Message from Curate Shiloh Sophia

Our inspiration is based on the work of Pratibha Parmar and Alice Walker - with a call to create justice in our own lives.

Dear Community,

Together in Sonoma, we watched 3 of Parmar's films interspersed with lively and in-depth conversation with Alice Walker and Pratibha Parmar. We are bringing this in-person event RIGHT into your own living room with access for 6 months. So whether you can join us live on July 11 or watch later, you're saying yes to this lets us know that our work matters to you. You can watch the films anytime.

A focus on women in the arts is our joy, our service, and our devotion to our community. MUSEA is part of the global awakening of consciousness - one person at a time, through revolutionary media curated to meet you where you are. Join us!

Onward!

~ Curate Shiloh Sophia

ARTS of JUSTICE
VIRTUAL LIVESTREAMED CLASS

A Call to Awakened Activism has been heard - join us!

Presented by MUSEA Curate Shiloh Sophia in Collaboration
with the Intentional Creativity Foundation's
Black, Indigenous and Women of Color Community

Inspired by Pratibha Parmar's films

A Place of Rage, Warrior Marks, and Beauty in Truth

You will need to purchase tickets separately.

MUSEA's Global Gathering connected with
Cinema, Conversation, Creativity, and Consciousness

Women - the Arts - Social Justice - Resistance - Friendship

LIVE with ACCESS for 6 MONTHS for

Tuesday, July 11

YOUR CONTRIBUTION to our 501c3 NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION
Your contribution is an investment in justice and arts programming for and by women. By contributing to this event, your investment enables us to fund a $5,000 Grant for Pratibha Parmar for her 30 years of work.

The Grant has already been pre-funded by our Founders, Shiloh Sophia, and Jonathan McCloud with the intention of this event making a contribution towards the Grant.

Message from Curate Shiloh Sophia

Dear Community,

On June 3 and 4 in Sonoma, California a historic cinema event took place as a collaboration between the Sonoma International Film Festival and Musea Center for Intentional Creativity. Many of you came and were a part of the event, and we are most grateful for your presence and participation.

We know that most of our global community was not able to join us and you wanted to be a part of it, to support, participate and collaborate.

We created this experience FOR YOU with LIVE footage from the event curated into a documentary of the experience by Thembi Nkosi, a South African woman in film school here at San Francisco State University as she studies for her Bachelor of Arts in Cinema.

We are inviting you to make this matter to you by participating in the Arts of Justice. You are an essential part of our community fabric and we welcome your participation and reflections. Join us in life-changing conversations and acts of intentional justice creation.

Together in Sonoma, we watched 3 of Parmar's films interspersed with lively and in-depth conversation with Alice Walker and Pratibha Parmar. We are bringing this in-person event RIGHT into your own living room with access for 6 months. So whether you can join us live on July 11 or watch later, you're saying yes to this lets us know that our work matters to you.

A focus on women in the arts is our joy, our service, and our devotion to our community. MUSEA is part of the global awakening of consciousness - one person at a time, through revolutionary media curated to meet you where you are. Join us!

Onward!

~ Curate Shiloh Sophia

ARTS of JUSTICE
VIRTUAL LIVESTREAMED CLASS

A Call to Awakened Activism has been heard - join us!

Presented by MUSEA Curate Shiloh Sophia in Collaboration
with the Intentional Creativity Foundation's
Black, Indigenous and Women of Color Community
FEATURING

Exclusive Talks and Teachings from
Award Winning Filmmaker
Pratibha Parmar
and Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of The Color Purple
Alice Walker

Featuring the films

A Place of Rage, Warrior Marks, and Beauty in Truth
which you can watch anytime.

HOSTED BY
Shiloh Sophia
and
Lauren Weatherford
Live from Sonoma

MUSEA's Global Gathering connected with
Cinema, Conversation, Creativity, and Consciousness

YOUR CONTRIBUTION to our 501c3 NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION
Your contribution is an investment in justice and arts programming for and by women. By contributing to this event, your investment enables us to fund a $5,000 Grant for Pratibha Parmar for her 30 years of work.

The Grant has already been pre-funded by our Founders, Shiloh Sophia, and Jonathan McCloud with the intention of this event making a contribution towards the Grant.

Come together with Curate Shiloh Sophia, Lauren Adorno-Weatherford and the Black, Indigenous, and Women of Color and Culture from MUSEA to learn, grow and heal together as we weave through the framework of the arts of justice and friendship. All justice movements have always had art and song, let's become the voices and images of the future. The time is when?

Now. Right now! Let's gather!

Let's gather to create, sing and discover the pathway forward together. Attend from anywhere in the world live and receive access for 6 months to watch anytime.

JOIN US FOR AN EXPERIENCE TO REMEMBER

GATHER and CONNECT with women who are in motion with resistance and the arts and our global community for conversation. Be in live conversation with the BIWOC community of MUSEA.

WATCH and LEARN from three influential films about social justice, human rights, and friendship as an educational framework for where we have been and where we are going,

ENGAGE and HONOR the work of Award-winning Filmmaker Pratibha Parmar and Alice Walker in conversation with Shiloh Sophia

DEVELOP and SHARE your Arts of Justice custom hand-made poster - your stand regarding equity, justice, and allyship - creating clarity in collaboration and friendship. What really matters to you and what does it look like in image? Share with us in real-time in our private app.

ACTIVATE your stand for justice and join us in SHARING your art in our mutual communities across all social media platforms.

EVERYTHING IS RECORDED and YOU HAVE 6 MONTHS TO WATCH SO YOU CAN JOIN LIVE OR WATCH LATER. YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE!

Summary of Experiences

Register and begin planning for our experience and getting supplies prepared.
All details will be provided upon registration.
Enjoy curated footage recorded live from events in Sonoma during the Cinema Event weekend that happened June 3 and 4. Including Curate Shiloh Sophia in conversation over two days with Alice and Pratibha about friendship, justice, resistance, and a look at where we have been and where we are now. Including a recording from the June 4th LIVE event with an in-studio audience right here in our very own MUSEA Center with Shiloh Sophia and Pratibha Parmar. It is a conversation not to be missed.
Create an Arts of Justice Poster in this daylong class rooted in Intentional Creativity in action with Shiloh Sophia and Lauren Adorno-Weatherford.
Join MUSEA's Sacred ECHOES for conversations on justice, creativity, and allyship - this is essential wisdom with three optional group calls for reflection. An opening call, midpoint check-in, and closing call - all calendaring details will be provided to you.

There will be dancing, there will be singing. There will be enough love to go around!

This is THE EDUCATION and AWARENESS
you have been seeking to take
your informed activism to the next level.

*Details will be provided, and these are an additional $33 since it goes to support KALI FILMS.

Shiloh and Jonathan McCloud are proud to have donated their time to planning, financing, and sponsoring/hosting this incredible series of events.

100% of your ticket price benefits women working in the arts of justice through the MUSEA Intentional Creativity Foundation 501(c)3 AND towards the Grant we provided to Pratibha Parmar. Events like this are made possible through your generosity and care for the arts of justice locally and globally.

We look forward to your support and Thank You in advance for your contribution and participation.

For over three decades, Pratibha Parmar’s body of work includes landmark, life-changing films; such as Warrior Marks and Beauty in Truth, both featuring Alice Walker, Queer South Asian films, Khush and Nina’s Heavenly Delights, and revolutionary, iconic films like A Place of Rage, that features Angela Davis and June Jordan. Her most recent film is, My Name Is Andrea, a stunning retelling of the story of Andrea Dworkin.

Parmar’s films are rooted in deep soulful storytelling, and they invite the viewer to enter into the visceral and the beautiful. How she accomplishes both, making accessible what is hard to hear, and generating a desire to dive into the story is a wonder to those of us who are her avid fans. Some of us commit to seeing every single film. Her body of work includes feature films, narrative and non-fiction, experimental film and video, and episodic television. She is a true artist devoted to her craft.

Walker has been an activist all of her adult life, and believes that learning to extend the range of our compassion is activity and work available to all. She is a staunch defender not only of human rights, but of the rights of all living beings. She is one of the world’s most prolific writers, yet continues to travel the world to literally stand on the side of the poor, and the economically, spiritually and politically oppressed. She also stands, however, on the side of the revolutionaries, teachers and leaders who seek change and transformation of the world. Upon returning from Gaza in 2008, Walker said, “Going to Gaza was our opportunity to remind the people of Gaza and ourselves that we belong to the same world: the world where grief is not only acknowledged, but shared; where we see injustice and call it by its name; where we see suffering and know the one who stands and sees is also harmed, but not nearly so much as the one who stands and sees and says and does nothing.”

MY BIG WHY

When I asked award-winning filmmaker Pratibha Parmar to identify just a few of the common threads running through her films over the past thirty years, she brought these two themes forward....making the invisible visible and celebrating the joy of difference.

The second is how her thinking and her art have been inspired by powerful poets, activists, and change-makers like Alice Walker, June Jordan, and Angela Davis. Her cinematic gaze on these women has in turn fostered deep friendships and nourishing kinship.

For her entire career, Pratibha has been in creative collaboration with her long-standing life and business partner, Producer Shaheen Haq. When I reflect on these motifs and think of what I know about her films, I have to smile warmly and nod yes in gratitude for what her films have brought into my life. Some of the films Pratibha has created, like A Place of Rage, Beauty in Truth, Warrior Marks, and My Name is Andrea, have literally changed my life. Each one of these films stands alone as a devotion to truth-telling. They show us what we haven’t been able to see before, with the kind of beauty that helps us to bear the unbearable hard truths, all the while inviting us to care more. To love more. To tell the truth more.

Her films invite us to open our eyes to the reality of suffering from an honest and deep heartfelt place. While Pratibha’s films have plenty of calls to action, there’s something else here to witness, and I want everyone I know to witness it. The thread, for me, is that she conveys gentleness within the harsh reality, this is her as the artist - a storyteller of the human experience - woven with compassion and truth. She honors the human spirit’s ability to find dignity in conditions of suffering while always holding abusive systems accountable. There is an invitation. I said yes to this invitation in my early twenties.

As I contemplate what her work has stirred for me, I feel myself responding to an invitation to a holistic consciousness that includes, provokes, and summons the parts of me that are most needed by a hurting world. When I think back to the night Warrior Marks opened in San Francisco’s Castro Theater in (1983), I can now see that the film had a before and after effect on my life. It is a documentary about female genital mutilation and features the Pulitzer Prize Award Winning author Alice Walker as the narrator. I had just moved out of San Francisco to the country to live with the Art Matriarch of our community, Sue Hoya Sellars. We were guests of Alice Walker’s, so we drove back into the city with excited anticipation for the film’s opening night. The intention is to bring light to (FGM) and to be with and explore the centuries-old ritualistic custom of female genital mutilation still being practiced throughout many parts of the world. A profound sense of devastation washed over me as I viewed the film, seeped in the richness of color, texture, and a sense of place. I quite literally felt that I was becoming a different person as I watched this transformative film. I woke up the next day, changed, and called to action. This movie and the women who were a part of making it happen have shaped my work with Intentional Creativity.

I have many stories I could tell of my personal encounter with Warrior Marks, but suffice it to say that this documentary sparked a vision that took hold and provoked me to take a stand for the change I wanted to see. This film turned out to be a seminal catalyst in my life.

Shortly thereafter, Intentional Creativity presented itself to me through the teachings of my mentor, Sue Hoya Sellars. If you’re in my community, you’ll know the story of how this was the moment when I was wedging the clay, and Sue asked me what the change was that I wanted to see in the world.

My response was, “to see the end of violence against women and children.” Sue instructed me to put that loving intention into the clay and to believe it was going out to the women. I felt love travel from me to every place I could imagine, including the women that Pratibha documented in this film.

This is why the opportunity to share films like Warrior Marks with all of you is a very personally meaningful project. I think of it as a retrospective of some of her most powerful pieces and the visual archive of her unfolding evolution as an artist. We have had conversations about the Intentional Creativity that went into the making of these films and how they have shaped her life, as well as sowed the seeds for future projects. We are now bringing together a series of films to share with all of you.

We are overjoyed to collaborate with the Sonoma International Film Festival to create a cinema event that centers on women and honors Pratibha’s work. It is my deepest desire that having the opportunity to witness these films inside of a defined container in the order in which they were created will be as life-changing for you as they continue to be for me.

Engaging with our unique festival will be soul-stirring, eye-opening, and action-packed. We look forward to being in deep, heart-centered, and intentional conversation with you. Above all this gathering is about friendship and the stories that friendship, over time, tells about what matters to us. The stories we tell, the lives we touch, the justice we seek, this is our life.

"I have worked with Shiloh Sophia since 2010. Over the last 13 years, Shiloh has made it clear that she stands in the gap with women of color, and has given us a platform where our voices can be heard.

As the first appointed Executive Director of the MUSEA Intentional Creativity Foundation, and a Black woman, I am living proof of Shiloh's work to uplift Black and Brown women. The Living Your Truth Cinema Event (June 3 and 4) and the Daylong Arts of Justice Intentional Creativity class speak volumes of Shiloh and MUSEA's clear intention to take action and not simply sit on the sidelines saying "Let's do something."

I am honored to be working with MUSEA in a leadership role where my voice and my actions are making an impact and keeping the spotlight on the racial injustice that Black and Brown women face daily.

The Grant has already been pre-funded by our Founders, Shiloh Sophia, and Jonathan McCloud with the intention of this event making a contribution towards the Grant.

The Grant has already been pre-funded by our Founders, Shiloh Sophia, and Jonathan McCloud with the intention of this event making a contribution towards the Grant.

THREE POWERFUL FILMS ARE A PART
OF OUR EXPERIENCE

from Filmmaker
Pratibha Parmar + KALI Films

Warrior Marks

A Place of Rage

Beauty in Truth

The Grant has already been pre-funded by our Founders, Shiloh Sophia, and Jonathan McCloud with the intention of this event making a contribution towards the Grant.

The Grant has already been pre-funded by our Founders, Shiloh Sophia, and Jonathan McCloud with the intention of this event making a contribution towards the Grant.

THREE POWERFUL FILMS ARE A PART OF OUR EXPERIENCE

from Filmmaker Pratibha Parmar + KALI Films

Warrior Marks

A Place of Rage

Beauty in Truth

THREE POWERFUL FILMS ARE A PART
OF OUR EXPERIENCE

from Filmmaker
Pratibha Parmar + KALI Films