Karma Star
Prayer Bead Community Callings
How we roll together, matters
Join Tara as she offers a sacred and kind space to come together to participate in a shared personal ceremony of rolling our own prayer beads that empower us on our personal and collective paths. This can be a healing and powerful transference of energy that uplifts the spirit and continues to uplift our own purpose in knowing we are creating kinship in the purest de-colonial way possible. Taking back and defining our own value in each and every bead.
Helping hands, bonding strands, braiding futures
If you are an organization that advocates for refugees, women’s emotional health and well-being, survivor solutions, land love, and protecting children and our elders, and would like Tara to facilitate a workshop, please contact us for more information. If you are someone who would like a one-on-one, customized personal prayer bead session, please reach out to Tara on how to make this possible.
Tara is creating space to be available for prayer bead workshops to uplift and empower us in our collective healing.
Upcoming Offerings
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Hosted and Elsewhere
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Upcoming Offerings ✦ Hosted and Elsewhere ✦
Karma Star Sanctuary & Studio
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Karma Star Bead Workshop & Radio Free Alcatraz at SITE SANTA FE
Artist Tara Evonne Trudell (Santee Sioux/ Raramuri/Xicana) leads a hands-on bead-making workshop rooted in storytelling, memory, and resistance
In this workshop, participants will get a short introduction to bead-making and then listen to an excerpt of the Radio Free Alcatraz broadcasts while making their own paper bead from a "We Hold the Rock!" strip.
Printed with news, poetry, and artwork from original Alcatraz newsletters, the handmade bead can be strung onto a steel ball chain necklace or safety pin to take home.
Radio Free Alcatraz was broadcast from Alcatraz Island during its occupation by the Indians of All Tribes from 1969 to 1971. The takeover was the first of its kind to protest federal laws that contradicted historic land treaties with the Indians and drew widespread attention to American Indian civil rights. John Trudell (Santee Sioux) directed the radio program from Alcatraz that was carried live by stations nationwide.
Tara Evonne Trudell is an original descendant of the Indians of All Tribes, Alcatraz.
* Free and open to the public! No tickets required.
Chimayósa Mercado
A special Karma Star Sanctuary/Studio mark your calendar announcement! More information to come! Thank you so much for the patience and support as we keep on keeping on together! k/s
Art for the Heart Gathering
Join Artist and MMIWG2S Advocate Tara Evonne Trudell as she provides a space to create tangible prayers to help us back to our heart and purpose as we grapple with another tragic loss to our communities. We will gather and grieve while we create art to uplift our hearts and purpose while we honor Tia and all our relatives who leave us too soon in this unending cycle of generational trauma. The beading process of our collective grief and despair is our medicine and offers us a place to gather and strengthen together in these times. WHEN: Thursday, November 27, 2025
WHERE: Karma Star Sanctuary & Studio
764 NM-76, Chimayo, NM 87522
REGISTRATION: Please register to join us link in bio
Thank you in advance for understanding this special gathering is focused on the well-being of MMIWG2S advocates and family members at this time. We will come together and uplift our grieving hearts and offer prayers for precious Ancestor Tia Colelay and her family during these very distressing times.
• We will write and type our prayers and roll special ancestor beads to give us strength to continue on with our purpose, love, and protection for our children.
• Please bring your own remembrance names/stories to create your own prayer bead regalia.
•All supplies will be provided though you are welcome to bring your own special beads to add to your healing strand. Atole & fresh desserts will be offered so please join us for this needed grief respite.
Elderberry Gathering
Karma Star Sanctuary & Studio, Breath of My Heart Birthplace & Colibrí CorazónWe are happy to announce that the ElderBerry Menopause Support Group will be reconvening this month! Please mark your calendar for the next gathering which will take place on Sunday, November 23 from 1:30 to 4:30 pm in Chimayo. For more details and to register, please scan QR code or visit breathofmyheart.org/menopause-support-group
Karma Star Prayerbead Workshop at Breath of My Heart Birthplace
Karma Star Prayebead Workshop at Breath of My Heart Birthplace
Karma Star Prayerbead Community Offering
If you have been a part of my year long journey of honoring our Palestine Martyrs through this prayer bead remembrance gatherings,
I invite you to join me on Sunday, February 16th to uplift the remaining 1200+ precious martyred prayer beads. Refreshments will be provided
Please rsvp & for more information
taraevonnetrudell@gmail.com
Remembrance Beads
This upcoming event has been postponed but will happen in the spring 2025. More information to come, thank you for your patience in my prayerbead process. tet
Karma Star Remembrance Prayerbead Workshop/Offering
Join artist Tara Evonne Trudell in her final remembrance prayer bead making community offering to support her ongoing efforts to make the Palestine Martyred prayer beads from the first list of martyred names, 6747, released by the Gaza Ministry on October 26, 2023. After over a year of joining many communities to uplift the memory of these precious martyrs, the total is at 5,63 names hand typed and rolled into a precious remembrance bead.
This will be Tara's final Palestine Martyred Prayerbead community offering here with the uplifting support from Window Rock. On this Tara plans on finishing the last 1117+ prayer bead martyred names for this healing installation exhibit of this over year long community collaboration at her Karma Star Studio in northern New Mexico February 15th. Come make a remembrance bead for a beloved Ancestor. All supplies will be provided.
Hosted by Hózhó Place & K’é Infoshop
CH’IHOOTSO
MARKET PLACE #11
WINDOW ROCK, AZ
Karma Star Prayerbead Workshop Community Offering
Ya'at'eeh everyone, join us on Friday, January 31st from 3 pm - 5 pm for a special handmade paper bead work workshop with Tara Trudell! Come learn how to bead from your journaling, poetry, visualizations, and good energy to create your own prayer beads to carry you on your journey.
This special community offering will be hosted by Navajo Nation Library
HWY 264 and Window Rock Loop Road, Window Rock, Arizona 86515
*Supplies are limited, please message us or @hozho.place to reserve your spot!
Karma Star Prayerbead 2025 Community Offering
We will create our own reVision boards that will then be printed to be rolled into special prayer beads to empower, uplift, and remember wtf we are on our paths and purpose. A moment to revision our reality while in the company of protective Ancestors, good people and nourishing foods.
Please rsvp taraevonnetrudell@gmail.com
Karma Star Presents
Karma Star Sanctuary & Studio is excited to announce our first Chimayó/Sa community mercado offering! Featuring wonderful local locas and a beautiful environment to land during these holidaze and politcal unrest times. Come land on the earth here and pick up some self/other care items and make a prayerbead! More information to come. k/s
Karma Star Prayerbead Community Calling Offering
Our final Karma Star Palestine Martyr Prayerbead Community Calling Offering to come together with the goal of rolling these precious remembrance beads together to complete this way of celebrating their lives and uplifting their roles as Ancestors.
All supplies and noursishing snacks provided.
18 spots available
Please RSVP at taraevonnetrudell@gmail.com
Karma Star Prayerbead Workshop Community Offering
Karma Star Prayerbead Workshop
Palestine Martyred Remembrance Beads
Sunday October 20, 2024
12:00PM-4:00PM
*Open to 12 participants
potluck/free community offering/donations appreciated
to register & more information/RSVP taraevonnetrudell@gmail.com
Karma Star Sanctuary & Studio en Chimayó, NM
For Freedoms Congress 2024
Karma Star Prayerbeads will be a LACMA! Please join Tara from noon-2:00 omn Saturday, September 28th to make a special remembrance bead for an ancestor, earth, relatives around the world. Please RSVP for all the amazing events and to be a part of this powerful and healing prayerbead workshop
For Freedoms Congress
For the first time since 2020, For Freedoms will host a convening of artists, cultural institutions, organizations, and civic leaders on September 27th & 28th, 2024 at The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and across Los Angeles. PLEASE JOIN US for FFCON2024!
Co-presented by Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and quiet.
Location
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036
DateS
Friday, September 27
Saturday, September 28
RSVP: https://www.eventcreate.com/e/for-freedoms-congress-2024-lacma
Our Bodies Our Stories KarmaStar Prayer Bead Workshop
El Chante Casa de Cultura
804 Park Ave. SW Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102
Sunday April 28th 11:00 AM-1:00 PM
We Are Calling You Karma Star Prayer Beads
We Are Calling You KS Prayer Bead Workshop
in collaboration with Data for Indigenous Research
Southcentral Foundation’s Nuka’s Learning Institute
4085 Tudor Centre Drive Achorage Alaska 99508
Donation / Receiving
These workshops are offered freely by Tara to the community. She envisions a sacred healing sanctuary where people can gather, share good food and stories, and create healing through each bead made.
Your heartfelt donation supports Tara’s ongoing work and well-being as she creates this space and shares beadwork as an art form of reclamation. She has dedicated her life and healing journey to empowering herself and others through one of the oldest forms of trade, communication, prayer, and love.
Pidamaya ye, gracias, thank you for your support and solidarity.
