Learn about/donate to:
Columbia County Sanctuary Movement ensures our community has their basic survival needs met, and we fight together for longer-term change! CCSM is the only immigrant-led base building and multilingual organization in multiple counties throughout our region.
Gaza Freedom Flotilla, sailing for a just future for Palestine.
For the Many, building a grassroots movement of everyday people to transform New York so it works for all of us.
On June 14, 2025 we will host our annual FlagSSS Day parade with the theme of Red!: Our Inseparable Fires. In a time of multiple, intertwining emergencies, we call on our community to create red flags, banners, capes, accessories, and other art work and to come together in simultaneous rage/resistance/grief and solidarity/celebration. Red is fire, red is emergency, red is rage and passion, red is poppies and watermelons (Palestinian solidarity), red is blood and the insides of our bodies, red is earth, red is roses (worker’s rights), red is red umbrellas and red lights (sex worker rights), red is resistance and revolution, and red is more light and less symbolically loaded things like tomatoes, lobsters, strawberries, sun burns and cardinals. In advance of the parade, we will host multiple community flag- and banner-making workshops, which will result in a series of screen printed flags, a large-scale banner, and more.
Workshops and builds will be held:
May 21, 2025 from 4-7pm – Oakwood Community Center – 313 10th St, Troy, NY 12180
June 3, 2025 from 4-7pm – Refuge Event Space – 1813 5th Ave, Troy, NY 12180
June 8, 2025 from 2-5pm – Collar Works – 50 4th St, Troy, NY 12180
DANCE CLASS for every body in june
What if we already know how? Already know how to resist, persist, sustain, access revolutionary joy and creativity, enact and teach radical interdependence, dismantle oppressive systems or at the very least oppressive tendencies in ourselves/communities? What if we already know how, but we need to come together to remember (through our bodies)?
We’ll start with a guided warm up into/through breath, bone, muscle, ground, heat, sound, feelings, eros, presence, will travel together through imagination-centering prompts to jostle/expand how we move/feel in/about our bodies and interrupt inhibition, and will play with movement patterns and collaborative movement games. We’ll dance to/with music, sweat, practice finding self consent, and invite/look for absorption with self, world, other, now. We’ll move in and out of form and improvisation. No dance experience necessary. Everything will be adaptable. Wear what feels fab and comfortable and maybe even celebratory.
Wednesdays in June (4, 11, 18, 25), 7-8:30pm at Refuge Event Space in Troy, NY
$22 for a drop in class. $40-88 sliding scale for all four classes. No need to pre-reg. Just show up.
ONE-ON-ONE SESSIONS
I offer one-on-one, duo, and small group intuitive and body-based guidance/coaching. My sessions integrate the Internal Family Systems method with movement, meditation, touch, sex and gender expansion coaching, and ritual and spiritual guidance. I do sessions remotely and in person in Troy, Chatham, and Hudson, NY. I orient to personal transformation as inextricable from collective healing and understanding (and grieving) the ways that structural oppression limits us and negatively impacts our psycho-spiritual-ecological-physiological wellness and sense of connection no matter our identity (albeit differently depending). I.e. I am always deepening how to make our work decolonial and politicized/contextualized.
More info here: https://www.hanavandrkolk.com/coaching-counseling. I offer a sliding scale, payment plans, and solidarity slots. Email with questions and to book a session: hjvanderkolk (at) gmail (dot) com
READ
Weirding on the Sadhana Yoga blog
Psychic Practice and the Eroticism of Nothing(ness): Somatic Technologies for Exhausting Times
Published in Apria’s EXHAUSTION issue
