Hospicing Modernity Workshop
Sundays, November 2–23 | 4-7pm (CT)
On Zoom
A reading, writing, discussion, and practice workshop based on the book Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira. Together, we’ll: • Reimagine how we learn, unlearn, and respond to crisis; • Expand our capacity to hold personal and collective space for difficult and painful things; • Understand the “5 modern-colonial Es”: Entitlements, Exceptionalism, Exaltation, Emancipation, and Enmeshment in low-intensity struggle activism; • Interrupt our satisfaction with modern-colonial desires that cause harm; • Create space for change driven neither by desperate hope nor a fear of desolate hopelessness. Pay-what-you-can (suggested $30-80).
FACILITATORS
B Tornaghi (IT) - born in BraSil, citizen of Earth, B has experienced culture in North America, Latin America, and Europe. Working with Translation & Interpreting (Portuguese, English, and Spanish primarily, though we can also communicate in Italian and French), dancing on land & water since childhood, everything feeds back into Eco-Social-Somatic Research & Practice; always activating curiosity about how movement/dance can help us reconnect with many other ways of thinking & perceiving, allowing our human experience to find and create bridges within the many languages of nature. Nature nurtures. Nurture nature.
B i Tornaghi (IT) - usufruindo do privilégio de experiências de vida nas culturas da América do Norte, América Latina, e Europa, e trabalhando com Tradução & Interpretação (Português, Inglês, e Espanhol proeficiêntes e capacidade de comunicação também em Italiano e Francês), dançando n'água e na terra desde neném, tudo se condensa em pesquisa & Prática Eco-Social-Somática; sempre com curiosidade sobre como movimento/dança pode ajudar a gente a reconectar com múltiplas outras maneiras de pensar & perceber, permitindo que a nossa experiência humana encontre caminhos e crie pontes entre as muitas linguagens da natureza. Natureza nutre. Nutra a natureza.
Thomlin Swan (they/he) is a queer, Jewish artist, organizer, and co-founder of Emergent Seas Great Lakes Storying Collective. Thomlin has been learning from Black and Indigenous Water Protectors and Water Warriors around the Great Lakes about how to respond to and learn from the crises of environmental racism and boom-and-bust collapse. Thomlin is excited to be helping create the 2026 Amerikin Carnival—an all-senses experience in navigating geographic, cultural, and spiritual migratory paths out of isolation and into connection. Thomlin lives in Nahgachiwanong (Cloquet, MN) with their family.