WHO: Dancing with Mountains
WHEN: December 1, 2024 | 8:30pm – 10:00pm IST
WHERE: Online everywhere

As Dancing with Mountains has shared, this has been a season they are coming to understand as The Pause within the ongoing co-enquiry around carnivals as research. Katabasis, or descent, might be enlisting a generative incapacitation. A fallowness. There is a sense of endarkenment here. A becoming rhizomatic beneath the surface. The Dancing with Mountains team welcomes you to join them for Bayo’s ‘state of the \crack\ address in these end of times, as they continue the work in the ruins. Won’t you bend to queer uprightness and prostrate before the unknown and co-sense into the next unexpected note in this composition?

Register here: https://bitly.cx/tEEfp

WHO: Schumacher Center for New Economics
WHEN: Wednesday, December 4, 2024 | 11:00am – 1:00pm EST
WHERE: Online everywhere

What happens when cartography and the institutional certitudes that produce neat maps buckle under the weight of something else? We Can’t get There from Here: Carbon, Climate and the Call to Wonder is an online exploration between Paul Hawken and Báyò Akómoláfé on a planet composed of flows, a world too dense and invested and animated for uncomplicated departures and exclusive arrivals. A world marked by errant lines, not static points. Through their investigations of indigenous traditions, they suggest that the ways we are summoned to practice care in a time of endings and fire and exactly how the fire keeps burning.

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WHO: Garrison Institute
WHEN: Wednesday, December 11, 2024 | 11:00am – 12:30pm EST
WHERE: Online everywhere

Join us for an illuminating conversation between Dr. Báyò Akómoláfé and Rodney McKenzie, Jr., Vice President of Ally Development at the Fetzer Institute and veteran community organizer. Whether you’re an activist, educator, policymaker, or simply curious about new paradigms for our shared future, this event will expand your horizons and inspire fresh thinking about our place in the world. This conversation promises to challenge conventional thinking, offering fresh perspectives on how we can dance with uncertainty, embrace our interconnectedness, and create bold new pathways for change.

Learn more and register here.

WHO: Garrison Institute
WHEN: February 25 – March 22, 2025 (online course) | March 29 – April 1, 2025
(in-person retreat)
WHERE: Garrison Institute | 14 Mary’s Way | Route 9D |Garrison | New York | U.S.A

In collaboration with Dr. Báyò Akómoláfé / Dancing with Mountains and Ayin Press, the Garrison Institute is offering a short course exploration, and an in-person retreat called ‘Selah’. Selah is a series of retreats crafted around Dr.Akómoláfé’s thesis that contemporary times call for something more than healing, justice, resolution, or solution. The core invitation of Selah is to make art together, to test the limits of normal perception, to interrogate the peri-feral where representation fails to carry its weight, and to amplify desirous lines and minor gestures that are alive as potentials in the air. 

Learn more and save-the-date here.

WHO: School of Liminal Arts
WHEN: February 21 – February 26, 2025
WHERE: Santa Fe | New Mexico | U.S.A.

Smoke & Mirrors is a courageous body of work that extends beyond personal transformation and initiates participants to move through personal transmutation and into intrapersonal transfiguration. In our unfurling, we move off the map and wind our way through the Hall of Mirrors – piercing through illusion, releasing fixation, dropping masks, moving into and with the Void, finding camaraderie with the undefinable, the more than human, revealing, releasing, rebuilding without walls.

Learn more and register here: https://www.schoolofliminalarts.com/smoke-mirrors