UPCOMING
Movement Classes for Support Workers
Guest facilitated by Sarah Nash Wong
Sunday November 15, 4:30-6:30 pm
Q7 Studios – 77 east 7th avenue, “Vancouver”
Register here – suggested donation: $10-40
ABOUT:
These classes support movement, play, and strategies for those of us doing support and care work. We invite self-identified support workers, with the understanding that support work takes many forms, and is often not professionalized or even acknowledged. We recognize that workers increasingly experience “burnout”: a reasonable nervous system response to unsustainable systemic conditions. We recognize that burnout is not an individual failure to cope with crisis but rather a symptom of larger violent systemic structures at work.
These classes invite participants to access strategies for embodied rebound and repair, play, and connection through movement. Our belief is that we contain a multitude of responses in any given moment and that movement + dance with awareness can help us access and practice this responsive agility.
The goal is not to ‘fix’ or ‘get you back to work’. These classes include exhaustion and refusal as part of what we are moving with. We hope to build solidarity amongst workers, and co-create practices of being together even when in separate places, weaving fibers of strengthening bonds between us. For more information on who we are and this project: https://www.movementclassesforsupportworkers.com/
ACCESSIBILITY:
By dancing indoors together, we are incurring risks for airborne illnesses. If you are feeling unwell, please stay home!
These classes require a (sealed) kn-95 or equivalent masks (respirators). Masks/respirators will be provided if you do not have your own.
These classes involve invitations to self-determined movement that can be scaled and adapted to many expressions of mobility and experience with dance/movement.
Q7 is located at 77 East 7th Ave Vancouver, BC, on the corner of 7th and Quebec. The building entrance is on the north side of 7th, just across the street from Daniel Chocolates. There is paid street parking directly in front of the building as well as throughout the surrounding neighborhood, and multiple bus lines service the area with stops within three blocks to the south and east.
Q7 is a ground floor building with a manual-open front door. The building has 2 gender-inclusive, multi-stall washrooms with one wheelchair accessible stall in each washroom. Studio A, the largest dance studio, is wheelchair accessible by ramp though has a 2 inch high lip to get onto the sprung marley floor. Studio B is accessed by 10 stairs, and Studio C is accessed by 10 stairs.