We've moved to Charlottenburg: Kaiser-Friedrichstr. 17a, 10585 ♡
fOOT SERVICE, 15.1.2020, 17 - 18:30H; WEDNESDAYs
We will gather together and I will wash and massage the feet of participants. There is no fee to attend but there is a fee for service; each service lasts about 15-20 minutes and costs 15€. The playing of handmade instruments and improvised singing is encouraged. Tea will be served. Easy, lazy. ♡
Attendance is free; service is 15€
Attendance is free; service is 15€
INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY:
READING CIRCLE, LETTER WRITING, & FUNDRAISER,
15.1.2020, 19 - 21h; MONTHLY
READING CIRCLE, LETTER WRITING, & FUNDRAISER,
15.1.2020, 19 - 21h; MONTHLY
A Decolonization Event // An Event in Support of Decolonization
Together we will read from the Standing Rock Syllabus. You can find reading materials here: https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/standingrocksyllabus/. There will be no assigned passages, just reading together on site. Afterward, we will write letters to incarcerated or recently incarcerated water protectors and political prisoners: https://waterprotectorlegal.org/water-protector-prisoners/. Please bring a stamp(s); I will provide paper, envelopes, and tea.
Please send your suggested donation of 10 euros in lieu of payment directly to the organization of your choice. If you can recommend indigenous orgs or individuals on the ground in Haiti, Africa, South and Central America (especially Brazil), or Australia who could use our support and are open to receiving funds from the public, please let us know. We can recommend: the Water Protector Legal Collective, Indigenous Climate Action, No Más Muertes, Pua Case of the Mauna Kea crew, The Unis’tot’en of the Wet’suwet’en, Viva con Agua, & Seebrücke. [Some of my recommendations are for folks who work with indigenous communities but are not necessarily themselves indigenous.]
10€ suggested donation is to be paid directly to indigenous orgs & individuals
Together we will read from the Standing Rock Syllabus. You can find reading materials here: https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/standingrocksyllabus/. There will be no assigned passages, just reading together on site. Afterward, we will write letters to incarcerated or recently incarcerated water protectors and political prisoners: https://waterprotectorlegal.org/water-protector-prisoners/. Please bring a stamp(s); I will provide paper, envelopes, and tea.
Please send your suggested donation of 10 euros in lieu of payment directly to the organization of your choice. If you can recommend indigenous orgs or individuals on the ground in Haiti, Africa, South and Central America (especially Brazil), or Australia who could use our support and are open to receiving funds from the public, please let us know. We can recommend: the Water Protector Legal Collective, Indigenous Climate Action, No Más Muertes, Pua Case of the Mauna Kea crew, The Unis’tot’en of the Wet’suwet’en, Viva con Agua, & Seebrücke. [Some of my recommendations are for folks who work with indigenous communities but are not necessarily themselves indigenous.]
10€ suggested donation is to be paid directly to indigenous orgs & individuals
GUIDED MEDITATION, 16.1.2020, 17 - 18:15h; thursdays
You are invited to passively travel, leaving and recovering the self. Journeys will vary.
Feel your base, your perineum, the small diamond shaped muscle between your anus and your genitals. Acknowledge your base by lifting it gently and sense the weight of your hips as they sink into the floor. Feel a shiver as a silver staff connects your base and feet to the earth, three coils reach down through the layers of concrete beneath us, past the rush of pipes--the throat of the city--and into the soil below. As you slide your weight down to your feet, feel the pressure as your legs push through sediment, busting silicates like breaking dishes, you slam through the earth’s mantle, sledding toward the center of her like a bullet train on a frictionless track. The temperature increases. You sweat, a slick sheen covers your torso…
--Outliers (extract of a text by Melissa Steckbauer; commissioned as part of a larger artwork co-created with J&K: Janne Schäfer and Kristine Agergaard, TAZ 3, Teatr Studio, Warschau, Poland, 2014)
The fee for attendance is 10€.
Feel your base, your perineum, the small diamond shaped muscle between your anus and your genitals. Acknowledge your base by lifting it gently and sense the weight of your hips as they sink into the floor. Feel a shiver as a silver staff connects your base and feet to the earth, three coils reach down through the layers of concrete beneath us, past the rush of pipes--the throat of the city--and into the soil below. As you slide your weight down to your feet, feel the pressure as your legs push through sediment, busting silicates like breaking dishes, you slam through the earth’s mantle, sledding toward the center of her like a bullet train on a frictionless track. The temperature increases. You sweat, a slick sheen covers your torso…
--Outliers (extract of a text by Melissa Steckbauer; commissioned as part of a larger artwork co-created with J&K: Janne Schäfer and Kristine Agergaard, TAZ 3, Teatr Studio, Warschau, Poland, 2014)
The fee for attendance is 10€.
CODEPENDENCY, SELF-LOVE WORK, & INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS, A READING CIRCLE;
16.1.2020, 19 - 21H; every other THURSDAY
16.1.2020, 19 - 21H; every other THURSDAY
A celebration of weirdos and shy empaths
This reading circle will investigate our place within interpersonal relationships. We will read from the work of authors like Gabor Maté, Terrence Real, Pia Mellody, Audre Lorde, Jim Pierrakos, Bell Hooks, Donna Haraway, Marilyn French, Alexander Löwen, Darlene Lancer, John Bowlby, Harriet Lerner, Sonya Renee Taylor, & Wilhelm Reich.
Please bring a favored text to share on the subject, it needn’t be by a published author.
The fee for attendance is 10€.
This reading circle will investigate our place within interpersonal relationships. We will read from the work of authors like Gabor Maté, Terrence Real, Pia Mellody, Audre Lorde, Jim Pierrakos, Bell Hooks, Donna Haraway, Marilyn French, Alexander Löwen, Darlene Lancer, John Bowlby, Harriet Lerner, Sonya Renee Taylor, & Wilhelm Reich.
Please bring a favored text to share on the subject, it needn’t be by a published author.
The fee for attendance is 10€.
THE SENSORIUM, 31.1.2020, 19 - 22h; MONTHLY
The Sensorium as Smörgåsbord is a material feast, incorporating a wide variety of tools and objects, presenting as a visual lexicon for embodied learning. Each Sensorium carries a different tone and heft: on this occasion, we will work under the umbrella of jubilee and explore this as a “season of sensation” by sampling varying textures and temperatures and testing the qualities of a wide range of implements. We will set the intention of working with joy, to make space in the body for a greater feeling of aliveness, electricity, and movement. Please bring a bag of secret objects for use throughout the evening.
The fee for attendance is 20€.
The fee for attendance is 20€.
Photos: Ben Busch
