Spotlight Sundays: Land as Body—A Community Ritual with Puri Arts

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1000 Oak Street, Oakland, California 94607, United States

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Your browser does not support the video tag. Your browser does not support the video tag. Juneteenth! at the Museum Spotlight Sundays: Land as Body—A Community Ritual with Puri Arts This Spotlight Sundays, we are excited to welcome back Dohee Lee and Puri Arts with their project Land as Body: Belonging, a powerful community ritual that interweaves ceremony, storytelling, and drumming. This spirited offering provides a ceremonial bridge for healing between ancestors and the people of all lands that have endured ruptures due to deportation, incarceration, and all forms of colonial violence. In collaboration with Asian Refugees United-Connect-Reflect-Enact (ARU-CRE) and Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC)  (including members inside and out of San Quentin Prison), Land as Body cultivates a collective of immigrants, refugees, and settlers on the Indigenous lands of Turtle Island where they live and belong. Please join us for this potent expression of healing and connection. Program Schedule 1–1:30 pm | Welcome Ceremony1:30–3 pm | Traditional Jeju Island Ritual – Storytelling and Offerings3–4 pm | Community Circle – Drumming and Dance This program is free and open to the public (no tickets required) About Dohee Lee Born on Jeju Island, Corea, Dohee trained in Corean traditional music and dance, deeply rooted in Corean Indigenous practice (shamanism), especially that of Jeju Island. In 2002, Dohee immigrated to Oakland and founded Puri Arts in 2004 to create a new art form. Since then, she has contributed to both traditional and contemporary arts. She emphasizes the mythical, experimental, ritualistic, historical and healing aspects of performance and installation, catalyzing new relationships between identity, nature, spirituality, and the political. Dohee is Ar