Pocket Altar Workshop

🌿 Join us for a creative journey! 🌿
Come together to hold space for the silly and the sacred as we create pocket altars, accompanied by complimentary iced matcha!

This workshop emphasizes the pocket altar as a mental health tool, transcending traditional spirituality. It can serve as an anchor for mindfulness, a creative outlet, or a vessel for connecting with nature.

What to Bring:
While all materials are provided, feel free to bring any small items to personalize your altar, such as:

• 🕯️ Small candles/matches/lighter
• 💎 Crystals or worry stones
• 🌱 Plant medicines
• ✨ Affirmations
• 📓 Small notebooks/paper
• 🎨 Symbolic trinkets or charms
• 👶 A picture of yourself as a child

Location:
The workshop will be held in the Dance Room. Signs will be posted to guide you.

All materials, matcha, sweets, and snacks are included in the ticket price.

A Bit of History:
Portable reliquaries have allowed many cultures to carry sacred space since ancient times. Pocket altars, also known as pocket shrines or portable oratories, originated as a Catholic tool for priests to celebrate Mass in locations without consecrated altars. They evolved into the versions we see today in the 19th century, serving as spiritual companions during pilgrimages. Soldiers in WWI and WWII crafted them from bullet casings. Today, pocket altars are embraced by various spiritualities, blending traditional and contemporary elements to connect self to spirit.