October, 18th, 2023. From 6:00pm-9:00pm PDT
Portal Community Center
3051 Adeline St.
Berkeley, CA 94703
This is an event hosted by Chacruna Institute, San Francisco Psychedelic Society and Portal Community.
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Tobacco is one of the most prevalent and respected sacred plants among Indigenous and traditional peoples of the Americas. One of the ways it is traditionally consumed is in the form of rapé snuff.
Portal Community Center is partnering with the Chacruna Institute for an evening of experiential learning about rapé. This is a chance to make direct contact with the world of visionary plants, and to sit with teachers who carry these medicines with the blessing and permission of their partners in the Amazon.
- Learn about the history, traditions, and contemporary uses of rapé
- Explore a new relationship with tobacco
- Come away with your own rapé and kuripe (pipe for self-administration)
- Support Chacruna’s mission of decolonization and cultural exchange in the psychedelic space
The event will be concluded with music and fellowship of a co-created rapé circle. We hope you can join us!
Dr. Glauber Loures de Assis is Associate Director of Chacruna Latinoamérica in Brazil and an ayahuasca practitioner with 15 years of experience. He has built this practice in dialogue with his local Brazilian ayahuasca community and with the blessings of Indigenous elders and activists in Brazil.
Behike Sensei Kevon Simpson is an ordained Minister, multidisciplinary artist, international Two Spirit Medicine Man, Shotokan Karate black belt, and founder of the New York City Entheogen Integration Circle. He comes from a lineage of Jamaican spiritual healers, and in the spirit of Sankofa he calls upon his Taíno and Akan ancestry often.
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