to our existence. She is driven by storytelling, in whatever medium suits how the story must be told. Sharrae is driven by the exploration of how to create personal and community freedom that aligns with purpose and intention to create futures that are sustaining, life-giving and affirming. Sharrae is a recent graduate of Black Women in Film and currently studying the healing practice of qi gong. Her films Gaia's Awakening (2014) and Body as Technology (2015) (set to premiere at the Regent Park Film Festival) are instalments of a transmedia project entitled Alien Nation. It is in the present that we can consciously and actively create our future.

Whitney French is a writer, storyteller and multi-disciplinary artist. She's been published in a couple of places but she takes more pride in the community she builds than the things she produces. As is self-described futurist and an avid tree-climber and Tetris master, Whitney also the founder and co-editor and of the nation-wide publication From the Root Zine as well as the founded of the workshop series Writing While Black: an initiative to develop a community of black writers. Whitney French is presently working on her upcoming sci-fi verse-novel entitled O.