La Luna Desvela: The Moon Reveals

Sky's the Limit Observatory & Nature Center

On Saturday, July 20th, I was honored to perform at La luna desvela: The Moon Reveals, a collaborative program organized by The Wildlands Conservancy’s Whitewater Preserve, The Mojave Desert Land Trust and Sky’s the Limit Observatory & Nature Center. Further support was provided by The Bureau of Land Management & Joshua Tree National Park. The evening was in celebration of Latino Conservation Week, an annual week of programs to elevate and support Latinx people in the world of conservation, environmentalism & stewardship. Our hosts and performers shared cosmology stories, Mayan astrology, tribal history through land acknowledgment and education around our role in conservation.

I would like to extend a thank you to Sarelle Photography & Pirinola Creaciones for documenting my participation as an artist & community organizer.

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Deep Dream Play

While on a backpacking trip this past March with fellow Signal Fire alumni, I invited my desert company to participate in a deep play on dream practices. Deep Play, created by Signal Fire guide Julie Perini, is at its core a community building practice while sharing space in the outdoors. These participatory activities/prompts/pieces are totally voluntary and can range from collective poetry making around a campfire to challenges on who can last the longest submerged in ice cold stream water.

For this particular deep play, participants were asked to reflect on one dream or sleep experience from our time in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona, along with other instructions on honoring their particular experience. With their consent, I will be sharing the manner in which they decided to honor these incredible happenings. I also want to share that this project will inform my ongoing research on dream practices as an avenue for healing, empowerment & decolonization.

Gracias a todxs por compartir conmigo, xoxo

Blanca cooling off in a pool of water on the Hieroglyphic Trail in Arizona. March 2019Photo credit: Christina Catanese

Blanca cooling off in a pool of water on the Hieroglyphic Trail in Arizona. March 2019

Photo credit: Christina Catanese