Weaving Memories - A journey of healing through storytelling
Photo-Embroidery + Cacao with Tatiana Lopez and Barbara Sánchez
Thursday, October 10, 2024
4pm - 7pm
Hoboken, NJ
About the Workshop
The greatest gift we can give ourselves is the time to reconnect with our heart and creative inner self. When we create from the heart, inspiration naturally flows! This photo-embroidery workshop is a special invitation to view the body as a living archive of experiences and remember the movement of your inner waters as a way to connect with your emotions creatively.
In this workshop, photo embroidery becomes more than a technique; it's a transformative journey of self-discovery and healing. it is an act of re-constructing and re-signifying one’s story. Rather than centering solely on the technical aspects of embroidery, this experience encourages you to explore your personal narratives through creative expression. You will have the freedom to let your emotions and memories guide you, visually mapping how they manifest within your body. Think of this as an opportunity to visually create what you want to manifest in your journey during this new season.
During the workshop, we will connect with the medicine of cacao to ground and open our hearts while guiding us in creative exploration and deepening our connections to our inner selves.
What the Experience Offers
Polaroid Portrait Session: Begin with an individual and intimate Polaroid portrait session. Each participant will have their photo created. This photograph will serve as the canvas for your creative exploration with photo embroidery. Bring on your beautiful and authentic self!
Cacao Space Opening: We will begin the experience by sharing a cup of ceremonial cacao while deepening our creative flow and connecting with the group.
Photo Embroidery: Hands-on embroidery session, you’ll be guided in the process of storytelling and how to tell YOUR OWN stories through embroidery. Your Polaroid portrait will be your canvas and starting point. We will work on easy and fun stitching methods, and I will share how to add visual elements, metaphors, and texture to the narratives you want to create for yourself. The aim is to be open to connecting with the invisible and sensorial, such as your emotions and memories, and recreate them in a visible narrative.
The workshop is open to everyone, whether you're an artist or someone new to creative exploration, this workshop offers a safe space to reconnect with your body, emotions, and personal narrative artistically. All photo-embroidery materials will be provided, you just show up for a late afternoon of creativity!
This will be an intimate workshop, spaces are limited to 15 participants, so be sure to reserve your spot early!
NOTE: Cancellations received 2 - 5 days before the workshop’s date will be refunded at 50%. No refunds within less than 48 hours will be issued. If fewer than 10 participants register for the workshop, we will issue a full refund due to low enrollment. Thank you for your understanding!
Date: Thursday, October 10
Time: 4pm - 7pm
Location:
SMT Center
731 Washington Street
Hoboken, NJ 07030
Cost: Earlybird Fee: $66 for the first 5 people who sign up. Regular Fee: $77
Your Facilitators
Tatiana Lopez
Tatiana Lopez is an Ecuadorian documentary photographer, visual anthropologist, and artist. Her practice is rooted in the narratives that the body and the land trace, connecting memory's role in shaping identity. For Tatiana, photography and embroidery serve as a method to (re)engage with intricate processes of self-representation. Her research interests include Indigenous animistic practices, the body-territory relations in connection with indigeneity, the intersectionality between women’s rights, extractivism, transgenerational trauma, environmental conservation, the study of dreams, and the human and non-human kin connections.
Tatiana’s storytelling is informed by practice-led research, sensory ethnography, and collaborative and experimental methodologies to challenge conventional narratives.
Barbara Sánchez
Barbara Sánchez is the Program Director for Dream World, a trauma-informed coach and cacao ceremonialist. Barbara began her personal development journey at the age of 17 and has dedicated the last 11 years to learning how to heal by gathering tools from the ancient and modern world. Being raised between Ecuador and New York, Barbara is a bridge between cultures and currently lives between Queens, NY, and Ecuador, continuing her path in reconnecting with her roots and deepening her connection to the Amazon. As an American-Ecuadorian her mission is to empower others to fully embrace their identity, feel worthy of taking of space, and break generational cycles that are holding them back.