Lama Rod Owens- The New Saints
Lama Rod Owens, will be visiting from the USA offering insights from his newest book, The New Saints, on Wednesday, 8th May 6:00pm to 9:00pm
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Carnegie Library Hub
192 Herne Hill Road London SE24 0DG United KingdomRefund Policy
About this event
- 3 hours
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Lateisha's Bio:
Lateisha facilitates community-healing workshops and activity-based immersive installations across art, education and community spaces. Including, Queer Youth Art Collective, Healing Justice Ldn and Colours LGBTIQIA+ youth arts as well as institutions incl. Migration museum, Barbican and Autograph. They founded TO THE RITUAL KNOWLEDGE OF REMEMBERING - that took shape as an immersive 3 day coastal retreat supported by LADA, and online public-programme as part of 12o collective’s curator residency (2020-2021). Lateisha is drawn to the revolutionary possibilities of sci-fi / eco-futurism, magic + ritual + ceremony.
Lateisha is currently working on their debut poetry pamphlet, ~the heart is a holding~ supported by Rotterdam residences: International Collaborative Urban art projects / Foundation B.a.d and published by Burning Eye Books Autumn 2023. They also recently developed their interdisciplinary theatre - installation work S/he Breathe/S, supported by Raze Collective, Stanley Arts and Arts Council England showing in Summer 2023.
Previous work includes exhibtion: An Offering // an installation of a world-building, to come- back to home… weaving poetry-film, sound, documentary, text, and plant medicine portals. Commissioned residency and exhibition by Bethlem Gallery: An Ecology Of Mind (2022). Lateisha has written extensively through residencies and commissions, including Camden Art Centre: The Botanical Mind, Wretched Of The Earth (BIPOC climate justice collective), [Performance space]: PSX 10, Live Art Development Agency, Artsadmin: Apocalypse Reading Room curated by Ama Josephine Budge, Chelsea Physic Garden: Queer Botany, Apples & Snakes, She Grrrowls, Dada Fest / Yewande 103 and is a Roundhouse and Hammer & Tongue Poetry Slam Finalist.