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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.
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.
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.
Rivers of Becoming: Power
{ten public event}
WHO: ten & advaya
WHEN: Monday, April 28th | 6:00pm – 7:15pm BST
WHERE: Online everywhere
In partnership with advaya, ten is offering Rivers of Becoming, a three-part interactive webinar series, as an invitation to reframe and “see” these concepts of power, ritual, and freedom through other eyes. The conversations will bring together wisdom-keepers, thought leaders and practitioners to offer insights and embodied practices emerging from different worldviews, cosmologies, and life experiences. Minna Salami and Báyò Akómoláfé will be in conversation for the first webinar, inviting us to reimagine power as an ecosystem of relations — wild, unpredictable, and alive — encouraging a shift from domination to harmonious coexistence.
Register here.
Smoke & Mirrors: Undefining Perceptual Reality
{ten Kinship Event}
WHO: School of Liminal Arts
WHEN: Monday, September 1st – Friday, September 6th, 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