About this event
Visual ArtFree, open to the public. Registration is required. Part of the session takes place outdoors, rain or shine.
The Doris McCarthy Gallery has invited Sheniz Janmohamed to respond to Cartographies of Longing as Poet-in-Residence. Drawing on her creative practice as a writer, artist, educator, and certified Forest Bathing Guide, Janmohamed has developed a series exploring the works of the exhibiting artists through guided prompts and reflections, poetry writing, and nature reconnection activities.
In this session, participants will explore works in the exhibition that touch upon themes of displacement and diasporic grief, and will be gently led through a prompt that allows them to explore both grief and praise through the medium and metaphor of water. The second half of the session will incorporate a nature walk to the Ma Moosh Ka Win Valley Trail where participants will “speak their grief” to the land.