Camille Barton

IN SERVICE TO LIFE: EMBODIED CREATIVITY AND COLLECTIVE LIBERATION

We are living through times of great change. This moment calls for new forms of embodied connection and collectivity to tend the soil for sustained resistance and creative interventions that serve life.

This workshop will provide an entry point to considering how we can befriend our bodies, and listen to the wisdom of our bodies, in order to create the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible.

Join artist and educator Camille Barton. The session will begin with some connection games and embodied exercises to ground and create some playful energy in the group. Next, we will explore how to disentangle from the legacies of hierarchical, ableist and racist thinking that we have inherited from Western culture.

There will be space for sharing and reflections before we move into a final section, using pleasure - focused dance to explore how we can vision more beautiful futures, and our role in creating them.

THE WAR ON DRUGS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: BEYOND PSYCHEDELICS EXCEPTIONALISM

Panel by Daan Keiman, Erica Lagalisse and Camille Barton

As psychedelic-assisted therapies enter the mainstream, psychedelic exceptionalism is the dominant narrative - the idea that psychedelics are the ""good drugs"" and other substances are ""bad"" drugs.

In order to make ethical decisions that expand access to psychedelics, it is essential to consider the impact of the war on drugs, which has disproportionately impacted Black people, as well as other global majority communities, in the UK, USA, Canada, Brazil and other European contexts.

In this discussion panel, Daan Keiman will weave a reflection with artist and educator Camille Barton and anthropologist Erica Lagalisse on how to move beyond psychedelic exceptionalism and acknowledge the ways that drug policy has been used as a tool of social and racial control.

This panel will consider how learning from the past will allow us to weave different futures, rooted in care for all beings as well as bodily autonomy.