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New Year Sharing Movement Event
14th January, 3-7 pm
Wootton Fitzpaine Village Hall, Dorset DT6 6ND
3 presentations:
‘Dialogue Moves’ with Emma Meehan
In June 2018, on the steps outside Lansdown Hall in Stroud, I started a chat with Prapto about Amerta Movement as a way for peace-building: how people from different backgrounds could be together through the movement practice.
After many failed funding applications on the topic, I finally got support from the Leverhulme Trust in 2020. Since I applied, Prapto had passed away and the global pandemic had meant we were all in varying levels of isolation. As fate would have it, I finally had the chance to travel to Java at the time which coincided with Prapto’s 1000-day ceremony in 2022, with an adapted proposal.
I was to focus on connecting with Indonesian artists who worked with Prapto and understanding their perspectives on Amerta Movement as a way for dialogue. However, I also became the subject of this project – exploring dialogue across difference as I became immersed in a new culture, after years of little contact with others.
In this presentation, I will share some of how this dialogue has moved me. I invite people into the process of this ‘unfinished’ experience of risk, vulnerability, openness, exchange – how cultural and religious histories are carried in the body and exposed to potential for change through dialogue with others. With thanks to Prapto, Diane Butler, Samsul Maarif, Rifa Fitriana and all those whom I met on my journey.
In June 2018, on the steps outside Lansdown Hall in Stroud, I started a chat with Prapto about Amerta Movement as a way for peace-building: how people from different backgrounds could be together through the movement practice.
After many failed funding applications on the topic, I finally got support from the Leverhulme Trust in 2020. Since I applied, Prapto had passed away and the global pandemic had meant we were all in varying levels of isolation. As fate would have it, I finally had the chance to travel to Java at the time which coincided with Prapto’s 1000-day ceremony in 2022, with an adapted proposal.
I was to focus on connecting with Indonesian artists who worked with Prapto and understanding their perspectives on Amerta Movement as a way for dialogue. However, I also became the subject of this project – exploring dialogue across difference as I became immersed in a new culture, after years of little contact with others.
In this presentation, I will share some of how this dialogue has moved me. I invite people into the process of this ‘unfinished’ experience of risk, vulnerability, openness, exchange – how cultural and religious histories are carried in the body and exposed to potential for change through dialogue with others. With thanks to Prapto, Diane Butler, Samsul Maarif, Rifa Fitriana and all those whom I met on my journey.
‘And when I opened the door, this is what I saw…’
with Keith Miller
Reflections in words and pictures of my time in Java in September 2022 for Prapto’s 1000-day ceremony – a time of ritual and celebrations, collaborations, exhibitions and performances.
Several themes threaded through my journey. I will share some of these from my explorations in Solo, Borobudur and Yogyakarta into singing and movement-art, and into social and environmental art-activism by artists in the Sharing Movement circulation and beyond, including Sitras Anjilin, Agus Bimo, Misbach Daeng Bilok and Ibed Surgana Yuga.
with Keith Miller
Reflections in words and pictures of my time in Java in September 2022 for Prapto’s 1000-day ceremony – a time of ritual and celebrations, collaborations, exhibitions and performances.
Several themes threaded through my journey. I will share some of these from my explorations in Solo, Borobudur and Yogyakarta into singing and movement-art, and into social and environmental art-activism by artists in the Sharing Movement circulation and beyond, including Sitras Anjilin, Agus Bimo, Misbach Daeng Bilok and Ibed Surgana Yuga.
‘I Will Meet You There’ a film with Karolina Nieduza
In this lifetime, I was born into a deeply religious, devout Catholic family in the heart of Poland. A sunny September evening 35 years later, I found myself lying on a very long table with a perfect white tablecloth, surrounded by twelve chairs in the theatre of Bath Spa University.
A black-and-white film from the day of my first holy communion was projected over my body, my white dress, and the tablecloth.
The examination panel was seated on the twelve seats. My final MA thesis performance became my last supper with Christianity.
While washing the blood off the cross with many children who were invited to my piece, I consciously dissociated myself from the Catholic church and was liberated from its glorification of suffering, pain, sacrifice, and the salvation of humanity, as well as from feelings of guilt, unworthiness, and fear of punishment and hell.
Soon after "The Last Supper," I started to become more aware that I possess remnants and flashes of memory of numerous other religions and philosophical and spiritual beliefs that have been experienced throughout my existence across many lifetimes. The concept of the film "I will meet you there" was born out of these observations and insights during movement practice and numerous journeys to Java.
During the process of making and editing the film, I was asking myself:
What really draws and repels me to god(s), established religions, or spiritual beliefs?"
Am I genuinely looking for healing, understanding, and enlightenment, or am I using it as the perfect place to hide or escape from myself?
In this lifetime, I was born into a deeply religious, devout Catholic family in the heart of Poland. A sunny September evening 35 years later, I found myself lying on a very long table with a perfect white tablecloth, surrounded by twelve chairs in the theatre of Bath Spa University.
A black-and-white film from the day of my first holy communion was projected over my body, my white dress, and the tablecloth.
The examination panel was seated on the twelve seats. My final MA thesis performance became my last supper with Christianity.
While washing the blood off the cross with many children who were invited to my piece, I consciously dissociated myself from the Catholic church and was liberated from its glorification of suffering, pain, sacrifice, and the salvation of humanity, as well as from feelings of guilt, unworthiness, and fear of punishment and hell.
Soon after "The Last Supper," I started to become more aware that I possess remnants and flashes of memory of numerous other religions and philosophical and spiritual beliefs that have been experienced throughout my existence across many lifetimes. The concept of the film "I will meet you there" was born out of these observations and insights during movement practice and numerous journeys to Java.
During the process of making and editing the film, I was asking myself:
What really draws and repels me to god(s), established religions, or spiritual beliefs?"
Am I genuinely looking for healing, understanding, and enlightenment, or am I using it as the perfect place to hide or escape from myself?
Opening the Space
Before the presentations there will be an opportunity to move together
After the presentations there will be a feast in the hall.
Please bring simple food and drink to share. Hot drinks provided.
The evening is hosted by Judy Cole and Sandra Reeve.
All welcome.
This event is free. Donations welcome at the door.
The hall will be open from 2:30 – ample parking on site.
Please let us know in advance if you are coming:
[email protected] or 07734 138942
Before the presentations there will be an opportunity to move together
After the presentations there will be a feast in the hall.
Please bring simple food and drink to share. Hot drinks provided.
The evening is hosted by Judy Cole and Sandra Reeve.
All welcome.
This event is free. Donations welcome at the door.
The hall will be open from 2:30 – ample parking on site.
Please let us know in advance if you are coming:
[email protected] or 07734 138942