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Join me for an in person workshop on March 14th and 21st! Tix here. More info below.

With love,

Noelle

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GUIDING REFLECTION

A RITUAL FOR LIBERATION

MY JOURNEY

‘My journey’ shares some of my practice creating sacred space in my everyday life. In sharing aspects of my intimate, inner world, my hope is to support you in connecting with the vulnerable, sometimes hidden spaces within your own being.

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II just got back from 10 days in residency at the Arab American National Museum (AANM), where I was / am part of a collaborative team developing: The Magic Bullet. I am so grateful for this time & space & community, amidst immense grief, rage and horror at the continued genocide in Palestine.

I was there with my daughter, in partnership with community, within beautifully crafted structures of collective care crafted by Lubdub Theatre, in the city of Dearborn, which is home to an incredible Arab and SWANA diasporic community.

Some of my experiences on this powerful journey involved: spells and spirits, intersecting histories of the 'crossroads', decolonizing creative practice, the colonizer and colonized within, letting go, ‘The Land in our Bones’, pressure, release, the Mediterranean, The Djurdjura mountains. Algerian mystics & resistance fighters Lalla Fatma N'Soumer and Emir Abdelkader. Houdin and the French colonial government's 'Bureau of Arab Affairs'. Violent Modernity.

Sitting with and researching the same settler colonial violence & strategies that were used by the French in Algeria, now being used by Israel in Palestine.

This process was and continues to be deeply meaningful for me on a personal level, and as part of the movement for collective liberation.

While our material for The Magic Bullet is created in collaboration, we also delve into our own personal impulses and creations, which serve our collective vision. In the dream world & in research, in creative writing and decolonial practice: I continue to spend time with Lalla Fatma N'Soumer: one of the major heroines of Algerian resistance to the French colonial enterprise in the region of Kabylia. Below is a poem & creative exploration that shares some insight into my intentions and practice of "writing it into liberation."​
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​THE LAND IN OUR BONES: Plantcestral Herbalism and Healing Cultures from Syria to the Sinai--Earth-Based Pathways to Ancestral Stewardship and Belonging in the Diaspora. By Layla K. Feghali

A profound and searching exploration of the herbs and land-based medicines of Lebanon and Cana’an—a vital invitation to re-member our roots and deepen relationship with the lands where we live in diaspora

Tying cultural survival to earth-based knowledge, Lebanese ethnobotanist, sovereignty steward, and cultural worker Layla K. Feghali offers a layered history of the healing plants of Cana’an (the Levant) and the Crossroads (“Middle East”) and asks into the ways we become free from the wounds of colonization and displacement.
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Join me on March 14th and 21st!

Learn more and get tix HERE.

In the first session, Noelle will lead the participants in a creative ceremony. Through embodied jam sessions & meditative installations, sonic experiences of sacred time & storytelling: we unearth connection to intangible parts of ourselves and our ancestral lineages. This will be an embodied experience of ritual-performance gathering in community. In the second workshop, participants will create and facilitate their own creative, community-centered, performance rituals: continuing to explore themes of ancestry.