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Past Offerings
Stingray Artist Journey
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Stingray Artist Journey 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. Stingrays are known to symbolize developing confidence, sense of self, or spine. We hope this journey can serve as a place where we strengthen our artist-spine and bolster our authentic voice, turning down the loud voices of the inner critic and internalized and externalized oppressions. We will strive to create a space to move beyond systems of mass production, overriding speed, and fierce competition that infringes upon and limits our creative force. How can we practice and create a different system of value, that celebrates the artist within each of us?
This journey was born out of our own desire for art to be reclaimed by us— the people. To reaffirm each individuals’ birthright to practice creative expression. Art enhances our lives. Acts of creation are deeply necessary in creating a world that is just; a world where people live in right relationship with each other and with the land. Acts of creation are necessary in creating a world where there is room for wonder and joy and beauty, a world that feels closer and more meaningful, with space for our soul callings. Our imaginations are the only places we can find new road maps. 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.