Grenn Mawon
NECROPROXIMAL
A Necroproximal Space recognising loss and grief through embodied practices
2. November 2024
14.00-19.00
14.00-19.00
Save the Date
for adults
in English
We come together, as bodies made Black/African through racialisation, to share around the losses we have experienced across ‘long modernity’, knowing that grief shared is an unburdening and enables us to keep on moving, harvesting the good where we can and supporting each other, finding wisdom in the gleanings.
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For the longest of times, blackened bodies have been carriers of loss. Loss through separation; loss through crossings; loss through forcings; loss through cuttings, loss through disappearances; loss through disconnections and one of the weightiest losses to bear has been the loss of the ability to determine how to grieve for our losses.
We offer a grieving space. We acknowledge the multiple expressions of the sensuality of our bodies, and we mourn what has become embedded within them. This moves us to be attentive of each and every articulation of the life within us – seeking to attend to its hunger for real nourishment.
During the workshop, we will move, we will chant, we will bring our whole selves and re-experience nourishment for our bodies, and the bodies of other worlds. We will reflect our thoughts and then we will share yam together in a cultural feasting.
You are welcome if you:
- identify as a member of the African diaspora wherever you are presently located.
- Are active in ‘for us and by us’ movements or initiatives
- Welcome the opportunity to move below the surface, away from the appearances of things and connect in the depths of conscious and embodied reasoning
- Please complete this form to let us know why you feel this event is for you and how you can pass on our message.
Mama D Ujuaje
(Overall and intrasensory facilitator and event co-design)
Mama D is a distributed being who acknowledges the more than human as sites of power, peace and pleasure. She works as a Community Researcher and Facilitator whose background is in nourishment praxis and embodied and art-based advocacy towards Socially Transformative Justice. She currently curates, within Community Centred Knowledge, Learning Journeys, exploring the internal interfaces and edges of community, legacies of colonialism/ality and the modernity which is constituted by it and systems of justice - via art, culture and other than human lenses. She is an earth advocate supportive of environmental justice from the perspective of our belonging to and continuity with the Earth. She is a planet whisperer.
tyroneisaacstuart
(Facilitating Movement and Sound and event co-design)
tyroneisaacstuart is an interdisciplinary artist whose work blends jazz music and hip-hop/contemporary dance theatre. His journey began with Tomorrow's Warriors Jazz organization and Boy Blue Entertainment. With a BA in Jazz Saxophone and over 12 years of professional experience, Tyrone has developed a unique style incorporating Krump, contemporary dance, visual art, and jazz.
(tyroneisaacstuart on instagram)
Rty1styx
(producing the visual artwork that we are using throughout)
Rty1styx is an up-and-coming multi-media artist, blending life, soul and body to bring art and innovation everywhere.
Pavitra
(supporting the facilitation and food preparation)
Pavitra is an expressive soul of dance and healing movement through which she demonstrates her constancy and love for life and beauty whilst she seeks and creates an inspiring life. Parvita is a Taste ambassador and so it is an honour to be given the gift of creating food in the most artistic and nourishing way.
