Survival out of Solitude

Solitude can be a beautiful thing. Pulling away from the preoccupations of life can often provide space for a reassessment of what is actually important and a break from the materialism that life so often begs of us.

This year, we have experienced the difference between solitude and isolation. Seemingly alone, we have been riding on the crest of waves of so many social, political, cultural and environmental calamities that it is almost as if, from the trembling vantage points of such treacherous waves, we can see the islands of our destiny in the distance. The current uncertainty of life has encouraged us to fixate our gaze onto the horizon, our eyes steady on land, putting the idea of mirages and optical illusions out of mind. Night falls, all is dark though the moon shines bright, piercing the echo of the night with her light. The air is cold yet there is no stillness in the thrashing tides. Day breaks. The sun rises, heaving forward the burden of the evening, the burning of the moon. The islands appear again, our eyes fixate once more on the possibilities of the future.

Join Healing Justice and Sex and Rage in this invitation to explore how trauma exists in our bodies, whilst sharing tools and creative methods for resilience building, processing, and communicating our needs.
 

Mapping the self - tuning in and checking in with our bodies responses to stress.

Mapping relational healing - acknowledging the ways in which our personal, cultural and political relational spheres are shaped by trauma.

Mapping resilience - co-creating our unique journeys towards integration,validation and support. 

Zines will be provided in the cost of this workshop. 

Venus is a sex worker, performance artist and facilitator who has been practicing self-defence for over twenty years. She draws from her background in martial arts to devise workshops that explore agency and autonomy to address socialised beliefs around power, strength and survival. As founder of Sex and Rage, she is an advocate for sex workers’ rights, and works to organise spaces that explore the intersections of sex work, survivorship, racial and gender identity. A current student of politics and philosophy, her work is ultimately an exploration of the profound relationship between personal and social justice.

Indy River is a genderqueer bodyworker, facilitator, kink practitioner, organiser and multidisciplinary artist. Their practice centres marginalised folks, and they work through lenses of anti-oppression and transformative justice. Their work is informed by creative approaches to the body, kink, nature connection and Indigenous wisdom. They are constantly developing inclusivity and accessibility in their practice and awareness, through openness, accountability, non-judgement and growth. They understand bodywork as a vehicle for individual and community transformation, and a fundamental tool towards repair and collective liberation.