CHILDREN'S WORKSHOP WITH ART THERAPIST HANNA LEIPOLD
SATURDAY 24 JULY FROM 10AM TO 12PM
SUNDAY 25 JULY FROM 10AM TO 12PM
Engaging with the arts and creativity generally has proven throughout history to aid communication, build relationships, form social connections and to help make sense of complex emotions and feelings.
In this 90-minute workshop, the participants will be guided through a creative experience facilitated by a qualified Art Therapist to explore and reflect together on the impact of the ongoing covid-19 pandemic on their emotional and psychological wellbeing.
We will use art materials and the exhibited photographs to reflect together in a supportive group environment on the challenges and pressures for young people to navigate the ‘new normal’.
EXHIBITIONS
EXHIBITIONS
KOREBAJU PROJECT BY CÉSAR CUSPOCA
INTERVIEW - SEPT 2020
Artist César Cuspoca talking about the Korebaju Project, a long term collaborative project with the Korebaju, an indigenous community of Colombia.
César Cuspoca is a Colombian artist (b.1987) based in Paris.
His work challenges human perceptions and beliefs established by convention or tradition within society. The idea of experience takes a central role in Cuspoca’s approach and allows him to structure his creative process. Through experiences, Cuspoca produces still images, videos, and sound recordings. He combines these gathered materials with elements of the local environment to build installations in situ.In 2018, accompanied by a production team and a phonetician, Jenifer Vega, Cuspoca spent a month among the Korebaju (Children of the Earth), an Indigenous community located in the Caqueta region of Colombia. The Korebaju population is estimated at two thousand individuals. Like other groups in the region, they were affected by the exploitation of rubber, minerals and wood which consequently lead to human-forced displacements and environmental damages. It’s a community in danger of disappearance according to UNESCO. While Cuspoca spent time with the Korebaju, he was struck by their capacity to adapt and survive despite the continuous violence around them. The Korebaju allowed the artist to record sound, video and photographic materials. Cuspoca used these materials subsequently and combined them with items of the local environment from the exhibition space.
The final installations provoke a sensitive reflection on the Korebaju reality and explore the interconnected stories between Indigenous people and Western civilisations.
www.cesarcuspoca.com
PANEL DISCUSSION
HEN - THE OLDER TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY IN THE UK
Thursday 4th April 2019
From 7pm to 8pm at Herrick Gallery
A panel discussion hosted by Stonewall Housing to educate and enhance transgender awareness as a part of the exhibition Hen, The Older Transgender Community.
Featuring Octavian Starr, member of Stonewall Housing and inclusion specialist, Bex Day, fashion and documentary photographer, Stephen Whittle, activist and founder of Press for Change, Dr Chrissy Hunter from Opening Doors London.
Free but please RSVP your place here.
© Bex Day
Octavian Starr - Stonewall Housing
Octavian has worked with Stonewall Housing since 2011. He is highly skilled in delivering Transgender and LGB awareness training, facilitating workshops and providing one to one support. He has valuable experience supporting vulnerable LGBT people and training both in the UK and the USA.
He has specialised in Transgender awareness for over 12 years and has a passion to encourage and support diversity and opportunity for trans people across all sectors.
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Bex Day - Fashion and Documentary Photographer
Bex Day is a photographer based in London. Her work focuses on humanity. Anthropological with a twist of the surreal, her imagery has the ability to tell a complete story within one frame, a factor aided by carefully selected locations, casting, lighting and positioning. The viewer is often encouraged to relish a long, sustained look at minute details within the imagery.
She has given lectures on her work at Cambridge University, The Hepworth Gallery, Recylart, Brussels, and the Vogue Italia Female Gaze Exhibition 2016, as well as being nominated for the Magnum Graduate Award 2016. Her clients include i-D Magazine, Dazed and Confused, Carven, Stella McCartney, Adobe, AnOther, Topshop, Garage magazine...
Dr Chrissy Hunter - Opening Doors London
Chrissy is volunteer coordinator at Opening Doors London, the biggest charity providing information and support services specifically for older Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people in the UK.
Chrissy is a published author in the LGBTQ+ field and holds a PhD on the Equality Act. She has managed teacher trainings projects in North Korea and Libya, and is a board member of TAGS [a swimming group for transgender and gender nonconforming people] and Gendered Intelligence, and is a member of the Bent Bars Collective.
http://openingdoorslondon.org.uk/
