Bring Us To Feel events with Gaylene Gould

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Amartey Golding’s new large-scale commission Bring Me To Heal combines filmmaking, photography and will be shown as part of a major tour presented by Forma Arts & Media and the commissioning partners Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts in Brighton, Tramway and 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning. 

Alongside his exhibition, Golding invited Gaylene Gould (The Space To Come) to organise a series of events, which will help us explore our feelings, emotional responses and understanding of generational trauma in Britain and the possibility of collective rituals of healing. 

Feeling Tour
Thursday 25 November, 6-8pm
You are invited to commune with each other through your own embodied feelings, sensations and cultural memories aroused by Golding’s film that tells an epic fable of trauma and healing. After watching the film, you will be invited to reflect on the ways we might each embody the characters. Inspired by phenomenology and mindfulness practices, this experience offers a glimpse of the emotional ancestral legacies that lie within each of us.

Bring Me to Heal Reasoning
Saturday 27 November, 5-6pm
In a special live interdisciplinary conversation, or “reasoning” as referred to in Rastafari culture, the artist Amartey Golding, University of Brighton's professor in Historical Cultural Studies Graham Dawson and the psychoanalytic psychotherapist Maya Lasker-Wallfisch will explore the under-examined area of the emotional legacy and inherited trauma of white Britain and how we might begin to heal as a nation. The audience and the artist will have a chance to more deeply explore the themes that underpin this exhibition.

Well Fed: Fish n Chips and Compassion
Saturday 27 November 6.30-8pm
What do we think the role compassion plays in healing generational trauma for white Britain? You will have a chance to discuss this with others over a playful Fish and Chips conversation dinner in the Attenborough Centre Cafe. The dinner guests will be invited to debate, reflect and imagine your own responses helped along by a special conversation menu and bags of salty fish and chips. What do white Britons need healing from and should space be made for it? What’s the relationship between forgiveness, justice and compassion? What might a collective healing ritual in culturally diverse Britain look like? How entangled are our own personal cultural identities? Well Fed is a touring project for people to practise the art of listening, sharing and exploring the potential of conversation as a tool for personal and collective transformation.