 Esta reunión está siendo registrada. Hola a todos. Hola a todos. Bienvenidos a RoutesWeek 2020. La urgencia de ahora. Gracias por acompañarnos. Antes de empezar, vamos a tener nuestro Partidor Justice Banchas Lenguas. Vámonos a la acción de la lengua. Hola, buenos días. Para los que nos acompañan hoy, por favor sepan que estamos provisiendo la interpretación del español al inglés y del inglés al español. Para acceso al lenguaje, por favor envíen un mensaje al chat de transmisión en vivo y nuestro equipo técnico les enviará un enlace al cual pueden acceder. Hola, buenos días. Para los que nos acompañan hoy, por favor sepan que estamos provisiendo la interpretación de español a inglés y de inglés a español. Para la lengua de acceso, por favor envíen un mensaje al chat Saludos. Mi nombre es Yudid, mis pronombres son Eya, Eye y estoy aquí con mi compa y en COinterprete, Lila. Sus pronombres son Eya, Eye, somos miembros del Colectivo de Justicia del Lenguaje, Banchas Lenguas basado en Bulbucha, Luisiana, aka, Netherlands. Hola, mi nombre es Yudid y mis pronuncios son Shey y Day. Soy acompañada hoy por mi amiga en COinterpreter, Lila. También pronuncio Shey y Day. Somos miembros de la lengua de la lenguaje justicia y colectiva basada en Bulbanta Luiciana, también conocida como noruega. Bulbanta es la palabra chakta, que significa la tierra donde se habla muchos lenguajes. Bulbanta es la chakta, la palabra chakta, que significa la tierra donde muchas lenguajes están hablando. Como trabajadores de justicia y lenguaje, nos enforzamos a crear un espacio para que todos aquí presentes puedan entender y ser entendidos en el idioma y que nos sentimos más poderosos. Como trabajadores de la lenguaje justicia, creemos un espacio para todos aquí para entender y entender la lengua en la que nos sientimos más poderosos. Por favor, diga lo que es loco y lo que es loco. Si estás hablando demasiado rápido, verás que haces este señal, lo que significa que haces loco. Te invito a hacer esto, también. Puede ser difícil verlo en tu screen, así que le damos que por favor, escuche un ojo en el chat en caso de enviar un mensaje preguntando a ti para desplazarte. Por favor, habla a un paso lento y constante. Si estás hablando muy rápido, nos verá hacer una señal de manos que significa ir más despacio. Invitamos a que lo hagan también. Es posible que sea difícil vernos en tu pantalla, así que pedimos que le echemos un ojo al chat por si enviamos un mensaje pidiendo que vayas más despacio. Hablamos loco y claramente. Si tienes teléfonos con el mic, por favor, usenlos. Hacemos este señal de manos. Si no podemos escuchar a ti, te invito a hacer lo mismo. Y también enviaremos un mensaje en el chat. Su habla en voz clara, alta y clara. Si tienes audífonos con micrófono, utilícalos. Haremos este señal con la mano, si no podemos escucharte. Están invitados a hacer lo mismo. Y también enviaremos un mensaje al chat. Por favor, mantén tu mic en silencio, si no estás hablando. Mantén tu micrófono en silencio, si no estás hablando. Just got to mute it. Por favor, hablan una persona a una vez. Los interpretadores pueden solo interpretar una voz a una vez, y no queremos estar en una posición donde tenemos que decidir cuál voz a favor a la otra. Si una persona a la vez les interprete, solamente pueden interpretar una voz a la vez. Y no queremos estar en la posición de tener que decir cuál voz privilegiar sobre otra. Y ahora vamos a encender la plataforma para la interpretación. Y ahora vamos a poner la plataforma de interpretación. Si estás usando una computadora, vas a ver un icono de globo al pie de tu pantalla con la palabra interpretación. Haz clic sobre él y selecciona el canal de tu lenguaje preferido, inglés o español. Si estás usando un teléfono inteligente de una tableta, busca tres puntos que leen más, haz clic y te aparecerá una lista. Haz clic sobre la interpretación, selecciona inglés o español y luego haces clic sobre finalizar. Y si estás usando un tablet o smartphone, ve a las tres notas que más read. click on it and this will prompt a list. Click on interpretation, select English or Spanish and then click done. Todas cuando hagan su selección verán una opción para silenciar audio original y que le permite escuchar solo la voz de la intérprete. Si deseas escuchar el audio original a un volumen más bajo en el trasfondo puedes quitarlo del modo de silencio. Puedes regresar en cualquier momento para cambiar tu selección. Y ahora vamos a asignarnos intérpretes, lo vemos en el otro lado. Gracias, gracias, gracias. Gracias, Báncha, nos apreciamos de growing with us. Y si estás mirando en livestream y si no estás filenguando inglés y español, te invito a ir a la web de Zoom en el chat. Mi nombre es Lisa Shadek, mis pronuncias favoritas son ella y ella. Soy un teatremaker. Soy una mujer blanca con braun hair. Tengo una tienda que pide en la cabeza. Tengo una tienda que es verde y verde y blanco que es una de mis favoritas. Y estoy feliz de estar aquí con ustedes. La misión de Art & Alternate Routes es una organización basada en los Estados Unidos que la misión es apoyar la creación y la presentación de la art original en todas sus formas, que es rota en una comunidad particular de lugar, tradición o espíritu. Como un colegio de trabajadores culturales, nosotros asignamos a ser alias en la eliminación de todas las formas de apreciación. Routes es convivida a la justicia social y económica y la protección del mundo natural y adresa estas preocupaciones sobre programas y servicios. La misión Alternate Routes es apoyada por las donaciones generosas de nuestros miembros graciosos, individuos privados y fundadores, incluyendo los endowments nacionales para las artes, Ford, Melon, Cerdna y la fundación Doris Duke. Si estás viendo el live stream y quieres ser engañado, click en el botón en la parte superior del video y eso activará el live stream de chat. Si tienes alguna de las cuestiones técnicas, acelera en el chat y tenemos a alguien que asistir. Nuestro agente, equipo de trabajo equidad, recuerda cambiar nuestro profe o nombre de chat para incluir nuestros pronuncios. Así que por favor, hazlo. Y como creemos en el trabajo de decolonización, os invito a aprender con nosotros sobre las zonas donde vivimos y construir las relaciones a la velocidad de confianza como movimos de reconocimiento de la tierra a la acción. Como adentro los pronuncios de tu nombre profundo, acelera en el chat donde vivimos. Si sabes los nombres de los indígenas que son los estudiantes de la tierra, acelera en el chat también. Y si no, os invito a aprender más sobre el reconocimiento de la tierra. Un recuerdo rápido, que no importa cuáles son las zonas convenientes, si estamos en un espacio físico o virtual, lo hacemos bajo la guía de los agregamientos de la comunidad y nos dará el link en el chat para tu referencia. Nuestra bienvenida nos recuerda cuidarnos de nosotros cuando estamos en este espacio virtual. Así que obtenga agua, obtenga una cebolla, toque los brazos y estar bien a tu cuerpo durante la semana de la ruta. Bueno, creo que tengo todos los anuncios. Vamos a comenzar la sesión. Primero tenemos una gronda con Zachary Kopkin. Hola a todos, ¿puedes escucharme? Bien, bien. Hola, soy Zach Kopkin. Veo los pronuncios de él. Me llamo de Forte City, North Carolina. Occupio territorio. Me llamo Cherokee. Describo mis padres. Soy un joven negro en mi habitación en casa con este joven joven aquí. He llegado aquí en Rutherford County, North Carolina. Es de los 100 años. Es un gran agujero aquí con algunos sálticos enlace. Todas serán de las cosas maravillosas. Y voy a jugar para ustedes unas sonivas espirituales con un poco de medallión que son significables para mí, que son dentro de que el agua svatoria es grande. Algunos de ellos lo reconocen. Se acercan a cantar o mover, o hacer aggregaciones. Y then I'll follow that a seguirlo con el nombre de Blankin. Voy a volar. Estoy seguro de que muchos de ustedes saben esa canción también. He escuchado la música de Louisiana Jazz Band hace muchos meses. He visto la canción en YouTube solo para para agradecer a todos los folks que hemos perdido por COVID y todo el año. Y eso me movió y quería aprender en Banjo. Y luego, finalmente, una canción llamada Dianoo, que es una canción jewish. Una canción en paso o en paso. Y esa fue mi gran yante favorita canción de matriarcha de mi familia en Atlanta, donde vi. Esa fue su favorita canción y se pasó de manera anterior este año, así que lo voy a jugar en honor de ella. Yo no voy a cantar nada, así que no se sienta gratis para agregarse a lo que te gusta. Lisa, creo que te ha mutado. Gracias, gracias Zachary. Y el siguiente, vamos a escuchar a Spirit. Pisa a todos, feliz sonido. Es Spirit, Paris McIntyre. Aquí mis pronuncias son Spirit, ellos y ellos. Y yo soy una persona transgénero, transgénero expansivo. Soy un poco construido. Tengo... Tengo un fedora. Un fedora verde con un pedazo de rojo. Y un botón. Un botón de patrón. Y estoy sitting behind my cello. Estoy en el edificio de mi casa. Y detrás de mí es una caja de rojo. Y un poco de... Pintos y blancos cartón. Y tengo una arte en las cajas. Y hay una puerta. La puerta frontal de mi apartamento está detrás de mí. Estoy muy gratificada de estar aquí con ustedes todos hoy. Y voy a compartir un par de canciones con ustedes. El primero es nuevo, nuevo, nuevo, nuevo, nuevo. Tienes la primera comunidad que está escuchando. Y escribí con esta oferta en mi mente. Y la primera canción se llama Accomplice. Y quiero compartir con ustedes una definición de trabajo que Raven Crane y yo usan en nuestro laboral de construcción. Accomplice, es un verbo. Una persona que es capaz de tener sus manos duro. No es un espectador. Ellos son un participante activo. Uno que es consistente de aprender y de no aprender. Ellos están dispuestos a ser acalmables para sus intenciones y acciones. Dos, uno que fue elegido de la comunidad que están deseando acalmarlos. Tres, una persona capaz de intentar y perder. Ellos están abiertos a la corrección. Entendiendo que es asqueroso. Es una necesidad para su crecimiento. Así que Accomplice. Cuando veo algo que distirma mi espíritu, diré algo. Y cuando escucho una lenguaje que aprecia otro, diré algo. Y cuando escucho algo que aprecia otro, diré algo. Porque el conocimiento es en el hacer y el hacer es para mejorar. ¿Has visto a un gordo con no dolor bajo sus naves? No me confío en ellos. O un carpenter que nunca había un splinter. No me confío en ellos. Pero ¿qué sobre un jugador que nunca había un shinor? No me confío en ellos. Y la segunda y la última canción. Pisa a todos, Raven Crane. Participante. Participante. Uno que es consistente de necesidad para su crecimiento. Cuando veo algo que distirma mi espíritu, diré algo. Y cuando escucho una lenguaje que aprecia otro, diré algo. Y cuando escucho algo que aprecia otro, diré algo. Porque el conocimiento es en el hacer y el hacer es para mejorar. ¿Has visto a un gordo con no dolor bajo sus naves? No me confío en ellos. O un carpenter que nunca había un splinter. No me confío en ellos. Pero ¿qué sobre un jugador que nunca había un shinor? No me confío en ellos. Porque el conocimiento es en el hacer y el hacer es para mejorar. Interrupte la presión cada vez que veas. Interrupte la presión cada vez que escuchas. Interrupte la presión cada vez que sientes. Interrupte, interrupte, interrupte. Interrupte la presión cada vez que veas. Interrupte la presión cada vez que veas. Interrupte la presión cada vez que veas. Peace everybody. Happy Sunday. It's the second and last song that I will do is called Freedom Song. Some of you all may have heard it before. Andy, requested this one. So Andy, this is for you. TGNC siblings, this is for you. My Fellow Freedom Friders, this is for you. Freedom Song, freedom song, freedom song, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom. Irreversible Gracias a ti ¡Gracias! Mucho apreciado Mucha gratidación Especially hearing the new song too So great, thank you so much Me siento muy movida. Vamos a ver. Creo que estamos listos ahora. Espero que todos se sientan listos para empezar la sesión para entrar. Mucha apreciación para Spirit y Zachary. Ahora estamos listos. La sesión es Multimedia visual art making to quiet the mind. So we're welcoming Tariya and Chanel. So let's go. Hello, hello. So, Welcome to Vibe and Scratch and my name is Tariya Persson. The realest person, I go by She, He, They and I'm Chanel and I go by She, Hers and I will pass it to my love so she can tell you why today is a special day for us. It's our anniversary, our first year wedding anniversary. Yep, yep. And this day, six years ago we became a couple. Five years ago we became engaged and last year was our wedding. We, thank you so much. I'm glad that we can share this experience with you all. So, gratitude. Just to go into a little and thank you, I see a lot of congratulations. Thank you. So what we're doing today, Vibe and Scratch. So we're going to do some Scratch art. It's called Scratch Boarding. It's also known as Scraper Board Art. It originated in the 19th century in Europe but became extremely popularized en America around 1930s. So, sometimes you'll see a lot of this Scratch art in the Harlem Renaissance with a lot of those artists. It became really popularized in the scientific, medical and just reproduction industry. It was a very popularized way to communicate, to advertise and so on and so forth. But it is fine art mixed with illustration. And we're going to be doing some of that today. So, I stopped sharing as soon as my video was over. No problem. So, before we start a YouTube video just to kind of like show you how to start your Scratch Board. I wanted to show you some of the pieces that I've created here. If you see here, it's like this is Crayon and just a cardboard, right? So, it adds texture to your art. We also have this, like I call this third eye. But there's a lot of cross-hatching and hatching techniques that are used here as well. And also, we have a tree here. So, yeah, like I say you can always recycle boards as well. But to go ahead and get our boards prepped, we're going to go ahead and share a video, a YouTube video just to show you how we went about creating our Scratch Boards. Ok, just you can go ahead and play that YouTube video, please. Ok, well, I guess while we're waiting on the YouTube video to get put up, I guess we can go through some of the material that you can use to do your Scratch Board. So, we have a crayon. Ok, go ahead. And I'm dropping in there. Remember that when we're on the zoom and live streaming, we have to watch the videos on the live stream. So, it's playing on the live stream. I just dropped it in the chat. Thanks, y'all. Then, a trick. You're going to take your black and cover the whole thing. Press really hard. Many crayons are broken doing this project. And I'm just using a skewer. You could use a toothpick. Anything with a point will scratch into it. A popsicle stick, have a thick line. This has a nice rounded edge and then a nice point for a small line. You could do a bullseye cover it with black. Then you can take your stick and you could draw any kind of design in there. Now, you can kind of see what we can do with this technique. So, let's do a larger drawing. I think it looks cool when you have a lot of different colors behind it, but you can do whatever you want. And I might just take a color that I like put it around the edges and cover the whole thing with black. Ok, so the less color you have shining through here, the better. Also, if you're doing this with a class you might want to do it small. Cover it up as best you can. Grab your drawing tool and draw whatever you want in there. I'm going to draw an owl and give you an idea of what this looks like. Ok, so hopefully this gave you a good idea of what you can do with it. So, all you need is some crayons and something to scratch with. If you don't have a toothpick you can always just use your finger now. So, that is how you make your own scratch board using crayons. There's tons of things you can do with crayons. So, if you have any more ideas or suggestions please feel free to write them below for other people that are watching this video. Have a wonderful day. We'll see you around on YouTube. Cool Leo. So, now that you've seen a little bit how that person was able to use tools I want to show you what we're going to be using today. So, we actually have some toothpicks here. This is actually one of my favorite scratch tools to use. You can always go purchase scratch utensils and tools but I find it like handy to use things that you already kind of like have. You can also use a mechanical pencil. Just make sure that the lead is not exposed. Just use the black piece here at the top. Or, if you don't have any of that material you can always use stuff. If you ever run a house, you all have changed your couch or your pocket. So, you can use a penny, a quarter or a thumb tag as well because they all scratch. It depends on how big or how detailed you want your scratch board to turn out. So, with that being stated we're going to go ahead and go into like one of our first questions in the chat. I would just like to know what are your forms of meditation and we'll set the motto as well so that y'all can answer that question. For me, meditation looks like taking a long shower in the bathroom. That's how I come up with a lot of my ideas. That's how the muse hits me over a nice cup of coffee or tea. Looking at nature just going out on the balcony inhaling all that goodness. Music is definitely my form of meditation any kind of music, classical music soul, rapping I know it's a little raunchy sometimes, but you know get you where you need to be sometimes. So, those are different forms of meditation that we like to use and then put it into our art and come up with ideas to do things like scratch boarding and visual arts or media arts in general. All right, so I see a few a few folks went ahead and wrote in the chat we have nature walks oh I love nature walks, long bike rides I second that, yes morning gratitude walks the smell of sweet olive I don't know what that is you have to like unmute yourself to who is that, spirit. Yes, sweet olive is this beautiful like flower, it's so tiny it's teeny tiny tiny but the smell it's like, it makes up for it's small size in a big big smell so if you ever get to come to New Orleans I can walk you to a couple of sweet olive trees but you know when they're nearby they're so beautifully smelly like great smell well definitely when we head back to New Orleans we'll hit you up, yeah thank you for that we have action in the woods cooking love to cook too that is a very therapeutic form of release we have standing still yes, centering on my feet and my hips and my core and my shoulders and really trying to rest on the ground while I lift up from it yes, yes all of that musical improvisation drinking tea reading a poem out loud to myself sweet olive, somebody second that as well we need to smell these I'm ready to smell these sweet olives watering the plants in the morning yeah I have my granny outside right now it's a plant that we like try to make sure that it like blossoms really big so yes watering plants in the morning love sweet olive, okay we're going to get some sweet olives was that Doris hey Doris can you unmute yourself and read yours if you don't mind we also have Doris was that you unmute you don't have to if you don't want to cool, cool alright well those are different forms of meditation that we all use to inspire ourselves to do art and so we're going to use all of those different feelings that we have today to make our scratch boards and we have two prompts to also think about as well while you're making some ideas for what you want your scratch board to be like and Teresa is going to share those two prompts that we have and they are kind of based on our reimagining ideas of Roots Week here alright so prompt number one and for one this is where we're going to design our own vibe and scratch so the first prompt is reimagining your happy place right, imagine what that is and reimagining it onto the page, reimagining it via a quick sketch or words that are coming to you and the second prompt is reimagining your world in 2020 without COVID-19 so those are the two prompts that we have and then as you're thinking about which prompt you want to use we're going to go ahead and start creating our scratch boards so before we let you go into a break room if you need to we'll go ahead and start creating a scratch board right now we already have one prepared a blank scratch board here as you see we have layers and layers and layers of Creon but we're going to have Chanel here doing a demonstration you have a technique question Chanel yes with scratch boards can a different medium be used for the background such as watercolors or colored pencil then black crayon over the top for scratching or does it all need to be in crayon great question and the answer is most definitely actually traditional scratch board was with clay and linoleon and metal so a lot of people use acrylic paint as well but you can use markers colored pencils and it'll probably be a lot easier too because when you start to work with a crayon you'll notice it'll get your muscles going so if you have colored pencils or markers that you would like to use for your background feel free to use those as well Chanel has a colored pencil here we're going to use those in our crayons and acrylic paint dries really fast so you can put a layer of acrylic paint down and let it dry make sure it's a thin layer and then use the black color crayon you don't have to use a black color crayon you can use any color that you want light or dark it still gives the same contrast when you're trying to get your image to pop out so yes please use whatever you have or whatever medium of type of that you like to use color crayons color pencils, markers anything and great because that was the next question does your top color have to be black? no, no, so I've actually used violet, blue I use white, yellow I mean you can really like explore so as you're looking at your prompt if there's a color that resonates with you today or just in general use that color for your top if you would like let's go ahead I love to color coloring is my thing so I'm going to use all kinds of different reds because I love the color red and it's a power color I know a lot of times people think red they think anger but red actually Target picks the color red they have their own red because it's a power color it makes you do things and that's why their whole entire store is red so I'm going to use all different types of colors of red because in the year of 2020 I felt very powerless because of the pandemic and you know also all the racial things and police brutality and things and everybody's trying to figure out what they can do and it's kind of hard in this year of time and so I want to use a bunch of different colors of reds for my base because I want to feel empowered so that's what I'm going for so as you're getting your colors together whether it be color crayons, paints, pencils, whatever pick out colors that you resonate with that make you feel good or feel empowered or if you're feeling sad today use those colors whatever we're getting that out as meditation because really meditation is to make yourself brown it into feel good most definitely and in the chat here we have Spirit that said that they are going to use lipstick that's a great idea lipstick red lipstick? I wish I had some red lipstick right now that's a great idea can you both also repeat the prompts once again? yes for sure so prompt one is re-imagine your happy place whatever that is for you re-imagine it and put that onto your board or your blank sheet of paper and the second prompt is re-imagine your world in 2020 without COVID-19 and if you look at my screen to read a person I'm going to go ahead and show what Chanel is doing here and as you see she's like really really putting that wax onto this board to ensure that if a layer comes up that you'll still see that red you'll still see whatever pigment whatever color that you have selected well this is kind of pinkish but that's fine and as far as your background goes you can put down squares circles whatever shapes come to you it does not have to be it doesn't have to just be a blank sheet if you want a blank sheet you can most definitely do that I saw in the chat someone asked can you just use a white sheet of paper or a black sheet of paper and color your layer on top you most definitely can is that the same for a crayon over white board ok and juice box while everyone is doing this you can go ahead and play that first song so that people can get in their vibe while they're scratching out while they're layering their first layer here and I'm going to go ahead and start mine can I get you broke up how much time will we have in this first section so in this first section I would say that this board takes about like it takes 5 to 10 minutes depending on how big it is exactly so if it's a very large board it may take you a little time if you cut this board into like small rectangles of squares for the time it's going to probably be like 5 minutes it's going to get everything done but if you have a very large canvas it's probably going to take about 10 minutes so 5 to 10 minutes I think that we're about to play with an x-ray actually there's no words so you can add just good words so get your color on the bottom and get your sound together don't worry just about know if you have a crayon like this you can actually take the paper off of the crayon is use the back part like the flat portion of the crayon instead of this pointy tip just in case you need to use that for something else that needs a defined line and use that you'll be able to cover a lot more surface so as you see here you know just kind of like dig the wax into the board and you're going to break a lot of crayons yes they do broken crayons still coming most definitely so while we're actually putting our wax onto the board I want you all to think about the prompt that you selected you need to design once we get our board down on heaven which you can put a cursive my on the inside just to talk about your idea of what we may want to shift devices yes but to get you to share and this music that you're able to listen to like Chanel said is called a personal vibe and this is the first time that anybody has been able to hear this music a matter of our anniversary so we have about five tracks that you'll be able to listen to today while you're scratching your heart out so let's buy the scratch this EP is called a personal vibe get to that thank you so much for sharing your creations with us we have one more technical question from Alicia could I do this on wood then spray it with the enamel fixative and would it be permanent so wood is definitely one of the mediums that people use before along with metal and if you do put an enamel on it or anything that's going to make it waterproof probably your thing or something like that after you have engraved design into the wood great question so whatever you have at home that you can like sketch go ahead and do your scratch art you can do that there are a lot of people that are recycling using like gloves to make sure that you don't cut yourself but if you lay that down put a plate on top of that can you can actually cover a layer of wax so put acrylic paint on top of that flat surface of metal for you as well so if you want to try a different art board use one of your old cans that you have Austin you have taught me a new technique great great so have it to you if any other colors are coming up to you you know go ahead and add those on there as well like 5 more minutes to go ahead and if you need additional time feel free this is your world you take as much time as you need scratch art is a workout I'm sweating the first song that y'all are hearing is entitled you are the one that I adore so I hope that y'all are really good I'm not hearing your music yeah I'm not hearing your music either can we get the music going so it's really fun to go to the live stream is what I just saw I think the link is still in the chat for you to click on to listen to that music alright y'all that is the live stream link right there yours is one to speak to you once again do you have a moment for that or do you want us to hold ok Doris I'm going to ask some you choose just hit yes there you go I got some now right ok now what was it you wanted Chanel and Tariel I was saying they are yours that you could at that moment so if you would like to share your plans of meditation you can do so you have brought something in the chat thank you for including me Vessely people what I wrote what I wrote was I have many forms of meditation one of them is Nina Simone taking photographs Nina Simone's music sometimes meditating on her life being here in Cherokee homeland is a meditation in itself I grew up here in the trees I even took a picture of a spider web yesterday because it was covered in doom anyway writing poetry dancing singing all of these things of meditation forms for me and they are a part of my life and I put something else on the screen but it's gone so I can't remember also I'm learning to play the dust oh nice nice nice nice forms of meditation I definitely want to just to go ahead I want to go to Badawan I want to go to Badawan I want to go to Badawan to Badawan you don't want to see any of the bottom layer the ground because it's cardboard I don't want to see any ground to the layer Here's not off donf are entirely different colors y también las clases que te traen la casa, que te traen la casa. Entonces, si es tu casa, lo ves con las clases de la casa, y si es tu casa, lo ves con la casa. y esto que ustedes saben es que hay también lo que es la meditación de la ciencia y puedes incorporar eso también en tu escritura y alguien dijo que se transforma sí, sí entonces, un montón de veces, yo también le doy un papel de wax y cuando le doy un papel de wax en el top de esto, no va a llevar el papel de wax en el críano y eso es un manera fácil de hacer esencial también So, someone asked, could you use, I'm going to use Gray, and the music is still going, we have like five different tracks, so like I said, hope y all are enjoying that. This is an honor of our anniversary and just us being a couple. Remember, to hear the music, you have to listen to the live stream that is on the roots website and the link has been dropped in the chat box. If you want to, if you can do both Zoom and live stream at the same time. You have a question and chat from Gigi. Could you explain the wax paper process again please? Yeah, so like if you take a freezer paper or a wax paper, you could, what I would do is I would have my wax paper too, right? And I would place my wax paper on top, and I would trace it because it's like transparent, so I would trace. This image is going to be my wax paper, something to take time to glue, so that it's out there, and so you can cut that to not go beyond, so it needs to go ahead and try to design. You don't want to, well I guess also the wax paper, you can take a sharpie, but paper, so it's kind of like the last design. You don't already have a design on a copy paper, a notebook paper before you actually put it onto the transfer paper. And once you have the image on the transfer paper, you can take an exacto knife or scissors, and actually cut out lines. When you get to that point, you can take the wax paper onto your scratch board, and you would actually take whatever tool that you're using, and just scratch writing where those lines are, and you'll be able to pull out that image. So I'm actually having a hard time with the color that I've selected, because I've selected some really bold colors, so I'm actually going to try another color here. So if something is not working for you, yeah, go ahead and just try something else. This is a stress-free process, there's no right or wrong way to do it. A lot of times, a lot of things need to be revealed to you. I'm in my second layer on top of my red. There's my blues and stuff on top of my red, and you can see my red kind of coming out under the purple here. And if you're having a hard time putting the top layer on, a lot of times I go diagonal, then I'll go down. So coming across patch, so you can really compact that wax on top. Like I said, creon just broke, it almost hit me in the chin. So this is a process that is fun, it's kind of messy, and you're going to break some creons in the process. But you go ahead, however you're feeling, you go ahead and put that wax down with that energy, and then we're going to scratch it on out. You both have a comment in the chat from Azul, I remember doing this in the 60s with several layers of colors on top of each other, and they went up to 7 layers. Yes! Most definitely. That's amazing, 7 layers, yes. I want to try that now. I'm thinking I'm going to go maybe put my black on top of my second layer to try to get that look. That's a good idea. Yes. And 7 layers, if you do that many layers, that's going to be great too, because when you're scratching your heart out, if you're not satisfied, you can just add another layer back on top, right? Of creons, or acrylic paint, or however you're going about putting your layers on top to make the scratch board. And like I said, this design that I created with the light bulb, everyone, you can feel free to use that design, or if you have your own design in mind, go ahead and rock out. An easy design to create for this is you take your utensil and kind of just let it just guide you. It becomes a really cool abstract. So just some ideas as you are preparing your boards. And just so you know, here's another sketch as well. Oh, the lines could be really, really detailed too. So in your sketches, feel free to be as detailed or not. But you can put little bitty lines in there. And that's what we like to use toothpicks for, just to be very different. It's 10.46. Go ahead and take about five more minutes, and then we're going to go ahead and start scratching out our designs. Finish. Feel free to write what design you're thinking about. You know, share with everyone. If you would like, you can share what design, or what poem, or what words came up that you feel like would be inspiring, uplifting to anybody in this life string today. Watchful eyes, plants, others. So what colors would you like to make with these? I know we all associate with colors. Y'all have favorite colors that represent us. You can also put that in the chat. Why you chose the colors you chose. I told you I'm using red for power to fill in power. Because I haven't filled extremely in power with COVID and felt like I was, you know, quarantined. And also with a lot of the stuff that's going on and feeling helpless and can't do certain things for the police brutality and, you know, Briana and all the things that's been going on. So in the chat, go ahead and put up what colors are resting with why you used those colors today. Spirit also said that lipstick is much easier to cover grounds with. Briana, that's right. Yeah. Most definitely. And also oil pastels. So it's kind of just like smears right on top and it's another layer of wax. So if you have oil pastels, lipstick, go ahead and try those. It is a lot easier to cover grounds much easier to cover grounds because I'm full of lines and I get there is a mystery to it for me. Nice. Oh, red is a mystery. Yes. Okay. Awesome. And is anybody else using any other type of form to be inside like Briana? Lipstick. I love this lipstick idea. I like ready to go to the dollar store and buy a bunch of lipstick just to do that. I am so pumped. I was even thinking about nail polish with that lipstick. I was thinking, what if you put nail polish on top of like a crayon or something. So what different types of things you're using around the house or different types of crayons and markers? What are you using on your scratch board? And to now you have two more comments and Tarea. You have one from Azule. Camille blue, of course. And then Doris says colors are green. Lots of green. And then purple jumped in and green feeling of trees, health and abundance. A page with blue, green serenity. Nice. Red fire, energy. Blue grounding serenity. So we have here a red fire, energy blue grounding serenity. Nice. And like I said, if you at any point want to add those words to your scratch art, go ahead and do so. Adding words to scratch art kind of like makes it interesting. And here's my two layers. Excuse me. My two layers here. I'm going to go ahead and start scratching on top of my two layers that I already have. So if you already have your layer set up, you can go ahead and start your scratch. I'm going to go for something bigger. So I'm going to use a quarter for my scratch and a toothpick here. You can also use scissors. You have scissors at home. Please be careful. I would say use a knife, but please be careful. Or a pen that doesn't work. That pen that busted on you 100 times. You can use a pen because we all know you can scratch with a pen. I finished my board as well. So what I'm doing here is I'm just putting that design on top of just a blank sheet of paper. And I'm going to put it here and sketch it out with my mechanical pencil. No lead, just the utensil itself. And if you have tape, you can use that too to make that a bit easier. But I'm just going over those lines that I already have and you'll start to see that they're coming up. But you want to like push down pretty hard, right? So it's hard as you can in that wax just to have a blueprint. And you just keep on going until you have your actual image here. And like I was saying, with the wax paper idea, a lot of times that's a little bit more easier if you're going to use a stencil. But hey, I'm always a person like use what you have. It may be a little bit more tedious, but it shouldn't stop you from being able to create either. But if you want to, if you have wax paper, go ahead and use that. If you want to use it at a different time. Hey, put it in your toolbox. Put it in your art bag. As you see, like it's just starting to etch away. And like some of the lines that may not be coming through, even if you have a small little blueprint of it. Oh, see, now it's starting to show up. Now I can actually go in here and clean up those lines. All right. I can even take my toothpick and go through and clean those lines. Just scratch it away. And this is like really therapeutic to me. Like this is one of the things that I do just to release aside from writing or any other disciplines that I use. I love to use scratch art as a way to express and release. And if you want to, you don't even have to use this thing. So you can just free, like just kind of like freely draw, freely design. I'm going to show you that you can do that as well. Now I'm going to put my design back on there just so I can line it up. And I'm using my toothpick here. As you see, it's starting to pop up. And with this, this is why you'll be able to use it more than once. That's like pretty cool with the freezer paper. It lasts a bit longer because paper over time is just going to start to tear. We have some things in the chat. So it says the bright blue didn't exit until Renaissance at the same time. That Marie was recognized and this is why we got this blue dress. So it is a feminist color. Nice. Like I said, it doesn't have to be perfect. Like just kind of like go ahead. I made a circle here. So I could put my light bulb on the inside and you can write, re-imagining. Like I said, you can use this design if you like, it's just really a grid, a circle with a circle on the inside of it and a light bulb that you can write my in cursive and it's like my idea of what re-imagining is. Like how can we re-imagine? Like what are your ideas about that? Oh, it's your picture. Here I'm these whole color pencils underneath and the black lipstick on top. It says love and I used a penny. You used a penny? I love that. That's dope. Scrape it out. So thank y'all. No problem. No problem. That is dope. Thank you for sharing. Love, love. If anybody else has a design that's already scratched out, please share if you would like. Okay. I'm spotlighting Tony right now and I'll go to the others to have it up. So Tony. I had all these little teeny tiny samples of lipsticks left over from 30, 40 years ago, maybe, you know. I'm an artist. I save everything. And so I made the topper. It's a little bit messy to do with little lipsticks, but now I'm going to scratch. Nice, nice. It looks like watercolors almost or like acrylic paint with the lipstick. The blue is the acrylic and I let it dry and then I spread the lipstick over. Actually, I kind of like it like it is without scratches. I do like it without the scratches though. I like that. Hey, you'll find out that even in this process of just laying colors down. Just layers of color. That's art as well. It almost looks like the art that we have behind us. Okay. I have a let's see a Raya up on spotlight. Oh, wow. Look at that. Oh, that is nice. Did you smear any of that? It looks nice. I like that. What is your design? And they're in a public place so they're not going to use their mic right now. Oh, okay. Maybe in the chat they can write that in the book. Yeah. And what type of stuff did you use? Did you use crayons? Did you use color pencils for that? With the paint? Did you write that in the chat? Crayons. Crayons. Man. And a paper clip. Paper clip. Yeah. Your design, is that? Oh, and it's on the back of a book. Like inside of a book. Nice. Recycle reduce reviews. Yes. Let's go. Is that an eye? Yes. Nice. Cool. Anybody else have anything do you want to share? In a tree. An eye flower. Nice. Let's go. And if you want to share it you can also just share like words that came up, colors that came up, anything that kind of like revealed itself to you while you were meditating. Okay. I spotlight a Doris. Doris has something. Oh, let's go. Is that a call? Yes. Are you guys here? I'm just sharing what I tried to get started with. I'm trying to follow the steps and it started like this. Layers, the layers and then the layers went into one and then yes words. So, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Awesome. I love that you're on a home home all the time. If you are doing a light bulb design I'm going to show you like quickly here how I try to go about doing it. If you've had something up you don't want it anymore? Yes. Oh. Oh, that's nice. Oh, is that a balloon? I like that you made a border around Doris. I like the border. I like the border. This book art is really, really cool. Like y'all are giving this ideas. Here's my my power scratch art. I know power so backwards to y'all. That's my empowerment scratch art. A little bit of details around my words power. Anybody else have one that they want to share? We have Paige up now. Oh, I love all these different blues. Oh. Is that weakness? Like a punch? I love the detail of that flower that you have. That is beautiful. Is it a flower? That's very detailed. I love that. Love that. Paige, what did you use for your scratch board? That they almost get smell the plants, right? Right? Like some coffee pot. Nice. That's a good reason to go ahead. Like self care everyone. You need to go get some coffee or some water. In the middle of your scratch feel free. Kelsey, did you have something? To complete and share any of your scratch art. Kids, I know we're all at home with our children and whatnot. Hey, give them crowns and you know, scratch hard. No, put another layer on there. That'll keep you busy for a while. And then that can also make beautiful art friends go on your refrigerator or on your wall. Hey, were you trying to show us something? Yeah. Okay. I was about to like too. Just know that I am not yet art. I am a fashion person, but I try to do the best I can. Let's see. Jenny, you want to show yours too? Yeah. Okay, so this is Jenny. Yeah, I'm not Jenny. We're going with a scary movie theme. She said that fashion is art. Fashion is art. Agree. Definitely is art. What's that movie? Yeah. Let me scratch this one a little bit more. Okay, now it's done. Okay, so this is mine. And I was going with like the airy type theme. I was backwards. It starts crying. It's like in a, like a biz type thing. Like with the edges and it's like darker. It's like me in the middle. Okay. I like to pick the blues. I like the blues. I see a lot of people picking a lot of blues today. This is purple. This was actually a purple. Oh, is it? Yeah. It's not put on top of a blue and it made like a dark blue. Oh. And then this is this is Tamika's. She said she's Barney. You can't really see it, but it says it's me. Oh, I see. I see the imprint of it. It says what? Jenny. Jenny. Nice, nice. Great work, y'all. Okay, okay. Okay, we're going to spirit. Spirit is showing us the artwork again. There we go. Spirit's up. Okay. Just adding more energy towards love. You know. Oh yes. And I love all the blues. Yeah. Yeah. And I like, it's a design that you created here. Thank you. It's beautiful. Yeah. This is really fun. I remember doing this as a kid. So thank you for reminding me of this simple yet super incredible art form. Oh no. Welcome. Thank you for sharing this with us. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Zach says that we have one. I'm coming to you Zach. Spotlight. You all right? That's nice. I like it with the black and the colors. Yeah. I didn't get as much contrast as I wanted, but I've got, this is a Ross Gay poem that I really like. Where here's a foot being washed in the November. Oh. Okay, I'll do this. A flower which growing off this tree and just in the stars. Nice. I'm kind of releasing this internal like habit of the, you know, it's about puritanumia and releasing that. Awesome. I really like the details in your design. If you want to add a bit more contrast, you can take like another scratching utensil, something like a coin or popsicle steak just to like go ahead and pull out those lines that you want. Feel like great work. Kelsey is up. There you go. Can you see it? Yeah. A little closer. Okay. Like that. Do you see there's a sun? All parts to the sun all the way. I love the sun. Yeah. I'm still working on it, but there's a sun and then a moon and star inside and my original design was kind of like the rays of light from all those things interconnecting in the ways they wanted to. So like in this time where it's hard to you know, physically connect but kind of just that freedom to flow and connect. I love that. Hey. The sun and the moon is a star. Y'all are really creative with these designs. I've got a little bit more detail around my power. Y'all can see my details and I've been kind of I've been trying to kind of scratch around power. I've got a lot of something behind my paint here and my layers trying to do red on top of red, but it's looking a little pinkish, actually, but still. And I am working mine out right here. The grid, the light bulb. Anybody else want to share? Just so y'all know this is something that y'all can most definitely do outside of this workshop. Anytime. I encourage you. You need a moment of release if you just want to like put some fine art up on your wall. Pull out scratch art if it's accessible with whatever you have. You know, you can do this with minimal supplies. Oh, we have somebody leave that. Pull it up. I'll find this. Hey, y'all. Can you see? It says B. B with? B with. I love that. And I love how the board is cut out. What is that? What are you using? What is that? The border. Just a piece of a box. I think a cereal box. I love it. We'll start the reviews so we can save the planet. I love that. Everybody else would like to share. And like just keep on scratching. Just keep scratching, y'all. I know we have about probably about 5, 4 minutes and then we're going to do our closing. Spirit is sharing once again. Are you cut it out? Nice. You going to frame it? Well, maybe. I'm going to put it on my fridge though to just remind me. Love. And I appreciate you all and your demonstration of love today and sharing your anniversary with us because you could certainly have been doing something else. So, thank you. Thank you. I appreciate you and I'm glad to be here. We definitely are. And just at the middle of your board too. That's a reminder for everyone. Love. So thank you for sharing that. That's an affirmation. All right, love. Love with a dash. Hey. It's like love, love, love. It's a new song now. Go ahead. That's the way you framed it. Where you said sending more energy towards me. Right. Beautiful. Thank you. 3, 2, 1, minutes. Just scratching it out here. Like I said, sometimes it may take a little extra time but no rush. If you did not finish today, that's perfectly fine. Just take like I mean, it's like 2, 2, 3 more minutes. I'm going to take about like 2 or 3 more minutes and then we're going to go ahead and close out. And if anybody in this time would like to go ahead and share your design if you have not had a chance, go ahead and do so. If you want to write in the chat or even unmute yourself to talk about how this meditation has like benefited in any way, you can do that as well. Feel free to share how it is you see fit. And even your two pick may break. So, you know. But, alright, put those final little pieces on your design. Like I said, feel free to go ahead and write anything on your scratch art too. You have a few comments from the chat. Perfect. So Kelsey says this has been an awesome workshop. Paige says sending you both a virtual anniversary toast. Thank you so much for this. Sure, with my coffee. Tony says I don't recommend lipstick as it is smeary and doesn't gel. So it's always messy. Mel says love y all. This is so good. Love you. Thank you. Gigi says a really lovely group project. Gratitude and appreciation for this experience. Watching everyone enjoy themselves was just so uplifting. Doris wants to talk. Go ahead Doris. Thank you. I can't I can't type very well on this iPad. It falls over. So, I want to just say love to you two. I can't help it. You are filling my heart up. You know you are two of my roots children. And I'm sending you a fan. Look at them go. Look at them. Okay, that's all. I appreciate it. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. I love you so much. Thank you. I was inspired by I forgot who drove the sun. Do the sun. I think it was Kelsey. You inspired me to put the sun over my power because I feel like the sun brings us power. It grows our food. It brings us vitamins. It brings us nutrients. So, you inspired me to do more sun. On top of my power. Thank you for that. Azule also wants to speak. Azule, if you can unmute yourself. Can you hear me? Yeah. Okay. You know, you ask us to think of the time without coronavirus. And I just realized that I have been so much in it that it's difficult now to go back to a time where we will not be on the coronavirus. So, this is very good because it really made me realize and I must not stay in these things. You know, I have to really, I know that there is another time coming. So that's very helpful. It's very, you know, hopeful. Thank you. You're welcome. We have to have hope in this time. This is not the end. This too shall pass, right? And we have overcome. We shall overcome. We continue to overcome. So, this is just one of those things, but we will persevere and keep it moving. You know, of course, we want to be safe and everything like that, but this is, it's just a part, a little bump in a row right now, but we're resilient as a community and as a people. So, I'm glad that this could be a reminder that sometimes it may seem like it's a bit hopeful. I mean, you're a little helpless, but always remind yourself to be hopeful, regardless of the circumstance, regardless of what you're going through, regardless of what's going on around you. So, this is definitely, along with your designs and the ones that I've like come with, it's just, you know, it's a great reminder. Just sometimes the light, I'll say, with the sun, with the light, your ideas, your innovations, let that be your guide, sometimes to community. And just sharing this space today has been a way of community, remembrance, community, work to uplift us all. So, I appreciate you all so much. In the chat, I have put a link up to my music video that my love here has uploaded with the film, but it's entitled Feel Good. So, that's just another affirmation to remind you all to feel good. And that's something that we have the power to do, you know, at any moment, feel good. You got the power. Feel good, y'all. Haria and Chanel, we have Marie that wants to share right quick. Do you have time? Yeah, sure. I'm spotlighting you now, Marie. I don't know if you can see. Here, let me put this on. Kind of like here. Oh, wow. So, I thought of, it's kind of a combination of both. Like it's like, I've been going on a lot of walks by the river, so like this is the Crescent City connection. And there's a spot that I like to take sort of, I prop my camera up and I like to take selfies. And it's sort of a way of like marking like how I changed through the years and through different seasons. And I used marker on the background and then I, and then the crepa on top and it was so thick. It was really kind of seeping into everything. And I was like, well, what if I just try to erase all of it? Then the color, it'll kind of still have like cloudiness and whatnot. So I used a paper towel to kind of like wipe out and it kind of pressed some of it in too. So, yeah. Thank you so much for this. This was great. Thank you. That was amazing. That's beautiful. That's beautiful. Wow. That was amazing. I love that. Everybody has so much talent on here. Is there anybody else that would like to share before we close out of this workshop today? All right. Well, if not, I want to express to everybody, it's important that we all use our different forms of meditation and it doesn't always have to be just sitting down with tries closed, being quiet. Sometimes your form of meditation could be loud like music or playing music or in visual art and scratch work. And in this time, meditation and grounding yourself is very important. And also sharing that with people. You don't always have to meditate by yourself. Look, we're a group of 30 people meditating here together and sharing love and energy together. So please remember to ground yourselves especially in this time at any time, especially in this time where we're all, like you said, separated from each other and really wishing that we were all here for virtual hugs to everybody. All right. Well, this has been vibe and scratch with the real person, the realest person and my love. Thank you all so much. I know at the end we're both having a drumming session. Is that correct, Wendy? Yeah. Yeah, we're going to have some drumming. But let me just first thank you, Chanel and Teria. Thank you. All our friends over here. It was really nice to be with everybody today. I want to give gratitude and information to all the presenters. Feeling a lot of gratitude to the tech team, to the bunch of linguas for holding down interpretation to all the root staff. Thank you. Thanks everybody who put comments and affirmations in the chat. That felt really good to be together with y'all. We're going to take a break. We're going to come back at 2 p.m. Central time, 3 p.m. Eastern time for a workshop with Spirit House. Protect your vote. Protect your legacy. That's at 2 p.m. Central, 3 p.m. Eastern. And please check your daily email for details. If you haven't been receiving the daily emails, you may not be officially registered. So you got to register at the event bright link on the live stream page. We appreciate you. We'll see you back at 2 p.m. Thank you so much. This was so nice. And I think we're going to the video now, right? Thanks, y'all. And I want to say thank you to Zach and Spirit. Thank you so much for bringing us in to this space so beautifully this morning. And thank you to Lisa for stepping up as host today. I appreciate all of you for sharing your beautiful creations with us today. Thank you. And juice box, if we don't have the drumming video, maybe we can queue up the video that Tariah and Chanel shared, the feel good, and I can drop it back in the chat. It's in the chat. And we'll hop over to the live stream so watch and hear that. And juice box, if we don't have... Yeah, it's the realest Feel good, feel Don't this beat make you feel good Deep breath then it feels good From your chest then it feels good No stress just feel good Don't this beat make you feel good Deep breath then it feels From your chest then it feels good No stress just feel good Change the internal dialogue Peace and confidence for all my all my In the hood bring it back now yeah Pergumence now Got the keys, unlock the problems then Self accountability, all I'm saying Know that shit, get that leverage Essence on the present, but I'm stepping out of dream And telling both my second guessing So I'm blessing mics Whoever won the portion, I'm flipping pies Sacrifice your strength with words from the wise Will not beat more than your eyes Looking through your skies and it feels Chest then it feels From your chest then it feels You gotta know everything in person Come up in the link in the chat Come up in the link in the chat Chest then it feels good No stress then it feels good From your chest then it feels good Don't this beat make you feel good Feels good From your chest then it feels good No stress then it feels good From your chest then it feels good No stress then it feels good From your chest then it feels good Okay Feel good Feel good, feel from your chest, no stress, feel good, feels good, no stress, deep breath. Alright, thanks y'all, let's give it up one more time for Tariah and Chanel. Thanks y'all, we'll see you back here. It's a different link in your check your daily email, there's a different link. If for some reason you don't have the link for the spirit house, protect your legacy, protect your vote workshop, email us at rootsweekatalternetroots.org and we'll make sure you get the link for that. Alright, thanks y'all, I'll see you later.