Workshop: Healing Our Lineages

Sunday, 7/27/2025
2:00 - 4:00
African American Center - 3rd Fl
Main Library

100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
United States

415-557-4400

A healing hands-on workshop of deep healing, ancestor reverence and interconnectedness led by Folk Community Artist and Educator Janae’ “Jaee” Sumter, founder of Sweet Herbal Honey Apothecaries and Director of Ase’ O Community Arts & Wellness Education Program.  

This session embraces the power of generational healing and ancestral connection, holding space for ourselves and the matriarchs in our lives. Through creativity, reflection, and dialogue, we will honor space for our healing and connection to our mothers, grandmothers, daughters, sisters, cousins, and friends as we explore ancestral and reflective practices that bring us closer to our healing and connection with ourselves and each other. Through ancestral letter writing, inner-child reflections, collective altar building, and intuitive painting, we will have a collective session that will allow each adult participant to unpack questions, share stories, paint, dance, and potentially cry and laugh as we make space for the power of healing, forgiving, internal acceptance and celebration of those who have paved the way for us with what they knew. 

Supplies included. Space limited. Reservations required: (415) 557-4545, email: aac@sfpl.org, sign-up at the reference desk, or on this form.

Janae’ “Jaee" Sumter is a migrating Afro-Indeginous Multi-Disciplinary Folk Artist, Arts Integration Educator, Ancestral Practitioner, and small business owner from New Orleans, Louisiana. Jaee is the founding owner & Director of Sweet Herbal Honey Apothecary LLC, a traveling multilayered arts educational business with a mission to uplift social change through empowering the arts as a bridge towards explorative learning. Under Sweet Herbal Honey Apothecary LLC is our community arts and wellness program, Asé O Descendants of Roots & Legacy, which promotes the power of full-person and inquiry-based learning that provides youth and adult workshops, school programs, curriculum development, and arts instructional coaching, grounding itself in the power of expression that breaths life into learning through creative practice and world-building. 

 

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