When
11/16/2024 - 1:00 pm
-to-
11/16/2024 - 3:00 pm
Where
Artworks Trenton
19 Everett Alley
Trenton, NJ
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Book Signing and Talk: Tea and Ten Thousand Things
Meaning and Madness Outside of Psychiatric Narratives
Karin will also run a graphic narrative workshop on November 16th from 1-3PM
November 16 | 1 – 3 PM | FREE
How can we talk about madness outside of the psychiatric narrative of brokenness and illness? How can graphic narrative, dreaming, poetry and a cup of tea help us do this?
Join Karin Jervert for a talk and book signing for her graphic memoir, Tea and Ten Thousand Things, a story of tea and transformation. A touching visual memoir that challenges our ideas of madness, healing, and recovery all over the comfort and compassion of a warm cup of tea.
We’ll explore questions like:
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- How do we learn what madness is and what it means? How can we create more compassionate containers by telling the story a bit differently?
- How can we change the language we use to build more liberative and healing spaces for people experiencing states we may not understand like voices and visions?
- And how can we create spaces for art-making in our communities that can encourage healing without stigma or oppression, spaces that take into account all aspects of what it means to be human without pathologizing differences?
Meet the Teaching Artist:
Karin Jervert is an artist, writer, and Mad activist. As a teaching artist, she is the founder of the Woodland Sunflower Collective and runs weekly co-arting groups, poetry and graphic narrative workshops. Her activist work in mental health includes advocating for compassionate community care and the power of creative expression to transform trauma – particularly the trauma experienced as a result of forced psychiatric treatment. She facilitates art-making and creative thinking to challenge the medicalization of suffering and the parallel loss of language around emotional pain. She has published two books of poetry, and a graphic memoir, ‘Tea and Ten Thousand Things‘. Her practice and study of Buddhism, earth based-spirituality, herbalism, and improvisational comedy find their way into her work as well. You can find more about Karin at woodlandsunflower.org and on Instagram at @woodland.sunflower.collective