Chacruna Institute

May, 8th, 2024. From 7:00pm-9:00pm EST

Matka
456 Johnson Ave
Brooklyn NY, 11206

This is an event hosted by Brooklyn Psychedelic Society and Chacruna Institute

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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. 


Joseph Mays
 is an ethnobotanist whose conservation work explores how cultural-conditioning influences approaches to biocultural sustainability. As Program Director of Chacruna’s Indigenous Reciprocity Initiative, Joseph partners with Indigenous community organizations throughout the Americas to increase cultural reciprocity in the psychedelic space.


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