£5 to book, refreshments to be provided
Ayebainemi Abieyuwa ése’s (they/them) a somatic workshop that will explore how our identities can displace us from our local surroundings and communities and how we can create tools of resistance that help us transmute that loss and grief.
The workshop aims to connect QTBIPOC+ residents of Newham or other boroughs to share embodied explorations around gentrification in our ends. The invitation is to build a relationship with our grief through drawing, a sharing circle, and body-based exercises such as guided-breathwork and somatic experiencing. People are encouraged to bring personal images that relate to their ends on their phones for the print process.
The intersecting experiences of QTBIPOC+ individuals are welcome to be explored, looking at the ways our identities further displace us from the homes we grew up in either through estrangement or leaving home to live more fully in our bodies and identities.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ayebainemi Abieyuwa ése (they/them) is a Nigerian, gender-expansive artist + writer born and raised in Plaistow, Newham. They facilitate trauma-conscious grief, movement, and rest portals for QTBIPOC+ communities. They work with somatic practices such as yoga, art-making and embodied movement to cultivate curiosity and awareness about the stories our bodies hold, honouring our innate ancestral wisdom. They cherish nature, playfulness, creativity, dancing, and experimentation.
*We have a small number of free spaces so if you feel you may benefit from this, please do contact Sandra at sandra@growstudios.co.uk