May 25, 2025 / 3-5pm

Happy Birth Days

Artist and mother Ellie Shipman invites you to join her ongoing project HAPPY BIRTH DAYS - a birth-themed birthday party acknowledging trauma, grief, joy, hope, and incredible change. Write a birth-day card of support to your birthing self, enjoy placenta-shaped cake and take part in supportive discussion of birth in all its traumas and triumphs. Share as much or little as you would like, or simply listen in and take time to reflect.

You are invited to take home your handwritten card, but if you want to leave a copy of your birth-day card will be added to the ongoing archive of this project. Everything will be anonymous. 

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This event will be introduced online by Ellie Shipman, based in England, and hosted in person by artist Alexa Mazzarello as an international collaboration between two artist mothers and the communities they support and are supported by. Alexa will exhibit her ongoing photography series on motherhood as part of this event, to prompt discussion and hold the space.