UPCOMING PROGRAM
Sensory Dimensions (Casey Hall-Landers and Elicia Neo)
Painting Your Pain
15 April - 30 April 2025
/ Description (Painting Your Pain: Processing Trauma and Pain Through Communal Care)
Painting Your Pain is an interactive and reflective experience designed to help participants explore and express the emotional and physical aspects of pain through creative and mindful practices. Supported by guided meditation and reflective writing prompts, this workshop opens the door for you to explore the integral and inseparable connection between your mind and body using tactile painting and play. Together, we investigate themes surrounding how emotions and trauma manifest in the body and how the body reacts to long term pain and healing from acute injury. Participants will work to create abstract paintings that represent how their bodies are feeling in the present moment. This workshop emphasizes the importance of play in the act of processing trauma and pain through communal care.
This free event welcomes everyone, from visual artists seeking to enrich their creative practice to those seeking tools for navigating and understanding their daily experiences. Together, we’ll process and explore our collective experiences, fostering a supportive community where shared connection leads to deeper insights and growth.
Body Sense Workshops A & B: Exploring Body Awareness Through TOUCH and IMAGERYwith sound art
In this movement-based workshop series, we will explore how to access interoception and deepen body awareness through guided touch, sensory-rich imagery, and movement based in nervous system regulation techniques. This workshop invites you to connect more intimately with your body, cultivating a greater sense of presence and groundedness while providing the tools needed to articulate, advocate, and take care of yourself in times of pain and discomfort.
Whether you’re looking to deepen your somatic practice, reduce stress, or learn to understand your pain, these exercises will help you increase body awareness, aid with alignment, and understand anatomical mechanics, fostering a deeper connection to your body and its needs.
A TOUCH - Contact-Based Exploration
We will use gentle, mindful contact to facilitate interoception. By engaging with touch, participants will be able to connect with parts of their bodies that we often disassociate from.
B IMAGERY - Imagery-Based Exploration
We will use nature-based imagery to stimulate sensory imagination. Guided visualization exercises will help participants connect with the mechanics of anatomically-based movement through nature-based metaphor.
Dates:
15 April - Arrival On Site
17,19, 22, 24 April - ‘Body Sense’ Workshops (Morning) with music
26-29 April - Paint Your Pain Workshop to Residents, Youths, Collaborations
Schedule & Breakdown:
/ Program Directors’ Bio
Sensory Dimensions (Casey Hall-Landers and Elicia Neo) depicts the experiences of disabled people with chronic illness and pain by immersing audiences in multi-sensory environments using a diverse range of artistic modalities to create accessible live art events. Founded through the Berklee NYC Masters program in Creative Media and Technology, the duo is fueled by a passion to create safe and welcoming spaces for all. Sensory Dimensions recontextualizes pain through sensory and artistic pathways, using nature as a mirror to understand the body. Since debuting their exhibition Pain/Relief, they have presented on accessibility design at the Performers(') Present 2023 artistic research symposium (Singapore) and performed excerpts in San Diego. Through their work, Casey and Elicia aim to raise awareness of invisible disabilities and chronic illness.
