UPCOMING EVENTS

UPCOMING EVENTS

3-12 November 2023

2, Castings Way, London E3 2TH. Fish Island Hackney Wick

TRAUMA IN BLACK BODIES

VICARIOUS RE-TRAUMATISATION

“Traumatization may occur at a community level as well. In a population-based, quasi-experimental study, Bor et al., (2018) found that highly publicised police killings of unarmed Black people had spillover effects on the mental health of Black people in the region where the killing happened.

The impact was felt for months afterwards, whereas no ill effects were found for White people in those same localities. It is thought that the cultural legacy of state-inflicted oppression is a contributing factor leading to poor community health through vicarious retraumatization”

– Harvard PTSD Quarterly 2021

Vicarious re-traumatisation occurs in more circumstances than we may care to acknowledge.

1. When a person of African Caribbean descent watches a periodic movie on slavery e.g. ‘12 Years a Slave’ by Steve MacQueen etc.

2. In our numerous classrooms during History lessons that reference slavery and other aspects of the traumatic experiences of the African diaspora.

Adequate support is however not provided for young people, adolescents and adults who find themselves in these psychologically challenging scenarios.

In addition to the impactful life-changing images that will meet your gaze, mind management tools will be available in the therapeutic space to help fill the vacuum of these unmet needs.

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Paris April 2019

Adumaadan is a Yoruba word. A language spoken by over 50 million people that span the globe from West Africa to North America, The United Kingdom, Brazil and Cuba. The word is open to many interpretations. In this context, it means BLACK, THRIVE AND GLOW.

Trauma in Black Bodies is:

“The existential threat, feelings of fear, economic pressure, stress, isolation, fragmentation and systemic racism faced in our daily lives that can become overwhelming.“

Interwoven into the tapestry of Cornelius Browne’s unique mark-making is the unravelling of an emotional history replete with undoing centuries of miseducation of the African mind. Nuanced yet aggressive.

“In the spring of 2019, while exhibiting in Paris, I witnessed a spontaneous outburst of emotional healing and euphoria experienced by the African diaspora while engaging with my works”

- Cornelius Toks Browne