Giving Up Goodness
An afternoon of poetry, music and healing bodywork
Join award-winning poet and psychologist, Sanah Ahsan, writer and embodiment facilitator, Camille Sapara Barton, and artist and musician, anaiis, for an afternoon of poetry, music and healing bodywork.
These artists explore the themes of Sanah Ahsan’s recent Forward-prizes nominated poetry collection I cannot be good until you say it, and visit the body as a site of reclamation. Come along and be enveloped in healing and warmth.
Sanah Ahsan
Sanah is an award-winning poet, writer, clinical psychologist and educator. Their psychological practice is rooted in liberation and community psychology, drawing on embodiment, therapeutics and poetics as life-affirming practices, to support racialised and marginalised people.
Camille Sapara Barton
Camille Sapara Barton is a writer, embodiment facilitator and movement artist that supports organisations to flow through transitions. Their work creates relational wellbeing by increasing connection to the body, care practices, grief and imagination. They also offer trauma informed facilitation and consultancy to support cultural workers, funders and those working with socially engaged topics. Camille is the author of Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community (2024).
anaiis
anaiis is an artist, a mother and a sculptor of healing sounds whose work embodies the multitude of cultures and influences imparted by her widely travelled upbringing. Her songs, meditations, call upon the listener to engage with the soft and hard edges of themselves, exploring new ways of dreaming—healing, invoking the legacy and spirit of artists such as Nina Simone, bell hooks, and Zanele Muholi.
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