Life is fragile. Sometimes our lives and dreams are shattered by unexpected traumas. The Japanese art of Kintsugi is a perfect metaphor for how we as trauma survivors must pick up the pieces and hold it together to continue with life.
The 400-year-old Japanese art of Kintsugi is a practice of gluing together broken pottery pieces and lining the breakage with gold leaf, so that the places of fissure do not disappear but are emphasized.
The art of Kintsugi is healing. It reminds us that breakages are ubiquitous, unavoidable, and outside of our control; and yet when mended together, the breakages show what is unique about us. The mended pottery is stronger in the broken places, and even more beautiful than it was before.
This year we want to invite our community to join us again to experience this Kintsugi-inspired workshop facilitated by Haruka. The workshop is not only for victims and survivors of gender-based violence, but to anyone who can identify with the brokenness that gender-based violence is causing in our community.
