‘Breath as orientation 
As resource 
Connection to source 
Why you are breathless 
Re-connecting with yourself
Giving yourself permission on Be Here’

—Barby Asante

The School of Quilombismo has invited artist, curator, and researcher Barby Asante to bring forward a blessing to a summer-long program that centralizes, embodies, and resonates with the imaginative, wayward, unorthodox, and self-determined pedagogical and knowledge practices of Africa. 

With Breathwork: a libation, a blessing, Asante offers an intervention, dialogic and participatory workshop that foregrounds intergenerational practices of keeping breath in the body, resuscitation, and breathlessness. Breathing is an act of refusal to refuse that which is refused to you. Black people are constantly in different states of unconscious emotional terror, living in a space of fight-or-flight, distracted, and unable to breathe. How does one find a way to turn off terror, tune into a flow of learning the ways to breath, and to inscribe stories, hopes, and dreams onto the canvas of existence? 

Participants are invited into the cypher and guided into the realm of breathwork—a communal scripture unfolds, transcending generations and weaving a tapestry of connection. 

This workshop primarily addresses experiences of Black cultural workers, but is open to all. Limited capacity, please register via education@hkw.de

Further events follow on 28–30 July and 26–31 August.