NEMETONA – Virtual Grove
Creatrix Magazine invites you to LIVE Poetry & Ritual NEMETONA, Virtual Grove as a quest to immerse our community within the oceanic cosmic consciousness, calling upon the inner Mystic, Poetess, Psychic, Prophetess, Creatrix, Generatrix, Mediatrix, Soror Mystica, and The One Who Knows Deep Within. Grateful and humbled to share the poetry and mystic works of a brilliant lineup of writers and artists: Jane LeCroy, Sophie Strand, Arantxa Araujo, prstXKnwbdy, Nicollette Kalliagas Barsamian, Katie Cercone, Sofy Yuditskaya, Goddexx of Georgia, Sarah Penello, Jeremy Slater, under the curatorial Moon in Pisces Tropical, Moon in Aquarius Jyotish vision of Jana Astanov.
Registration link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtf-6tqzgjE9P5VYT9iqGemH8H6xkpbgVH
In the spirit of ASTROfeminist theory, this event is an alchemical transmutation of the cosmic energies with the Full Moon taking place early in the morning on February 27th with the Sun in Pisces and the Moon opposing it in the Tropical sign of Virgo. The symbolic polarity of the Pisces/Virgo axis is expressed as logic versus intuition. Therefore, this Full Moon calls upon finding material forms for our spiritual, intuitive, and mystical experiences.
Full Moon channeled message: https://creatrixmag.com/full-moon-in-virgo-mystical-manifestations/
Throughout the whole day we will be experiencing the Pisces/Virgo energetic wave, and from 7pm on Saturday through Sunday, the planetary energies build up to form the Grand Earth Trine, with the Moon trining Mars in Taurus and Pluto in Capricorn.
To honour our place within the Solar System, on the Spaceship Earth, and to integrate the occult transmissions of the artists and poets we will open the event with the mystic ritual by Arantxa Araujo and close our virtual circle with the poetry of Sofy Yuditskaya who will transmit from the Desert Temple at the Sunset.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/125602879413350
Bios:
Jane LeCroy is a NYC based poet, singer, performance artist and home-birthing mother of 3, who fronts the avant-pop band, The Icebergs, and the spontaneous experimental music project, Ω▽Ohmslice. She has toured with the SF based, all women’s poetry troupe, Sister Spit. She also performs a featured character at Poetry Brothel NYC. Among her many publications and recordings, her chapbook, Names, was published by the art-book house Booklyn, in the award winning, ABC chapbook series, that was purchased by the Library of Congress along with her braid! Three Rooms Press published, Signature Play, a multimedia book of lyrical poems, including a nomination for a Pushcart Prize. The Icebergs and Ω▽Ohmslice, both on www.ImaginatorRecords.com AVAILABLE everywhere you stream music; grab the Icebergs latest record, ADD VICE, on your favorite streaming platform right now! https://album.link/qw0hccffw3450
Instagram:
@janelecroy
@the_icebergs_nyc
Arantxa Araujo is a Mexican artist with a background in neuroscience. Her work is essentially multidisciplinary, feminist, and rooted in bio-behavioral research. Explorations of gender constructions, performativity and identity, and the politics of migration are seen and experienced in her installations, which often include video, sound, photography, mapping, light, and performance. Her work has been shown in the Brooklyn Museum, at the Radical Women Latin American Art Exhibit, Chashama Space to Present, Grace Exhibition Space, Glasshouse Gallery, The Queens Museum, Panoply Lab, Art in Odd Places in NYC; RAW during Miami Art Week; the Semel and Huret & Spector Gallery in Boston, and the SPACE Gallery and Bunker Projects in Pittsburgh; in Mexico, at El Monumento a la Revolución and La Explanada del MUAC, during the Hemispheric Institute’s Encuentro and El Vicio; also participated in the Nuit Blanche Festival in Saskatoon, Canada.
Araujo is a Franklin Furnace Fund for performance art award recipient (2020/1019) BAC grantee (2020), an LMCC (2019) grantee and has received support through numerous residencies and fellowships including Leslie-Lohman Museum Artist Fellowship (2019-2020), Creative Capital taller (2018), ITP Camp (2018, 2019) and EMERGENYC (2017). Araujo was awarded a full scholarship from Mexican Government Institution CONACYT (2012). She holds an MA in Motor Learning and Control from Teachers College, Columbia University and a BA in Theater Studies from Emerson College.
Follow her on IG @ArantxaAraujo
Sophie Strand is a freelance writer based in Kingston, New York. She finds her poems in the exposed root systems of fallen pines and rattlesnake nests on mountain summits. She has three chapbooks: Love Song to a Blue God (Oread Press) and Those Other Flowers To Come (Dancing Girl Press) and The Approach (The Swan). Her poems have been published by www.poetry.org, Braided Way Magazine, Your Impossible Voice, The Doris, Persephone’s Daughters, and Entropy. Read more @cosmogyny.
Nicollette Barsamian is a poet and writer from New York City. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University and her BA in English from Barnard College. She currently teaches writing and is a freelance tutor and copy editor. She hosts a weekly Writing Circle and a weekly Duolingo Greek Conversation Club.
Follow her on IG: @barsamiann
Sofy Yuditskaya, Sofy (@horusVacui) is a media artist and educator working with video, interactivity, projections, code, paper, and salvaged material. Her work focuses on techno-occult rituals, street performance, and participatory art. Sofy’s performances enact and reframe hegemonies, she works with materials that exemplify our deep entanglement with petro-culture. She has worked on projects at Eyebeam, 3LD, the Rubin Museum, the Netherlands Institute voor Media Kunst, ARS Electronica, Games for Learning Institute, and has taught workshops at GAFFTA, MoMA, and the Guggenheim NY. She is currently working on her PhD in Audio-Visual Composition at NYU/GSAS.
PRSTXKNWBDY is an interdisciplinary creatrix, somehow still better known as a seeing eye dragon, dance floor power ranger + infinite rambler of all existential things. her ability to speak forever before an audience of none to hundreds, thousands is curtailed (as if) only by its silent cousin – word bending on paper.
established with all jokes inside, at the tail end of the sovereign siren of all petty tyrants (the year 2020), bitchwitch botanica is a convergence of covens activating + initiating integration thru art + healing as a peer to peer experience.
inclusive af, these days, you can usually spot PK (as no one save her self affectionately calls her) lounging with the lizards in patches of sun, sippin cute herbal infusions + smoking witchy spliffs w the bodega cats in ur mum’s backyard, banging on an ipad about bitchwitch botanica on anybody’s balcony + of course, never not plotting the coochie revolution with her artwives of Church of the Cosmic Cunt.
connect with PRSTXKNWBDY + the bitchwitch botanica fam gang on the interwebs via their link tree: https://linktr.ee/bitchwitchbotanica
Sarah Penello is an artist, author, facilitator, priestess and witch. She is a life-long student of the healing arts and plant medicine, a chef, a forager, and is amazing at spotting well camouflaged animals in the landscape. She is a certified Ayurvedic practitioner and a Reiki Master, with nearly 10 years of experience.
In 2018, she co-founded The Church of the Cosmic Cunt, a mutable art collective that has hosted over 300 events, including parties, art shows, classes, ceremonies and workshops. She is devoted to reclaiming the sacred in the profane, cultivating pleasure and beauty in the places where we have been wounded, and living in a way that honors the sovereignty of all beings.
In her art practice and kitchen witchery, this manifests as working creatively with the materials that present themselves- finding ways to be sustainably lavish and luxurious. You can shop her wildcrafted plant products and botanically dyed garments at https://www.etsy.com/shop/sasquatchbotanica .
Katie Cercone *Or Nah* is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, scribe, yogi and spiritual gangsta. Cercone has been included in exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, Bronx Museum, Whitney Museum, Dallas Contemporary and C24 Gallery. She has published critical writing in ART PAPERS, White Hot, Posture, Brooklyn Rail, Hysteria, Bitch Magazine, Art511, Utne Reader and N.Paradoxa. She is co-leader of the queer, transnational feminist collective Go! Push Pops and creative director of ULTRACULTURAL OTHERS Urban Mystery Skool. Cercone was a 2015 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow for the U.S.-Japan Exchange Program in Tokyo. Follow her on instagram @0r__Nah_spiriturlgangsta and learn more at KatieCercone.com
JEREMY D. SLATER is an intermedia artist working in the areas of sound, video, computer art, performance, installation, and words. Follow him on IG: @parenthesisme
Jana Astanov is an interdisciplinary artist, a poet and an independent curator living in the Shawangunk Mountains. She is the author of five collections of poetry: Antidivine, Grimoire, Sublunar, The Pillow Book of Burg, and Birds of Equinox. Follow her on IG @Jana_Astanov & Twitter @JanaAstanov
