Community Workshops
Workshop topics have included art making, healthy eating, healing with herbs and plants, and women’s health. Topics are typically based on current need or requests from community members. These can be one offs at our space or we can come to you. We have also organized series comprised of three to six weekly workshops– on organic herbalism, urban gardening, art, and creative writing. All workshops are led by local women of color experts. The workshops are geared towards a novice or beginning audience and share our holistic artivist philosophy.
The most requested workshops are:
Self Care Workshop & Wellness Ways
Artivism in Action
Power of Posters & Poetry
Interested in bringing Mujeres de Maiz to your organization?
MdM has workshops and presentations available that we can bring to your school or workplace. Click the Book Us Button below to fill out the short form. Rates vary on needs, location, time, etc.
Please contact us at info@mujeresdemaiz.com for more information.
Check out our workshops
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Check out our workshops --
Artivism in Action: Educate, Empower, Transform
Presentation
A presentation on how Artivism (art and activism) can educate, empower, inspire and transform people and communities. Facilitators share various examples of projects created with different causes and mediums for this purpose including their own work, and that of the groundbreaking Los Angeles women’s collective, Mujeres de Maiz.
Artists, Activists and Work, Oh My! Non-Traditional Jobs in Communities of Color
presentation
A presentation and talk about non-traditional jobs working within art and social justice arena and creating your own career and path in communities of color. Participants will hear the personal journey of a womyn of color artivist, Felicia ‘Fe’ Montes, and the path she has chosen to create as the Zapatistas say “a world where many worlds fit.” Discussion will also bring up sexism, payment, and treatment of artists within social movements, artist unions, issues of cultural capital and more.
Cultura Cura Circles: Culturally based Holistic Talking Circles
Talking Circle
Based on indigenous and ancestral ways of relating with each other, these circles allow groups and individuals to open up to each other and to the sacred within us all. The circle encourages dialogue, respect, sharing, and learning among members of a group and values the interconnected culture, teachings and knowledge of all especially that of Indigenous ways. The symbolism of the circle, with no beginning and with no one in a position of prominence, serves to encourage people to speak freely and honestly in a safe space.
Cesar Chavez: Education, Celebration, and Service
Workshop
A workshop on how you can honor Cesar Chavez Day and farmworkers in your community or campus. Basic information and background regarding Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers Movement are shared including a video as well as various resources (sample curriculum/lesson plan referrals). How to’s including organizing an assembly, special event at your location, and service projects are discussed/shared.
Chicana Art: Resistance and Affirmation - Then and Now
Presentation
This presentation shares decades of information and images focusing on Chican@ art from the 1960’s to present. Various photos, mediums, and artists as well as collectives will be discussed as well as major themes, campaigns and issues and developments.
Decolonizing Healing Ways: Ancestral Knowledge for Today
Workshop
This workshop will focus on deconstructing the structures and institutions that are barriers to health and wellness in communities as well as seeking alternative wellness methods including herbalism and other ways of knowing and healing. The workshop will introduce natural and holistic healing methods, plants and traditions and bring forth the experiential knowledge that the participants in the circle have including family and home recipes, remedios, etc.
BOTANICA DEL BARRIO
workshop
La Botanica del Barrio focuses on sharing, making and documenting wellness ways for and by the people. Its main project is an alterNative mobile medicine cart used to educate and dialogue about wellness remedies, recipes, herb and plants uses, and Mexican traditional medicine.
A Healing Journey - Finding Purpose
Presentation
A platica/presentation on a path towards wellness and healing. Sharing about childhood, struggles and path within and out of political & spiritual movements, Felicia Montes shares her personal struggle to find herself and connects it to our many commonalities and who we really are, our passions and our purpose. This presentation specifically shares different ways of knowing and healing that I have been a part of and what each has brought to me as an urban women of color. Presentation usually follows with a talking circle for those in attendance to also share.
Decolonizing your Diet
Skill Share
A skill share about introducing more plant based meals to the everyday. Facilitators are long time vegetarians who share insight and experience into the S.A.D. diet and how returning to ancestral traditions can get us healthier.
CuraTé: The healing power of plants & Palabra
Workshop
A creative writing workshop based in wellness ways and focused on stories around self care. Share your stories, validate your voice and reconnect to remedies and wellness ways through this blended writing workshop.
PUBLIC ART CART
Workshop
The Politricked Public Art Cart is a mobile art cart whose goal is to educate, empower and transform community spaces by offering the P’s of public art including posters, performance, poetry and projection. The cart can offer posters, performances and workshops.
Movemynt Pains: Dealing with Sexism & Fleshing Feminism
Workshop
The workshop is a beginning dialogue regarding sexism, gender politics and issues within movement organizing as well as sharing of resources and ways to begin to not only challenge patriarchy but also to flesh out and embody feminism and create spaces of healing and empowerment of all peoples.
The Power of Poetry
Workshop
A creative writing workshop for all. Share your stories, validate your voices, honor you his/herstories. Writing is way to do all of this. Professional community poets guide this workshop by sharing some of their own poems and then creating space for participants to write their own.
The Power of Posters: Silkscreening & Self Determination
Workshop
This hands on workshop shares the ancient technique of silkscreening. Posters have been used for centuries to share messages and make statements. Participants will plan and create an image via stencil to make personal or political posters during the workshop. *These workshops can be personalized to specific issues/topics including self esteem, immigration, sexuality, gender and much more.
Self and Community Care
Skill-share
A skill-share on discussing and sharing tools for beginning self care and protection. Tools shared benefit all but are specifically supportive of activists and cultural workers. We will discuss and partake in beginning meditation, energy protection, herbal and stone allies, incenses and basic practices to take care of ourselves and strive for balance in body, mind, spirit. This introductory skillshare is an offering for those working tirelessly to create another world. We see and appreciate you!
Dia de los Muertos: Tradition and Transition
A workshop led by Felicia 'Fe' Montes of Mujeres de Maiz that offers participants background on the contemporary Indigenous, Chicana/o/x, Mexican and Latinx celebrations of Day of the Dead or Días de los Muertos. Participants will be introduced to key elements that create an altar and leave with an idea on how they can construct their own altar or art piece dedicated to their deceased loved ones and ancestors.
*Felicia has created community Day of the Dead celebrations and altars since 1997.