ABOUT THE C3 EVENT
Divine Creators! : Intro to Divination Practices for Creatives ​
Sun Feb 2, 4-6pm
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Ideal for beginners or those slightly versed in divination techniques. This workshop is geared towards individuals who are in the creative fields (e.g. visual arts, music, dance, performance, writing, etc.) and who are interested in learning about divination as a technique and tool for creative and personal development.

You will learn about divination’s history and we will go over the most common techniques available for practitioners and practice a few of them together.

Attendees will leave the workshop with a zine on divination techniques and all of the psychic tools needed to initiate and sustain a divinatory practice.

*The workshop has a maximum of 15 participants. Please wear comfortable clothing and bring a notepad and writing utensil.
*Optional: Please bring protective amulets, charms, plants, essences, crystals, etc. Bring something to cover your head (a hat, a scarf, a hoodie).
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ABOUT EDGAR FABIAN FRIAS

​Edgar Fabián Frías, MA MFT is a nonbinary, queer, indigenous (Wixárika) and Latinx interdisciplinary artist, curator, educator, and psychotherapist. Their work traverses academic, social, historical, and relational planes, building bridges and weaving webs. Their practice is amorphous and expansive, rooted in multivalent forms of connection and in the magic that emerges from it. Born in East Los Angeles, Frías earned dual BA degrees in Psychology and Studio art from the University of California, Riverside and completed an MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. Consequently, Frías’ work is often collaborative and engages with the intrapersonal and interpersonal aspects of consciousness and the continuing effects of colonial and patriarchal structures on the health and resiliency of marginalized communities. Their work has been shown at Angel’s Gate Cultural Center, Vincent Price Art Museum, Human Resources, Machine Project, SOMArts, ESMoA, Recess Gallery, Pieter Performance Space, and PAM Residencies. Frías is currently participating in the Tulsa Artist Fellowship.


ABOUT THE DISJECTA EXHIBITION
NIERIKA: SANTUARIO SOMÁTICO
On view at Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, 8371 N Interstate Ave, Portland, OR 97217
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 1st, 6-9pm
Ceremony with Edgar Fabián Frías, 7pm
Location: Disjecta, 8371 N Interstate Ave

Exhibition Hours: February 2 - March 8, 2020
Friday - Sunday, 12-5pm
Free and open to the public

Drawing on the artist’s indigenous, queer, pagan, witchy, mutagenic, and chimerica identities this installation features new and existing work including digital prints, custom-designed ready-made objects in the form of shower curtains and pillows, video projection and screen-based video. The title of the exhibition is based around the concept of The Nierika, a sacred woven portal also known as "Ojo de Dios" in Spanish or Eye of God in English. This sacred object has been used by the Wixarika people as an amulet, talisman and tool for accessing spiritual magic. The Nierika expresses the idea of integration and a “binding together”. For the artist it represents not only how we are linked to a larger world through ecology, community, and spirituality but also how diverse hybridities are bound within the self. The Nierika therefore is not only a portal, an offering and a place of respite, but also a totem for a hybridized spirituality fusing self-fashioned identities in visual art, self- care and consciousness evolution. It is the core of the journey and the icon of self-discovery.