Description
This workshop explores the importance of passing on our cultural practice and creating cultural spaces for women and non-binary people of colour. Activities will include storytelling and healing through shared practices, mindfulness and slow creativity, and embodiment through connection to the body and consensual touch.
Henna is an invitation to pause and connect, to speak of memories, histories and dreams while marking our skin, mirroring the way many of our ancestors connected—through oral traditions, communal rituals and embodied storytelling. Many traditions pass on self-care and collective care practices through shared meals, body adornment, rituals of beauty and rest. Henna is one of these acts: a non-capitalist form of care, where time is given freely, where the touch of another is offered, not demanded. Henna application is slow, repetitive and tactile—inviting you to pause, focus and work with your hands. The act of drawing steady lines or patterns becomes meditative, promoting relaxation and presence.
This event is for women and non-binary people.
Content warnings: Natural henna cones containing lemon and lavender oil will be in use. Platonic consensual touch between participants and a female model will be encouraged in this session.
Facilitated by Tasnim Siddiqa Amin
This workshop is part of Tamasha’s Creative Wellbeing Lab, funded by The Baring Foundation.
A Tamasha and Brixton House co-production
STARS: An Afrofuturist Odyssey
By Mojisola Adebayo
5-28 Jun
Winner of ‘Best New Play’ at the Offies 2024, STARS is the hilarious and moving new play celebrating Black and Queer empowerment and arousal.
Tamasha and Brixton House present
STARS: Club Night
14 Jun
Join us for the STARS: Club Night as Mojisola Adebayo’s hilarious and moving new play celebrating Black and Queer empowerment and arousal transforms into a club.
Catch DJs Conrad Kira and Deboa playing from 8.45pm til late.