PAUSE

In a heavy year, we pause, to breathe, reflect and care together. A two-part series raising funds for hurricane Melissa relief
 

Join us at 198CAL for a two-part fundraising series in support of Hurricane Melissa recovery efforts, centring gathering, healing, art and solidarity. Together, we’ll reflect on the devastations and resilience shaping our world — from genocide in Sudan, Congo and Palestine to ongoing struggles for climate justice — while raising vital funds for communities rebuilding in the Caribbean.

21 November — Caribbean Film Screening
An evening of film, conversation and collective witnessing, honouring Caribbean stories of resilience.

Screening Alan Greenberg’s Land of Look Behind (1982), an extraordinary but overlooked document of Jamaica in the early 1980s. A nation negotiating the psychic and material afterlives of Independence, neocolonialism, and a fading dream of socialism in the wake of U.S. imperial incursions.

Filmed after Bob Marley’s assassination, the film moves between the myth-soaked mountains of Cockpit Country and the streets of Kingston, tracing the sounds and scenes of a nation mourning and the philosophies that shape the social and spiritual landscape.

Proceeds will go toward supporting Solidarity Yaad International.

29 November — Holistic Day: Rest, Reflection & Care
Workshops in mindfulness, movement and making. A space to slow down, reconnect and practise collective care, closing with music and performances in the evening.

Sessions:

Yoga | 2-3PM

Meditation | 7-8PM

 

Workshops:

Ceramics | 1-4PM

Textile Collaging & Craft | 3-6PM


Music & Performances | 8-11PM

Caribbean designer pop up store by a Dutty world | 1-6PM

Proceeds will go toward supporting Connekja, as well as individual people and organisations on the ground in the Caribbean.


Open to all throughout the day. Sessions and workshops are scheduled at the times listed above. Donation tickets available via Eventbrite.