Queer Spellcasting
A series of workshops facilitated by Fortune Tailed Beast, focused on the intersection of the following:
Poetry
Divination
Creative writing
Eco-somatics
& Ritual
Through an animist, exploratory and political lens.
Whispering Soil
Join a ritual workshop exploring queer spellcasting through breathwork, experimental writing and animist ritual. Feel invited to journal, write poetry, make symbols and drawings, create stories and stretch the medium of writing in playful, intuitive and strange ways.
This workshop will explore the earth element - our roots, the relationship to our bodies, resources, tethers, ancestors, land and support networks.
We will start the session by playing with divination and the Pentacles suit of tarot, which will inspire our writing and spell making practice. We will explore embodied ecology practices and make intentions that reflect our needs of rooting and blooming.
The framework of the workshops is as follows:
There will be prompts for writing, with the awareness that our intentions, our poems and spoken words can act as spells that can transform our future and heal our past.
This series of workshops will help you:
- Connect with tarot and divination in an intuitive, playful and creative way
- Use the symbolism of tarot to tap into your personal stories and the power of re/writing them through your intentions
- Explore the links between poetry and spellmaking, and between creative, political and spiritual practice
- Ask for guidance from elemental powers such as the full moon, water bodies, air spirits and landscapes
- Explore how your writing practice can create long term relationships to the more-than-human kin and to the land
- Be in a queer collective container, with supportive guidance focused on consent and autonomy
- Explore how poetry and words can move and flow, shapeshift, and become symbols
No prior experience needed - this will be a welcoming space of co-creation with soft invitations and guidance to be adjusted to your needs and intuitive desires.
Please arrive 10-15 min before, to land into the space, grab a drink from the Rio bar and settle. We will start at exactly 5 min past 7 PM, with no latecomers allowed.
Access: the space in the basement and wheelchair accessible, using an elevator. This is a neurodivergent friendly space - feel invited to bring stim toys, plushies or any emotionally precious altar piece (like a stone or crystal.)
For any questions about access please email me at @byuka.krow@gmail.com
Byuka aka Fortune Tailed Beast @fortunetailedbeast (they/them) is a migrant performance artist & witch, playing at the intersections of poetry, dance, film and tattooing. Their work explores folk futurism and practices of queer-animist world-building through community rituals, speculative fiction, embodied ecologies & ancestral healing.
Byuka is the curator & main facilitator of Lunarrr Playgroundz @lunarrrplaygroundz - a platform exploring ritual practices for the queer community.
Queer Spellcasting is an ongoing research as part of their tattooing project Scribe of Earth Skins @scribeofearthskins - where they blend ritual, language and symbol making.
Their work has been shown at the Royal Albert Hall, Iklektik, Camden's People Theatre, the National Gallery, Barbican, Guildhall, Ugly Duck and Mimosa House. They have been featured in the series ‘Witch’ on BBC Sounds.
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