Name: Episode 11: When my heart looks for you, where will it find you?
Start: 2024-11-15T11:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-11-15T14:00:00+00:00
Location: Tramway

A workshop inviting participants to enact a series of scores that explore witnessing, testimony, grief and mourning.
About this Event

When my heart looks for you, where will it find you?

Sadia Shirazi & Mezna Qato

11:00 – 14:00

Workshop

Tramway 4

A workshop inviting participants to enact a series of scores that explore witnessing, testimony, grief and mourning, facilitated by Mezna and Sadia, and accompanied by Sakina Ali.

An inter-generational workshop open to BIPOC engaged or interested in ritual practices of grief, mourning, body work or somatic practices of care.

This workshop has very limited spaces, please reserve a place here.

The word shaheed is used for both witness and martyr in languages ranging from Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Pushto, Kashmiri, Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Swahili, Hausa and Somali. Amidst the scale of the ongoing violence, genocides and unfathomable grief that is being experienced across the world, this workshop attempts to hold a space for mourning and commemoration. In a dimly lit space, participants will be led through a series of scores, facilitated by Sadia and Mezna. They will be joined by Sakina Ali, who will recite an elegiac poem in Urdu penned by Munshi Chhunnilal Dilgeer, from which the title of the workshop is drawn.

For Access at the Episode please go here