Giving Up Goodness
An afternoon of poetry, music and healing bodywork
Join award-winning poet and psychologist, Sanah Ahsan, movement artist and relational wellbeing consultant, 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 is a Social Imagineer, multidisciplinary artist and somatic practitioner, dedicated to co-creating networks of care and livable futures. Rooted in Black feminism, ecology and harm reduction, Camille uses creativity, alongside embodied practices, to create culture change in fields ranging from psychedelic assisted therapy to arts education.
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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