Photo by Francesca Jones
When: Saturday 16 September, 1 - 3.30PM
Where: Primary, Kitchen
Booking: Limited places. Book here.
Oneiric Kitchen is a new collaborative project by adolescent counsellor and wellbeing practitioner Susie Cunningham and artist-filmmaker Chiemi Shimada. During September Chiemi is in residence at Primary as part of our Work in Common series, that encourages artists to experiment with different ways of working – either testing out a speculative idea or developing new collaborations.
Susie and Chiemi provide therapeutic cooking workshops for people with sleep disorders. Susie is a patient with an incurable sleep disorder. Chiemi met her in 2019 and started documenting her lived experience. The project aims to create a safe space to reflect on the participants' relationship with sleep through sensory and therapeutic cooking experiences.
The workshop:
Susie and Chiemi are facilitating a therapeutic cooking workshop at Primary for adults with sleep disorders. Participants will be encouraged to reflect on their relationship with sleep by making energy balls. The workshop will be filmed for documentation, so participants need to be comfortable on camera. Please bring your own aprons if you have one, and we will provide some for those who don’t.
Breakdown:
1pm - Circle time
1:30pm - Cooking starts
2:30pm - Plating & eating
3pm - Reflection
3:30pm - Wrap up
Bios:
Susie Cunningham is a creative integrative arts counsellor and has a long history of working with children and young people with complex needs and challenging behaviour through trauma-informed care. She has many years of experience working within the educational and charity sectors to ensure that every young person has an opportunity to participate and flourish. She has worked within community settings and in one-to-one work. She is also a trained retreat chef and has integrated this into her therapeutic practice.
Chiemi Shimada is an artist-filmmaker currently based in London. Working with both analogue (8, 16mm film) and digital materials, her films and installations explore memory, in-between states, and filmic spaces. Her work has been exhibited and screened at the ICA London, New Art Exchange, Nunnery Gallery, Museum of Modern Art Gunma, LUX, Typography Center for Contemporary Art, and Image Forum, among others.
Access:
This event will take place in our ground-floor kitchen which has level access from our main entrance. Weather depending dining might take place outdoors. Please email admin@weareprimary.org or call 0115 924 4493 with any access inquiries.