Creativity From Within

Greetings Divine One

Please find attached details of Britain’s first Afrakan storytelling festival. Sesa Wo Suban is an adinkra symbol which means transform your life. It is a sacred space for Afrakan & Afrakan / Caribbean people from all over the world to express themselves freely in a creative nurturing environment.

Check the website - http://www.shanti-chi.com/#

african-storytelling-festival/ intro - for more information on this fundraiser magical enchanting event!Interested in a STALL? We are looking for made by afrakans, arts and crafts in the following areas - jewellery, cards, books, art, soft furnishings, crystals, essential oils, herbs, accessories, (OR ANY unusual arts and or craft, please let us know) and also those who have plants and fruits to sell. Please ALSO find attached a booking form!

Please circulate. Look forward to hearing from you!

divine chi energy Xxx

Griot Chinyere (B’eng MA)www.shanti-chi.com07582228967

pandemoniumvizions@hotmail.com

Understanding Audiences at Outdoor Events and Festivals

Underdstanding Audiences at Outdoor Events and Festivals is a more indepth training seminar leading on from the launch of our toolkit.

Tuesday 26^th June, 11am – 4pm, Pavilion Dance, Bournemouth

Wednesday 10^th October, 11am – 4pm, Circomedia, Bristol

A day of case studies from festival practitioners and insight from the Audiences London Plus team on how to understand and engage audiences for outdoor events and festivals.  Essential for event planners who need to evaluate impact, make the case to attract investment or devise an engagement strategy.

This is an opportunity to learn, share experiences and ask questions, and by the end of the day you will be able to:

• Demonstrate the value of evaluation and its impacts for planning and delivering events or festivals
• Set objectives for evaluation according to the principles of good research
• Identify and understand audiences using a range of practical and cost effective tools and techniques
• Assess the most effective approaches to engaging local audiences  and communities with your event

Introduced and facilitated by Jim Brewster, Regional Director South West, with round tables discussions on Evaluation with Adrienne Pye, Regional Director South East, Community Engagement with Helen Ball, Head of Engagement Services Audiences London Plus and Emily Bull, Regional Engagement Manager South, and Use of Marketing Intelligence with Jim Brewster.

Who is it for? Ideal for those working for or associated with the delivery of outdoor events and festivals with responsibility for planning, evaluation or audience engagement.

All participants will receive a printed version of Audiences London Plus’ Advice for Researching Audiences at Outdoor Events and Festivals.

Price: £80 +VAT

Lunch will be provided.

To book a place email bookings@audienceslondon.org and make sure you specify which date and location you’re booking for.

 

Emily Bull

Regional Engagement Manager, South
Audiences London Plus
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Spike Island Design, 133 Cumberland Road, Bristol, BS1 6UX
Direct Dial: 07436102345
General Tel: 020 7407 4625
Fax: 020 7407 4714
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“Every person must live the inner life in one form or another. Consciously or unconsciously, voluntarily or involuntarily, the inner world will claim us and exact its dues. If we go to that realm consciously, it is by our inner work. 

If we try to ignore our inner world, as most of us do, the unconscious will find its way into our lives through pathology: our psychosomatic symptoms, compulsions, depressions and neurosis. When we don’t go to spirit, the spirit comes to us as neurosis.”

-Robert A. Johnson - Jungian Psychologist

 

Sometimes without even knowing it, we express ourselves to others, the things we have experienced in the past. Sometimes these things we unconsciously  express to others are good and sometimes they are not so good. Using art can make the unconscious become conscious as we put down how we feel in a visible form.

Try for yourself! Try with someone else! It could be fun and playful if you like! If you are up to talking about what you have put in art form, you can do so, but to be silent is equally as good, as art does not require verbal output all the time.

A Can of Worms 
Black Issues in the Therapeutic Process 

Five one-day SEMINAR EVENTS at The Stephen Lawrence Centre, London SE8 4HU 
28th April through to 30th June 2012 

Hello 

These seminars are designed for therapists, therapy institutions that provide therapy training and anyone who wants a greater understanding of black issues in the therapeutic process. 

This is the Third, in this series of 5, Can of Worms Seminars which will look at ‘The Black Western Archetype’, a way of recognising the evolution of stereotypes and their impact on unconscious processes. 

Notes and details for the whole series of seminars are available at:http://www.baatn.org.uk/CanOfWorms 

There are important concepts and ideas in these seminars which have put into words what I knew in my body and emotional life and helped me find my voice around these issues. I believe that these concepts have the potential to change the landscape of mainstream psychological discourse. 

Please pass on to your network! 

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Comments from the first run of seminars: 

“I have found more ways of conversing about the difficult content of racism and now I can invite more dialogue in a safe supportive way” 
“I felt everyone was heard and acknowledged and cared for” 
“I feel more confident to address this very complex issue” 

Seminar Dates 2012: 

28th April - A black Empathic Approach: Attending to the cultural context and impact of black issues. 
12th May Recognition Trauma: A concept that addresses the process of feelings evoked by racism. 
26th May The black western Archetype: The impact of stereotypes and racism on the unconscious. 
16th June Cultural Schizophrenia: Eurocentric theory and the psychological processing of black issues. 
30th June Finding a voice: Discussing the unspeakable and the contradictions of being the black expert. 

Fee: £65 per seminar (£275 for all 5) / 10% off for paid memberships of BAATN- includes refreshments, course material and attendance certificate. (Lunch not included / Places to eat nearby / bring your own lunch) 

Venue: 
The Stephen Lawrence Centre 
9 Brookmill Road, London, 
London SE8 4HU (Wheelchair accessible) 
Registration 9:30 Start 10:00 End 4:00 

About the presenter: 
Dr Isha Mckenzie-Mavinga has been teaching transcultural workshops at Goldsmiths for twenty years. She has a private practice and offers clinical supervision for individuals and groups. Isha is passionate about the inclusion of black issues in therapeutic understanding. She set up therapy services for the African Caribbean Mental Health Association in the early 90’s and developed therapeutic group work at Women’s Trust, with women impacted by domestic violence. She has also worked as a student counsellor and Senior Lecturer at London Metropolitan University. Isha published several papers from her Doctoral study about the process of understanding ‘black issues’ in counsellor training. She also co-authored an autobiography and contributed poetry to anthologies. Isha’s book ‘Black Issues in the Therapeutic Process’, Palgrave Macmillan Publishers was published in 2009. 

How do I book? Are there any more details? 
Book a place online www.baatn.org.uk/Events.html | download a booking form | email training@baatn.org.uk | call 07946 582 012

 

We are looking for fathers and mothers who have experienced the mother’s post-natal depression - to sit an Advisory Group for the above project, which will study the impact of engaging with the partners of women who become depressed before or after the birth of their babies. Specifically we need:

• a UK-based mother who has experienced pre/post natal depression
• a UK based father whose partner was depressed
• if you have a science/academic background, that would be VERY desirable!

Participants do NOT need to be a couple (indeed, SHOULD not be) so we are looking to hear from INDIVIDUALS resident anywhere in the UK. Commitment required will be to read/comment on papers and participate in up to four ‘virtual’ advisory group meetings (held via conference calls) over a two-year period. Please email Adrienne Burgess or call her on 07747145146.

Fathers’ depression: University of Exeter
Are you the father of a child aged 3-5 years? Have you suffered from depression or low mood at any time in your life? The University of Exeter would like your help in an important new study looking at fathers’ well-being and their role in their family. You can help by filling out a short online survey here.

Fathers who agree to take part in the follow-up study and live in Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Avon and London will then be contacted for a home visit where they will take part in some play tasks with their child and be interviewed. All information collected will be kept strictly confidential and stored securely. Please email Abby Higgins or call her on 01392 725019.

Work-family balance: University of Manchester
The University of Manchester is looking for fathers to participate in research into the challenges of balancing fatherhood and work. While many employers support women in balancing their work and family roles, others report that workplaces are not very flexible when fathers want to be more involved in their families. In exploring this issue, we want to hear from fathers about their experiences – good and bad.

If you or someone you know is a father with a child under the age of thirteen then we invite you to participate in a confidential interview. The next round of interviews will take place between June and August 2012. Interviews will last about an hour - scheduled around participants’ convenience and location. Please email Dr Gwen Daverth or call her on 0794 881 3925.

Celebrating black fathers: The Nublack
More Than XY is an exhibition scheduled for June/July this year (around Father’s Day) and organised by Thenublack to celebrate black fathers through photography and illustration. The exhibition will take place in three locations in Brooklyn, New York and London with 10-12 pieces of work displayed in each location. It will focus on five key elements of fatherhood: Passion, Reconciliation, Identity, Storytelling, and Cycles of Life. A blank space at the exhibition will enable members of the public to write messages and post their own father-photos. Ideally, celebrity fathers will take part in a children’s Storytime Corner to read a children’s story.

Exciting London venues have already offered exhibition space at low cost. For a sponsorship fee of around £1,500, Thenublack is looking for brands/organisations to sponsor (and co-brand) the exhibition. In addition to the offered exposure, Thenublack can provide access to a fascinating demographic of fathers, youth and the creative arts through its extensive, groundbreaking existing work. Please email Gabrielle Smith or call her on 07904 393 431.

 

Doing Your Dirty Work is the first annual group exhibition at the Center for Sex and Culture in San Francisco, California - Friday August 3rd until Saturday September 1st 2012. We invite all artists that are at least 18 years old to submit recent artwork that deals with themes of sexuality, sexual identity and gender identity.

Please send the following to sexandculturegallery@gmail.com:
5 images, jpegs less than 2mb each
List of images with size, media and title
Artist CV
Statement of up to 300 words about your work
Floor space is not available. No video or sculpture that cannot be hung on the wall.

Submissions are due at midnight, May 15th 2012.

Please do not censor yourself. Nothing is too dirty! Nothing is too perverse!

The Center for Sex and Culture gallery aims to provide space for work of significant artistic merit dealing with sexuality and sexual identity, especially outsider or minority sexual identity.

 

 

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Redefining Posture

Saturday 26th May 1 - 3.30pm

Siobhan Davies Studios

85 St George’s Road

SE1 6ER

This workshop will use lessons from the Feldenkrais Method to explore the theme of posture. You will experience effortless and easy, dynamic posture as the support from the skeleton becomes clearer. Everyday movements and skills become easier, as well as sitting, standing and walking.

Cost £25, Booking required

Contact melinda@body-equilibrium.co.uk

07974 392282

See also www.body-equilibrium.co.uk for more info 

We are seeking innovative ideas for an artwork, art project, exhibition or online/digital work responding to the theme of “success” to be presented during AND festival in Manchester from 29 August - 2 September 2012.

This year AND sets out to explore the spectrum of “success” through looking at those who have claimed “failure” to offer more imaginative, co-operative, and insightful ways of being in the world.

We are seeking proposals responding to this theme to animate the spaces surrounding the AND Festival hub at Cornerhouse, such as public spaces, empty spaces, digital spaces and local businesses that stretch down Whitworth Street to the First Street Development and up the Oxford Road to the Universities.

This collaboration provides a unique opportunity for participants from across the UK to submit a proposal costing between £50 - £500.

For more information and details of how to apply, please visit

http://www.andfestival.org.uk/event/and-micro-commission-open-call

Deadline: Thu 24 May 2012