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Workshop | Haaweatea Holly Bryson: Rites of Passage and Renewal
November 24, 9-10.30pm Hawaii time / November 25, 9-10.30am CET / 4-5.30pm Gwangju time
January 15, 9-10.30pm Hawaii time / January 16, 9-10.30am CET / 4-5.30pm Gwangju time
Led by Māori Healing practitioner Haaweatea Holly Bryson, this workshop will focus on the processes to mark the transition from one phase of life to another. Together we will explore the three stages of the Rite of Passage, leading to intergenerational healing. What do we want to keep (to hold dear), as we reflect on our relationship with our ancestral and family lineages and consider what we know of our patterns, pain, resilience, values, and gifts? What do we want to carry (perpetuate and share)? And what do we want to compost (transform and change)? This map will show us the “bones” or codes of how humanity transitions and transforms, our consciousness, resiliency, belonging, purpose, revelation, and renewal.
The workshop is limited to 50 people on a first come first-served basis. Please email publicprogram@gwangjubiennale.org to register.
Haaweatea Holly Bryson is a Psychotherapist, Māori Healing practitioner, and a Rite of Passage guide based on Hawai'i Island. She specializes in transformation, trauma and life-transition, including early childhood and adult trauma, existential crisis, as well as relationship and family counseling. She is the Lead Therapist and Trainer at Nature Knows, www.natureknows.co, a subsidiary of The Suzerain Group.
GB Talks | Rising to the Surface: Practicing Solidarity Futures features online lectures, public debates, and workshops that converge to address grassroots democratization movements from across the world. Hosting experimental formats of gathering and discussion, the Forum centers around four main topics, including digital surveillance, land rights movements, choreographies of resistance, and the pro-democracy movements from Istanbul and Tibet to Hong Kong and Gwangju. The Forum invites artists, activists, and civil society actors to discuss shared vocabularies on strategies of public dissent, civic advocacy, healing public trauma, indigenous solidarity, and environmental activism, as well as the feminist legacy of the grassroots democratization movements from the 1980s onward. This program draws on Gwangju’s history, public spirit, and various community allegiances, with historical moments of the Donghak Peasant Revolution, the Gwangju Students Independent Movement, the 5.18 Democratic Movement, and the June Democracy Movement.