Braiding Sweetgrass;

Deepening our Embodied Practices of Exchange, Reciprocity and Care with Dr. Rachel Sweeney, Sarah Hawkins and Georgie Campbell

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This animated talk and writing workshop will examine ecological entanglements and interspecies communication embedded in Robin Wall Kimmerer’s seminal work ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’. Rachel will share her insights on Kimmerer and other indigenous multispecies storytellers, considering how these inclusive ecological insights can offer us a new kind of sensuous scholarship that emerges through processes of enchantment and reciprocity, where the material acts of writing through nature supports an active dialogue, upholding a vision of co-creation and coexistence with an animate world. This event is offered for anyone interested in nature-based writing, or our how we express our relationships with the more-than-human-world.

Please bring a notebook and a pen!

Parts of the session will take place outside the venue as a part of the experiential learning of this session

Rachel Sweeney is an embodied climate activist, dancer, and eco somatic practitioner, whose performance work intersects with climate justice, creative community building,g and sensory ecology. Her movement practice is grounded in ecological thinking around transdisciplinary approaches to body-place relationships. All of her work in community is collaborative and evolved through participatory eco civic engagement, actively applying somatic processes in non-traditional performance spaces and for diverse communities, and identifying choreographic practice per se as a social tool, informed by studies in posthumanism, geopolitics and art activism.

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