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Workshop: practising Qi Gong and communal energy healing and cultivation with bones tan jones
Sunday 14th July 2024 , 2:00pm to 4:00pm
THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW SOLD OUT. PLEASE EMAIL NUNNERY@BOWARTS.COM IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE ADDED TO THE WAITLIST.
Rooted in core Qi Gong principles and ideas around energy cultivation, explore a movement practise that tends to our internal energy, which we will then transform into sculptures made from paper clay.
Building on their ongoing Daoist and Qi Gong practice and its intersection with paganism, land-based practice, and world building, bones tan jones will guide us through a series of gentle Qi Gong movements and energy cultivation techniques to nurture the dantian energy centres in our bodies.
Through poetry and written reflections, we will annotate scrap pieces of paper with our feelings, responses, and memories, before coming together and using our words in the creation a batch of sustainable paper clay. We will then dream up what our own personal energy balls might look like before bringing them into the physical realm moulding, sculpting, and shaping the paper clay, imbuing our balls with the collective and personal dreams, hopes, and poetic essences of the people convened in the space.
All materials provided – no experience in Qi Gong or clay is necessary! This workshop is children and family-friendly.
This workshop will take place either in our outdoor courtyard (if the weather is on our side!) or in our indoor courtyard room at our main site at Bow Arts Trust, E3 2SJ.
THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW SOLD OUT. PLEASE EMAIL NUNNERY@BOWARTS.COM IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE ADDED TO THE WAITLIST.
Concession rate applies to students, over 65s, under 18s, Bow Arts artists, National Art Pass members, and key workers
More about bones tan jones
bones tan jones (b.93 Liverpool) is a queer heretic whose work traverses materials, disciplines and time lines. raised in a church choir in the northwest of the UK, on the borderlands of mythical Wales and enchanted England, tan jones’s work has ne’er strayed far from the ecclesiastic rituals of worship, only in tan jones’s world, the church has been burnt, the yew trees thrive in the ashes, and god is trans.
bones tan jones presents their living praxis ‘optimystic dystopia’ as a spiritual practice. an eternal storyteller, alternative realities are explored through alter egos, retellings of ancient Chinese and Celtic mythologies through creating symphonies/operas/psalms/triptychs/sigils/stele/installations/interventions/inter-active workshops.
Access information
The Bow Arts Trust courtyard has step-free access throughout from street level, including to the accessible toilet, and is service animal friendly. This venue does not have a hearing loop system. Accessible parking is not available on-site but blue badge parking can be found 500m away on Fairfield Road.
If you have any questions regarding accessibility at this venue or event, would like to make us aware of any access requirements that you have in advance of visiting, or would like this information in an alternate format including Easy Read, please email nunnery@bowarts.com or call 020 3967 1643.
Access requirements could include things like providing equipment, services or support (e.g. information in Easy Read, speech to text software, additional 1:1 support), adjusting workshop timings (e.g. more break times), adjustments to the event space or anything else you can think of!
Transport Information
Opening hours: Mon-Fri, 9am to 5pm
Address: Bow Arts Trust, 183 Bow Road, London, E3 2SJ
Nearest station(s): Bow Road (District and Hammersmith and City lines) is a 6-minute walk away, and Bow Church (DLR) is a 3-minute walk away.
Bus: 205, 25, 425, A8, D8, 108, 276, 488 and 8 all service the surrounding area.
Bike: Bicycle parking is located at Bow Church Station. The nearest Santander Cycles docking station is at Bow Church Station.
