For Episode 2 of Conversations on B L I S S Evan Ifekoya is joined by Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson for a conversation on Knowledge - the ancestral, ritual and somatic ways of knowing and being known.
Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson is a Multi-disciplinary artist, movement practitioner, story-protector/ writer, creative facilitator, performance maker and socio-cultural systems change educator. Lateisha is guided by the spiritual call to create spaces for healing liberation through creative actions.
Mainly Working with groups marginalised and minoritised by oppression, included but not limited to Black folk, Queers, Homeless peoples, refugees and asylum seekers and young people through community organising collectives, social centres, unions, art and education institutions to effect change/ healing / accountability. Justice. Principled by healing justice frameworks to disrupt and dismantle systems of oppression. For our embodied imaginations to be freed, creating space to envision, call in and build a world of connection and (re)belonging.
As a Black queer non-binary womxn, child of Jamaican immigrant parents and trauma survivor Lateisha draws upon the power of prophecy and ancestral knowledge. Rooted in Black feminist traditions, environmental justice practices and community-collective care to manifest somatic pathways towards decolonising how we relate to ourselves, each other and the world around us.
Lateisha’s work ‘S/He Breathe/S’, an afro futurist interdisciplinary collaborative theatre project supported by Arts Council England and Camden People’s Theatre is currently in development.
Ancestral, ritual and somatic knowledge feels like an appropriate topic for us to discuss because of our shared commitment to centering embodied and intuitive wisdom in all that we do.
More information on Lateisha:
https://lateishadavine.wordpress.com/
https://camdenartcentre.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Exhibition-Activity-LDLH-V.4.pdf
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/lateishadavine
Conversations on B L I S S explores what it means to be of service as Black cultural practitioners, how a relationship to spirit and or ancestors informs the work.
Podcast editing and title music by Gisou Golshani
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