https://horlondon.org H'or London Tue, 15 Apr 2025 12:08:13 +0000 https://horlondon.org en https://horlondon.org/Homepage Thu, 25 Jan 2024 13:27:09 +0000 H'or London https://horlondon.org/Homepage H’or  H: Home studio for intersectional feminist practices Or: as an alternative to the definitions and experiences of the body; between sexuality and childbirth A container for events and workshops at the intersection of health, art and socially engaged practices. An anti-patriarchal collective framework for the deconstructions of ‘femininity’ and the healing of intergenerational traumas. Connect: bodiesbirth@gmail.com IG: @horlondon @dygravina Events and collaborations May 2026 An embodied medium workshop with Mexican-Korean Medicine channel and martial artist Yunuen Rhi. The channelling methodology, Huarache Constellation, brings medicine work into the creative process. It integrates indigenous medicine work that has often been appropriated, holding it with care and intention. The container is activated through collective movement centring Maria Sabina's poetics (Indigenous Mexican priestess of the mushrooms) in dialogue with the Zulu origins of Family Constellations. Jan 2024 A meeting with Italian feminist and thinker Lea Melandri and Autocoscienza Writing Group. Lea was a founding editor with Elvio Fachinelli of the radical journal L’erba voglio (1971–78) and author of L’infamia originaria (1977). She teaches at Milan’s Free University for Women. Her Love and Violence: The Vexatious Factors of Civilisation was published in English translation in 2019. Feb 2024 Sanctuary Homes Moonscape. A regenerative social club to reconnect the self, community and the earth through transformative experiences rooted in art, healing and nature.  More here  Ongoing Red Tent: Doulas preparation, Traditional postpartum, Radical birth educators courses. More here July 2023 The School for Ethical touch with ‘Listening touch’. More of their events in Oxford here   July 2023 - 2025 Pamela Samuelson: ‘Take back the Speculum’, a feminist, gender inclusive overview of the full spectrum of healthy sexual anatomy (& the destruction of the misogynist, racist bs materials most commonly used to educate us *and* our providers). More here https://horlondon.org/Artists-home-gallery Mon, 29 Jan 2024 17:29:29 +0000 H'or London https://horlondon.org/Artists-home-gallery H’or Home Gallery H’or is also a family home and a home gallery, communal areas and  rooms are curated with art.  This home gallery is dedicated to womxn and queer artists, most of them mothers and parents, who have worked and connected with H’or’s founder Dyana Gravina. Connect: bodiesbirth@gmail.com IG: @horlondon @dygravina List of artists Sally Butcher Amy Dignam Leni Dothan Sarah Gillham Dyana Gravina Ming Hing Hong Michele Landel Flavia Nasrin Testa Sophia Marinkov Jones Hollie Miller Lauren Pisano Qian Qian Louise Richardson Richelle Rich Alexis Soul Grey Anna Wantuch Stefania Zocco Nadia Zuberi Dyana Gravina, 2024. All rights reserved  https://horlondon.org/Residencies Mon, 15 Apr 2024 21:23:21 +0000 H'or London https://horlondon.org/Residencies H’or Residencies H’or is also a family home and runs a small Bnb with 2 rooms and 1 self conitained studio loft. The living room is a flexible space for some studio practice, sharing, workshops and meeting sessions.  This home gallery and residency space is dedicated to womxn and queer artists, writers, researchers and activists interested in (but not exlusive to) themes including interseactional feminist practices, birth, mothering, individual and collective healing and care. Connect: bodiesbirth@gmail.com IG: @horlondon @dygravina List of artists in residency/work visits/retreats Guadalupe Aldrete (Performance) Victoria Abrahams (Reproductive justice and women’s rights activist) Maddalena Fragnito (writing and research) Mee Jey (Textile and performance) Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal (writing) Romina De Novellis (performance) Hydra and Donatella Caggiano(performance) Juna Franka (Writing,Painting) Lea Melandri (writing) Simon Niemann (painting) Frieda Scott (Mixed media) Cara Wilmanns (painting) The residencies are indipendent and partially subsidised by the founder. Min 3 days Max 14 days  £250 per week  Includes accomodation, breakfast, mentoring and small sharing events.  * If you need help with support letters to acces funds for your stay please get in touch.  ** For any question please email bodiesbirth [AT] gmail DOT com  Dyana Gravina, 2024. All rights reserved  https://horlondon.org/Events Tue, 15 Apr 2025 12:08:13 +0000 H'or London https://horlondon.org/Events H’or Events H’or is a home space for intersecitonal feminists practices. It hosts different community events in a pace that is holistic and grows naturally through connections and collaborations. A container for events and workshops at the intersection of health, art and socially engaged practices. Connect: bodiesbirth@gmail.com IG: @horlondon @dygravina Upcoming events: Take Back the Speculum London with Pam Samuelson Sunday 4th of May 20252 - 6 PM  - Brixton, London. Full address and details will be sent via email after registration.  Registration Registration for TBTS is a 2 part process:1) Fill out the registration form at this LINK2) Send your chosen payment from within the sliding scale - £40-60 GBP over Venmo or Paypal.Venmo: Pamela-Samuelson Paypal: mercuria69@gmail.com Please consider your access to wealth and ability to pay, and choose the amount within the sliding scale that is appropriate and in integrity for you. Thank you!(If you use Paypal, please select Friends and Family if you can, or else account for the fees by adding a little extra - thank you!) Scholarships are always available as needed - please contact Pam to discuss this. No one turned away for lack of $, ever. Accomodation: We have two double rooms available if you wish to stay overnight on the 4th of May. Please get in touch for direct link to the rooms information and images. Price Range £50-£65 per night depending on number of people.  -------- Take Back the Speculum is a crash course in body literacy and sex education for grown ass people who never received the transformative, agency focused, pleasure centered, gender affirming initiation into powerful adult embodiment that their sex ed should have been. We continue the powerful tradition of self-help at the center of the feminist health and reproductive justice movements, and we stand on the shoulders of our elders and ancestors in this work. Join me for a 3 hour deep dive into everything you need to know to reclaim your innate powers, connect with your body, take the reins of your destiny, & make sure your doctor knows that they’re working for you.Class covers: a medically accurate, gender inclusive overview of the full spectrum of healthy sexual anatomy (& the destruction of the misogynist, racist bs materials most commonly used to educate us *and* our providers).an invitation to participate in the Gallery that Destroys All Shame.a demonstration of a cervical self exam.an opportunity for all participants to examine themselves with guidance (and, if desired and permitted, observe others).Opening and closing integration somatic movement facilitation with Dyana Gravina.  * This class is open to & appropriate for all human beings with internal sexual anatomy. This is an explicitly queer and trans-inclusive space. * * Trans/nonbinary/gender expansive fam, you are honored here - pls come get the info you need to get the care you deserve.Speculums will be provided .  *Medium speculums are the standard size used in all gynecological clinics. I recommend a small if you have ever experienced pain or discomfort with penetration in any context, and a long/large if you know that your cervix can be difficult to find with your finger. You cannot go wrong if you order all 3 available sizes! Please note that all registered participants will receive an email with all information to join within the week before the class. About Pam Samuelson Pamela Samuelson (She/They) is a certified somatic sex educator, a multidisciplinary bodyworker, a feminist health and sexuality advocate, a birth doula, the founder of the Feminist Health Alliance, School for Ethical Touch; a writer and activist, and a lifelong dancer based in Los Angeles. More on her work at www.embodywork.la About the host and assistant  Dyana Gravina (They/She) is an interdisciplinary artist, cultural producer, birth Doula, somatic movement practitioner and community builder. Author of ‘Embodied Histories - Medicalised sexuality, Childbirth and Subversive Bodies’, Dyana works at the intersation between art making and somatic practice creating spaces for personal and collective healing. They have been creating models of integrated care that have inspired systemic change across the cultural sectors. Dyana Gravina, 2024. All rights reserved  https://horlondon.org/More-information Mon, 15 Apr 2024 22:03:23 +0000 H'or London https://horlondon.org/More-information H’or  H’or is a project created by Dyana Gravina.  Dyana is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, birth Doula and activist, mover, and community builder. She is the founder of Procreate Project, a pioneering and grassroots arts organisation dedicated to (m)others and primary care givers and the Mother House Studios, the first and only artists studios model with integrated childcare. MA in 'Gender Sexuality and Culture' at Birkbeck University.  Their artistic and curatorial practices are interested in feminisms, migration, and body politics manifesting in a transdisciplinary body of work that combines writing, movement, performance, photography and installations. They use somatic movement as a research method; the body as material. She uses both autobiographical and collective knowledge to challenge the perception of the self under social constructions and cultural environments and redefine and deconstruct univocal notions of the 'female'. Connect: bodiesbirth [AT] gmail DOT com IG: @bodiesbirth @dygravina They have collaborated and curated projects with partners and venues including RCA, King’s College London, LADA Live Art Development Agency, Ugly Duck, Mimosa House, Women's Art Library, RichMix, Richard Saltoun Gallery, 198 contemporary Art and Learning, to mention a few. Her performance actions and performative lectures have been shown and hosted in the UK and internationally including, East Street Arts, Wellcome Collection, ]Performance Space[, Leyden Gallery, The Yard Theatre, Institute Centre of Photography ICP ( NYC), Art Basel / Richard Saltoun Gallery, Minusoffspace (Vienna), Unit London, Menoparkas Gallery (Kaunas), Gruentaler9 (Berlin). IG: @dygravina @procreateproject @motherhousestudios Website: dyanagravina.com www.procreateproject.com