Reframe: Community Listening Workshop with Anu Yadav

Saturday, April 1st, 2023

3 - 5 pm

Virginia Avenue Park Thelma Terry Building, 2200 Virginia Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90404

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Small group workshops will bring together community members with diverse views and life experiences to listen to one another’s stories of Santa Monica, City Hall, and the City Hall murals. The workshop will develop participants’ creative storytelling and empathetic listening skills.

Anu Yadav is a critically acclaimed actress, writer and theater-based educator dedicated to amplifying the stories of working people.

This activity is part of the Reframe: City Hall Mural project event series organized by Meztli Projects, an Indigenous-based arts & culture collaborative centering Indigeneity into the creative practice of Los Angeles by using arts-based strategies to support, advocate for and organize to highlight Native and Indigenous Artists and systems-impacted peoples. Meztli Projects’ facilitation team is Joel Garcia, Robin Garcia Ph.D., Susannah Laramee Kidd Ph.D., and Rosten Woo.

As part of its Acknowledge and Reframe Together (Reframe) initiative, the City of Santa Monica has embarked on a public process to consider the meaning, impact and potential responses to the WPA-era mural by Stanton Macdonald-Wright in the lobby of historic City Hall. The Reframe: City Hall Mural project offers a series of civic memory conversations and activities to connect Santa Monicans’ diverse histories and contemporary experiences. This process explores representation in public art and how community stories are told so that we can develop creative ideas for future events, public art, and policy updates. Each event will offer a different way to engage with the process of considering the mural.  The whole arc of learning events will provide community members with the tools to help amend and celebrate Santa Monica history and take part in Reframe! More information on the City Hall Mural project here.