Love Letters from Deep Waters | Working with Anger | Full Series

Anger, like water, holds currents beneath its surface. Sometimes turbulent, sometimes still, always carrying the weight of what has been held for too long. This workshop series invites us to communicate with the parts of our bodies where anger resides, listening to their unspoken messages and finding ways to release what has been trapped.

Through guided movement, somatic exercises, performative scores, and journaling we will explore how anger moves within us and how it longs to be acknowledged. By attuning ourselves to its frequency, we will create pathways for transformation - allowing anger to shift, flow, and reveal its deeper layers.

The workshop series is also a space for connection beyond the self. Anger is often intertwined with loss, with wounds inherited from histories both personal and collective. Through the embodied dialogue, we will embark into a journey to write love letters from deep waters. With movement, breath, and vibration.

What does it mean to hold anger with love? To let it speak, move, and transform without fear of it consuming us? In this workshop, we will create a space where the energy of anger is neither suppressed nor unleashed recklessly, but met with deep listening, curiosity and respect, and a potential transformation. 

By bookings through this page, you sign up for the whole series, taking place weekly on Monday evenings in October. You can also sign up for individual sessions here.

Dates:

• 06.10.2025, 18:00 - 19:30
• 13.10.2025, 18:00 - 19:30
• 20.10.2025, 18:00 - 19:30
• 27.10.2025, 18:00 - 19:30

About the facilitator

(they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans long-durational live performances, video, installation, text, and public interventions. Leman's work delves into the intricate intersections of chronopolitics and necropolitics, with a keen focus on the vulnerability and resilience of marginalized, especially queer bodies. Their artistic inquiry is driven by a deep engagement with histories of violence and systems of privilege, challenging and re-appropriating these narratives from a distinctly Southwest Asian perspective.

Since 2016, Leman has led various workshops focused on body, movement, performance, and long-durational practices in Turkey and Europe. They view these workshop processes as opportunities for collective sharing and creating spaces for each other. They are committed to fostering safer environments where queer individuals, BIPOCs, and members of marginalized communities can connect with their bodies and transform their vulnerabilities into strengths through performance art.

Leman holds an MFA in Live Art Forms degree from the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg, with distinction, and received the DAAD Prize 2024 with their graduation project. They showed their works at Pickle Bar, Berlin (2025); Door Foundation, Amsterdam (2024); Ornamenta2024, Pforzheim (2024); SANATORIUM, Istanbul (2024); Europride23, Valetta (2023); Bärenzwinger, Berlin (2023); ICA, London (2022); Goethe Institute, Rome (2022); SALT, Istanbul (2022); Schwules Museum, Berlin (2021); Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (2018), among others. They are one of the recipients of the Gwaetler Grant 2025 by Gwaetler Foundation.

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