Please register in advance.
Free, optional donation. All materials provided; please dress for the weather, this is an outdoor event.
We welcome participants ages 10 and up. The Cardin Pavilion is ADA accessible via a paved path from the parking lot, and all activities can be adapted according to participants’ needs and preferences. The park has an accessible portable toilet located near the parking lot.

Directions: Cardin Pavilion, 4700 N Franklintown Rd, Baltimore, MD 21229. Park in the nearby parking lot for Winans Meadow, 4500 N Franklintown Rd.

About Meshwork Collective:
Meshwork is a metamorphizing group of interdisciplinary artists, scholars, and activists based in Baltimore. Since 2013, we have collaborated in many formats, from curating and performing, to writing and scholarship, to mutual aid and support. We are interested in embodied knowledge-making and mediumship. That is, how do we understand what is true, and build a shared world that holds a plurality of truths? In our varied practices, we focus on using the body, intuition, ritual, and intersubjectivity to connect with sources of knowledge beyond what is codified in dominant knowledge systems. This is inherently a collective, occult practice, grounded in communion with the living and the dead, and with histories that reside in materials and places.

Our Conocimientos project is a yearlong program of research, co-devising, and public events in Baltimore. Conocimiento is a term coined by Chicana feminist theorist Gloria Anzaldua. Translated as “knowing” in Spanish, in Anzaldua’s language of spiritual-activism conocimiento is an embodied practice that links inner vision, social action, and lived experience to challenge oppressive systems. Our investigation centers differing ways of knowing and is organized around the four elements (air/water/earth/fire) common to the spiritual rituals and traditions observed by collective members. Conocimientos then is “knowings” literally but theoretically it is more difficult to describe in words, it’s embodied. The elements offer an archetypal pathway to embodied non-hierarchical dialogue with our participant-audiences.

Collective members: Adhirai Karthik, Alicia Puglionesi, Deepa Mahadevan, Isa Leal, and Orlando Johnson