Knowledge Share Description

In this session, brontë velez (Creative Director, Lead to Life and Educator, Weaving Earth) will guide participants through an exploration on the lineage of “auspices” as prophets who tracked birds to make decisions on behalf of the state. We will explore reclaiming auspicious attention (brontë velez) in climate collapse and how paying attention to birds can develop the thaumaturgical (wonder-working) skills we need for the miraculous care required to meet our times.

We will:

• learn best practices for bird-sits

• traditions and theology around miracle-making

• best practices for protecting our awareness

Cost

$35 - low income

$50 - standard

$75 - pay-it-forward (if you have financial abundance, this is our pay-it-forward option to fund our full tuition scholarships)

Please apply here for a scholarship.

Resource Package

TBD

Accessibility Information

*ASR (automated) captioning provided

Virtual Gathering

The knowledge share zoom link will be sent out immediately upon purchase, along with any other necessary information.

3:00pm - 5:00pm Eastern Standard Time

Class will be recorded and available for 30 days.

Facilitator

brontë velez’s (they/them) work and rest is guided by the cosmology and promise of sabbath for black people and the land. as a black-latine transdisciplinary artist, curator, trickster, educator, jíbare and wakeworker, their eco-social art praxis lives at the intersections of black feminist placemaking, abolitionist theologies, environmental regeneration, death doulaship, and the levity of comedy. the prayer of their life is to support safe and hilarious passage through climate collapse. they embody this commitment of attending to black health/imagination, commemorative justice (Free Egunfemi) and hospicing the shit that hurts black folks and the earth through serving as creative director for Lead to Life design collective (leadtolife.org) and ecological educator for ancestral arts skills and nature-connection school Weaving Earth (weavingearth.org). they are currently co-conjuring a film with esperanza spalding in collaboration with the San Francisco Symphony and practicing pastoral care (in an ecological and ministerial sense) as a co-steward of a land refuge in Kashia Pomo territory in northern California. mostly, brontë is up to the sweet tender rhythm of quotidian black queer-lifemaking, ever-committed to humor & liberation, ever-marked by grief at the distance made between us and all of life