October, 16th and 17th, 2023. From 7:00pm-9:00pm EDT
Matka
456 Johnson Ave
Brooklyn NY, 11206
This is an event hosted by Brooklyn Psychedelic Society and Chacruna Institute
Monday 16th, register here
Tuesday 17th, register here
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.
The Brooklyn Psychedelic Society is partnering with the Chacruna Institute for two evenings 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.
- Decompress from Horizons with the Brooklyn psychedelic community
- 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
We will be gathering twice, once on Monday and again on Tuesday. Each evening will have a different educational talk, followed by the music and fellowship of a co-created rapé circle. We hope you can join us!
Monday 16th Schedule
Rapé Circle
Soundbath with Kevon
Storytelling on the mythic origins of Rapé
Share Circle
Market of handcrafts
Tuesday 17th Schedule
Rapé Circle
Brazilian Music
Joe May presentation Indigenous reciprocity
Dancing meditation
Kuara Gratitude circle
Market of handcrafts
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.
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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