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There is a lot going on in the world. We cannot do it all. Not to mention: the times are urgent… we must slow down. That being said, we would still like you to know about some of the electrifying, worlds-worlding, side-eye-glancing, upside-down and inside-out events and occurrences that ten is hosting, supporting or uplifting.
At the Edge Conversation Series
{ten Kinship Event}
WHO: Burnout from Humans & Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures
WHEN: Friday, February 21st | 9:00am – 10:30am PST
WHERE: Online everywhere
At the Edge is a series of reflective conversations that delve into the transformative possibilities of relational engagement with AI. The second conversation in the series features Dougald Hine and Báyò Akómoláfé speaking about the spirit of endings and beginnings. Exploring AI as a trickster, disruption, and scaffold, they invite us to sit with the unsettling edges of possibility. They’ll discuss the seeds of wisdom that emerge from what is mourned and the lessons that might guide future generations in navigating the end of the world as we know it. This conversation explores how AI acts as both a mirror and a provocation, challenging us to reconsider what’s possible in the midst of collapse and emergence.
Learn more and register here: https://burnoutfromhumans.net/conversation-series
Smoke & Mirrors: Undefining Perceptual Reality
{ten Kinship Event}
WHO: School of Liminal Arts
WHEN: Friday, February 21 – Wednesday, February 26, 2025
WHERE: Santa Fe | New Mexico | U.S.A.
Smoke & Mirrors is a courageous body of work that extends beyond personal transformation and initiates participants to move through personal transmutation and into intrapersonal transfiguration. In our unfurling, we move off the map and wind our way through the Hall of Mirrors – piercing through illusion, releasing fixation, dropping masks, moving into and with the Void, finding camaraderie with the undefinable, the more than human, revealing, releasing, rebuilding without walls.
Learn more and register here: https://www.schoolofliminalarts.com/smoke-mirrors
SELAH: An Awkward Grace
{Báyò event}
WHO: Garrison Institute
WHEN: February 25 – March 22, 2025 (online course) | March 29 – April 1, 2025
(in-person retreat)
WHERE: Garrison Institute | 14 Mary’s Way | Route 9D |Garrison | New York | U.S.A
In collaboration with Dr. Báyò Akómoláfé / Dancing with Mountains and Ayin Press, the Garrison Institute is offering a short course exploration, and an in-person retreat called ‘Selah’. Selah is a series of retreats crafted around Dr.Akómoláfé’s thesis that contemporary times call for something more than healing, justice, resolution, or solution. The core invitation of Selah is to make art together, to test the limits of normal perception, to interrogate the peri-feral where representation fails to carry its weight, and to amplify desirous lines and minor gestures that are alive as potentials in the air.
Learn more and register here.
The Flow of Care
{ten public event}
WHO: ten & Rooted Global Village
WHEN: NEW DATE! Wednesday, March 5th | 11:00am – 1:00pm EST
WHERE: Online everywhere
Join us for The Flow of Care: A Paraphilanthropy Experiment. This online gathering and practice space offers an opportunity to discover and learn more about ten’s partners at Rooted Global Village (Rooted) — a vibrant communal initiative experimenting with relational care and connection across division. During the encounter, we’ll play with Báyò Akómoláfé’s recent ideas related to money and philanthropy, using Rooted as a playground for exploration. In this session, we’ll explore a new framework for consideration: paraphilanthropy — a paradigm in which money is experienced as a dynamic force, one which may not be as productive as we think.
Register here and watch a video invite from Báyò Akómoláfé here.
Becoming Unsettled: Why White Virtue Will Not Save Us
{Báyò event}
WHO: Schumacher Center for New Economics
WHEN: Thursday, March 6th, 2025 | 11:00am – 1:00pm EST
WHERE: Online everywhere
White virtue, a highly valuable commodity, is leaping off the shelves like indulgences in medieval times, soothing the guilt of whiteness! But will it save us? Will it help to have more good white people? Will it change the shape of whiteness if more white folk “did their research”? In conversation, Báyò Akómoláfé & Erin Manning propose that white virtue is a function of white settlement, & that this virtue will not assuage white guilt because it operates by justification, by lending itself as value within familiar moral boundaries.
Learn more and register here.
Climbing and Relational Art Retreat
{ten Kinship Event}
WHO: Casa Provita & Adventureversity
WHEN:, Thursday, March 13th – Tuesday, March 18th, 2025
WHERE: Providencia de Dot, Costa Rica
An invitation to gather with ten friends Andrea González Andino and Sierra Ying Allan in a beautiful spot in Costa Rica with spirit of wonder, to discover new ways to move, not just on rocks and in trees, but through the inner landscapes of our lives. Together, through shared practices and reflective inquiry, participants will create maps of their relationships and envision paths toward renewed purpose.
Learn more and register here: tinyurl.com/2zbzdh8j
SELAH: Untaming
{Báyò event}
WHO: Báyò Akómoláfé & Nora Bateson
WHEN: Monday, April 14th, – Friday, April 18th, 2025
WHERE: Esalen Institute | 55000 CA-1 | Big Sur | California | U.S.A.
The Selah retreats are a turning to grace. A concourse outside of the normal vicissitudes of citizenship. A tuning fork for grace. Grace is movement: finding safety in leaving safety. The art that will be made isn’t a finished product, an imposed goal, a pre-designed fabrication, or a project for museum installations. The “art” is undefined, incomprehensible, composed of many griefs and many questions, a tracing of the slightest tremors of perception, a lingering at the material precipices of normal perception, a working with failure to craft gestures that might sensitize us to different differences. The question at the heart of the Selah retreats is how do we become good hosts to “this monster” — to awkward grace?
Learn more and register here.