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Here are the workshops from Spring 2013

The World of Small Craft with Sandy

Let’s make things and hang out!Each day will focus on a different material and/or technique for making art and/or crafts. There will be several project suggestions at a variety of experience levels to help you explore making art and/or crafts.Because everyone can be creative, and anyone can create, this workshop is open to both newbies and professional artists (and anyone in between). You should be able to find things to make that are both challenging and accessible regardless of experience or skill level. The projects will also include useful crafts, small gifts, and art for art’s sake.Because we only have a week, and a limited suitcase size, each project idea will be for something small enough to fit into a mailbag and finish in one day.

Spring Remix! with Anthony

We’ve had Sproing! (Spring, the musical), and we have Coffee House every year. We have conversations deep and humorous. But we haven’t answered the question: “Will it blend?” In this workshop, we will grab snippets of Spring, short or long (with consent from those recorded), cut them up, mix them together, and throw it at the wall to see what sticks. Many stock loops and audio clips will be available to add, but at least part of the workshop will focus on recording pieces of Spring, and use of “found audio.” I will provide computers/software for recording and editing, as well as recording equipment (microphones, etc.), but if there’s something you really want to record, feel free to bring it!

Board Game Workshop with Dan

As usual, we have an abundance of games of all kinds available to us. Board games, card games, party games, you name it! Whether you’re looking for a several-day-long epic RPG or a casual 10-minute card game, there will be plenty of others willing to play, and you might even learn a new game. We sometimes even have game designers play-testing their newest creations!

Write On! with Athena

Let’s manifest a creative space to climb up our writers blocks and find our voices. I’m hoping for us to share our writing goals and then satisfy them, however modestly. We will find a quiet nice place to be…and we will write. We will encourage each other along throughout the week. This won’t be so much a “learn a new writing style” workshop as it will be a “dust off your writing goals” workshop. Hopefully by the end of the week, that poem/story/biography/etc that has been spinning around in your head for a while will have made its way onto the paper. In other words, this is a do-it-yourself writing workshop, with a little help from your friends. Because it’s always better that way, isn’t it. 

Inclusion and Oppression: Hard Work, Deep Love, and Dreams with Choya

Spring is transformative and powerful because we try to create a space where every person in our community can feel safe and loved enough to express their most authentic selves, free from some of the externally (and internally) imposed constraints of our day-to-day lives. In this workshop, we’ll get into our community values in order to talk about what that means to us, individually and communally. To support and anchor our conversations, we’ll create a shared understanding of oppression, power and privilege, and consider various parts of our identities (both socially charged, like race and gender, and less-so, like food preferences, hobbies or family situations). We’ll compassionately rise to the challenge of being our best selves – and, oddly, it will be fun! This workshop will use gentle facilitation, transformational discussion, personal reflection, activities and creativity.

Co-Listening/Peer Counseling with Lydia

In this workshop we’ll be learning how to listen effectively to each other and the role that can play in clearing our minds and healing from old hurts. We are all born wanting to connect, collaborate, learn and celebrate. We all experience social conditioning and emotional hurts which interfere with our ability to think clearly and flexibly. By taking turns actively listening to each other we will tap into our natural emotional healing process (through laughing, crying, talking and being present with each other) and support each other in reclaiming our full humanity.