spontaneous art club meetup today ✨

Being with difficult feelings and channelling our energy with creative embodied practice

hoping you and your people are safe and doing ok as can be at this time 💔💜

i’m offering some space to gather in gentle easeful company to channel our energy through creative embodied practice

for context, a video i made on sunday in light of what’s going on in the uk these days and the tensions of terrors in this world in this moment…

dionne_______

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i know some of you have been told not to go into work, or some of you work from home or will be home.

in case you feel you don’t want to be alone and/or want to gather in community

a way to express-process and channel our energy through creative embodied practice.

✨

all are welcome, particularly if you have low capacity for much at the moment

come as you are and Be from wherever you are in the world

we’ll meet online in our little portal

in solidarity

whether you’re sheltering and staying low due to warnings of far right gathering where you live (down the road for me, again, unfortunately)

or just want to Be in community and channel energy into creative expression in this moment

this will be a flexible online space (it’s not a ‘therapy’ space but the intention is to Be in community and gather in quiet company to explore easeful spacemaking)

how does this work?

as things might be unpredictable we’ll play by ear with spacious ease but the plan is:

🕰 meet online 7-8pm BST (time converter here)

🍵 we’ll check in, drink tea or something else, land in space

🦋 moving into some art practice- more on art club here

🪞 i’ll offer a prompt and we’ll have a set time in quiet company before checking in again and optional reflections.

🎧 and will share a playlist (or a few) you can take or leave (you’re also invited to share- the intention is for this space to be generative!)

⚓️ i will anchor the container of the space with timekeeping and spacemaking

how do i join?

just reply to this mail and i’ll send you the zoom details an hour before we meet. it’s free.

what to expect:

📢 you don’t have to ‘make a piece of art’!
you can also use this space like one of my ‘co-working-co-creating i’ll be your mirror’ sessions if you’ve ever attended one of those. the ‘making’ some final ‘product’ isn’t the goal, there is space for you to use for your creative practice which might look like rearranging a desk, folding laundry etc.

but i invite you to hold space to Be-in-process

you might be working on ‘a piece’ / responding to a prompt

or experimenting

or warming up

or meeting yourself

but recommend having something in mind and the tool/medium you’d like to use for ‘mark-making’. there are no ‘rules’ or ‘should’s’ for your creative practice in this space.

ideas of what you could explore might include:

• using a pen and paper for doodling / sketching / freewriting

• making movement via somatic movement / rolling around on the floor

• painting feelings

• stitching marks via embroidery / fabric / needle + thread

• arranging items into a sculpture

• slowly walking around your room

• laying down and resting as a creative embodied practice

• etc etc etc

i hope this offering will be generative and meet you where you’re at.

please share with anyone you think might resonate and hope to see you later.

and please feel welcome to connect via the comments below, a noticeboard of energy beans and spells for the collective if u will ✨

Wherever you are am sending maximum care and love 💜 please take good care of yourself,

love

dionne 💜

Nawal El Saadawi with some wisdom for our way 💙

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