ahmad baba
anger issues workshop
le 6 juin de 14h30 à 16h30
Cette activité se déroulera en anglais
This workshop is limited to 15 participants. Priority will be given to SWANA queer people. If spaces remain available, spots will be open to queer people from the global majority.
Anger Issues Workshop Facilitated by Ahmad Baba
Anger is often a feeling that is demonized and labeled as a threat. Many of us live our lives trying to avoid it—from systems that tell us we shouldn’t, from parents who suppressed it, to a world that asks all of us not to be angry in the midst of all the injustice, violence, and loss we are witnessing and experiencing. Using somatic practices and creative arts-based exploration, we will work with anger as a felt experience in the body. Participants will be guided through exercises involving movement, breath, voice, and creative expression, supporting awareness of how anger arises, builds, and transforms.This workshop works with anger as a force, and as a way to access the vital energy that is often suppressed within us, allowing it to move in the body in a balanced and healthy way. We will also explore the more aliveness-imbued and even joyful qualities that can sit underneath anger, approaching it as a doorway or stepping stone toward greater clarity, vitality, and the “light” that can emerge when this energy is met rather than avoided. No movement or dance experience is needed. All exercises are consent-based, invitational, and adaptable to different comfort levels.
Ahmad Baba is a Lebanese multidisciplinary performance artist, creative facilitator, and qualified dance movement therapist (MA), whose practice centers on states of liminality and the in-between. As a queer migrant, his work resists dominant aesthetic and hegemonic artistic frameworks, creating space for alternative modes of presence, perception, and expression. Through performance, video, archival research, and ritualized practices, he explores memory as it relates to exile, displacement, and embodied histories. His work engages the intersecting embodied and somatic dimensions of experience in their therapeutic context, translating them into artistic means and creating a space between therapeutic process and artistic expression.His facilitation and artistic practice are grounded in corporeal experience, examining how social, historical, and spatial forces shape the body and its capacity to remember and respond. Alongside his artistic work, Ahmad leads somatic and movement-based workshops that integrate creative practice with therapeutic awareness, supporting embodied exploration in both individual and group settings.By working against normative structures of legibility and productivity, his work invites ambiguity, multiplicity, and collective reflection, proposing artistic and therapeutic spaces that hold difference without the need for translation.