FIRE CIRCLES AND PROJECTS

10 TOJ

August 20, 2022
Unceded Nisenan Land (Sacramento, CA)

Fire and offerings for the Guardian Toj to give gratitude and to ask for community healing.

13 KAWOK

August 10, 2022
Unceded Nisenan Land (Sacramento, CA)

Fire for the healing through the guardian of Kawok with the strength of the ancestors and the spirit world with he collaboration of Andrea Yaya Porras at the Kum Mayo (American River)..

13 AJPU

July 2, 2022
Unceded Nisenan Land (Sacramento, CA)

13 Ajpu was a private reading of the Popol Wuj with the communion with sacred medicines.

SUMMER SOLSTICE ALTAR

June 21, 2022
Unceded Nisenan Land (Sacramento, CA)

A private ceremony space for the Summer Solstice at the Kum Mayo (American River).

ALL NATIONS INDIGEFEST

June 11, 2022
Unceded Pawtin Land (West Sacramento, CA)

Event was hosted by Three Sisters Gardens. It was a fundraiser to celebrate indigenous art, music, food, and culture. Toj + Tijax was asked to build a community altar for the event. As community members walked by they were invited to add to the altar and pay reverence to Mother Earth.

"CREATING YOUR ALTAR SPACE" WORKSHOP AT UNEARTHED

April 30, 2022
Unceded Nisenan Land (Sacramento, CA)

Hands-on workshop where participants were guided in creating an altar dedicated to their own healing.

1 AQ'AB'AL FIRE CEREMONY

April 16, 2022
Unceded Ohlone Land (San Francisco, CA)

Commissioned Fire Ceremony for the Class of 2022 California College for the Arts graduates to transmute grief for new beginnings on 1 Aq’ab’al.

13 TOJ FIRE

April 2, 2022
Unceded Nisenan Land (Sacramento, CA)

Private fire was conducted to make offerings to the Guardian of Toj.

RITUAL OF DESCENDANTS

October 1, 2021
Unceded Kumeyaay Land (San Diego, CA)

This altar was created for the Nepantla Spora benefit exhibition for and by POC Fungi in San Diego, California. The altar represents the past and present co-existing. In the top panel we envisioned our ancestors as fungi in ceremony calling to us in the present to awaken to our indigeneity and our collective liberation.

RITUAL OF DESCENDANTS II

October 1, 2021
Unceded Nisenan Land (Sacramento, CA)

The altar was co-created with Yaya (Andrea Porras) for New American Theatre Festival in Sacramento, California. Video was created by Mariana from The Ritual of Myth Making.

FALL EQUINOX ALTAR

September 22, 2021
Unceded Nisenan Land (Sacramento, CA)

Altar for the 2021 Fall Equinox. The altar was created at the convergence of the Sacramento and American Rivers. It was made of flowers and seeds to honor the gifts of reflection, tenderness, and abundance.

SEEDS FOR LIBERATION

March 28, 2021
Unceded Nisenan Land (Sacramento, CA)

Community altar created as part of a 10 BIPOC local artist cohort in Sacramento, California. We were invited to reimagine old newspaper containers into community altars. After community unveiling, the altars were installed throughout the city.

WINTER SOLSTICE COMMUNITY ALTAR

January 13, 2021
Virtual

This virtual altar was created through an open call for submissions from community members.