Touching Palms with Grief
Touching Palms with Grief (2024) is an exhibition and event programme exploring the complex and nuanced ways we cope
with loss. It showcases artwork and writing
from the recent Student Grief Zine, and photography stills from the short film Floating on Blue.
It invites us to reflect on how can we touch on such a difficult subject gently, open ourselves to the potential for feeling and healing when it is much easier to turn and run the other way.
Gallery Cafe, St Margaret’s House, E2 9PL
16th April - 25th May 2024
Free to drop in, 9am-6pm everyday
It invites us to reflect on how can we touch on such a difficult subject gently, open ourselves to the potential for feeling and healing when it is much easier to turn and run the other way.
Gallery Cafe, St Margaret’s House, E2 9PL
16th April - 25th May 2024
Free to drop in, 9am-6pm everyday
THE FILM:
Floating on Blue is a short film exploring a woman's detachment from every day life, following a devastating loss. Through intimate fragments of a normal day, several years later, we are asked to consider how we can move through grief without disconnecting from ourselves and the world around us. How we bear something painful and still allow ourselves to experience moments of joy and light relief. How we let our hearts break while staying rooted in love. Watch the trailer here.
Creative team:
Anna May
Sam Mathias-Stanley
Elifcan Yazgun
Henry Weekes
Tom Keats
Alfie Holloway
Floating on Blue is a short film exploring a woman's detachment from every day life, following a devastating loss. Through intimate fragments of a normal day, several years later, we are asked to consider how we can move through grief without disconnecting from ourselves and the world around us. How we bear something painful and still allow ourselves to experience moments of joy and light relief. How we let our hearts break while staying rooted in love. Watch the trailer here.
Creative team:
Anna May
Sam Mathias-Stanley
Elifcan Yazgun
Henry Weekes
Tom Keats
Alfie Holloway
Cover art by Charlie Matthews
THE ZINE:
The Student Grief Zine is a resource that helps us understand how we, and others, may experience grief, and to start moving through some of those layers. It was designed with uni students in mind, but really, it’s for anyone who has experienced loss, as well as those wanting to offer their support. With contributions from seventeen young adults, it consists of short written chapters, artwork, and quotes.
The zine is a collaboration with The Student Grief Network and The New Normal Charity, and has kindly been funded by the Angus Lawson Memorial Trust.
Read more and visit the site for the zine here.
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The Student Grief Zine is a resource that helps us understand how we, and others, may experience grief, and to start moving through some of those layers. It was designed with uni students in mind, but really, it’s for anyone who has experienced loss, as well as those wanting to offer their support. With contributions from seventeen young adults, it consists of short written chapters, artwork, and quotes.
The zine is a collaboration with The Student Grief Network and The New Normal Charity, and has kindly been funded by the Angus Lawson Memorial Trust.
Read more and visit the site for the zine here.
