FabLab Playshop: Audre Lorde

Facilitated by April Axé Charmaine (they/them/she/her/), participants will explore the legacy of Audre Lorde, 1934-1992, was an American writer, womanist, radical feminist, professor, and civil rights activist. She was a self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet," who "dedicated both her life and her creative talent to confronting and addressing injustices of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia." As a poet, she is well known for technical mastery and emotional expression, as well as her poems that express anger and outrage at civil and social injustices she observed throughout her life. As a spoken word artist, her delivery has been called powerful, melodic, and intense by the Poetry Foundation. Her poems and prose largely deal with issues related to civil rights, feminism, lesbianism, illness and disability, and the exploration of black female identity.

About the Teaching Artist: April Axé Charmaine is a visionary educator and innovator, they co-create spaces for authentic expression, body reclamation, body remembrance, and healthy sensuality. Leading transformative experiences across the world using dance, movement, theater, expressive arts, performance art and embodiment practices to help people ground, release and get free. They are the channel and founder of SOL VIDA™, a light energy and movement methodology that fuses the form and freedom of Afro, Modern, Hip Hop + Conscious Dance. Rooted in the African Diaspora—their work is devoted to embodied healing justice centering and uplifting women, QT/BIPOC, 2SLGBTQIA, elders and young adults.