Spacemaking as Sanctuary art + embodiment workshop tomorrow 🪐
+ cosmic sandwich multimedia zine enclosed 🛸
I hope this meets you with soft shells and offers you space to land however seemingly small.
Want to take a moment to thank each of you i’ve spent time with be it during the Open Studios or my workshop at Central Saint Martins on Tuesday or online via the ether in some capacity - your emails, comments, likes and kindness are felt and deeply appreciated! 💜
A quick whisp in-between the whippy wildness where i’ve felt like i’m levitating in moments - useful when you’re experimenting with transcendence etc but thank GOODNESS for my movement practices which hold me…hbu? So am landing here with intention to make and create this space as an anchor, for me, for us, and hopefully there’s some nuggets here, whether you can join me for a workshop or not.
There’s some deets about tomorrow’s workshop below, then into a sensory-heavy weird-in-parts cosmic sandwich multimedia zine + moodboard in honour of said workshop ‘Spacemaking as Sanctuary’ at Peckham Levels (London) tomorrow.
Sidenote, i spent the entire afternoon curating these cosmic sandwich multimedia giblets which is kind of funny in ways, if it wasn’t for my phone failing me (stopped counting on the 27th time i tried to upload these to instagram and almost lost it all, do you feel me? edgy thrills!)
And here we are. I’m sharing the giblets here as well as instagram, as many of you know i’m not chained to portals nor platform, i prefer them as moveable feasts - dependency-avoidant? yes! I think of this practice as intentional logging fuelled by my urgent need to create and tend to ARCHIVES.
So i’ll offer this up and plis-plis 🙏, let me know if something here landed for you, either in the comments or hit reply to this mail. I ADORE (mi amor - i’m the one squatting on the rock) hearing from u 💜
Spacemaking as Sanctuary workshop
Friday 23 May, 1pm
Peckham Levels, Peckham, London, here’s a map
All are welcome but booking is essential, find deets and tickets here.
Here’s some more info: 🛸🌱🐚✨🖍️🥭🧚🏽♂️🌺🦋 -
Translation: Exploring embodied methodologies and creative exercises including:
✨ Embodied writing
✨ Embodied mark making
✨ Offerings of embodiment tools + resources to explore and co-create sanctuary
✨Storytelling and reflection of our living archives
This workshop culminates in a collaborative mapping of our ecologies. 🗺️
A sensory-led practice / ritual / invitation / exploration in Other ways of Being, particularly centering the lived experience of disabled and neurodivergent humans, we ‘move at the speed of trust’ (shoutout to
Rehearsing rest, pleasure, play, expression, interdependence, boundaries, care, ease and softness so we may co-create safe-enough and accessible spaces to land.
✨✨🪐✨✨
ok onto the cosmic sandwich multimedia zine!
if you’d prefer to experience this via instagram, here’s the link to the post
1. Some words from me and a “how you doin babe y’alright?”
2. Heavy on the ever-inspiration for much of my art + embodiment work is beloved Sun Ra @sunraarkestraofficial whose earth day we celebrate today! Ksing Britt told me he would have been 111 which is WILD to think about! Let us summon the energy! Here he is performing “Enlightenment” with his Intergalactic Arkestra live in 1969 via @thejazzestate
3. @jimothylacoste with absolute ENERGY we are summoning for our session, [[[choose your character ]]] (I’m in the red today, but possibly going to be channeling the glove moment tomorrow! “big up the energy crew!” #charingcross (also serves a line to Peckham via London Bridge in case this helps for navigation tomorrow)
4. Embodied sensation and unmasking in our safe-enough spaces with Phil Collins, obviously, via Puderschmude
5. I know, don’t mind him but plis, cause this interpretation is feeling-deluxe and I genuinely think about it all the time! Especially the Homer floor circles! Does anybody know what I mean?!
6. Bliss balm from Dianna Lopez wow, reminds me of treading redwood paths. Also summoning this energy for tomorrow. 🌲✨
7. What are we bringing to the space? Each of us and our lived experience is valued and honoured!
8. I watch Johnny’s video regularly for a lil weep and bolstering. I hope we can remember….
9. An earlier moodboard for a version of the Spacemaking as Sanctuary workshop at #PoeticsofCare Poetics of Care: a festival of Creative Health earlier this week, thank you to all who came! Find credits, notes and references for each of the parts contained in the moodboard here.
10. For younger me bopping in the club in the 90s but also: a reminder of some details.
a reminder:
🔗 book tickets for tomorrow’s workshop here
🗣 comment below or hit reply and (Dru Hill) tell me if something landed here for you, or feel VERY welcome to send/link/share your own offering to this cosmic sandwich multimedia zine!
🌺 take good care of you
k byyyyyyeeeeeee
dionne 💜