Spotlight Sundays: Land as Body—A Community Ritual with Puri Arts

Spotlight Sundays: Land as Body—A Community Ritual with Puri Arts

This Spotlight Sundays, we are excited to welcome back Dohee Lee and Puri Arts with their project Land as Body: Belonging, a powerful community ritual that interweaves ceremony, storytelling, and drumming. This spirited offering provides a ceremonial bridge for healing between ancestors and the people of all lands that have endured ruptures due to deportation, incarceration, and all forms of colonial violence.
In collaboration with Asian Refugees United-Connect-Reflect-Enact (ARU-CRE) and Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC)  (including members inside and out of San Quentin Prison), Land as Body cultivates a collective of immigrants, refugees, and settlers on the Indigenous lands of Turtle Island where they live and belong. Please join us for this potent expression of healing and connection.

节目表

1–1:30 pm | Welcome Ceremony
1:30–3 pm | Traditional Jeju Island Ritual – Storytelling and Offerings
3–4 pm | Community Circle – Drumming and Dance

This program is free and open to the public (no tickets required)

About Dohee Lee

Born on Jeju Island, Corea, Dohee trained in Corean traditional music and dance, deeply rooted in Corean Indigenous practice (shamanism), especially that of Jeju Island. In 2002, Dohee immigrated to Oakland and founded Puri Arts in 2004 to create a new art form. Since then, she has contributed to both traditional and contemporary arts. She emphasizes the mythical, experimental, ritualistic, historical and healing aspects of performance and installation, catalyzing new relationships between identity, nature, spirituality, and the political. Dohee is Artistic Director of Dohee Lee Puri Arts, Director of Art and Healing with Asian Refugees United, and is faculty at Tamalpa Institute.

About Puri Arts (PA)

PA is an art organization that practices cultural and ancestral ritual performances rooted in Corean indigenous practice and contemporary arts for healing justice.

About Asian Refugees United (ARU-CRE)

ARU-CRE is a non-profit organization centered on art, healing, and social justice leadership for immigrants and refugees in the Asian diaspora.

About Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC)

APSC provides direct support to Asian and Pacific Islander (API) prisoners and raises awareness about the growing number of APIs being imprisoned, detained, and deported.

无障碍设施

加州奥克兰博物馆 (OMCA) 致力于为我们的社区提供无障碍、温馨和包容的活动。轮椅、感官设备和其他设施均可在售票处领取，先到先得。如需其他便利设施，如美国手语 (ASL)、粤语、西班牙语或其他语言翻译，请至少在活动开始前三周发送电子邮件至 [email protected]。进一步了解我们的无障碍选项。