Painting and writing workshop
Explore your past, present, and future through writing and painting. Drawing inspiration from Kasàlà—a ritual poetic tradition from sub-Saharan Africa—these workshops invite you to weave words and colors on canvas, creating a dialogue between memory, identity, and creativity.
Participants can attend one, two or three sessions.
Photo by Yasmina Guerma
This workshop brings together the poetic and artistic practices of the participants with the world of Everlyn Nicodemus. Inspired by Kasàlà, a ritual poetic tradition of the Luba people, it invites everyone to explore the past, present and future through writing and painting.
During each session, participants write a word or letter addressed to their inner child, their current self, or the person they wish to become. These texts then serve as a starting point for painting exercises on canvas, fabric, pieces of wood, or any other medium that suits you and makes sense. Each workshop consists of an introduction, practice, writing and sharing, creating a space for experimentation and personal reflection where colours and words respond to each other.
With three workshops in total, the cycle allows you to work on each time frame in depth, while offering the possibility of participating in one or more sessions without redundancy. The activity thus explores the intimate link between text and image, memory and creativity.
Hady-Salomé Dahan or Khady Bodiang, depending on location, is a 24-year-old multidisciplinary artist, Afro-descendant, Jewish, Queer. Grew up between Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Europe.
I try to reweave parts of my/our heritage that were cut off from me/us with a machete. A storyteller at heart, I narrate, slam, paint and depict so that those forgotten by history are never again silenced.