Open Out

Kripi Malviya is an intersectional mental health therapist, psychologist, advocate, experience curator and poet. Kripi is based in Goa, India, where she runs an emotional well-being organization 'TATVA'. It specializes in therapeutic residencies for international artists and creative communities, combining psychotherapy, nature therapy, social justice and cultural immersion together with creative exploration, emotional awareness and self-care. Kripi is also a co-founder of the Poetry Therapy Society of India.

This year at 'Open Out' Kripi will be reading her poems from the series 'The Poetry of Therapy' at 'Mondo Books' (Tromsø Kunstforening, ground floor). The series of poems documents the process of holding and celebrating paradoxes, multiplicity and societally conditioned dualities, as well as conflicts with equanimity. Combining therapy and a quest for social justice, Kripi sees healing and change as entwined.