Breathing Healing into the Banks of Sand Creek

Denial feeds genocide. Stop denying, start healing. Breathing Healing… is an immersive land-based learning experience sharing the history-into-present of the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre – the deadliest day in Colorado history – and the policies and mentalities that led to it. Embark on a journey on Control Group’s Breathing Healing Bus to Denver sites where this history lives. Embodied participatory performance at each site invites audiences into sensory and emotional experiences of the history and its ongoing effects in the present. During the bus rides, we participate in internal somatic and visualization practices aimed at healing wounds created by and borne by the White culture that perpetrated this atrocity. Through this process of learning and healing this traumatic history, we’ll find new ways to invest collaboratively in an equitable future together. This isn’t just history, it’s the present. It’s not just Native history, it belongs to every person who resides on this land today. This trauma isn’t over. It’s our job to heal it, within ourselves and each other.