In the spirit of our current exhibition, Poems for Our Country, we have invited fellow non-profit Loam to host a workshop at Union Hall focused on setting intentions for the year to come. In this workshop, Kate Weiner, Jess Drawhorn, and Tessa Powell of Loam will lead us through their engaging workbook Micro Movements. This workbook is meant to be a resource you can turn to for accessible interventions when you are struggling to find power in the face of ecological crisis and an oppressive sociocultural climate. Your body, your community, and your ecosystem are cherished wells of wonder and wisdom and the simple practices in Micro Movements are designed to help you tap into to your intrinsic interconnectedness.
This workshop is limited to 12 participants. Ticket price includes your own copy of the Micro Movements workbook. Click ‘Add to cart’ below to reserve your seat for the workshop!
Loam is a movement of compassionate and creative activists who strive to support one another as we find our footing in the heart of the climate crisis. Our community is passionate about seeding regeneration, resilience, and joy through embodied experiences that inspire the cultivation of sustainable activist practices, foster intersectionality across movements, and help each one of us to heal our connection to our earth. From publishing vibrant print publications to facilitating immersive workshops, Loam's constellation of creatives is committed to building a better world through arts-as-activism.
Micro Movements is a a reaction to the feelings of powerlessness that so many of us wrestle with as we navigate a world mapped by political chaos, state-sanctioned violence against communities of color, climate inaction, and social injustice. Integrating small practices into our lives that affirm our inherent power helps us exercise our muscles for bigger and bolder action. More than anything, when we take the time to name and to nurture our value system through heart-filled micro movements, we seed meaningful lives rooted in reciprocity and regeneration.
Kate Weiner is an environmental educator, writer, and gardener. Kate is a 2015 Brower Youth Award winner, a 2017 recipient of the John Goddard Prize for Environmental Conservancy, and a 2018 Spiritual Ecology Fellow. Kate was an Artist-in-Resident at Woodland Keep in the San Juan Islands as well as a beneficiary of the Boulder Arts Commission Professional Development Grant. She facilitates workshops across the country on low-waste living, permaculture in practice, and resilience, and has a Certificate in Permaculture Design from the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center. Her work has been published in Food52, Remedy Quarterly, Earth Island Journal, and Chickpea, and she has been featured in Minimal Mess and Woodland Keep. Kate is passionate about permaculture, plants, and full moon meanders.
Jess Drawhorn is a photographer, professional adventure-elopement officiant and environmental educator currently living in Boulder, Colorado. The intersection of her varied fields of work is a desire to help others embody the rich and simple satisfaction of being alive on our lovely planet. Jess loves to slow way down and eat ripe peaches.
Tessa Powell is the life force behind Loam Home’s visual marketing. Her role is to make sure that the experience people have when they are in Loam Home is a nourishing one and if not, to create the change that is necessary. She is currently working in advertising and marketing as well as officiating weddings throughout Colorado. She is passionate about growing communities from the ground up by interweaving unique strategies that bring people together.