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NATURE PLAY

Through guided meditation, gentle hikes, theater games, collaborative art, and hands-on practices, we explore simple tools for presence, resilience, and nervous system reset.

During the day, Pamela will guide a natural cordage workshop using raffia (palm fiber), where you can create small pieces like necklaces or bags while learning about plants that can be transformed into cordage, reconnecting with ancestral skills rooted in nature.

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To the People of Iran: You Are Not Alone

There are moments in history when silence becomes a position.

Today, we stand with the people of Iran — artists, students, families, dreamers — whose lives are being systematically erased by violence and repression.
This is not about borders, governments, or ideologies.
This is about human beings.

Humanity knows no borders.
Grief knows no nationality.
Dignity does not belong to the state, it belongs to the people.

Aviva Arts is listening.

We listen to the voices of Iranians who are asking the world not to look away.

We believe in culture as resistance.
We understand art as generational memory.
We practice collective presence as protection.

To the people of Iran: you are not alone.
Your lives matter.
Your voices are heard.

We stand with you

Now and always.


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Welcome to Aviva Arts, an arts and wellness hub for innovative cultural practice. We value personal relationships and champion innovative models of connection that build bridges of empathy for today's world.

“The theater of epic vision, purpose, recovery, repair, and care needs new rituals. We don’t need to be entertained. We need to gather. ”

–Peter Sellars, World Theatre Day

We do this by:

  • Four people engaging in an activity in a minimal setting, with one person sitting on a chair, one mid-step onto a stool, another sitting on a ladder, and the fourth standing, all in casual attire.

    CONVENING

    Facilitating community gatherings such as webinars, dialogues and in-person retreats which align artistic inspiration with the natural world.

  • A group of people wearing face masks are participating in an art activity involving red string in an indoor gallery space.

    CREATING

    Producing performance experiences that interrogate form, center underrepresented bodies and endeavor to respond to the prompt: what is the artist’s role in society now?

  • A woman wearing a red scarf and black coat is standing in front of a wall with colorful chalk drawings and writings that say 'Utrecht.' There is a large, textured plant or sculpture on a table covered with yellow satin fabric.

    CO-LEARNING

    Facilitating liberatory public workshops through a social justice lens.

“As our activities are shared digitally to the internet, we also consider the legacy of colonization embedded within technological structures. This includes the equipment and high speed internet which are not available in many indigenous communities. The technologies that are central to much of the art we make also leave a significant carbon footprint, contributing to changing climates that disproportionately affect indigenous and marginalized peoples worldwide. We invite you to join us in acknowledging all this, as well as our shared responsibility to consider our roles in reconciliation and decolonization.”-Based on Adrienne Wong of SpiderWebShow and from Dr. H “Herukhuti” Sharif Williams from CUNY Racial Justice and Performance Conference.