public programme natural relations
Friday 25 September
🍀 13:00–17:00 | ARTisBOOK and Block C open
🍀 15:00–17:00 | Talk with aqui Thami
🍄 16:00 | Wild foraging walk with Ilse Donker, starting at ARTisBOOK
Saturday 26 September
🍀 13:00–17:00 | ARTisBOOK and Block C open
🍀 13:00–16:00 | VELD Collective – Harvest Festival at the Volkshortus
🍀 20:30 - 21:30 | Tite-Pati smoking ceremony - aqui Thami
🍄 11:00 | Wild foraging walk with Ilse Donker, starting at Café Zondag, Noorderplantsoen
Wild foraging walk,
You can register for the foraging walks on 25 September, 26 September by emailing info@artisbook.nl. Please clearly state which date you are registering for.
burning tite pati
Two events with artist aqui Thami
As part of natural relations, an exhibition celebrating herman de vries, aqui Thami brings her book Burning Tite-Pati: Healing Practices of the Indigenous Himalayan Peoples, created in collaboration with her grandmothers, into relation with a living ceremonial practice.
Tite-pati is one of the sacred medicines of the Himalayan mountains. For generations, the Kiratimma, the Indigenous peoples of the Himalayas, have understood plants as relatives, part of a living web of relationship between people, forests, soil, water, animals, ancestors, and the cycles of the moon and sun.
Friday 25 September | 15:00
aqui will speak about Burning Tite-Pati, the knowledge of the grandmothers who shaped the book, and the continuing relationship between the forest, healing and community. She will also offer tite-pati prints for sale — medicine to take home — with all proceeds going to communities affected by the devastating floods in Nepal. The prints were made at Minerva Print Workshop under the love and care of Krystel Hunnersen.
Saturday 26 September | 20:30 (doors open from 20:00)
Under the full moon, aqui will bring the smoking ceremony of tite-pati onto the roof of ARTisBOOK and Block C. The ceremony is an offering of healing, balance and peace. a moment to gather and acknowledge our natural relations.
The ceremony arrives at a difficult moment for the Himalayan mountains and the communities who have cared for them for generations. As ecological devastation continues to fall hardest on those least responsible for the systems producing it, this offering is also a gentle call to care, to stand in solidarity, and to remember that solidarity begins with relationship.
VELD collective in Volshortus Selwerd
13:00–16:00 | VELD Collective – Harvest Festival at the Volkshortus
