Bodying and Writing into the 5th and 6th Houses with AHHAAHHA

Cubitt, 6pm, Thursday 11th May 2023

Disability can create an ambiguous stance on living. This workshop takes an embodied, amateurish and creative approach to exploring this ambiguity through the 5th and 6th houses in astrology. These houses usually denote creativity, pleasure and children (5th) and health, health problems and work (6th).  We will use writing, mark making, drawing and meditation to further our relationships with these areas of life and/or our birth charts, taking inspiration from disability justice movements and astrology to explore and expand notions of care. No prior knowledge of astrology is required but if you are able to come with your birth chart / time of birth, that would enable more personal chart exploration. 

Please register HERE for this event.

This event is part of the department of Unruly histories exhibition public programme produced by Meera Shakti Osborne.

AHHAAHHA is a Sylheti writer born in E1, London, UK. AHHAAHHA is actually poor. AHHAAHHA does youth and care work, on the frontlines, in the shadows. AHHAAHHA is in the process of centering queerness and transness in everything. AHHAAHHA's audio piece 'Coming from Dirt' is currently available to listen to in full at Toynbee Hall, 28 Commercial St, London E1 6LS as part of the department of Unruly histories exhibition satellite sites.

Meera Shakti Osborne is a resident artist at Arts and Media School Islington, where Cubitt has managed four artists studios since 2018 and which is a key site for Reclaim Islington. Reclaim Islington is a two-year programme which supports Islington communities with lived experience of exclusion to collectively explore their narratives, stories and shared histories. Reclaim Islington is generously supported by Freelands Foundation’s Space to Dream and Art Fund’s Reimagine funds.