Dreaming Care into Being: Collective Meaning Making, Part I
Care Manual: Dreaming Care into Being is part pedagogical text and part archive of lived experience. Designed around a curated glossary, the publication pioneers a very clear theme: that we have the power to author our own ways of being. To bring the manual to life, we will be compiling a glossary specific to the experiences of those participating in the Dreaming Care into Being experiential learning series on-site.
Glossary cards made by the participants of Dreaming Care into Being: Collective Meaning Making, Session 1, April 19, 2022, Dia Chelsea, New York.
Reflections on Workshop 1: Black Authors Talk with Annika Hansteen-Izora:
The brilliance in the room last Thursday pleasantly surprised me. There was something ethereal about giving information and also receiving it. I was most struck by how participants made meaning about making meaning. For example, participants chose to define authorship, language, and the phrase ready and willing. The ready and willing definition arose from a conversation about harm and repairing harm. The participants mulling over this came to the conclusion that all involved must be ready and willing for harm repair to happen. I was moved by this elaboration of the praxis and felt like the book is doing what books ought to do—invite folks to experience authorship in real time as well as expand on the wisdom presented in the publication. The intention of the workshop was to guide participants toward a place of authorship so that they could make their own meaning. In the ever-giving way that there is information in information, participants made meaning about what we were doing in the space, which in turn reinforced actioning Care Manual.
—Kamra Sadia Hakim
About Dreaming Care into Being
Facilitated by artist and Activation Residency founder Kamra Sadia Hakim, Dreaming Care into Being is an experiential learning series celebrating the release of Hakim’s book Care Manual: Dreaming Care into Being. The series comprises five workshops developed in collaboration with a series of guest artists, each exploring themes from the publication. This program is inspired by the framework of transformative justice: praxis ought to align with values, and what you believe is how you show up in the world. Dreaming Care into Being is designed to take participants on a somatic journey through the literary work.
The series is free and open to the public. Space is limited and reservations are required. Register for individual or multiple sessions here.
