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Jul
23
Thu
A-byssó café
Jul 23 @ 20:00

A-byssó café    – For a community in struggle

A-byssó café presents:  Rizitiko by Venus Volcanism  listening party

Venus Volcanism is the musician and electronic artist Rena Rasouli.  Her first solo mini-album “Rizitiko’ was released this spring.  She uses traditional folk songs of her native island Crete as a basis for this work.  The album will be played through for the first time in Iceland and a music video for one of the songs will be screened.   All money collected this evening will go to support imprisoned female anarchist fighters in Greece.

‘Rizitiko’ evolved from Rasouli’s thesis titled “the music performances based in traditional dialect focuses on the healing ability of sound”. The songs were created and sung by folk troubadours. Expanding on these oeuvres, Rasouli seized on the idea that the melodic use of voice is the oldest form of therapy in human culture. This primary and ritualistic material was intertwined with electronic and natural ambient soundscapes. The resulting compositions express the omnipresent sensations and emotions that play a key role in the healing process whilst communicating an intense connection to the collective unconscious.  Traditionally sung by men there are numerous reasons to believe that many of the songs were initially created by women. To sing them in a female voice projects a different approach to the traditional rendition – one closer to that of a lullaby. 

Café opens at 20:00
Video and album playing at 21:00

Sep
2
Wed
Closed meeting
Sep 2 @ 20:00 – 22:00
Sep
13
Sun
closed meeting
Sep 13 @ 15:00 – 18:00
Sep
16
Wed
closed meeting
Sep 16 @ 17:00 – 18:30
Sep
22
Tue
Complex PTSD Lecture
Sep 22 @ 17:30 – 19:30

Pete Walker’s Complex-PTSD theory – What it is, how it works and ways to heal it

Pete Walker is an American psychotherapist who has specialised in the treatment of complex post-traumatic stress for over thirty years.
The lecture will mostly be based around his book ‘Complex PTSD – From surviving to thriving’ which outlines his theories about how CPTSD is formed, how it manifests psychologically, emotionally and interpersonally and his multi-dimensional approach to healing it.

This theory and it’s practical approach has been one of the corner stones in my own mental-emotional healing/growth for about 5 years and I want to share it’s main contents as well as some of my own experience with this work.
The purpose of the event is mainly to create space for education and discussion, not group therapy.

Some of the topics discussed will most likely be emotionally charged and potentially triggering for many people and I will do my best to make everybody feel as safe as possible. For example by stressing the importance of speaking from ones own experience and avoiding assuming other people’s experiences.

Among the topics discussed will be:
Trauma, triggers, emotional flashbacks, emotional violence, abusive/neglectful/dysfunctional parenting and family dynamics, different types of trauma responses, toxic-shame, guilt, anger, rage, grief and grieving, healing.

Jan
19
Tue
Slagtog work and organising meeting
Jan 19 @ 18:00 – 20:00

Feminist self-defence collective Slagtog meets weekly to organise their work. For further detail please write to slagtog@gmail.com

Jan
26
Tue
Slagtog work and organising meeting
Jan 26 @ 18:00 – 20:00

Feminist self-defence collective Slagtog meets weekly to organise their work. For further detail please write to slagtog@gmail.com

Feb
2
Tue
Slagtog work and organising meeting
Feb 2 @ 18:00 – 20:00

Feminist self-defence collective Slagtog meets weekly to organise their work. For further detail please write to slagtog@gmail.com

Feb
9
Tue
Slagtog work and organising meeting
Feb 9 @ 18:00 – 20:00

Feminist self-defence collective Slagtog meets weekly to organise their work. For further detail please write to slagtog@gmail.com

Feb
13
Sat
impro import collective – meeting
Feb 13 @ 15:00 – 19:00

impro import organizing meeting