Nana Chinara creates. She’s Black, Queer and a gleaming glitterbeam. She dreams up worlds in her body and offers them to the stage. A healing artist, youth educator and loquacious lover, her craft calls upon exploring sweet intimacy with the self through self-research and self-reflection. Her craft is the lens through which she conducts self and community research on violence against young black femmes, traumatic partnerships and multidimensional love. Her first and foremost intention as an artist is to use her healing tools to exist inside of her body and at the realm of her ancestors, indulging in being witnessed.

Project Description: Black Rose | Sacred Circle is a space and place centering the healing of Black Youth through movement, memoir, poetry and sectional research—informed by Black Feminist praxis and theory. Black Rose | Sacred Circle promotes community building, research, scholarship and storytelling that hold collective, ancestral and individual truth. Black Rose | Sacred Circle is intended for Black identified youth between the ages of 15 and 19.

Photo by Lee Jimenez.






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