Art as (R)evolution
Part I: Creation as Inheritance
with Reem “DRĖĖĖMY” Abdou & Emma Trainor
Leave grounded in the lineage behind your work.
Sit with what it means to make art from a body safe enough to create, when so many bodies right now are not. Through guided meditation and real community conversation, locate yourself in the larger work of transformation — and leave with a felt sense of your work as part of something older than yourself, plus language for your artist statement, bio, or grant application.
Live, Online Event, $22
UPDATED DATE: 11th October 2026 | 12:00 - 2:00 PM ET
Replay included in registration
Before art was content, it was survival
We are making art inside a polycrisis — ecological collapse, political upheaval, war, displacement, and an attention economy that profits from our distraction. None of that pauses while we create. This series isn't asking you to transcend the moment through your creativity. It's an invitation to let your creativity meet the moment head-on.
For the Fall 2026 season, we reconvene The BEYOND Academy with a series of 4 monthly explorations grounded in universal creative & revolutionary principles for conscious makers across movement, music, somatics, and leadership.
Each exploration stands as one and together they lead towards a deeper dive into a new paradigm of conscious creatorship.
What We’ll Explore in Part I
With inspiration from Joanna Macy's Great Turning, we acknowledge that the inward shift in how we see the world is itself change-making — not a retreat from the work, but the foundation of it. We begin here because the way you turn inward, remember, and reorient is the practice, not a pause before the real one.
The inward turn as the work itself.
Discover how turning inward, remembering, and reorienting isn't separate from outward change — it's where outward change begins
What you inherit, and what you owe
Sit with the lineage behind your practice and what you're being called to carry forward.
A practice that kept your people whole
Reflect on a ritual or practice — yours or your lineage's — that carried your people through collapse or crisis.
The oldest resistance in your lineage
Put language to what your lineage's resistance has always sounded, moved, or looked like.
Your Guides for Part I
Reem “DRĖĖĖMY” Abdou
DRĖĖĖMY is a multi-dimensional producer, performer, and ceremonial architect who brings the esoteric soul of Sonic Alchemy. She guides students through intention-setting practices, ancestral remembrance rituals, voice activation, and artistic emergence.
Emma Trainor
Emma is an environmental steward & facilitator of “The Work That Reconnects”, carrying forward the legacy of Joanna Macy. Rooted in environmental studies, philosophy, regenerative farming, & years of community-building, she guides groups through the spiral toward the Great Turning TO reconnect us with the living world and each other.
Art as (R)evolution Sessions
Part II: Reclaiming the Signal Workshop
RECLAIMING THE SIGNAL
Every artist carries something they've learned to soften or silence. This session helps you name it — and take the first step toward putting it back into the world.
Part III: Moving as One Body Workshop
MOVING AS ONE BODY
No practice moves alone — it's part of a larger body in motion. This session names your role in that body — and turns isolation into collective rhythm.
Part IV: Work That Outlives the Moment Workshop
WORK THAT OUTLIVES THE MOMENT
Unfinished work is its own quiet act of faith. This session holds the weight of an unstable moment — and turns it into a reason to finish, not abandon, what you started.
Part I: Creation as Inheritance Workshop
CREATION AS INHERITANCE
Every discipline carries a lineage. This session grounds you in what you've inherited — and what you're here to carry forward.