Date: Saturday, May 14, 2022, 9:30 am - 5:00 pm ET
Available by: Join by Videoconference or Watch Online Recordings (learn more about videoconference)
Price: General Public: $ 100.00 | One Spirit Graduates: $ 90.00
One Spirit Elective Credit: 1.0
Encounter the mystery and beauty of the Lucumi spiritual tradition.
In Cuba, Brazil, Haiti, and other locations a significant number of enslaved Yoruba of West Africa were displaced. Their creative intelligence established methods of hiding their sacred belief systems and ancestral practices to ensure their survival, away from colonialists who actively sought to oppress these beliefs while imposing Christian religious systems.
The Lucumi tradition is grounded in an aesthetic, artistic vision where song, dance, music, altars, and mythology are directly dependent on the forces of nature as sacred. The rich myths and divining systems that are vibrant in the community provide guiding values, ethical principles and practices to create a balanced life for practitioners.
This workshop will:
Provide an understanding of ancient sacred belief systems like divination, divinities, healing, and spiritual practices that have been sustained and continue to inform the lives of practitioners in urban and rural locations globally
Provide a cultural sacred practice that honors nature as the force of life by honoring ancestral spirits and a pantheon of divinities called orishas who are manifestations of the forces of nature
Experience the divinity of nature through a new lens.
FACULTY:
Dr. Marta Moreno Vega
Dr. Moreno Vega, is of the founder/president of Creative Justice Initiative (CJI) and founder/ former President of the, Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI). She established CCCADI in 1976. Dr. Moreno Vega is a Lucumí priestess initiated in Cuba 40 years ago. She has written several books and scholarly essays focused on the Yoruba based traditions in the African Diaspora. Altar of My Soul – The Living Traditions of Santeria focus on her initiation and studies into the West African based practices in the Diaspora. Dr. Moreno Vega has been a committed advocate and educational implementer of cultural multidisciplinary education that was the foundation of her work as the second director of El Museo del Barrio. Dr. Moreno Vega, has taught as an adjunct professor at Hunter College in the Religion Department, Arts and Public Policy Department of New York University and Rutgers University Department of Latin Studies. . Dr Moreno Vega is presently growing the Creative Justice Initiative. She is the co-founder of Corredor Afro based in Loiza, Puerto Rico. Dr. Moreno Vega is chief editor of Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora (Arte Publico Press). The book is a result of an international conference focused on Afro Latina/x women addressing social justice and activism in their countries in the Caribbean and Latin America. She is presently CEO of a Creative Justice Initiative Incorporate a not-for-profit 501C3.