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Past Offerings
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Sundays online @ 10am-12pm PST / 1-3pm EST
February 14th - April 4th 2021 Stingray Artist Residency sits at the cross-roads of an art residency and a retreat-- a space to generate work in your medium of choice, alongside supportive workshops to help heal creative blocks, and tap into new ways of accessing your body’s natural intelligence. Under capitalism, there are endless ways that we trick ourselves into thinking we are creatively illegitimate-- some of us may feel this impulse to draw, to write, to learn how to play that instrument, but we struggle to just...do it. Some of us yearn and desire to start creating, but work, responsibilities, and family commitments have made it difficult to dedicate time to that creative calling pumping in our hearts. Others of us may creatively produce a lot, but our process may feel robotic, or out of sync with our intuition and inner rhythms. Still others of us may depend on grants or awards to validate that voice inside that still persists whenever there is a lull in opportunity: “but I’m not a *real* artist.” These are just some of the ways that living under a westernized idea of “art” have actually taken the medicine of art away from people. Unlike a traditional residency, where artists are granted uninterrupted space to make work, our space will be designed to provide built-in nourishment and support for your creative journey. Oftentimes, our creative journeys are a highly individual pursuit, a solo experience. Our work is to heal the inner artist, relationally, in community, so that we can unfold as the creative humans we are. Sliding scale payment options are available, as well as full & partial scholarships for Black, Indigenous & POC artists. To learn more about Stingray or apply, you can click the buttons below! HELD |
Heading into the last few months of the whirlwind (sh*tstorm? psychic tornado?) that has been 2020, we have sensed, amongst each other and from our communities, that there is a need to be held as a collective, to use the wisdom of the arts to process and release information overload and anxiety, and ground the nervous system. As collective tensions ramp up with the upcoming election, so does the need for spaces of deep nourishment. Collectively, we (Monica, Nandita & Libby) will be offering InterPlay, authentic movement, narrative therapy, & expressive art practices, to help you hone in on what needs to be *held* for you right now. Our hope is that you will leave feeling nourished, replenished, and creatively fed—and that this energy can spill over throughout your week, and help you to find grounding in these challenging times.
Poetry for Processing
Offered through Teachers & Writers Collaborative
2020 has been a year of massive experience— between the Coronavirus pandemic, and the global movement for racial justice that has emerged in the face of ongoing police brutality, there is so much to feel. “Poetry for Processing” will use poetry as a critical tool in helping us to find grounding, process emotions, and integrate the experiences in our lives.
Unlike poetry workshops where we come together to fortify elements of the craft, or work to polish our poems in hopes of publication, this workshop honors poetry as a practice that can create transformation on the level of self, regardless of whether the work has an audience. During our weekly Zoom call, participants will engage in embodied grounding practices, and prompts that invite us to meditate on conversations, events, and cultural shifts we are feeling in our lives.
Additional prompts and practices will be shared to engage with throughout the week on your own time. Participants will have the option to submit these poems, and get resonance (as opposed to feedback) from Libby, and fellow participants. This workshop is open to poets of all levels and experiences— whether you are the author of several books, or you haven’t written a poem in 10 years, you are welcome here.
2020 has been a year of massive experience— between the Coronavirus pandemic, and the global movement for racial justice that has emerged in the face of ongoing police brutality, there is so much to feel. “Poetry for Processing” will use poetry as a critical tool in helping us to find grounding, process emotions, and integrate the experiences in our lives.
Unlike poetry workshops where we come together to fortify elements of the craft, or work to polish our poems in hopes of publication, this workshop honors poetry as a practice that can create transformation on the level of self, regardless of whether the work has an audience. During our weekly Zoom call, participants will engage in embodied grounding practices, and prompts that invite us to meditate on conversations, events, and cultural shifts we are feeling in our lives.
Additional prompts and practices will be shared to engage with throughout the week on your own time. Participants will have the option to submit these poems, and get resonance (as opposed to feedback) from Libby, and fellow participants. This workshop is open to poets of all levels and experiences— whether you are the author of several books, or you haven’t written a poem in 10 years, you are welcome here.
Let it Glow
