THE ROSEWOOD SESSIONS: with Tenzin Lama and Kendra Danowski

Join us for dialogue, practice, and storytelling on themes of lineage, identity, multiplicity, and rootedness with Tenzin Lama and Kendra Danowski.

The conversation will begin at 6pm; doors at 5:50pm. The dialogue will be recorded for our podcast series. Following the conversation, we will support the community to weave further connections over wine and hors d'oeuvres.

Tenzin Lama is a Senior Associate Program Manager at Open Society Foundations. Previously, Tenzin held multiple roles at the International Migration Initiative, focusing on enhancing protections for refugees and migrants and fostering community integration. Tenzin began a career as a Program Assistant at Community Resource Exchange, bringing a solid educational background with a Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies and Engineering from Brown University and High Honors with Distinction from Westover School.

Kendra Danowski Is a learner, writer, researcher, and educator, who focuses on themes of epistemology and knowledge-making, paradox and contradiction, the tensions of multitude and pluriverse, and historical contingency. Kendra explores how coloniality, disciplinary thinking, and collective grief shape all those things. As a maker and in their artistic practice, Kendra creates objects, media, and tools that bring joy and utility, and spark new routes of curiosity, connection, and open-heartedness.

Relational disconnection is threatening our collective social fabric: worldwide we are witnessing trends of greater inequality, polarization, authoritarianism, and othering.

Even movements and organizations working for justice, equity, and liberation are not immune to this fracturing. Relational ruptures not only often mimic and reproduce structures of harm and oppression that many of us seek to dismantle, they also undermine opportunities for meaningful solidarity within and across movement spaces, and can shake our confidence in the work itself.

Our sessions are designed to pair organizers, activists, artists, healers, and community leaders for an evening of exchange through storytelling, reflection, and practice, in service of fostering meaningful and mutual connection.

Our hope is that these intimate sessions and community dinners will help us build relationships with other local, NYC-based kin, and inspire us to seek out and build bridges in our own backyards.

The Wyckoff is a community house, urban garden, and event space in Ridgewood, Queens. Follow us on IG: https://www.instagram.com/the_wyckoff/

The exact address will be shared with attendees upon registration. The Wyckoff is accessible via the L train at Halsey, and also the B26 bus. Free street parking is available around the house.

The Wyckoff is a private home in Queens that offers space for groups to gather. We will gather out in the garden during the summer months, and during the colder months we will host The Rosewood Sessions indoors. Please be in touch if you have specific access needs.

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