wezbranie
WEZBRANIE is a place for rest, conversation and development. An opportunity to gain strength before action. The feeling that we are in this together. Movies, atmosphere, experience of womanhood, workshops, meetings, parties.
Wyspa Tamka 17-18.09.2022
Program
Saturday / 17 September
Film screenings:
Waves. Climate first front
[inside tamka]
Workshops
[outside tent]
all day: painting murals about climate refugees
I. women’s power in the face of change
Oli&Water
Directed by Anjali Nayar
Selina Asekon Chumchum always started the day the same way, chasing the hens off the roof of her modest cottage on the outskirts of Lokichar, Turkan – her ancestors’ home. That was until one morning when big trucks started to pass by. British company Tullow Oil found oil and – without consulting local residents – built drilling rigs throughout the region.
When this new „project” saw the light of day, a discussion began as to whether the oil wells would actually help the Turkans. Workplaces, schools and (most importantly) water points were promised. However, residents have heard of the oil-driven conflicts in countries like Nigeria and Angola. Does Oil Really Help More Than Harm? When promises fall short, the women of Turkana face a complex web that stands in their way: greed, politics and, perhaps the most dangerous of all, the patriarchal structure of their world.
The Ants and the Grasshopper
Directed by Raj Patel and Zak Piper
Anita Chitaya has a gift; she can grow bountiful crops in dead soil, she can make men fight for equality, and she knows how to end hunger among children in her village. Now, to protect her home from extreme weather, she faces her greatest challenge: convincing Americans that climate change is real. Traveling from Malawi to California and the White House, he meets climate skeptics and desperate farmers. Her journey takes her through all the divisions that shape the United States, from country and city to race, class and gender, to thinking that allows Americans to believe they live on a different planet from everyone else. She will need all of her skills and experience to convince them that we are all in this together.
This document, which has been written for ten years, combines the most pressing themes of our time: climate change, gender and race inequality, the gap between rich and poor, and ideas that groups around the world have created to save the planet.
Discussion circle
The main characters of the films Oil and Water and Ants and the Grasshopper are strong female characters who, despite the amount of physical and caring work – they are the ones who rest on their shoulders in the traditional way of households – are able to lead their communities when faced with previously unknown challenges. In the face of the effects of the climate crisis, they are calm and do what they have to do. What is female power? Research proves that due to the features resulting from stereotypical gender roles, women make decisions oriented towards the welfare of their family and the wider community in response to the crisis. What, then, is female leadership and does it function by definition on the basis of patriarchal relationships? The IPCC report points to the need to involve women in climate policy making. Do we need such a distinction? Will women save the world?
The discussion will take the form of a circle – experts and experts will sit with us, but everyone and everyone will have space for expression.
Farida's Feast
A cooking workshop with Farida, a migrant of Afghan origin who lives in Wroclaw and spreads the secrets of Afghan cuisine through Farida’s Feast project – an example of grassroots social action, as it was the Wroclaw community that helped Farida and her family take their first steps in Wroclaw.
Participants in the workshop will taste the warm vegan dishes provided by Farida (the only non-vegan ingredient will be a separate side dish – yogurt):
Appetizer: Bolani (salty potato pancakes) + yogurt
Main course 1: Kabuli palaw
Main 2: Chickpeas with prunes
Main 3: Mixed vegetables and potatoes in tomato sauce with freshly baked bread
The tasting will be completed with instruction and demonstration on how to prepare the ingredients to replicate Farida’s dishes in your own kitchen.
The workshop can be attended by 10 people, contribution to cover ingredients: PLN 40.
Host: Farida Anwari
Journey with a mission
Who were we to be for the world? How to bring out the deeper layers of our mission?
How to create a life path out of your mission more freely?
The workshop will be a mission, role and soft path laboratory in the world. Little
„School of the future” for Zmniaczek_y – beginners and advanced
guides, visionaries, activists, healers and creators.
We will go on a journey to the deeper layers of our unique gifts,
art and vision for the world and a further, soft path, more firmly rooted in
our mission. We will combine Soulcraft practices with work in a circle, work with the body
(Breathwork, free movement) and intuitive art.
Host: Martyna Gulczyńska
Location: workshop tent
II. water – source of life, deadly threat
One World
Director: Dr. Viviane Urion
The Republic of the Marshall Islands is an island state located near the equator, in the endless blue of the Pacific Ocean. The country spans three islands and 29 coral atolls, which include 1,156 individual islands and islets. Most parts of the Marshall Islands are less than 5.9 feet above sea level. The Marshall Islands were inhabited even before the era of the ancient Greeks.
Today, greenhouse gas emissions from industrial societies are seriously damaging the ancient culture of the Marshall Islands and may soon even destroy it. Sea level is rising. The prognosis is very negative: the islands will not be inhabited by 2050, and yet there is hope that may save us all.
One Word is a participatory documentary about the impact of climate change on the Republic of the Marshall Islands and its inhabitants. The film was developed and shot with the participation of the inhabitants of the Marshall Islands who participated in a film workshop that lasted for nine months. The filmmakers trusted the residents as the only credible experts when it comes to the history of their land This unique approach to each other’s exploration resulted in an exciting, vivid and highly charged document that captured the most important theme of our time.
Slavic Gymnastics
Slavic gymnastics for women is a practice based on 27 positions, supporting a woman on a physical and energetic level. It helps to keep the body healthy and vital. It is designed to strengthen our Center, which is the pelvic area. The exercises are performed relaxed, which allows you to enter the positions deeper, without rush, in individual body areas, without comparing yourself with other women, in full recognition of yourself and others. When we turn our full awareness to ourselves – inward – we get a meditative state. The effect of practice is a pleasant relaxation in the body, a feeling of energy flow and even bliss. A strong Center gives a sense of self-worth, distance, lightness and softness.
I invite you to a meeting with a group of women, during which I will tell you what Slavic gymnastics is, I will present the starting positions and a set of the day (7 exercises) that we will do together.
Correct (conscious) breathing helps in performing exercises (not only Slavic gymnastics), so I will tell and present how to breathe properly and practice breathing together. I will also present the action of the pelvic floor muscles – our foundation.
We will perform the exercises in the following positions: lying, sitting, kneeling and elbow-knee positions, therefore comfort is important. Take an exercise mat and a blanket to meet you, a pillow might come in handy too. Wear an outfit that does not restrict your movements. We exercise barefoot.
I invite you to practice together.
Host: Irmina Wirginia Pilarska
Location: workshop tent
(author of Irmina’s portrait: Marta Katarzyna Piskorek)
Traditional Songs
During my workshop, we will pour silver droplets of voice into traditional songs from various cultural circles, in which water appears in various forms: as the background of events, threat, salvation, the border of worlds, a manifestation of supernatural powers. As an endless sea, a dangerous storm, a nostalgic river. Who knows what will come of it – maybe we’ll make some rain together?
Host: Julia Szawiel
Location: forest / roof
The Weight of Water
Directed by Neelima Vallangi & Deej Phillips
Three close human stories reveal the complex ways in which climate-driven floods and droughts intersect with existing social, economic and infrastructure inequalities. Nepal’s climate researchers, experts and activists provide the context necessary to understand how climate change is wreaking havoc there and what is needed from highly industrialized nations for Nepal to have a secure future as global warming gains momentum.
The interwoven narratives and expertise highlight the human costs of the Nepalese climate crisis, in particular, borne by the increasing risks of natural disasters and climate injustice.
Q&A with heroine of The Weight of Water
details soon
Krąg Dyskusyjny
Water gives life. As biological organisms, we would not have survived for several days without it; its course also sustains community life and drives the development of civilization. The movies in this block show what happens when the known, predictable movement of water becomes lethal – after all, water can also sweep away anything that stands in its way. However, we no longer have to look for water-related threats in Asia or Oceania – the recent ecological disaster that hit the Odra River highlighted the local dimension of climate problems. The river system, which has been weakened for years, will recover over the decades after industrial pollution. Here you will find a place to express the emotions that accompanied you at the sight of dead fish and with the awareness of the poison spreading in the artery of the nearest river.
The discussion will take the form of a circle – experts and experts will sit with us, but everyone and everyone will have space for expression. We will also talk about the participatory method of creating documentary films, as both films in the block preceding the discussion were shot by film crews composed of representatives of local communities.
Emotions and feelings as sources of strength for action
Wesprę Cię w odkrywaniu tego, co jest żywe w Tobie oraz przeżywaniu piękna dzięki mocy wyrażania emocji i uczuć. Przybliżę koncept starej i nowej mapy emocji i uczuć. Stara mapa opowiada o tym, jak zostaliśmy socjalizowani i wychowani do wiary, że są 3 „złe” emocje: gniew, lęk i smutek, oraz jedna „dobra”: radość. Nowa mapa emocjonalna pomaga w odkryciu ogromnego źródła energii, którą czerpiemy w relacji z naszymi uczuciami i emocjami.
Zadamy sobie pytanie, jakie emocje i uczucia pozwalają nam dążyć do zmiany status quo? Jak możesz kreować świat, w którym chcesz żyć?
Prowadząca: Kalin
Lokalizacja: namiot warsztatowy
21:00- 6:00 AFTERPARTY
/Kat:ya, Fabian Molliera, Qi, Pincoya/
Sunday /18 September
Film screenings:
Current. Migrations, hydrofeminism
[inside tamka]
Workshops
[outside tent]
all day: painting murals about climate refugees
I. the experience of migration
Movement: dialogue
Movement: Dialogue is a space to break free from a control, coercion and dictation approach. This approach is inscribed in the very foundation of our culture (including the sphere of the body and physical activity), which led to rapid climate changes and the broadly understood collapse of ecosystems. As part of the workshop, therefore, we will treat the practice of movement as the practice of dialogue. A skill that we are losing, which is essential for our world to continue to function in a sustainable and fairer way.
Our starting point is the Israeli method of working with the body, Ilan Lev Method, one of the central notions of which is dialogue. Dialogue of body and mind, imagination and movement, dialogue of the body with gravity and the surrounding reality, but also a dialogue between two people in touch. We will devote ourselves to the practice of light, joyful, non-systematic, a bit 'strange’ and vibrating movement. We will use the wealth of the imagination to open up new spaces in the body and mind, and build new paths for the flow of movement. We will look at how to combine activity and passivity in motion in order to be able to communicate better. With ourselves, with each other and with the world around us.
Moderator: Tomasz Pommersbach
Location: workshop tent
The Last Shelter
Reżyseria: Ousmane Samassekou
Dom Migrantów w Gao, w Mali, jest schronieniem na południowym skraju pustyni Sahara. Przyjmuje tych, którzy jadą tranzytem w kierunku Algierii na północ lub wracają po nieudanej próbie przedostania się do Europy. Kiedy Esther i Kady, dwie nastolatki z Burkina Faso, przybywają, by odzyskać siły do dalszej podróży, nawiązują przyjaźń z Natachą, czterdziestoletnią migrantką, której pamięć z biegiem lat zanika, wraz z nadzieją na odzyskanie domu. Trio odnajduje pozory życia rodzinnego, dzieląc chwile radości, nadziei i czułości. Ale dziewczyny nie mogą pozbyć się marzeń o przyszłości za granicą, nawet gdy ich podróż zderza się z tymi, którzy wrócili, obciążeni porażką i traumą. Dom, niczym wał z kruchych ścian, z trudem opiera się wezwaniu pustyni, jej odległym szmerom szepczącym opowieści o snach i koszmarach.
The Purple Sea
Directed by Amel Alzakhout and Khaled Abdulwahed
„I can see everything,” she says, as if it were a curse. Bright sun, clear blue skies. The sea is calm, framed by a piece of railing. Humming voices. A quiet moment, if not for the fact that the sea is vertical, vertical, like a waterfall. The rush of images, spinning, inverted, shocking. People in the boat, in the water, screams, life jackets, alarm whistles. Fluorescent orange, geometric shapes cast by the sun.
There is no horizon anymore, no sky, no top or bottom, only depth and nothing to hold onto. Even the flow of time stops, shrinking into the brutal present. She films and talks. To him, to himself, maybe to us. Floating legs in sweatpants and jeans, stuck together. Blouse with butterflies that look as if their wings are fluttering in the water. A snake coat belt, a crushed plastic cup, a pack of cigarettes. Fuck you all! He talks, goes crazy and films to overcome the fatigue, the cold, the fact that help is not coming. To overcome dying just to keep something left.
BLUE GOLD
During her workshops, Agata Życzkowska uses methods of bodywork based on improvisation, where the freedom of movement and fluidity specific to contemporary dance allows participants to discover the connection between body and mind. It combines elements typical for physical theater with dance improvisation and group work. The practice also provides an opportunity to explore one’s own voice in an authentic way, following the movement of the body. It is also very important to build trust in the group and work on team activities. The workshop is aimed at both dancers and beginners or those not involved in the dance field. It allows you to get better acquainted with your own body and voice in the constellation of a particular set of people. Water-related images also introduce a theme of relaxation and connection to nature.
Host: Agata Życzkowska
Location: workshop tent
Krąg Dyskusyjny
The films in this block show up close, intimate and deeply the experience of migration from a female perspective. The circle covers the subject of a diverse experience of migration, often separate from the one commonly seen in the media. The patriarchal view of the Western media on migration is something we want to break to give voice to people who experience migration from different perspectives. According to experts’ predictions, we will soon face unprecedented migrations caused by climate change. Although these problems are not yet visible in our latitude, they have been affecting the women of the Global South for many years. This is happening. Climate change is global, not local. We are united by a common problem, we are connected by water.
The discussion will take the form of a circle – experts and experts – including Zuzanna Krożała from the Humanity in Action organization – but everyone and everyone will have space for expression.
II. water feminism
bodyKindness
BodyKidness – no one teaches us to be good to ourselves.
From an early age, we are rebuked by the canons of dietary culture to think obsessively about our appearance. As a result, we begin to perceive the body through the prism of aesthetic categories, forgetting that its most important function is not to be an ornament. Only when we notice how much we owe to the body, how much it does for us every day, do we find room for kindness and gratitude for it. And the same for myself.
The Body Loan Workshop is the time to transform negative beliefs about your body into supportive affirmations.
It is a space where you will learn kindness and gratitude to yourself and your body.
This is the place where you will learn the methods of listening to your body’s needs, respecting them and following them through intuitive movement, breath and touch.
Host: Marta Młot
Location: workshop tent
Water Meditation
Water, that is the element with which human emotions are associated. Emotions, just like water, take different forms, we experience them in different intensities and in different ways. During the workshop we will look at emotions from the level of the intellect, enter their nooks and crannies and try to see in them what was previously inaccessible to us. After working individually with the emotions that are alive in us for the moment, we will enter into guided meditation. The sounds of crystal bowls and koshi bells will allow for tranquility and relaxation. To close the workshop, there will be an opportunity to drink an herbal infusion to promote a state of relaxation.
I invite you from my heart,
Kasia
Host: Kasia Duszyńska
Location: next to the workshop tent
Who is afraid of ideology: Micro Resistencias
Directed by Marwa Arsanios
Who is afraid of ideology? Parts 1 and 2 revolved around issues related to ecology, feminism, civic organization, nation-building, war and economic struggle. In both films, the artist explores the structures of self-government that were developed by Kurdish autonomous women’s movements.
In lot 3: Micro Resistencias, Marwa Arsanios focuses on the Tolima region, known as one of Colombia’s coffee producing regions. The film consists of several stories of women telling one by one about their struggle to preserve the knowledge of their ancestors, the integrity of indigenous communities in terms of cultivation and protection of seeds that enable them to achieve agricultural independence.
Problematic issues of land ownership, distribution of natural resources, forced displacement and murder are linked to the exploitation and violence that the people of the region suffer from. These testimonies are intertwined with landscapes, portraits, sounds and the cultivation of seeds that are the main theme of the film. Different temporalities intentionally intersect with each other, expressed by the desynchronization of different scenes.
The story and narrative take various forms (text, interviews, confessions, songs, etc.), while the image, spread between still, moving and travel shots, frees itself from its own materiality (the visible camera is facing the viewer).
WaTer: Waterfall of Dance/Democratic/ Dialog Actions (8')
Directed by Agata Życzkowska
Video inspired by the thought about drinking water, which is more and more often treated in various parts of the world as „BLUE GOLD”. Since access to drinking water is the right of every person on Earth, is it ethical to earn money on water? Choreographies of everyday water life and several actions.
River Sisters
Written and directed by Cecylia Malik
Other rivers come to save the Vistula from the planned new great dam in Siarewo: Dunajec, Soła, Pilica, and Raba. Cecylia Malik calls on women to give a voice to the rivers and join the fight that is taking place between the ecologists operating in the Let’s Save the Rivers Coalition, and politicians, officials and the hydrotechnical lobby.
The fight for values for wildlife, for a landscape for clean fresh water, which is becoming the planet’s most precious resource.
Now the decisive fight for the Vistula is underway! Decisions and tenders for the construction of a new dam in Siarewo are taken! Let’s not agree to partition and devastate the Vistula!
Let us save one of the last, largely natural, large river of Europe.
flow - bravely about sensitivity
we invite you to a meeting that will connect the threads of water, courage and sensitivity. we will immerse ourselves in guided and free movement, sit in a circle, ask ourselves bold questions and stay with the answers to them. we let our thoughts flow while meditating. we will check how sensitivity meets courage in us and why we reduce these concepts to our opposites on a daily basis.
Lecturers: b.rave (Iga Zielińska and Nina Cichowicz)
Location: workshop tent
Discussion Circle
“Sixty to ninety percent of our body composition is water. Water in this sense is a unitary substance in the form of something relatively permanent, what we call our body. Water, however, follows a different logic, follows different patterns, and sustains our temporal bodies in other ways. Water is first and foremost a guide and a connector. „
The hydrofeminist thought of Astrida Neimanis leads through global waterways and transformations towards a sense of biological connection with the living. The last circle of the Rush will connect the threads of our previous discussions – the local dimension of climate challenges with a planetary perspective, biological categories of divisions with their social consequences, crossing cultural differences thanks to the similarities of bodies-of-water. We will consider how the awareness of our water nature can help us build regenerative social structures.
The discussion will take the form of a circle – experts and experts will sit with us, but everyone and everyone will have space for expression. He will be with us, among others Katarzyna Korytowska from the HER Docs Foundation; we’ll talk to her about the female gaze in the movie. All the movies on this block were made by women. When viewing them, be attentive and attentive to the visuals and ways of representing reality.
Body!movement - ecstatic journey in dance #water
A body that moves takes your whole being with it. In a beautiful trio of soul, body and mind, there is integration between what is verbal and non-verbal, material and immaterial, visible and invisible, known and unknown. Then there is presence.
ECSTATIC JOURNEY IN DANCE – is a practice of intuitive dance, mindfulness in movement and breathing with beautiful, vibrant music. This time we will be accompanied by water as a symbol, metaphor and inspiration for movement.
Intuitive dance is free movement without imposed form. It is the practice of conscious presence in the body, it is a type of meditation in motion that favors the physical, mental and spiritual integration of a person. It is an element of art therapy, in which, thanks to communing with music and your own expression based on improvisation, you can get to know yourself, your emotions better and work on harmony in the body and mind. Dance, apart from the usual form of being in space, has healing factors. It is therefore a kind of terepeutical dance.
Practice has a positive effect on your well-being. You are among people – you experience synchrony and being part of a group, movement enlivens you and regulates your autonomic system (helps you relax), you can express yourself – thanks to expression you mark your presence in space, you can express your emotions – experiencing cleansing . On a physical level, you expand your range of motion, open up your body, soften tensions, and deepen your breathing. You control everything yourself, yourself – in accordance with your resources.
I come to you with a space filled with inspiring music, a safe and relaxed atmosphere. I watch over my dance journey by leading and guiding music.
DHS – Dance Health and Safety
– respect the boundaries of others and mark yours – there is no obligation to interact during the dance
– while moving, we activate our entire being, it’s normal that various emotions, memories or impressions flow from the body, if you feel that you need to withdraw for a moment to calm down – it’s great, you know how to take care of yourself!
– a dance session is not an equivalent of psychotherapy, it is a form of self-care, self-therapy
– if you have any doubts – I am
Host: Mery Skubis
Location: beach
sobotnie afterparty
Kat:ya - 21:00-22:00
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Fabián Molliera 22:00-01:00
He is a river that takes its origin in lost tribalism and ethnic musical culture from the corners of the world. He transports audiences to the Amazonian floodplains and to a time when the sacred river Ganges was the center of consciousness development for our ancestors. The meanders of Polish rivers strongly resonate in him the Slavic identity through which he wishes to restore its proper current and its elevated place in musical culture.
He co-organizes cultural and musical events, conducts creative and musicalization workshops for children. He supplements his selection with the vivid sounds of ethnic instruments and the noblest music – birdsong, the sound of sea waves and the rustling caused by the wind – nature is the greatest symphony.
The Water Ceremony at the evening celebration is a sonic tribute to water – the source of all life. Artistic inspirations will pour out of the speakers like a wave that will cleanse Our insides and fill them with humility and love. White singing and traditional Polish folklore will unite us in a common feeling for the intention of our river – the Oder. The atmosphere during the set will be built by narrations from nature films and a VJ show from the watery depths.
Qi - 01:00-3:30
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Pincoya - 3:30-6:00
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Meet the people conducting the workshops
od.ważne: iga zielińska i nina cichowicz
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Tomasz Pomersbach
Dancer, movement and practitioner instructor and great enthusiast of Ilan Lev Method. He comes from Wrocław, where he currently lives and works. He studied contemporary dance at the London Contemporary Dance School, and started his professional dance career in 2010 at the Polish Dance Theater in Poznań. Since 2014, he has been working as an independent dancer (for many years associated with the Pink Mama Theater in Bern, Switzerland) and a practice of movement in a broader sense. In recent years, his interests have gradually and consistently shifted from the field of dance understood as stage art, requiring the dancer to have specific technical skills, towards dance as a practice of movement, dialogue with himself and people, giving space, bringing development and joy. He is close to the topics of climate change and broadly understood environmental protection.
Tomek will conduct the „movement: dialogue” workshop.
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Marta Młot
Irmina Wirginia Pilarska
I am an instructor of Slavic gymnastics for women in the Belarusian tradition. I graduated from the School of Metamorphosis Instructors by Małgorzata Daniło-Gorlewicz. I conduct regular classes in Wrocław. I have completed the course entitled Liberate the Body with Slavic gymnastics under the supervision of Iwona Trznadel, a physiotherapist. In my classes I combine Slavic gymnastics with the breathing technique, which supports the body during exercise and the work of the pelvic floor muscles.
Irmina will conduct a workshop in Slavic gymnastics.
Agata Życzkowska
Choreographer, dancer, actress, educator, eco-feminist. A graduate of the Acting Department of the PWSFTviT in Łódź (2001) and postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Cultural Diplomacy at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (2021). He runs a dance collective HOTELOKO movement makers in Warsaw, where he makes performances on the subject of ecology, tolerance, freedom, and women’s rights (including „frau / mujer / femme”, „frau blush”, „Extinction”). In 2021, she launched a new festival in Warsaw: International Movement Festival U: NEW, dealing with the subject of care for our planet and climate change. He works mainly on identity issues with the use of authentic and everyday movement, interactive methods, teamwork, emotions and reflection.
Agata will lead the „Blue Water” workshop.
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Martyna Gulczyńska
Hello, my name is Kasia, my passion is working with people and supporting them to return to our essence. I am an educator by education, a herbalist by passion, and a guide in returning to nature by vocation. I would be happy to share my knowledge and passion with you. I invite you to workshops and individual meetings. You can find me through FB: Zioła i łąki – esencja
Julia Szawiel
Ethnologist, educator and teacher. A lover and popularizer of traditional songs from all over the world, especially from the Slavic East.
Julia will run a traditional singing workshop for us from various cultures.
Kalin
I am Kalin (pronouns jest / jeno), an intersectional, trance, activist person who promotes open communication, based on feelings and emotions. I contribute to the areas of radical responsibility. I create space to strengthen what is alive in us. I bring my experience, knowledge, love and other intangible values that support growth, creativity and bond building.
Kalin will lead a workshop for us: emotions and feelings as a source of strength for action.
Farida Anwari
Maria Mery Skubis
I am an intuitive dance facilitator. I have been working for 11 years with people in the field of movement and education. My life is inspired by inspiring others to move their bodies and I include the therapeutic function of activity in it – I graduated, among others, from a course in dance therapy techniques and movement analysis and training in choreotherapy as a method of relieving tension in the body, and I am also a Hawaiian massage practitioner. I am fascinated by how our bodies, minds and souls can integrate and complement each other – ultimately becoming one. I love to dance myself and let my body guide me without thinking about the next move and observe what is going on in my soul and mind. I take part in numerous projects related to improvisation and the influence of art on human well-being. What I do comes from my heart.
I use improvised and natural movement, contact improvisation, dance and movement therapy (DMT), the language of the Laban / Bartenieff movement, the Bonnie Meekums creative process model, drama elements, breathing and relaxation techniques.
💛 I have wonderful teachers, inspirers and guides: Katarzyna Dańska, Izabela Guzek, Aga Sokołowska, Paweł Konior, Dorota Kamecka, Milan Kozanek, Tomek Pomersbach, Joanna Hussakowska (5Rytmów®), Haga Zawitowska, Anna Tymes, Iwona Olszowska, Emma Bonnici.
Mery will lead an open workshop on ecstatic dance for us!
Natalia Roma Grzyb
Why are we surging?
Wezbranie (eng. Surge) is an art-social festival that surges in search of the answers to the needs of the modern, rapidly changing world. Old structures cease to function, so we want to think together how we can introduce new qualities to our communities – compassion, cooperation, conscious contact with others and nature, action in regenerative cycles. The problems that bother us the most result from the deepening social and ecological crises.
Women are statistically more affected by systemic crises with an intersectional dimension: they become more severe the more inequalities they face. Therefore, during Wezbranie, through thematic film screenings, discussion circles and workshops, we listen to each other’s perspectives, explore the topic of female leadership and share tools that help to operate in the world respecting our own boundaries. We act slow because rest, regeneration and reflection are also important parts of activism.