This performance emerges through a rite of passage process that brings together leaders from around the world to cultivate bridges of connection through the expressive arts.
Together on one stage will be artists and activists from The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Palestine, Ghana, India, Argentina, Israel, Uganda, China, and across the US. Together they will craft a story sharing the challenges they face and how they are creating pathways for peace individually and collectively.
The work is raw, beautiful, surprising, and filled with pictures of what is possible when people orient towards creativity, collaboration, and kindness.
This is both a celebration of the decades of innovative and brave work that Golden Bridge has offered to the world along with being a fundraiser to help sustain the many initiatives around the world born through this body of work.
Join us for this soulful expression of humanity’s capacity to move into life-giving action through dance, song, poetry, theatre, and love.
If you are feeling curious about our Thresholds experience, why not join Melissa in our free preview event, Honoring Our Bodies: Celebrating International Women’s Week and the Feminine in all of Life?
Join us on March 9th at 9am Mountain Time.
During our short gathering, we will move and connect, share some simple resources for remembering our wholeness and the power of our embodied intelligence. As each of us awaken our resilience and liberate our creative brilliance, we create a collective groundswell of radical aliveness oriented towards right action in service of LIFE.
Mobilizing together!
This will also be a time to dream into the possibility of a deeper study together in the season ahead. Regardless of what is moving you to show up, let’s make some magic together.
Golden Girls Global Leaders are offering teachings at the Embodied Awakening Conference FREE and ONLINE. Why not sign up!
Come be with us and learn alongside seasoned leaders in the field of consciousness and the body. It will be a rich time of collective discovery.
Chenxi Ouyang, will talk about Bright & Beautiful's work in rural China. Sikelelwa Waka will talk about the work on the front lines of the environmental movement led by Black Girls Rising in the Global South. Kanika Batra from South India and Guatemala along with Melissa will delight us with some movement that touches the girl in all of us.
We hope that you will join us!
Join us on July 20th for: Full Circle: Descent and Return
Pictures of the Possible as the Golden Bridge and Golden Girls Global Leaders Move the World
Performance. Film. Fundraising. The MUSE.
Dairy Arts Center, Boulder, CO, USA.
Golden Bridge is dedicated to our collective liberation through the birthing of embodied, global leaders and the bridging of peoples from diverse walks and ways.
After 35 years, our work within Golden Bridge has come full circle. Babies that were once dancing in their mother's womb are now epic leaders inspiring individuals and communities to creatively rise up in these radically challenging times. Five generations of this work ripple out into the world.
This beloved community event, Full Circle, shares the inspiring cross cultural, real life stories of resilience and peacemaking of our leaders. Through dance, film, song, and poetry, their vibrant energy will fill the stage and stir your soul. Heart opening. A picture of what is possible when we unwind our trauma and move into collaboration and innovation across inner and outer conflict zones. Meet these leaders who came of age on our dance floors and are now adult pillars in their own communities.
Produced by Golden Bridge in collaboration with Golden Girls Global and Melissa Michaels Movement.
Widening Our Embrace: Making Powerful, Safer Spaces for Questioning and Transgender Youth in Our So-Called Girls Groups.
Wednesday, December 15th, 2021.
9-10:15 am MST.
https://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/
For educators, mentors, councilors, counselors, therapists, parents, caregivers, clergy, community leaders, Elders, and all allies of girls.
All People who directly work with girls and/or the feminine are welcome.
Sliding scale.
Spanish and Portuguese.
In this short introduction to creating and maintaining more gender-inclusive Girls Groups, Angus Baguinho will:
* Review foundational understandings of sex, gender, and sexuality
* Think critically about our own gender identities
* Continue the life-long work of examining and transforming our biases
* Recognize the cost of leaving transgender issues unaddressed
Learn how to expand our language and activities in ways that affirm both cis and trans girls, as well as the non-binary and trans-masculine youth who are brought into our care.
This workshop is particularly designed for facilitators of girls groups. Groups for girls are incredibly empowering for many youth who attend. However, if the definition of “girl” is too narrowly defined, transgender girls and youth who only sometimes or partly identify as girls, will likely struggle with self-esteem, sense of belonging, issues of identity, and most importantly their basic need for safety and understanding.
Some youth, who in no way relate to the term girl, may participate in girls groups because they have been misgendered by others as girls, because at one point they understood themselves as girls, or because a girls group is the only place available for them to pursue community, skills, and other opportunities. For these youth, it is important that we not only expand the definition of girl, but that we also make space within our girls groups for other genders who have also been marginalized by patriarchal and sexist ideologies and systems.
In this one hour 15 minute event, we welcome you to this deeply nuanced and life-saving teaching on how to extend our solidarity beyond girlhood to include the authentic identities and expressions of the youth that come to us in need of mentorship, guidance, and community.
Practical teachings and tools will be shared. Questions and dialogue included.
Bring your questions and your open hearts.
Tending to the Earth in Honor of all Generations with Xoli Fuyani Founder of Black Girls Rising.
Wednesday, November 17th, 2021.
9-10:15 am MST.
https://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/
For educators, mentors, councilors, counselors, therapists, parents, caregivers, clergy, community leaders, Elders, and all allies of girls.
All People who directly work with girls and/or the feminine are welcome.
Sliding scale.
Spanish and Portuguese.
If you are interested in this event but can’t attend live, you can request a copy of the recording by emailing office@goldengirlsglobal.org after the event. The recording will be available for two weeks following each event.
During this precious hour and 15 minutes with Xoli Fuyani, Founder of Black Girls Rising, you will have the opportunity to learn about the realities facing girls in the Global South due to the code red environmental crisis that humanity is facing.
Xoli will also discuss ways in which she has been able to shift the narrative and empower hundreds of girls growing up in marginalized townships in South Africa, teaching them about their bodies, the earth, and the relationship between the two. Xoli will have just returned from speaking at the COP26 X. Her teachings will be grounded in the practical and filled with inspiration.
Practical teachings and tools will be shared. Questions and dialogue included.
Bring your questions and your open hearts.
Golden Girls Global stories of solace and success amidst the struggle of these times.
Saturday, November 13th, 2021.
9-10:15am MT.
https://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/
Join us in celebration of the brave and brilliant leaders working tirelessly around the world serving girls coming of age in all their forms.
Let’s witness and honor this past year 's work, miraculous stories of resilience, innovative creativity, and steadfast community collaboration.
Seeds for the future will also be sown!
All ages and genders are welcome. Come friends near and far.
Spanish, Portuguese and French interpretation available.
~ A Conversation with Avani Dilger on Connected, Creative and Sober Living
During our time together, Avani Dilger will talk about how she cultivated generations of positive young people who are committed to following their passions, exploring states of consciousness in healthy ways, and experiencing deep human connection in community. Her internationally respected program, Natural Highs Community works to empower teens and adults to address substance abuse and mental health issues in inspiring ways that really work. Through Avani’s deep understanding of how the brain works and what young people truly crave, she has been able to positively support people as they consider creative, connected, and sober ways to live their lives. Avani explains, “There is no substitute for the real thing!” Avani’s teaching style is respectful and empathic, honoring the complexity of why people use substances, whether it is alcohol, marijuana, nicotine or other substances, and how their deepest needs can be understood and met in a variety of ways.
Sliding Scale.
Spanish and Portuguese Interpretation Available.
From Daughter to Woman, Guiding Girls Safely Through Their Teens with Kim McCabe from Rites for Girls
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021.
9-11:00 am MST.
https://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/
For educators, mentors, councilors, counselors, therapists, parents, caregivers, clergy, community leaders, Elders, and all allies of girls.
All People who directly work with girls and/or the feminine are welcome.
Sliding scale.
Spanish, Portuguese and French.
A teenage girl longs for affirmation that she is on the right path towards womanhood; she often dons the clothes, make-up and mannerisms of a woman, mistakenly believing that this turns her into one. Appearance is such a small part of what it means to be a woman, but who teaches our daughters this? Well, that’s we adults can help. We can spend time with our girls, in the company of other women, showing them the way. We find simple rituals to acknowledge as they cross certain thresholds, letting them know that we see they are on their way towards becoming women.
Kim McCabe, Founder of Rites for Girls will be discussing what girls have taught her about what they need from us adults.
* Practical tools for mentoring preteen and teen girls
* How to prepare girls for a puberty rite ceremony and celebration
This two hour Educational Event is for anyone who is interested in steering our children safely into adulthood - mothers, grandmothers, aunties, and anyone who works with pre-teen and teenage girls in a personal or professional way. We have the good luck to play a part in setting them on their path into their future.
The future needs us all!
Practical teachings and tools will be shared. Questions and dialogue included.
Bring your questions and your open hearts.
Saturday, June 12th.
9-10:00am MST.
https://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/
All Ages and All People who Identify as Feminine Welcome.
Sliding scale.
Music. Movement. Dance. Dialogue.
Spanish, Portuguese and French.
Caroline Sell and Manuela Welton will be guiding our moving experience.
This hour-long workshop will provide you an opportunity to ground, dance, and move your body in ways that serve both you, and the collective. Offered the 1st Saturday of every month, you will be led by seasoned movement teachers from all over the world.
We conclude each workshop with brief and intimate small group conversations in break out groups, where we touch on a variety of topics that resonate with the experiences of female identifying folx.
Join us for our monthly educational event:
The Altar of Life: Rituals of Creativity for Girls and Women with Mireya Alejo Marcet, MA, MFT.
Wednesday, May 19th.
9-11:00am MST.
https://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/
For educators, mentors, councilors, counselors, therapists, parents, caregivers, clergy, community leaders, Elders, and all allies of girls.
All People who directly work with girls and/or the feminine are welcome.
Sliding scale.
Spanish, Portuguese and French.
Mireya will be sharing with us the way in which she connected and developed her "altar/sacred space creation" practice, through the influence of her own Mexican heritage, the expressive arts and guidance received in ceremonial practices. We will explore with this practice "the altar of life" as a place to anchor and inhabit more fully our inner lives, all our relations and life as a whole. Including the mystery that so many times is so much larger than us to even comprehend. As we involve ourselves or guide others into the creation of beauty through symbol, imagination, creative expression, ritual and connection to place/body/earth, we develop a deeper intimacy with our inner being, soul and all that surrounds us.
If you can bring to our gathering art materials, and/or craft materials you might have at around, feel free...this can be as small or rich as you feel so called and/or life permits. It can be as simple as a crayon or marker and a piece of paper.
Bring your questions and your open hearts.
Practical teachings and tools will be shared. Questions and dialogue included.
Join us for our monthly online international dance event:
Saturday, May 8th.
9-10:00am MST.
https://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/
All Ages and All People who Identify as Feminine Welcome.
Sliding scale.
Music. Movement. Dance. Dialogue.
Spanish, Portuguese and French.
Mashol Rosero and Hannah Loewenthal will be guiding our moving experience.
This hour-long workshop will provide you an opportunity to ground, dance, and move your body in ways that serve both you, and the collective. Offered the 1st Saturday of every month, you will be led by seasoned movement teachers from all over the world.
We conclude each workshop with brief and intimate small group conversations in break out groups, where we touch on a variety of topics that resonate with the experiences of female identifying folx.
Join us for an exciting healing and awakening ceremonial Pop Up Event for May Day with Alessandra Belloni!
Friday, April 30th
5:30-7pm MDT
https://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/
Sliding scale.
Alessandra will open with a presentation about myths & legends in the South of Italy and the ancient sacred sites of the Black Madonna. She will speak about her personal healing journey with the Black Madonna, and her unique research that led her to write her book, and to teach healing workshops and perform this music all over the world. Alessandra will teach ancient healing chants that use the Lydian Scale or Neapolitan Scale use to invoke healing and calm the mind.
The repertoire will also feature: Sacred dances in honor of the Black Madonna: TAMMURRIATA, CUNCTI SIMUS CONCANENTES, OUR LADY OF THE POOR and THE PIZZICA TARANTATA or Spider Dance.
We will close with an experiential journey!
Join us for our monthly online educational event.
Through the Chaos: The Cultural Competencies Calling us into a Relational and Sustainable Future.
Wednesday, April 21st, 2021.
9-11:00 am MST.
https://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/
For educators, mentors, councilors, counselors, therapists, parents, caregivers, clergy, community leaders, Elders, and all allies of girls.
All People who directly work with girls and/or the feminine are welcome.
Sliding scale.
Spanish, Portuguese and French.
Becky ChiefEagle will be guiding us along the journey that she and her people have made from wholeness through the devastating impacts of genocide, colonization, essentially through ongoing violence towards women and girls and the feminine on all fronts. She will then share the traditionally rooted and Spirit guided work that she is doing with other Elders in their communities to restore the agency, dignity, creativity, and wholeness of the people as they navigate through life’s ages and stages, especially adolescence. These teachings are sacred and universal, critical to the restoration of our original ways of being human in relationship with all species and all of nature.
Bring your questions and your open hearts.
Practical teachings and tools will be shared. Questions and dialogue included.
We record our Golden Girls Global events in speaker view and offer limited access to the recordings with a two-week time stamp and a recording version that is not downloadable. By participating in our event, you agree to participating in these limited-access recordings. However, if you choose to keep your microphone off, neither your voice or image should be captured in the recording. If you miss an event, you can access the recording for two weeks by emailing office@goldengirlsglobal.org!
Golden Girls Global is a collective of Body-Centered Leaders serving thousands of Girls Coming of Age around the World.
Golden Girls Global is a worldwide movement creating safer spaces for diverse girls to access, explore and connect with the nature of their own creativity, fertility and emerging selves in community. Focusing on the arts, especially as expressed through the body, Golden Girls Global supports the sustainability and celebration of the feminine as essential to the health of the planet.
Email: office@goldengirlsglobal.org
A Golden Bridge Production.
Join us for our monthly online dance event:
Women and Girls on the Move. Dancing and Dialogue in Global Community.
Saturday, April 10th.
9-10:00am MST.
https://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/
All Ages and All People who Identify as Feminine Welcome.
Sliding scale.
Music. Movement. Dance. Dialogue.
Spanish, Portuguese and French.
Xoli Fuyani and Claudine Migisha will be guiding our moving experience.
This hour-long workshop will provide you an opportunity to ground, dance, and move your body in ways that serve both you, and the collective. Offered the 1st Saturday of every month, you will be led by seasoned movement teachers from all over the world.
We conclude each workshop with brief and intimate small group conversations in break out groups, where we touch on a variety of topics that resonate with the experiences of female identifying folx.
Join us for our second online educational event.
Culturally Centered Mentoring!
March 17th, 2021.
9-11:00 am MST.
https://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/
For educators, mentors, councilors, counselors, therapists, parents, caregivers, clergy, community leaders, Elders, and all allies of girls.
All People who directly work with girls and/or the feminine are welcome.
Sliding scale.
Spanish, Portuguese and French.
During this two hour educational event, Navasha Daya will gift us, through story and song, with a personal glimpse into the majesty of her mentoring young people as they navigate their way through adolescence into adulthood. She is a revered role model to many, a community leader of the highest order, a bridge builder working across race, class, and gender, and a mighty protector of African centered culture. Listen to her talk about her legacy as a leader and lover of all things cultural and creative.
Through an interview process with Melissa Michaels, Navasha Daya will share specific stories and teachings on the following topics:
* Navasha’s journey being mentored by powerful individuals as she grew up.
* The power of growing up in a community of culturally centered activities and people.
* Navasha’s unique ways of guiding and mentoring young people growing up in highly marginalized communities.
* How to work with the many diverse stages and needs of youth.
* Specific ways everybody can extend their love and leadership into the communities all around them.
Song and pray will be woven throughout our time together.
Bring your questions and your open hearts.
Practical teachings and tools will be shared. Questions and dialogue included.
Join us for our monthly online dance event:
Saturday, March 13th.
9-10:00 am MST.
https://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/
All Ages and All People who Identify as Feminine Welcome.
Sliding scale.
Music. Movement. Dance. Dialogue.
Spanish, Portuguese and French.
Melissa Michaels and Manuela Welton will be guiding our moving experience.
This hour-long workshop will provide you an opportunity to ground, dance, and move your body in ways that serve both you, and the collective. Offered the 1st Saturday of every month, you will be led by seasoned movement teachers from all over the world.
We conclude each workshop with brief and intimate small group conversations in break out groups, where we touch on a variety of topics that resonate with the experiences of female identifying folx.
Join us for our monthly educational events.
First one, February 17th: 9-11am MST
Online and sliding scale!
For educators, mentors, councilors, counselors, therapists, parents, caregivers, clergy, community leaders, Elders, and all allies of girls.
All People who directly work with girls and/or the feminine are welcome.
Spanish, Portuguese and French.
Practical teachings and tools will be shared. Questions and dialogue included.
Kathy Walking Founder of Eco-Femme will be interviewed so that her teachings can be harvested by leaders working in diverse communities around the world.
Golden Girls Global will be coming of age in our final online launch event on November 14th, 9-10am MST.
Saturday, February 13th: 9-10am MST
Online and sliding scale!
All who identify as feminine are welcome.
Spanish, Portuguese and French.
This hour-long workshop will provide you an opportunity to ground, dance, and move your body in ways that serve both you, and the collective. Offered the 1st Saturday of every month, you will be led by seasoned movement teachers from all over the world.
We conclude each workshop with brief and intimate small group conversations in break out groups, where we touch on a variety of topics that resonate with the experiences of female identifying folx.
