This event requires a participation fee of €25. To secure your spot, please RSVP by answering the required questions, and then we’ll send you the payment link.
Exploring Grief through Play is an experimental space to practice being with and expressing various kinds of feelings, without having to rationalise them or put them into words. The container will provide a series of short exercises that give permission to feel emotions such as grief, wonder, rage and connection with the aim to experience the sensations in the body and perhaps exaggerate them a bit using voice, sound and movement.
Drawing inspiration from clowning, improvisation games, grief tending, and toddlers, workshop facilitator Camille Sapara Barton provides a trauma-informed container to move through short, facilitated moments of sensing, feeling and release with a lot of grounding practices woven throughout. All exercises are voluntary and no one will be judged for skipping an exercise. Hopefully it will be a connected and cathartic experience.
This Sunday workshop is open to everyone, with a maximum of 20 participants. Registration is on a first-come basis, and all participants will be asked to complete a short questionnaire on their interest at registration.
The Exploring Grief through Play workshop is one of four workshops taking place during the 2025 Palestinian Film Festival Amsterdam. For more details on the festival's programme of workshops, visit:
thepffa.nl/pffa-2025/films-and-events.
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Camille Sapara Barton is a writer, consultant, embodiment facilitator and movement artist that supports organisations to flow through transitions. Their work creates relational wellbeing by increasing connection to the body, care practices, grief and imagination. Camille’s movement practice explores the interplay between bodies, words and vibration by weaving dance, clowning, somatics and sonics. Their work aims to deepen ancestral communication technologies and grow imagination gardens. Camille is the author of Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community (2024).
[IMAGE: Camille Sapara Barton conducting a previous workshop at W139, Amsterdam]
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The Palestinian Film Festival Amsterdam (PFFA) envisions an inclusive podium to showcase a diversity of genres, including drama features, shorts, animations and documentaries, presented by both established and emerging Palestinian directors.Founded in 2015 by curator and film programmer Nihal Rabbani, the PFFA emerged from a grassroots community action, fueled by a commitment to create a platform that would address the exclusion of indigenous directors from Palestinian film programmes in the Netherlands.PFFA’s purpose is to counter the dominance of films and film programmes on Palestine by foreign and amateur directors. Often shot with handheld cameras, these are usually activist documentaries, which, though recording important political content, can tend to overshadow Palestinian voices in film. The ultimate goal of the PFFA platform is to bring visibility to Palestinian directors who are working across genres, including drama features, shorts, animations and documentaries; and to provide screening opportunities for them to share their artistic narratives and cinematographic experiments with audiences.The PFFA is the only running festival focused on Palestinian filmmakers in the Benelux region. The festival continues to expand and deepen its representation of Palestinian voices, both in film and from across fields of cultural production (ranging from photography, poetry and literature, to artisanal handcraft and culinary activism).
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