Harriett’s presents Kiss Of Life w/ Sannii Crespina-flores

We’ve been working with Sannii Crespina-flores for over ten years. We met while working at a local alternative high school and have hosted everything from writing workshops to honey making. We call our friendship, love at first sight.

She is a Philly native with an ancient type wisdom. Her book we have featured on our bookshop shelves, Machetes are Forged in Soft Rivers is included with your ticket.

Join us for a very intimate convening of just a few word-workers from playwrights to poets, screenwriters to novelists, thinkers and philosophers, essayists to enthusiasts at Harriett’s Bookshop.

Between tea pours, Sannii Crespina-flores will take us into the depths of our culture and imagination, while teaching mirror work and candle dressing alongside an eclectic mix of drinking, making, doing, but most importantly –LISTENING as we sip a curated selection of teas and listen to a Sade playlist that complements everything.

Must be on time!

Doors will close at 10:00 am.

You are strongly encouraged to take a ride share. Parking in Fishtown is a whole thing

Books and teas included in your ticket.

Hosted by Jeannine A. Cook of Harriett’s Bookshop.

Sannii Crespina-flores is the founder of the Un-Inhibited Muse Film Festival, the global youth initiative Do Remember Me and the art collaborative Yram Collective. She has screened work at the 60th Cannes, the United Nations and is an award-winning storyteller of the 15th Sundance Film Festivals.

Bouche à Bouche (The Kiss of Life)

Breath, Reflection, and the Transmission of Care

Bouche à Bouche (The Kiss of Life) is a ritual-based writing and reflection workshop centered on breath as a site of memory, survival, and ancestral transmission. Drawing from African diasporic practices and embodied listening, the workshop incorporates mirror work and candle dressing as tools for self-witnessing, intention, and care. Through breath practice, guided writing, ritual reflection, and collective witnessing, participants explore how life travels from spirit into the world through breath—first as humming, then as word, then as song—until it takes shape among us. The workshop honors care and knowledge as something birthed through breath, moving gently from body to body, voice to voice.