Ocean Song of Sorrow

‘Ocean Song of Sorrow’ is a weekend gathering for white bodied people, to tend the grief of our colonised and colonising past and present.  Connecting with the land at the Hearth, we will create ceremony, share songs, and express and witness the feelings that arise when we bring to mind historic and current events of colonisation. 

Intention

We will give a particular focus to the ‘transatlantic slave trade’ and the middle passage (the transportation on ships of those enslaved from Africa to the USA), as there is a direct link between the painful legacy of these and the history of this land.  Through grieving specifically for the involvement of this country and our ancestors in the transatlantic enslavement of African people, our intention is to welcome all responses that arise in relation to this theme more broadly.

This workshop was dreamed initially by Fran André, herself a woman of mixed…