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Creative healing event launched to ‘acknowledge slavery and resistance’
A week-long event is offering a series of healing opportunities in the city.
Summertide Seminary will host workshops, music gigs and dance sessions from Saturday to June 11, to remember ancestral pasts and explore new methods of collective and individual healing.
The event is being held at the Mount Without, and is organised by community engagement specialist and former lord mayor of Bristol Cleo Lake.
is needed now More than ever
Really excited to be part of an incredible week of #healing in #Bristol this June.
Tickets now live with more to come https://t.co/LKsf50UZNX@Ujimaradio @BlackSWNet @AVoicesForum @ArnolfiniArts @OlivetteOtele @BristolLive @bristol247 @TheMountWithout @ImpermanenceDT pic.twitter.com/STrGMtAlRn— Cleo Lake (@CleoDanceBaton) April 26, 2023
Summertide Seminary will act as a “deep acknowledgement of the intergenerational genius, creativity, civilisational contributions and resistance of African heritage people with Bristol’s historic and significant involvement in the enslavement and exploitation of African people and it’s contemporary legacies.”
It will feature some traditional cultural events such as ‘indigenous Afrikan storytelling’, and a ‘ritual ceremony’ on the ‘Gnawa Lila’.
Run by Mohamed Errebba, the Gwana music workshop welcomes people, including children and families, to celebrate the culture of Gnawa, an ethnic group brought to Morocco as enslaved people. The ritual remembers ancestral experiences of slavery, through music, dance and costume.
The series of workshops commences on Saturday with ‘In Community We Heal: An Introduction to Systemic Constellations Practice’, which is an interdisciplinary approach to therapy drawing on concepts of family and generational trauma.
In the event, writer and transcultural and transformative coach Stuart Taylor, will use the practice to promote healing to develop a “useful way of problem solving and visioning on a community level”.
Other features of the week include dance workshop, ‘I Dance, I Heal’ led by Sandra Golding, taking place on Saturday, June 10, a ‘Breathology workshop’ with Dawnecia Palmer on June 7, a practice designed to optimise each breath in our daily lives, and a comedy show.
Tickets for individual events can be purchased on Headfirst.
Main photo: Summertide Seminary
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- Cleo Lake on why Bristol needs a space to acknowledge slavery
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