PAST Programs
August 1st - 7th 2021
A sculptural installation at Hen Institute
Location: Raleigh City Farm
800 N Blount St,
Raleigh, NC 27604
Welcome to the Bolivian Alasitas festival!
A practice of material and embodied manifestations made under the Ekeko figure, the Bolivian God of Abundance, fortune, and prosperity. Purchasing miniatures of products and tokens promise fortune to the buyer or receiver. The chicken often serves as a token for love, but can also serve as representations of fertility, motherhood, fatherhood, and the uncertainty of life, yet living in prosperity despite the hardships that may or may not come. Let these be a vessel for your manifestations; a visual reminder of the values, wishes, and goals to put in the forefront of our thoughts.
A project by Cristal Zeballos.
Learn more about the project here: https://www.heninstitute.com/alasitas-chicken-manifestation
Alasitas - Chicken Manifestation
July 31st 2021, 9am - 10:30am
On site at Hen Institute
Location: Raleigh City Farm
800 N Blount St,
Raleigh, NC 27604
Join the adventure club for family yoga, a movement workshop, story time, and chicken-themed craft activities benefiting Raleigh City Farm. Organized by Triad Families Explore and sponsored by Yellow Dog Bread Company, and Paint Paper Paste.
Free Range Family Yoga
July 17th 2021, 1pm - 3pm
On site at Hen Institute
Location: Raleigh City Farm
800 N Blount St,
Raleigh, NC 27604
An intuitive art making workshop inspired by the hen in African Yoruba cosmology and iconography.
Learn more about the project here: https://www.heninstitute.com/ase
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The Way of The Hen
October 17th 2020, 12pm - 1pm
On site at Hen Institute and on Zoom
Location: Outside of Sertoma Arts Center
1400 W Millbrook Rd
Raleigh, NC 27612
Zoom Link: https://uncg.zoom.us/j/91543783779
Sarah Krive and Gregory Grieve will lead 60 minutes of socially distanced mediation and a slow looking exercise. Please come prepared to socially distance, or participate over Zoom. Grieve will lead a traditional Zen silent meditation, and Krive will conduct the slow looking exercise.
Gregory Price Grieve is Head and Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. He researches and teaches at the intersection of Buddhism, popular culture, and digital media. He is also a life artist, ludanuat, and expert in the practice of the Experimental Humanities.
Sarah Krive is a poet, writer, performance artist, and lecturer in humanities and social science at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. Her dog Rose is likely sitting at her feet while you are reading this.
Reading For The Birds
October 18th 2020, 1pm
On site at Hen Institute
Location: Outside of Sertoma Arts Center
1400 W Millbrook Rd
Raleigh, NC 27612
Live Feed: www.facebook.com/poetryfox
Poet and performer Chris Vitiello (aka the Poetry Fox) will read poems written for the chickens at the Hen Institute written off of Attar's "Conference of the Birds," Lucretius' "On the Nature of the Universe," and English and French field guides to birds and birdsong. Humans are also welcome to attend.
Quest Program
October 2020
Location: Five Points Center for Active Adults
Hen Institute visited the Quest Adult Day Program, a program open to adults ages 22 years or older with developmental and/or physical disabilities. During the visit the participants did a chicken life drawing exercise which allowed them to learn about different chicken breeds. They then made a collage of their own imagined chicken coops by cutting up images of dozens of coops from around the world found on Google images.
