Free and Open to the Public. More information and Free Registration at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rematriation-reparations-talk-workshops-and-open-mic-at-penn-museum-tickets-2004529669201 Collective community activities to engage in rematriation--or acts of ancestral remembering and reclamation for healing. Activities focus on connection to ancestral roots, through a writing and open mic workshop and a community collage workshop. The open mic section of the event will include brief statements on the importance of reconnecting with cultural roots, featuring artists who have engaged in the museum's programming and collection. At the Penn Museum where community and culture collide. Open Mic guest speakers include Dr. Karelle Hall, Arthur Haywood and any guests at the event wishing to participate. This event was organized with support from Words of the People, Xuedoin “Chelsea” Hicks, and the Penn Museum. Rematriation definition: defined as returning the sacred to the mother; mother refers to our first mother — land — as well as the ancestral languages, values and practices which come from ancestral land ties. These and we are all “the sacred.” Note: While rematriation does not always entail a person permanently returning to ancestral lands and languages, rematriation does entail acts of regenerating often frayed and stressed connections to ancestral land, language and worldview through learning, grieving and reconnecting to their identity, for the purposes of radical self- and community-care as well as healing systems of radical inequity. Rematriation is presented side by side with acts of repair and reparations including LANDBACK, in order to empower and strengthen these acts of repair through care, love and healing. In the future, as systems of radical inequity are dismantled, the work of rematriation provides new ways of relating to one another as persons descended of cultures, not just as oppressed and oppressor. | 
