Unpacking Systemic Racism: How does it live within you? (Free, Online)

With Hollyhock Leadership Institute, Khari Wendell McClelland, Rebekka Goldsmith and Laura June Albert

July 2, 2020

Date and Time Details: Thursday July 2, 4:00-5:30pm Pacific Time

Location: Online

TUITION: This is a free community offering. Please register to save your spot. You may also add a donation to your registration, with proceeds going to Black and Indigenous led organizations. Thank you for your generosity.

By donation

For many, especially those who are white and/or privileged, processing the enormity of systemic racism can feel overwhelming and paralyzing. In this session we will creatively process the ways that systemic racism lives within us and our complicity in it. We will allow ourselves to feel and digest this complexity with the support of somatic and creative arts. Move through and engage with this process in order to harness inspiration for action. This workshop will include writing, music, and movement/dance.


This is the first workshop in the series: Unpacking Systemic Racism. Uncover, discuss, and process how racism exists and operates within our systems and in ourselves. This series is a response to the Black Lives Matter global uprising that is calling for racial equity and justice. On June 8th we hosted a ‘hockshop called Unpacking Systemic Racism: Making Meaning of this Moment. We highly recommend that participants watch a recording of the video as an introduction to this series: Watch Here.

We will host three workshops over the month of July. These are free community events. You may also add a donation to your registration, with proceeds going to Black and Indigenous led organizations. Thank you so much for your support.

These gatherings will take place on Zoom, a video conferencing tool. You will need a device with audio/visual and internet connection. A link will be emailed to all registered participants, upon completion of your registration (please double-check your Spam folder for this email). Sign-in a couple minutes in advance so that we may start on time with everyone.

About the Presenters

Hollyhock Leadership Institute

Hollyhock's renowned events help to resolve the leadership deficits of the modern world. These cross-sectoral and multi-generational gatherings work to support and catalyze progressive leaders through strengthening skills, expanding capacity, and building peer-to-peer networks and knowledge. Tackling the largest issues of our time and promoting social and environmental justice requires that we come together to […]

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Khari Wendell McClelland

Khari Wendell McClelland is an award-winning musician and sought-after facilitator who uses the arts and experiential activities for transformational learning. Originally from Detroit, Khari made his way to Canada over a decade ago and is currently based in Vancouver, BC. Khari’s passion for community service is clear, both in his musical life and in his […]

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Laura June Albert

Laura June Albert, MA, is an educator, researcher, cultural organizer, and artist, based in Vancouver, unceded Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil- Waututh), and xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) territories. Her research investigates the experiential body as a liberatory landscape for anticolonial and anticapitalist self-determination and liveness. She has worked in the arts as a performer, instructor, and lecturer in […]

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