Queer Conscious Moving Bodies: July 6: 3:00pm-4:15/social time: 4:15-4:45pm
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Queer Conscious Moving Bodies Workshops: A series of movement workshops designed for 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals, fostering self-expression, body positivity, and community connection.
This collaboration aims to foster inclusivity, understanding, and joy through the arts, aligning with the festival's mission to create memorable shared experiences.
By presenting Kiss The Stormy Sky, facilitating the Queer Conscious Moving Bodies workshops, and showcasing Joy is A Home With Many Rooms, we intend to engage the Nanaimo community in meaningful dialogues about 2SLGBTQIA+ experiences. This endeavor will not only empower local 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals but also educate and inspire broader audiences, contributing to a more inclusive and vibrant cultural landscape.
The resulting local stories will serve as a testament to the transformative power of art in fostering understanding and unity.
'Queer Conscious Moving Bodies - A one and a half hour workshop'
Consider Queer, Gender Non Conforming and Trans embodiment, curiosity and creativity. Holding those ideas within the 2SLGBTQIA+ lense these states of being can lead to the cultivation of community, trust and resilience. The facilitators employ a care, person, and community-centered approach that provides agency to participants, inviting folx to explore together, and to discover and co-create in a nourishing, connective and celebratory environment. Practicing this method cultivates awareness and empathy, ultimately increasing well-being and resilience. Through collaborative movement, image-capturing, writing, sound-based, and relationship building activities, folx will learn and practice new ways of creating and expressing personally and in relation with others. The Queers will recognize the dancing artist within them. Conscious Bodies Method is created by Andrea Nann of Dreamwalker Dance Company. The facilitator is Sid Ryan Eilers (they/them).
Your body is innately intelligent - your body grows, heals, changes and adapts. Your body experiences feelings of feeling; senses overflowing with data; knowings that are beyond what our current world views can articulate. We will arrive and awaken through the Conscious Bodies Methodology: movement and sensorial prompts activating our intelligence, pleasure, joy and connecting it to the emergence of now. Releasing the notions that there is a "right way".
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