For her residency at the Foundation, she invites staff members of the UN, NATO and the EU Parliament; as well as refugees and migrants who have experienced traumas in their country of origin and who have migrated to Brussels. Using shamanic practice, one of the oldest forms of spirituality of humanity and meditation techniques, the artist will lead them through an initiatory journey. She organized several meditation classes with refugees before\u00a0the Performance Day\u00a0<\/span>for Grace Ndiritu’s residency project at Fondation Thalie. It will involve activities such as\u00a0Cooking Together\u00a0with\u00a0<\/span>Syrian Chef Abdulrahman Aljassem, and a shamanic performance to ancestral lands. The following day Sunday 21st January there will be a final meal and talks and public round-tables organized with shamans, medical doctors, academics and activists from refugees (RANA) and migrants (AWSA) community groups to talk about the project and wider issues.<\/span><\/p>\n PROGRAM<\/strong> PRACTICAL INFORMATION BIOGRAPHY<\/strong> Kenneth D. Smith, Phd (USA), Ph.D. <\/strong><\/a>serves as the Director of the Center to Eliminate Health Disparities and the Director of Community Development and Health Policy at University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Galveston Texas. Dr. Smith received his doctorate from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he studied health economics and economic demography. Dr. Smith became a public health practitioner when he was appointed Director of Chronic Disease Prevention, Philadelphia Department of Public Health. Dr. Smith\u2019s current research interests include systems science, social finance, and social isolation and was the Principal Investigator for a study on the health of\u00a0refugee<\/span>\u00a0children in US. He is also a practicing Tibetan Buddhist.<\/p>\n Half Lebanese, half-Belgian,\u00a0Alicia Arbid<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is born in the DRC in 1986. Specialized in Media and information Management, she currently works as the Coordinator of the Arab Women\u2019s Solidarity Association-Belgium. For close to eight years, she has been developing knowledge and expertise on women\u2019s rights with specific focus on Arab women, both immigrants and women whose families have lived in Belgium for several generations. As a feminist militant she engages in migration and sexual education issues with a gender perspective and grassroots experiences. Therefore, she is working with local associations, creating guidelines and organizing various activities with and for migrant women to advance gender equality and to improve their position both here and in the Arab countries. She is also active in different feminist networks, such as the European Network of Migrant Women. She is involved in the advocacy and general campaign for women\u2019s rights, equality and justice, combating stereotypes and all forms of violence and discrimination against women and girls. With the collaboration of<\/em>:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Grace Ndiritu proposes to invite two groups of people who do not normally meet, to participate in a living, political and social artwork. Her work entitled A Meal For My Ancestors: Healing the Museum will be a moment of sharing taking the form of a meal, lived as an artistic performance. For her residency at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[226,43],"tags":[202],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.fondationthalie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.fondationthalie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.fondationthalie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fondationthalie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fondationthalie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2117"}],"version-history":[{"count":75,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fondationthalie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14253,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fondationthalie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions\/14253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fondationthalie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.fondationthalie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fondationthalie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fondationthalie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n11:00>12:00<\/strong>\u00a0Corine Sombrun on The effects of shamanic trance on Neurobiology<\/em>
\n<\/b>12:00>13:00<\/strong> Kenneth D. Smith on\u00a0Commensality \u2013 the social medical benefits of eating together<\/em>
\n<\/b>13:00>15:00<\/strong>\u00a0The meal \u2013 eating together (RSVP required, please bring a dish from your culture to share with others)
\n15:00>17:00<\/strong>\u00a0Panel discussion with Kenneth D. Smith, Corine Sombrun, Alicia Arbid and Jens M\u00fcller, moderated by Grace Ndiritu<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Simultaneous interpr\u00e9tation in French and English with headphones
\nRSVP required by 19 January
\nPlease email and tell us which dish from your culture you will bring:\u00a0event@fondationthalie.org
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\nCorine Sombrun<\/strong><\/a> (France) grew up in Africa. As a music journalist for the BBC World Service, she was invited to spent several months a year at the border with Siberia to undertake the rigorous and intense training to become a Shaman. And after eight years she thus became the first Western woman fully trained in the Mongolian shamanic tradition. She is the author of several books that have been translated into many languages and has been presented her research at TED and Google in California.<\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong><\/a>Jens M\u00fcller<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>is the President of Refugees Are Not Alone (RANA), a non-profit association based in Brussels which purpose is to help\u00a0refugees and asylum seekers to integrate into social and professional life in Belgium through individual support that seeks to make them autonomous. Beside, he works as Transport Policy Advisor to Michael Cramer, Member of the European Parliament.
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