Self-Care Sunday
with Elaine Talamaivao
January 28th, 2024
8:00-9:00 am PST | 9:00-10:00 am MST | 10:00-11:00 am CST | 11:00-12:00 pm EST |
$0.00 - ‘Pay What You Wish’
“Elaine Talamaivao is a Polynesian dancer, educator, and community leader. Her introduction to Polynesian dance started at her father’s practices in Mulivai Samoa, while he prepared with the Samoan Dance Theatre for their South Pacific and European tours.
She would leave Samoa and migrate to Aotearoa, New Zealand, to live with her grandparents, where the Fa’a Samoa traditions were practiced thoroughly in their home. Eventually, her love for culture took her to lead the Polynesian and Kapa Haka Clubs for Tawa and St Mary’s College, where both High Schools became game changers and power houses among the local High School Poly Festivals in the capital city, Wellington.”
More Information about Elaine and Tala Mai Moana
The Source introduces 'Peace Reflections' - a journey celebrating the roles of Peace and Knowledge in fostering community healing. This echoes the teachings of Queer, Black, and Brown liberative organizing, where communities have been united through principles of Peace, art, and education. We are honored to have Michael Roberson, join us as we explore the Ballroom Scene, recognized as a powerful space of resistance against oppression, driven by love, creativity, and community as transformative forces.
Throughout history, Black Liberative leaders and communities, including iconic figures like MLK Jr. and the legacies of the Ballroom community, have served as havens for marginalized people. 'Peace Reflections' showcases contemporary expressions of peace and fosters exchanges by honoring these legacies and lineages.
Drawing on the ancestral wisdom of Michael Roberson and Elaine Talamaivao (founder of Tala Mai Moana & Co-Visioner of The Source), our goal is to share practices and knowledge useful for cultivating Peace on the journey to create a more healed society.
On January 28th, Elaine Talamaivao leads Self-Care Sunday, promoting peace within oneself through Pacific Islander ancestral pathways. She prompts the question: What does it mean to have the essence of Peace present in your body?
ACCESSIBILITY
The Source invites guests and soon-to-be loved ones to "COME AS YOU ARE." We are committed to meeting participants where they are. To help us understand your accessibility needs and requests, please communicate them to Gabriel.DancingEarth@gmail.com. Our intention for this space is to honor vulnerability and emotional healing. We kindly ask you to join us in honoring this intention for yourself and the community, setting limits that feel right for you.
BRING
Presence
Curiosity
Questions
A desire for peace both in the self and in the world
Comida
Clothes you are comfortable in
Water bottle
Notebook and pencil/pen
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DANCING EARTH CREATIONS dynamically activates our mission, to create contemporary dance and related arts through global indigenous and intercultural relationships centered on ecological and cultural diversity for creativity, health, and wellness.
“We gather as individual artists to create experimental yet elemental dances that reflect our rich cultural heritage as contemporary global peoples. We strive to embody the unique essences of cultural perspectives by the creation and renewal of artistic and cultural movement rituals. Ancient and futuristic, our dances are an elemental language of bone and blood memory in motion.” - Founding Director, Rulan Tangen