Allies & Initiations: Introductory Practices of the Art Witch with Amanda Yates Garcia, the Oracle of Los Angeles

Allies & Initiations: Introductory Practices of the Art Witch with Amanda Yates Garcia, the Oracle of Los Angeles
Tuesday, November 6, 6pm-7pm
$10 for nonmembers, free for members (includes light snacks and refreshments)

In witchcraft, there are no spectators. All witches are participants. At Allies & Initiations, art witch Amanda Yates Garcia invites you to participate in a hybrid event—part workshop, part lecture, part ceremony, part spell to conjure your artistic allies and initiate yourself into the cult of the art witch. Using the power of the imagination, participants will travel into the hinterlands where the subjects of art, magic, healing, witchcraft, feminism, power, authority, imagination and care dance in a circle of evocation.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Amanda Yates Garcia is an artist, writer, witch, healer and the Oracle of Los Angeles. Recent performance rituals include Capitalism Exorcism at Human Resources and Devouring Patriarchy at the Women’s Center for Creative Work. Her work has also been featured at Side Street Projects, the Hammer Museum, REDCAT, the Getty, Public Fiction, ESMOA, Highways Performance Space, San Diego Art Institute, and the Laband and Ben Maltz Galleries to name just a few. Yates Garcia hosted the Oracle Hour for three years on KCHUNG radio and teaches the Magical Praxis monthly mystery school, she has lectured on witchcraft at UCLA, Cal State Pomona, and UC Irvine, and performs private rites of healing and empowerment at her magical studio in West Adams. Her writing has been featured in publications such as CARLA, Black Clock, the Rough Magick Anthology, Entropy, Synema Publikationen, and WITCH. Her book, Initiated: The Wayward Girl’s Guide to Becoming a Witch, comes out in 2019 with Grand Central Books.