GLORIOUS BODIES: EARTH- AND SOMATIC-HEALING SERIES CENTERING BLACK AND BROWN TECHNOLOGIES is a monthly public workshop series from January 2024 - June 2024, based on themes from MBDance’s/Maria Bauman’s current dance-ritual-artwork, These are the bodies that have not borne. MBDance’s new work is an outdoor piece based on multiple seemingly related and unrelated themes, synthesized through the MBDancers’ bodies and imaginations as a ritual and a performance. These are the bodies that have not borne. is rooted in Earth stewardship andindigenous technologies for healing our bodies and the Earth together; uterine health and the under-discussed plight of Black women and other womb-carriers dealing with disproportionate levels of uterine fibroids, endometriosis and other reproductive challenges; the variety of ways that queer people, especially Black and Brown queer people, conceptualize family-building–from the economics of scientific interventionsto the emotions of considering if/how/when/with whom to parent; collective memory and harnessing magic to affect our futurity. Each workshop is led by a different guest facilitator and each one concludes with artistic synthesis led by Artistic Director and founder, Maria Bauman. The workshops are three-hours each and include food and drink.