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Book NowThu 1 May, 6-8.30pm
Gallery 2
| Monday | Closed |
| Tuesday | 11am–6pm |
| Wednesday | 11am–6pm |
| Thursday | 11am–9pm |
| Friday | 11am–6pm |
| Saturday | 11am–6pm |
| Sunday | 11am–6pm |
Access requirements
The Whitechapel Gallery is committed to making all of our events as accessible as possible for every audience member. Please contact access@whitechapelgallery.org if you would like to discuss a particular request and we will gladly discuss with you the best way to accommodate it.
Information about access on site at the gallery is available here https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/visit/access/
This includes information about Lift access; Borrowing wheelchairs & seating; Assistance Animals; Parking; Toilets and baby care facilities; Blind & Partially Sighted Visitors; Subtitles and transcripts; British Sign Language (BSL) and hearing induction loops; Deaf Messaging Service (DMS).
About This Event
This event takes place in Gallery 2 at Whitechapel Gallery, located on the ground floor.
This event lasts approximately 2.5 hours. There is a scheduled break halfway through, but attendees are welcome to take as many breaks as needed during the event
You must purchase a ticket to attend the event. Concession tickets are available. If you require a Personal Assistant to support your attendance, we can offer them a place free of charge, but it must be arranged in advance.
If the ticket price affects your attendance, please email tickets@whitechapelgallery.org to be added to the guest list (no questions asked, but dependent on availability).
This event is suitable for those over the age of 16
We are unable to provide British Sign Language interpretation for this event
We are unable to provide live closed captioning or CART for this event.
Transport
To the best of our knowledge, there are no planned disruptions to local transport on the date of the event.
Our nearest train station – Aldgate East Underground (1 min) is not wheelchair accessible. The closest wheelchair accessible stations are Whitechapel (15 min), Shoreditch High Street (15 min) or Liverpool Street (15 min).
Free parking for Blue Badge holders is available at the top of Osborn Street in the pay and display booths for an unlimited period. Spaces are available on a first come, first served basis.
Rooted in dance’s ability to support us with tending to grief in our bodies, join writer, artist and somatic practitioner Camille Sapara Barton for a session experimenting with how we can process individual and collective grief through ritual, movement, and somatic practices.
Grief and the deep loss resulting from colonisation, ancestral trauma, and dispossession are seen as taboo topics in many parts of the Western world and, as a result, many of us have few collective spaces to process this resulting grief and discomfort.
Dance and somatic practices are powerful healing technologies, which can provide channels for us to process grief in public or private. In this session, we will explore how dance can support us with noticing and acknowledging where grief sits in our bodies, being in conversation with it, and find ways to allow it to shift or release.
Camille will begin the session providing some context around grief tending and its lineages, before encouraging us to explore where grief sits in our own bodies through somatic practices and meditation. We will then participate in an extended dance and movement-based grief ritual, ending with some reflective integration exercises to close out.
This will be a low-stakes, relaxed, and supportive space for participants to gently and playfully explore movement and somatic techniques that they might not have done so before.
Things to keep in mind
This workshop accompanies our current exhibition Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker.
Camille Sapara Barton is a writer, embodiment facilitator, movement artist and consultant that supports people to flow through transitions. Their work aims to create relational wellbeing by cultivating connection to the body, care practices, grief and imagination. Camille supports organisations to increase resilience and reduce stress, while navigating change. They also offer trauma informed, embodied facilitation and consultancy to support cultural workers, funders and those working with socially engaged topics.
Camille is the author of Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community (2024). Based in Amsterdam, they designed and directed MA Ecologies of Transformation (2021 – 2023) which explored how embodiment and socially engaged art making can create change through the body, into the wider world.
Camille has been dancing since childhood and has trained in a variety of styles, mostly rooted in the African diaspora. Their DJ practice is another expression of their love of dance as well as the healing potential of bass and polyrhythms.
