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HEALING DIALOGUE and ACTION

provided a healing circle about restorative justice and the emcee, Martin Haro.

Healing Dialogue and Action – Building Bridges: Healing Through Restorative Justice Healing Dialogue and Action (HDA) offers therapeutic support groups and individual accompaniment for survivors of violence and individuals accused of severe crimes, particularly those involving loss of life. We provide restorative justice programs in adult prisons, juvenile detention facilities, and communities throughout Southern California. HDA creates healing spaces by fostering restorative approaches to the criminal justice system, providing opportunities for survivors, incarcerated individuals, and affected communities to heal and transform. Our services extend lifelong accompaniment, considering everyone who engages with us is part of our extended family. As a community of wounded healers and restorative justice practitioners, we build genuine relationships based on trust and support. Through these connections, we share knowledge, insight, and unwavering support, helping individuals find their unique healing path. This sense of community and care makes HDA a powerful force for change, restoring hope and promoting resilience across the regions we serve.

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HEALING DIALOGUE and ACTION

Young Joon Kwak (they/she) is a Los Angeles-based sculptor and performance artist whose work challenges the boundaries of representation through inventive techniques of masking and camouflage. Kwak’s art generates new and embodied forms of connection and interaction with others that go beyond traditional categories of gender and race, while vividly imagining new spaces for marginalized bodies to thrive. 

Kwak electrifies audiences as the lead performer of the drag-electronic-dance-noise band Xina Xurner. Kwak also founded Mutant Salon, a dynamic collective beauty salon and nexus for queer-trans-fem-POC artistic collaboration. Solo and collaborative exhibition venues include Arko Art Center, Seoul; Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles; Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles; and Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre, Alberta. Group exhibition and performance venues include Hauser & Wirth, New York; Tufts University Art Galleries, Medford; CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco; Art Museum of the National University of Colombia, Bogotá; and the Hammer Museum’s biennial Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living

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