Testimonial

I guest facilitated a workshop for a delightful bunch of seniors within the Scarborough Arts community. ‘For the Love of Food’ designed for Cooking Up Feminism was an exploration of our emotional bond with food, to dig a little deeper into our psyche to see how we engage with this form of sustenance, to process and express the ways it contains our hopes and desires and our secret fears and conflicts through art, writing, somatic movement and dialogue. We shared boisterous laughter and tears as we came together into the underbelly of our entanglements in the realm of food. Shame, guilt and sadness were tenderly peeled back and collectively opened into celebration, ancestral roots and the resilience of community joyfully being proclaimed.

Part of the complexity of how we relate to food is how it functions where survival and gratification intersect, a tapestry soaked in colours and weaves found within domains of emotion and memory.

~ Maya Nadeem (Artist, Writer and Coach)

Excerpt from Maya’s guest blog on cookingupfeminism.tumblr.com

Guest Facilitator of “For the love of food”

About Scarborough Arts

Scarborough Arts, a non-profit charitable organization, is the only arts organization of its kind specifically serving the Scarborough community through innovative arts and culture programs for citizens of all ages. We bring arts to the community and community to the arts.

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