“Blue Notes” is a community-engaged experience in discovering how we can promote healing and our movement toward aliveness through art-making. In this conversation-workshop, Dr. Jones draws on practices from her training in Embodied Social Justice, Theatre of the Oppressed, and Theatrical Jazz to guide those gathered through a series of sonic, writing and movement experiences to uncover our “Blue Notes”—truths in our lives that are seldom expressed but can support us in our wholeness. This engaged workshop is an opportunity to think about the connections between intellectual projects and liberation, with particular attention to the ways that Africana spirituality emerges as a healing framework.All of Dr. Jones’ work rests on the premise that deep inner liberation is a necessary building block for lasting social transformation. She has provided workshops for domestic violence first responders through Safe Space (now The Safe Alliance) in Austin, Texas; for The Austin Project which she founded to use artmaking as a productive examination of inner wounds among women of color and our allies; and for The Diaspora Project which gathered Black women throughout the African diaspora to examine how anti-Blackness has created divisions among potential allies.Dr. Jones holds a Ph.D. from New York University, and is a Professor Emerita from the African and African Diaspora Studies Department at the University of Texas at Austin, a mother, a Queer wife, and a curious sojourner. For more information about her work see: https://ournextnow.com/called-by-water