Workshop: exploring rituals of care through shrine-making with Cora Sehgal Cuthbert
Wednesday 31st July 2024 , 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Drawing upon the centrality of love to her practice and her Hindu and Christian background, join multidisciplinary artist Cora Sehgal Cuthbert to make a mini, portable shrine to pay homage to a personal object of yours as a means of loving and extending care to the world around us and ourselves.
Cora will kick off the workshop by giving a little bit of context to the themes of love and loss that ground her artistic practice and her personal connection to shrines and rituals of care. In an act of resistance to the notions of ‘high’ and ‘low’ cultural objects, we will each be making mini, portable shrines to pay homage to a personal object of yours, facilitating a recognition and honouring of the beauty and special-ness in personal, everyday objects which hold our treasured dreams, wishes, and memories.
Cora will invite attendees to respond to a series of writing and drawing prompts which will help us meaningfully engage with and get to know our personal objects, before we assemble our writings and drawings into their final shrine form. We will end the session by dreaming up new rituals of care and intention that we can use to activate and tend to our shrines going forward.
No experience necessary – all materials are provided
Things to bring with you
Please bring along a personal object (or image of your chosen object) that is of particular significance to you for whatever reason. This could be anything ranging from an item of clothing or a piece of jewellery, to a photograph, an amulet, or anything else you can think of!
This workshop will take place in our indoor courtyard room at Bow Arts Trust, 183 Bow Road, London, E3 2SJ.
Concession rate applies to students, over 65s, under 18s, Bow Arts artists, National Art Pass members, and key workers
More about Cora Sehgal Cuthbert
Cora Sehgal Cuthbert is a multidisciplinary artist based in London. Her work explores the intersections between the personal, the cultural, and a universal spirituality/humanity. Through this, Cora aims to expand her own and the audience’s worldview, to encourage the sharing of stories, and to encourage the recognition of the beauty and love within our own everyday lives. Specific themes Cora has recently explored include ideas of home, immigration, faith, grief, desire and disability.
Access information
The Bow Arts Trust courtyard room 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.
