The FRDM Exhibit

FRDM (Freedom is a Daily Movement) is a cultural exploration of the reality that achieving collective freedom starts with activating freedom in our personal lives first. From what we consume, where we live, what we do as work, and our relationship to technology. FRDM invites us to move consciously on a daily basis in a way that contributes to our own holistic liberation. FRDM is an activation of Alena Museum’s public art activism program. Review our past and future installations below.

FRDM WELlNESS BOOTH x MOSSWOOD PARK CARNIVAL 2022

The FRDM Wellness Booth is a resource for community health & healing. Our wellness and cultural practitioners are here to share their gifts with you - and to support your individual growth with various modalities of treatment and guidance.

Experience the FRDM Wellness HUB

Our FRDM Wellness Booth honors the life works of Dr. Sebi, a plant-based nutritionist who liberated the African diaspora by teaching that there has been and continues to be a violation on our lives through the food we were taught to consume. According to Dr. Sebi, people of African descent are eating food that is not consistent with our genes and biological makeup, which in turn has caused generational early death, and illness, resulting in a normalized silent genocide of the Black Race.

Meet our FRDM Wellness Practitioners…

Kyndelle Jo

Kyndelle, @yurmbykj, is a Bay Area raised plant-based cook and content creator. She motivated by the struggle toward Black Liberation and works with local activists, organizers, and community groups to share delicious, vegan food in these empowering spaces.

Read Kyndelle’s go to tofu recipe for a great ground beef replacement in your meals

Check out some local seasonal food and cooking tips of the Diaspora

Gigi the Alchemist

@gigithealchemist is an herbal spiritualist focusing on assisting others in basic dreamwork, meditation, and trance through the use of her products. Cultivation of these mediums makes for a rich and informative inner-world that guides one's expression in the physical world.

Learn more about Gigi’s work here.

Shop her newest collection

S I M Á G O

@_simago is a sound healer, poet, rapper, all around performing artist: her gritty soulful poetic and raw East meets West meets celestial sound lulls and ignites listeners to states of deep self-reflection, ease and empowerment. SIMÁGO aims to use her sound healing, music and personal story as a catalyst to inspire her listeners to find their own strength and healing in mind, body and spirit.

Karen M. Beckles

Karen Beckles, @the_funky_truth is a Reiki Master Teacher in the Usui Reiki Healing Method, a Certified Master Life Coach, and an essential oils advocate. Karen focuses on vibrational alignment of the mind, body and spirit and believes deeply, that is where individual wholeness and wellness can be attained. Karen uses essential oils, crystals, and intuition to support her practice and enhance the Reiki experience for her clients.

Shaniece

Shaniece (aka Luna or Sage) is a community herbalist, spiritualist, and trained doula based in the Bay Area. Their goal is to educate the community on not only the physical aspects of herbs, but the spiritual and energetic properties herbs can offer us as well; plant
spirit medicine. Herbs are gracious spirits that want nothing more than to help us. Her offerings consist of educating the community on the use of herbal medicine as it relates to self-care and spiritual work. Saged Moon, a wellness + lifestyle apothecary which focuses on offering intuitively crafted botanical goods such as herbal tea, tinctures, botanical baths, aromatherapy products, and as of recent herbal/wellness consultations. To learn more about the business or keep up with her practice, check out all of Shaniece’s all social media platforms at @sagedmoonxo or at sagedmoon.com

Upcoming Installations

Juneteenth 2022

Harriet refused to submit to slavery, or live while the people around her were still captive. She is the embodiment of fearlessness and determination.

Celebrating the life, love, and power of Harriet Tubman, Alena collective partner and art activist, Creative Shields (@creativeshields) has brought to life a graphic that integrates the dynamic and spiritual qualities of a true freedom fighter, Harriet Tubman, our ancestor of Freedom and Direction.

In today’s time, when notions of freedom are being challenged in subliminal and intangible ways, Harriet’s fighting spirit reminds us to leave anything behind us that doesn't empower us.

We share her spirit and honor her life by prioritizing our personal freedom mentally, physically, and spiritually.

Visit the video playlist below to learn about Harriet Tubman, and many other courageous Black Leaders who struggled for the FRDM of the African Diaspora.

KENDRICK LAMAR

We recognize Kendrick Lamar as a truth speaker who has used the power of spoken word in his art to respond to the dynamics of violence, oppression and trauma that play out in modern America.

Our freedom as a people is directly tied to what we are thinking, which is often shaped by what we consume through music and other media. Kendrick has used the power of language to move and shape hip hop to a place where we are now directly talking about healing as a vehicle for our liberation.

His new album, Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers, is the soundtrack for this FRDM activation. Through this album, Kendrick grapples with issues of intergenerational trauma that affect us all but are rarely spoken about in public spaces. He helps to shine a light on the crevices of our deepest wounds so that we can all have a chance at collective healing.

This installation stands in celebration of Kendrick’s embodiment of Diasporic identity and vulnerability, which is a portal welcoming us to look at our traumas, to begin to heal and to find freedom through the lessons we’ve learned.

AFRICAN HOLOCAUST ALTAR

This African Holocaust Altar exists in remembrance of all ancestors who passed during the imperialist periods of conquest and colonialism on the African continent.

This water was collected from the ocean and it symbolizes the Middle Passage of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, wherein millions of enslaved Africans were transported to the “New World,” marked a series of horrific atrocities on the Diaspora.

This Altar stands in memory and recollection of those injustices as we navigate through a modern world filled with remnants of a violent, and dehumanizing past.

This Altar stands as a call to action to work on our FRDM - to make a daily commitment to explore and practice what it means for each of us to be free.

Take a moment to place a flower in the water in remembrance of an ancestor whose strength you would like to bring forward in your own freedom journey.