Body Talks provide a space to explore our own complex identities through multiple arts mediums. This session includes gentle movement, spoken word, and visual arts. No experience is required to engage in this workshop. Designed to be a comfortable space to better understand how our own identities impact our experiences in the world, each exercise offers optional prompt to tap into creativity to express how we see ourselves in the world and how that affects how we see each other. Participants will be guided through a brief discussion about how identities, particularly those related to grounds protected under human rights law, contribute to our relationships with community and health and wellness.

This workshop includes use of tools such as the identity wheel and the coin model to explore identity. Then through a guided movement activity based in the Concious Bodies Methodology by Dreamwalker Dance Company, participants will consider how those identies are embodied in our physical selves. Using that experience participants will create a personal zine and a group spoken word poem together.

Shannon is an artist, activist, and human rights worker.

COI Disclosure: I do not have an affiliation (financial or otherwise) with any for-profit or not-for-profit organizations