Giving Up Goodness
We invite you to return to your divinity
Join award-winning poet, educator and liberation psychologist, Sanah Ahsan, writer and embodiment facilitator, Camille Sapara Barton, and artist and musician, anaiis, for an afternoon of poetry, music, conversations and healing bodywork.
The theme for the afternoon is Giving Up Goodness, anchored around Ahsan’s recent Forward-prizes nominated poetry collection I cannot be good until you say it. These three artists come together to create a special, one-off event, offering a deeply medicinal, joyful space for marginalised folks, and others, looking to return to the divinity of their bodies.
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.