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How do we deal with grief, loss and healing collectively? Can we gather and together relearn how to care in community? Can we have a look at our cultural patterns and together create new ones?Time: 10-12.15
Location: Stora Studion Danscentrum Syd
Cost: FREE
Introduction to this initiative and space by quoting Camille Sapara Barton, author of the book ‘Tending Grief’:
“… I became aware how little space there is in our Western societies for anyone to process feelings that do not support productivity.
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Grief tending is not the answer to all of our social challenges. […] However, I do believe that tending grief, loss, and lament; reconnecting with these cycles of life, love, and death that are present in our waking days, is essential to come back into right relationship with the world we are a part of and the more-than-human kin we share our home with.
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Grief is not the opposite of joy, but the opposite of indifference. Grief and love are different sides of the same coin.
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Let us reclaim our feelings, compost the numbness, and move towards full aliveness.”
Structure:
We will be doing practical exercises of embodiment and ritual through movement and sound which are shaped by hosting this Community Grief Practice regularly weekly for three months in 2025. Through this collective experience a format grew forth which we found powerful and that will be shared in this collective practice.
Expect 2.5 hours of connecting to ancestry and memory through an opening ritual,
followed by an embodiment warm-up by connecting to and sensing your skin, flesh and bones and your voice in connection to all of these parts of the body - and where grief sits in your body
and lastly we will share a ritual of dancing with our grief through a playlist that we have created together.
At last we will share and reflect.
Who is welcome:
It is important that we all make an effort to create a safe space in gathering to practice. A safe space for women, queers, lgbtqa+, bipoc folks, folks with disability, but also white cis-men are welcome to be here; no one will be turned down unless you are discriminating or overstepping boundaries. However, safety is not the same as comfortability; we might not feel comfortable at all times.
Comment from me, Tuva Hildebrand:
I am both interested in gathering to together face the loss and violence which has happened on the literal earth and soil we stand on (Malmö/Skåne/Sweden); the hurt and violence which is a part of our bodies through our lived life and ancestry; the separation from the more-than-human and other violent relations between us and the other, through colonization, industrialism, the rise of capitalism, patriarchy, the institutional church and the witch processes.
Everyone is holding their own grief, and I wonder if moving through this grief together can be a way to restore and find strength to create a society with less violence in it. As well as access more joy, love and celebration of life. We cannot act or feel the strength to show care for one another or the land that feeds us when we are numb, frozen and repress our grief. To grieve is not to stay in the darkness, but move through and mourn to access life force again. I am within this practice currently interested in the terms Spritual Activism, Political Somatics and Radical Care.
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Danscentrum Syd, Bergsgatan 29,Malmö, Sweden
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