How can movement become a tool for care, connection and creative practice?
Presented by CASA and Counterpoints Arts
Programmed as part of Acts of Looking, a chapter of Lines of Flight curated by Gabriela Román González
25 October | 11:00 AM
Movement & Mental Health is a participatory workshop for artists, activists and culture workers exploring the relationship between movement and wellbeing.
Through movement, conversation and collective exercises, participants will explore how embodied practices can support mental health and develop a shared vocabulary around movement-based wellbeing. The session will also offer practical tools that can be taken into facilitation, artistic practice and everyday life.
Wellbeing as something separate from creative work, the workshop invites participants to think through the body: paying attention to how we move, how we feel and what forms of knowledge become available when we listen differently.
Part of Lines of Flight
This event is part of Acts of Looking, the final chapter of Lines of Flight, CASA’s year-round multi-arts programme curated by Gabriela Román González at Brixton House. The workshop opens Acts of Looking: Dance & Movement Day on 25 October, bringing together performances, workshops and encounters exploring the body as a site of knowledge, connection and transformation.
Practical information
Free entry | RSVP required
Date: 25 October
Time: 11:00 AM–12:30 PM
Location: Studio 6, Brixton House
About the facilitator and partners
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Arts, Displacement & Mental Health Producer at Counterpoints Arts and Creative Director of Rain Crew. A dance artist turned producer, she develops participatory arts projects that bring together artists, communities and mental health practitioners. Her work explores the role of collaborative artistic practice in strengthening wellbeing, fostering belonging, and addressing systemic inequalities through collective creative processes.
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Leading national and international organisation in the field of arts, migration and cultural change. Its mission is to support and create transformative art by, with, and about migrants and refugees – so their stories shape our culture and help change how we see displacement. Its work takes place at the intersection of climate, racial justice, mental health and displacement and we produce a range of programmes including Refugee Week, Counterpoints Film Productions and Platforma festival.