Building community is an act of creation 🌈

December 9, 2021

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“Building community is an act of creation, and we need that to survive.”

On the one year anniversary of the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, racial justice organizer Grace Aheron puts forth a transcendent vision of community creation in the wake of devastation. Her participatory talk for CreativeMornings/Charlottesville models how protest and disruption awaken the imaginative capacity to envision a world where people feel whole. She builds irresistible communities that draw people deeper into the work of eradicating white supremacy and economic oppression. Watch Aheron’s moving talk to discover what’s waiting on the other side of destruction, if we’re brave enough to build it.

Grace Aheron is a multi-racial queer Southerner from Roanoke, Virginia. Dubbed a “people weaver” by friends, she believes that collective liberation is for everyone. Aheron organizes with Showing Up For Racial Justice, and her main artistic engagement is with the Carnival de Resistance.

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This newsletter was made like a simple line drawing. I sketched a few contours that hint at some greater design for you to fill in with your imagination.

✍️ Drawing and waving,
Annie Yi, CreativeMornings HQ

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