Camille Sapara Barton conducting a previous workshop at W139, Amsterdam
Exploring Grief through Play is an experimental space to practice being with and expressing various kinds of feelings, without having to rationalise them or put them into words. The container will provide a series of short exercises that give permission to feel emotions such as grief, wonder, rage and connection with the aim to experience the sensations in the body and perhaps exaggerate them a bit using voice, sound and movement. Drawing inspiration from clowning, improvisation games, grief tending, and toddlers, Camille will provide a trauma-informed container to move through short, facilitated moments of sensing, feeling and release with a lot of grounding practices woven throughout. All exercises are voluntary and no one will be judged for skipping an exercise. Hopefully it will be a connected and cathartic experience.
This Sunday workshop is open to everyone, with a maximum of 20 participants. Registration is on a first-come basis, and all participants will be asked to complete a short questionnaire on their interest at registration.
Day:
Sun, 12 Oct
Time:
16:00–18:30
Venue:
Jakoozi
Room:
Main space
Prior to their workshop, Camille will also be participating in a dialogue session with Ahmed “Shark” Alghariz about movement and intergenerational memory on Saturday 11 October.
Biography:
Camille Sapara Barton is a writer, consultant, embodiment facilitator and movement artist that supports organisations to flow through transitions. Their work creates relational wellbeing by increasing connection to the body, care practices, grief and imagination. Camille’s movement practice explores the interplay between bodies, words and vibration by weaving dance, clowning, somatics and sonics. Their work aims to deepen ancestral communication technologies and grow imagination gardens. Camille is the author of Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community (2024).
