‘Shedding Playground: Reptile Time’ is a workshop facilitated by Kai Hazelwood, an artist, artistic researcher, and embodied healing practitioner. It is a space for D/disabled and chronically ill community to slow down and slither together 🐍

This playground is inspired by snakes and creatures who shed their skin, our ‘Snakecestors.’ We’ll embody their slowness, exploring movement that is both big and minuscule. We’ll experiment with the millennia spanning slowness of snakes, and see how it impacts our movement habits. In other words: How do we move when there’s time enough for all of us and everything?

Together we’ll practice resting, doing less and feeling more. We call it a playground to remind us to lower the stakes, to play rather than try to control, and to remind us that this is play, you cannot fail.

This is a space for body-based artists, dancers, movement and somatic practitioners, theater artists, and any body that wants to move. No experience other than your own is required.

About Kai Hazelwood

Kai Hazelwood is a multi award-winning Disabled, Black, and Queer transdisciplinary artist, artistic researcher, and embodied healing practitioner. Her work, regardless of genre, is always reflective of the intersecting communities that have made her and continue to hold her up, down, and together.

Kai is the founder and executive artistic director of Good Trouble Makers, a practice driven arts collaborative celebrating queer identities and centering d/Disabled and chronically ill QTBIPOC. To foster communal healing for QTBIPOC and unravel embodied white supremacy she also co-founded Practice Progress, a consultancy addressing structural, professional, and interpersonal white supremacy through body based learning.

Kai supports individuals and groups in her embodied healing practice Homebody Living which combines EMDR and Somatic Therapy. Kai is also the co-founder of Crip Crap Community Utrecht NL, a community by and for crips/spoonies/disabled and chronically ill folks for support and fun.

About Affinity Collective 

Meetups, events and exhibitions by, for and with the crip, neurodivergent, mad and chronically unwell community in Belgium.