Workshops & Events
Artist Soup Kitchen - Profound Silliness: The Fool as an Egg-Spurt.
A Collaboration with AirSpace Gallery Fool-in-Residence, Huge Sillytoe for a conversation around what it means to be a fool in contemporary society.
Saturday 17th of September, 2022 from 12pm - 4pm
AirSpace Gallery, 4 Broad Street, Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 4HL.
Profound Silliness will explore the deep meaninglessness of fooling, rallying against the commonplace rejection of nonsense as trivial to excavate some of the endless ways in which acts that go beyond the realms of the sensible may express feelings, ideas, and possibilities that cannot fit on the strictly delineated pages of the 'normal'. Major themes will include (de)constructions of madness, anti-authoritarianism(s), eggs, and spurts.
SOUP: A Fool's Soup - Turmeric* Vegetable soup served with Egg (v,vg)
* Curcumin, the bioactive compound found in turmeric, has been linked to treating anxiety, depression and inflammation
BREAD: Home made Crusty and Gluten Free alternative
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Moving Bodies of Water
A Collaboration with Intercultural Roots - An Arts Collective for Health and Social Change.
Saturday 30th of July, 2022 from 4pm - 6pm
Open House Hackney, 5 Prince Edward Rd, London, E9 5LX
An expanded exploration of the water element through somatic movement, storytelling and puppeteering.
I will be co-teaching this workshop with Helen Ainsworth where we will be exploring somatic movement and storytelling followed by a unique form of a puppeteering approach that considers a "water like" manipulation. Both classes will explore movement qualities of fluidity through felt sense and invite new insights to expressive artistic languages cutting across the visual arts and somatic dance fields.
The first part of the workshop invites participants to explore the possibilities of becoming liquid through the felt-sense of the moving body while inviting these qualities to the devising of storytelling. The latter part of the workshop then explores water-like puppeteering to traverse and investigate water and how it moves, 'with us and across us, how it moves into and through objects and how it inspires us to move.'
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The Dance into Darkness
This six part themed workshop series offers playful ways to explore the moving body as an art-making and storytelling medium.
As we move through Autumn into the depths of the Winter season, like the trees shedding their leaves, you may find yourself letting go of what no longer serves and turning your attention inward. These workshops draw inspiration from the Japanese Butoh dance form founded by Hijikata Tatsumi, and invite you to turn to your moving body, to embrace the dance into darkness of the coming months. For it is in darkness that we dream and birth the new. Each workshop offers guided slow somatic movement working with different themes, non-human animals and the elements, gentle ways of tracing sensations on the skin as a way of listening to the inner self and witnessing, as well as expressing emotions, through gesture. Each session closes with mark-making or creative writing and storytelling.
Register via eventbrite by clicking on the pointing finger below for the current in-person sessions at Queens Wood Cabin in Muswell Hill, London and Academy Mews Dance Studios in Camden, London. Do get in touch if you are interested in hosting these workshops at your organisation.
Rewilding the body
These workshops offer playful ways to explore the moving body as a regenerative practice of self-care.
How do we rewild our bodies? In a world where most of us are constantly pushed to our limits, how can we cultivate practices of self-care that will give us space to listen to our bodies? How can we make regeneration a daily practice, as we move through this time of collective recuperation? In these workshops, you will be invited to turn to your moving body to explore gentle and playful ways of tracing sensations as a way to listen to your bodymind, in relationship with your environment. Using guided imagery and slow-somatic movements developed from the moving bodies of non-human animals, the elements and other objects, we will explore how moving from desire and impulse can be a practice of rewilding our bodyminds to foster regeneration and sustainable ways of living. Elements of solo moving and dreaming are woven with mark-making, creative writing and storytelling.
Register via eventbrite by clicking on the pointing finger below for the current in-person sessions at Queens Wood Cabin in Muswell Hill, London and Academy Mews Dance Studios in Camden, London. Do get in touch if you are interested in hosting these workshops at your organisation.
A Collaboration with Counterfield - a Visual Cultures doctoral researchers collective I form part of. Read more about our intentions here.
May 13th - June 24th, 2021 from 3pm - 4.30pm
Online due to Covid-19 social retrictions.
How do we forge intimacies as we are pushed further apart? These workshops convene a peering collective in search of playful practices for disruption. Cutting through individual isolation and auto-affection, cultivating co-affecting networked relations, the ruptive effects of play are staged throughout this series. Partial affects are looped, sharing in considerations around care, becoming cacaphonous. Dwelling in loopholes, otherwise exploited and evacuated, frames and facilitates communual spaces for fragile convalescence, resting and in and from this, resisting. The network is embodied across earth surfaces; bodies, minds and screens sharing-in-difference. In total, this workshop series tests and transforms the notion of generatively intimate dirsuptions, and in this the limits and thresholds of our collective capacities for communing (with) care.
I facilitate an Embodied Storytelling workshop on the 13th of May which you can read more about here and you can read a review for the workshop from my peers Georgia and Callum here.
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Online Sessions, Home Visits, Workshops, Events.
All offerings are fluid and mobile.
They can be reconfigured upon request and are available online, as home visits, onsite at workshops and events, following an initial video consultation.
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