Open Studio & Letterpress Demo
Open Studio & Letterpress Demo -Dream Journals, Prints, Cards
Open Studio & Letterpress Demo
Open Studio & Letterpress Demo -Dream Journals, Prints, Cards
Trauma and the Body Workshop with Karin Spitfire
Trauma and the Body
Workshop With Karin Spitfire
A pioneer creator in somatic work shares 40 years of experience in healing trauma
Topics to explore include Somatic Integration, Sensorimotor Loop, Physiology of Dissociation, Nervous System Reversals, The Vagus Nerve, Reenactment vs. Release, Embodiment, Movement, Shame, Expression, Self- Regulation, Cellular Breathing, Grounding, Three Dimensionality, and a Socio/Political Context.
Nov. 9, Belfast Free Library, 9am-12
The workshop will include embodiment experiences. Please wear comfortable clothes, bring water and snacks.
Open to All by donation including survivors, healers, practitioners and therapists. Questions? Call Karin Spitfire, OT, LMT at 338-5634 or Nick Cullen LCSW, CCS at 322-8102
Supported by the Belfast Dance Studio and Center for Embodiment, Possibility Alliance, Avena Botanicals, Rockweed, Natassia Mullally LMT,
Nick Cullen LCSW/New Ground Counseling, Mary Auslander LCSW
*Support will be present during workshop if needed
Karin Spitfire is poet, artist, OT, RC, LMT, former LCPC and graduating practitioner and teacher of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen’s School for Body Mind Centering. Spitfire has a BA and MA in Women’s Studies, and has been activist in multiple struggles for peace and justice since 1969. Spitfire opened the fourth battered women’s shelter in the country in 1978. In 1982, the first year Maine mandated professionals report child abuse, she created “Incest: It’s all Relative”-a dance narration that toured nationally until 1990. Spitfire started doing pioneering work in trauma healing utilizing body work, movement, voice, theater, and psychotherapy, encompassing what is now referred to as somatics or body-oriented therapy in 1985. Spitfire held Creative Expression Groups, from Fort Kent to Portland, Sipayik to Bethel thru “Looking UP” a grassroots Incest Survivor Group active in the 80’s and early 90’s. She was present at the Body-Psychotherapy Conference in 1995, where Bessel Van der Kolk, famously discovered the body and Stephen Porges presented his beginnings of the Polyvagal Theory. She has worked with hundreds of survivors including herself.
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Word Festival
Book 5 of the Seven Sacred Sites/Sights, Press On-A Rumination on the 5th Chakra: The Voice, will be on display at Cynthia Winings Gallery, Blue Hill, from Oct. 24-27 as part of the WORD Festival.
There will be a live reading of the book Thursday evening.
For details check www.wordfestival.org
Belfast Poetry Festival—The Exceptions: Karin Spitfire, Lisa Leaverton, Kathryn Robyn
The Exceptions is a loosely organized duet/trio/combo of creative collaborators for nearly 50 years in poetry, cosmology, performance and activism. They will present a salty set of fun and cranky experimental jazz punk improv poetry, peppered with a good helping of musical audience participation. Details in the works, check
www.belfastpoetryfestival.com/
Karin Spitfire: The Body in Late Stage Capitalism and Other Poems @ Friends of Harriet L. Hartley Member Meeting @ Belfast UU & ZOOM
This month, we are joined by HLH's own Karin Spitfire, who will offer up a sure-to-be-moving poetry reading. Spitfire is a poet and activist conceptual artist who uses whatever medium necessary to get across the message, song, dance, poetry, rant, diatribe, prints, artist books, and letterpress. Spitfire is the author of two poetry collections, Standing with Trees (2006), and The Body in Late Stage Capitalism (2021).
Rivers of Ink: Literary Reflections on the Penobscot- Anthology Reading
My poem, “Liquidation,” has been included in a new anthology of writings for the Penobscot River, called Rivers of Ink: Literary Reflections on the Penobscot. The anthology was produced in conjunction with the Bangor Book Fair and all proceeds go to benefit Friends of Katahdin Woods and Water. “Liquidation” won the Joe Gouveia Outermost Contest, judged by Marge Piercy, in 2019.
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