Workshop: Sensorial Gardens

212 E 33rd St,Garden City ID 83714

01 April, 2023

Description

Stephanie Heit will lead an exploration in our inner and outer landscapes (including outdoors, weather permitting) through guided awareness exercises to hone our senses, to bring attention to our bodily sensations, and to observe what we notice. Stephanie will offer creative prompts with options to respond in drawing, writing, and/or movement. There will be space to share our responses and experiences. We’ll collaborate as a group to create support, cultivate pleasure, and tend ourselves and the environment around us. Stephanie will share some examples of her own work created using this process. Bring writing/art materials you desire (journal, pen, laptop, colored pencils, etc.). Dress in comfy layers to support movement and stillness. Please bring appropriate attire for some time outdoors. No experience needed. Everyone welcome. Wheelchair accessible space. Partial scholarships available by request to [email protected]. Biography Stephanie Heit (she/her) is a queer disabled poet, dancer, teacher, and codirector of Turtle Disco, a somatic writing space on Anishinaabe land in Ypsilanti, Michigan. She is a Zoeglossia Fellow, bipolar, a mad activist, a shock/psych system survivor, and a member of the Olimpias, an international disability performance collective. Her poetry collections are the hybrid memoir poem PSYCH MURDERS (Wayne State University Press, 2022), which invites the reader inside psychiatric wards and shock treatments toward new futures of care, and The Color She Gave Gravity (Operating System, 2017), which explores the seams of language, movement, and mental health difference. Website: https://stephanie-heit.com