mantra building + breathwork + body wisdom

The Ancestral Writing Village for Artistic Healing is a collaboration with Sterling Miller

About Ashembaga (Ashe) Jaafaru

Ashembaga (Ashe) Jaafaru (she/her) is a performer, writer, and creative idea-maker who creates art for liberation. Ashe uses theatrical body wisdom + African diasporic religious concepts to capture the emotions, feelings, and physicality of black folx for healing. Her practices honor family + lineage, mind + body, artistic creation, and help in aiding understandings of the universe within multiple realities.

About Sterling Miller

Sterling Miller (they/he) is an interdisciplinary community healing artist, actor, and raiser of the dead from the unseated territory of the Dakota and Anishinaabe people. Miller’s practice is rooted in storytelling via the medium of poetry, theatrical performance, and movement. Miller strives to create space that is safe for all black folx, aids in building solidarity and supports and displays free authentic speech.