Painting by Semerit Strachan

Beyond Safety, painting by Dr. Semerit Strachan

About the Festival

A Message from our Sacred ECHOES of the Well Sisterhood

ECHOES Festival Graphic

MUSEA Intentional Creativity Museum, in conjunction with our Sacred ECHOES of the Well membership – a Woman of Color sisterhood, hosted a two-day festival entitled Echoes of Your Sacred Well. This Festival was hosted by Elders Lauren Adorno-Weatherford and Semerit Strachan – the leaders of our Black, Indigenous, and Women of Color Circle since March 2020, and Sumaiyah Wysdom Yates, Executive Director of MUSEA Intentional Creativity Foundation.

This experience will featured 12 teachings from 12 different women of color who expressed how they use Intentional Creativity to reach the depths of their being to cultivate culture, heritage, and connection with their Ancestors. These women use art as an exercise in consciousness to support their choice to live a sovereign existence in a world that attempts to force upon them a foreign way of being.

We invite you to enjoy this intentional look at Ethnicity, Culture, Heritage, Oneness, and Everlasting Sisterhood (ECHOES).

What is in your well? How do you access what is in your well? How do you fill it up?

Bringing the ECHOES of the Sacred Well within you

to the surface.

“While we might feel small, separate, and all alone, our people have never been more tightly tethered. The question’s not if we will weather this unknown, but how we will weather the unknown together.”

~ The Miracle of Morning by Amanda Gorman

Painting by Semerit Strachan

Beyond Safety, painting by Dr. Semerit Strachan

About the Festival

A Message from the Sacred ECHOES of the Well Sisterhood

ECHOES Festival Graphic

MUSEA Intentional Creativity Museum, in conjunction with our Sacred ECHOES of the Well membership – a Woman of Color sisterhood, hosted a two-day festival entitled Echoes of Your Sacred Well. This Festival was hosted by Elders Lauren Adorno-Weatherford and Semerit Strachan – the leaders of our Black, Indigenous, and Women of Color Circle since March 2020, and Sumaiyah Wysdom Yates, Executive Director of MUSEA Intentional Creativity Foundation.

This experience will featured 12 teachings from 12 different women of color who expressed how they use Intentional Creativity to reach the depths of their being to cultivate culture, heritage, and connection with their Ancestors. These women use art as an exercise in consciousness to support their choice to live a sovereign existence in a world that attempts to force upon them a foreign way of being.

We invite you to enjoy this intentional look at Ethnicity, Culture, Heritage, Oneness, and Everlasting Sisterhood (ECHOES).

What is in your well? How do you access what is in your well? How do you fill it up?

Bringing the ECHOES of the Sacred Well within you

to the surface.

“While we might feel small, separate, and all alone, our people have never been more tightly tethered. The question’s not if we will weather this unknown, but how we will weather the unknown together.”

~ The Miracle of Morning by Amanda Gorman

Festival Media

Opening, Interviews with the Presenters, and Closing

This overview of the ECHOES of Your Sacred Well Festival is provided to allow you to learn more about the powHER-packed Festival, which spanned two days. You are invited to witness each Presenters’ gifts as they prepare to share their teachings.

Festival Overview – Day One
Originally recorded May 6, 2023

Festival Overview – Day Two
Originally recorded May 7, 2023

Celebration and Dance Party

Enjoy the Festival on Your Own Time
For those who would like to see each Presenters full presentation, we are offering access to all of the replays. In addition, many Presenters have provided a free gift for you as their Thank You for your patronage. Access the recordings and gifts – available for 3 months – all for just $37!

Shiloh – I need that blurb here about how the money goes to help the ICF support the programs and events of the Museum and employ women. I can’t find it, and you know me – I’m just blunt. Can you write the blurb so it’s in proper Musea-speak? Thank you!

Festival Media

Opening, Interviews with the Presenters, and Closing

This overview of the ECHOES of Your Sacred Well Festival is provided to allow you to learn more about the powHER-packed Festival, which spanned two days. You are invited to witness each Presenters’ gifts as they prepare to share their teachings.

Festival Overview – Day One
Originally recorded on May 6, 2023

Festival Overview – Day Two
Originally recorded on May 7, 2023

Celebration and Dance Party

Enjoy the Festival on Your Own Time
For those who would like to see each Presenters full presentation, we are offering access to all of the replays. In addition, many Presenters have provided a free gift for you as their Thank You for your patronage. Access the recordings and gifts – available for 3 months – all for just $37!

Shiloh – I need that blurb here about how the money goes to help the ICF support the programs and events of the Museum and employ women. I can’t find it, and you know me – I’m just blunt. Can you write the blurb so it’s in proper Musea-speak? Thank you!

Thank you for witnessing the Festival.
We invite you to leave your comments and reflections below!

Special thanks to: 

Elders Semerit Strachan and Lauren Adorno-Weatherford for their vision and leadership of the Sacred ECHOES of the Well Sisterhood.

Sumaiyah Wysdom Yates for her leadership and dedication to the Festival.

Shiloh Sophia for her dedication to uplifting women of color and giving them a platform to speak their truth.

Festival Page Design and Concept

Sumaiyah Wysdom Yates, Director of Curatorial Design

Festival Virtual Presentation

Sumaiyah Wysdom Yates, Executive Director – MUSEA Intentional Creativity Foundation

Collaborative Curation

Elder Semerit Strachan
Elder Lauren Adorno-Weatherford

Promotion and Communications

Sumaiyah Wysdom Yates, Sarah Mardell, and Michelle Baldovin

Thank you for witnessing the Festival.
We invite you to leave your comments and reflections below!

Special thanks to: 

Elders Semerit Strachan and Lauren Adorno-Weatherford for their vision and leadership of the Sacred ECHOES of the Well Sisterhood.

Sumaiyah Wysdom Yates for her leadership and dedication to the Festival.

Shiloh Sophia for her dedication to uplifting women of color and giving them a platform to speak their truth.

Festival Page Design and Concept

Sumaiyah Wysdom Yates, Director of Curatorial Design

Festival Virtual Presentation

Sumaiyah Wysdom Yates, Executive Director – MUSEA Intentional Creativity Foundation

Collaborative Curation

Elder Semerit Strachan
Elder Lauren Adorno-Weatherford

Promotion and Communications

Sumaiyah Wysdom Yates, Sarah Mardell, and Michelle Baldovin

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