Name: The song of our times – a participatory ritual hosted by Sarah Hinds
Start: 2025-11-29T13:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-29T15:30:00+00:00
Location: Torriano Meeting House

$The song of our times \u2013 a participatory ritual hosted by Sarah Hinds$

This workshop will create a ritual container for participants to express feelings about the times we are in, through sounds, images etc.
About this Event

This workshop will create a ritual container for participants to express feelings about the times we are in through words, sounds, movement or images. The room will be segmented into sections using objects to represent anger, fear, sorrow, love, hunger for what is missing and the unknown. All of these are held by hope and we will create a collective gathering of expressions.

The space will be held by Sarah Hinds who is an experienced workshop facilitator and the structure is based on Joanna Macy's Truth Mandala.

People are asked to arrive at the start and commit to staying for the whole workshop so as not to disrupt the process for others. You are welcome to leave if it doesn’t feel right for you but it’s not a drop-in workshop.

During the last 30 min of the workshop Sarah will respond to the words, sounds and images which arose from the workshop and the space (in her work she assumes the space has a voice as well as the humans) and create an improvised song/sounding.

Artist bio

As a multi-media artist Sarah explores subjects of the land, place, the natural world and human responses to change and fragmentation. She works in response to places and situations. She has a degree in fine art painting while her recent work involves music and responsive sound making. Her current focus is around coming into relationship with the land and the living world and creating work in conversation and response. As an outdoor therapist, part of the Climate Psychology Alliance and a writer she also brings a psychological and political perspective to her work.

https://sarahhinds.wordpress.com/

https://sarahhinds6.wixsite.com/the-garden

Donations welcome. Pay what you think you can afford.

More Information

This is an art workshop happening on 29th of November, 2025 as a part of the new Muddy Mudlarks Art Collective (Instagram @muddymudlarks) month long exhibition (from November 2nd to 30th) named Mattress of a Cave that celebrates the power of community and alternative ways of living.  The venue of the exhibition and workshops is Torriano Meeting House, a community space with a focus on community poetry reading and community art.

Torriano Meeting House

99 Torriano Avenue kentish town NW5 2RX

(One of their regular events is Poetry Readings that are held every Sunday 7-9pm, feel free to join through their website at: https://torriano.org/whats-on)