Together with the collective Mad Ground, HAUT invites you for a conversation on queerness and spirituality including a vegetarian dinner.

The collective explores how working with states of MADNESS, including overwhelm, grief, trigger, and dysregulation grow educational methodologies which challenge ableist notions of safety and wellbeing towards more LIBERATORY PRACTICES and pedagogies? The collective asks:

How have regimes of safe(r) space, which prioritize safety and EMOTIONAL REGULATION over all else, limit artistic education while maintaining status quo distributions of power and harm? How can experiences of madness be understood as opportunities for generative exploration and what kinds of structures and facilitation are necessary for this? How do we address issues of risk and harm within such a research? What are ethical concerns stemming from uneven distributions of power and how might we mitigate these?

For Mad Ground, our explorations of madness coincide and intertwine with our SPIRITUAL and FAITH PRACTICES. To be overwhelmed or put in a state of dysregulation have long been utilized in religious ceremonies to promote self-knowledge and open practitioners up to new ways of being and seeing the world (often through a connection with divinity). How can we as educators bring in this spiritual/faith component of the research while respecting people’s different backgrounds, beliefs, and cultures? How can we utilize our own religious practices of madness with students safely and respectfully?

Participation in the event is FREE but please reserve a ticket before Tuesday February 10 at 12 o'clock to register for the vegetarian dinner, as there are limited spots.