A FEELed Lab workshop with researcher, playbacker and meditation teacher Anna Smetanova and researcher Manuela Rosso-Brugnach
WHEN: Thursday, March 5, 12-3 PM
WHERE: Woodhaven EcoCulture Centre
WHAT: Anna Smetanova and Manuela Rosso-Brugnach are inviting a small circle to gather at the FEELed Lab for an afternoon of playback theatre, improvising and storytelling to practice attention in the wake of changing and challenging environmental weathers and voices.
Register here!
We offer a possible orientation to listening to others through our bodies and stories, and listening to ourselves through and with others. The orientations, disorientations, ruptures and calls, stories of human and more-than-human changes and the ways these enter our homes, bodies, and relationships.
We’ll work with simple playback theatrical form that let a personal story be held, shared, and returned to the group as something that is inside and outside together, alongside the more-than-human presences that witness, figure and nurture our lives: waters, airs, soils, landscapes, and all the life that lives with and through us.
We ask what becomes feelable when we practice storied listening as a climate method, listening to each other, and listening with the world(s) that hold us?
When an individual’s experiences are reflected in aesthetic form, that experience is given new meaning, and through that meaning, a sense of reassurance—part of the healing process.
– Jo Salas, 1993″
What to bring
… bring a quote, poem, image, or object you’d like to listen with (hard copies welcome), or just bring yourself! No need for a “good story,” or a finished one! Bring a fragment, a memory, a question, a place you can’t stop thinking about or come just to listen. The workshop will offer prompts and multiple ways to participate (including quiet forms if preferred). No performance experience is needed.
Free-of-charge, all welcome!
Questions? Email mrosso02@student.ubc.ca.
This workshop us co-hosted by Human-Tech Nexus (formerly Global Water Partnership) researcher and collaborator Anna Smetanova and FEELed Lab Core member and researcher Manuela Rosso-Brugnach (FCCS, UBCO).
All FEELed Lab events strive to be feminist, anticolonial, antiracist, queer and accessible spaces.
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