Workshop Magia Lesbica whit Carmen Pellegrinelli

Workshop

MAGIA LESBICA

with Carmen Pellegrinelli

Date and time:

Wednesday 6 May, 5.00–7.00 pm
Thursday 7 May, 5.00–7.00 pm

Location:

Sala Ex Scuderie - Borgo Palazzo | via Borgo Palazzo, 16
 

Witchcraft and lesbian and queer worlds have long shared a special connection. They are creative cultures that resist heteropatriarchal capitalism and invite us to imagine new ways of being and becoming. In this workshop we will explore the link between witchcraft and lesbianism as a transformative practice. We will experiment with magic as a performative act: a doing that transforms those who enact it and reverberates in the world around us.

Through classic aesthetic forms of witchcraft – such as circles, spells and exercises in proximity – we will release our affective, lesbian and queer potential so that it may resonate and generate the many transformations of our desire. It will be like standing in a garden where marvellous strangenesses bloom. Leonora Carrington, surrealist painter and queer witch, said: “I never believed in normality. It is superstition. Like all the others.”

INFO

Free workshop, open to all ages. Booking is required by 28 March by emailing prenotazioni@orlandofestival.it.

CARMEN PELLEGRINELLI

Carmen Pellegrinelli is a theatre director and academic whose work explores the connection between the social sciences and theatre. She has extensive experience as a playwright and director, with productions staged and recognised in Italy, France, Switzerland and Austria. This experience has shaped her research, in which she advocates an innovative approach combining art and activism for social change from a posthumanist perspective.

In 2023 she completed a PhD at the University of Lapland with a study on collective organisational creativity. She has published books and several academic articles on theatre, performance and organisational studies, offering an original theatrical perspective on the social sciences. Witchcraft is a recent anti-scientific interest that she now connects to the knowledge developed over fifty years of life as a disabled person and queer activist.