workshop-at play in nature
create for the love of it - at play in the natural world
an online workshop
Sat, Jan 14, 2023
10am MT (US Mountain time)
Friends, it's been too long - shall we gather together to create for the love of it?
I invite you to a 1.5-hour online session, facilitated by me, to play in words and sounds, to express yourself in story, poem, memoir, using the language of the senses, invoking landscapes and skyscapes, animals and birds.
When: Saturday, January 14, 2023
at 10am MT (Mountain Time US) | 12pm Eastern Time | 6pm Spain
AT PLAY IN THE NATURAL WORD.
It's all part of my not so secret mission (please, tell everyone!) to share the healing and inspiration I have felt in my decades as an independent artist, when I invoke naturescapes in a creative way. Interweaving our creativity and nature, my hope is that we will take better care of the natural world and ourselves.
STORYTRAVELERS, ALL OF US
Faraway is Close is the name of all my storywork. It comes from my love of journey, especially to remote landscapes. In many of my workshops including this, our inspirations will be stories, songs and poems gathered from places like Mongolia, Argentine Tierra del Fuego, India, Spain, Mexico, Palestine, Ireland.
SHOW UP AS YOU ARE
If you've never written story poems before, may you start now in this safe and nurturing environment.
If you've written thousands of times, then welcome again into a new playful and profound adventure.
All you have to do is show up, as you are. Bring something to write with. But if you prefer to just speak your responses, that is fine. Camera on. Camera off. That's fine too.
a scene from The Good Manners of Colonized Subjects, a solo play
photo: Genevieve Russell
WHO I AM
I’m a writer, filmmaker and performance artist, originally from India, once based in New Mexico, now in Spain. My work has been supported by New York Foundation for the Arts Fiction Fellowship, a Telly documentary award, and a Fulbright research grant to Mongolia. In all my work, I seek to get to the oldest root within me, the oldest stone, that which remembers dark and manifests in metaphor, sound, silence, movement. These days, I really just want to dance, sing, write and nurture creativity in fellow story-travelers. And create fierce gentle solo plays woven with dance, story and poetry. To me, it’s all the same journey, excavating what oppresses, what liberates in a felt body sense. More and more, I am understanding the ripple effects of colonization - historical, emotional, cultural - on everything. Read more.
Fee: $20 USD (@19 euros)
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HOW IT WORKS
I'll guide us through visualizations, exercises, readings - we listen, write, share, move, meditate. Those who want to, share what they have written. Those who don't, don't. The exercises are short and you'll see how organically storypoems emerge. We often think stories are distant, elusive, but when nurtured playfully, they reveal themselves to be right here, under the skin. Another way that Faraway is Close.
WHY THIS STEP, WHY NOW
Giving yourself permission to play in the fields of creativity, invoking the storytelling spirits in nature, your nature - is nothing short of revolution. I will gladly tell you that I believe creativity is what liberates us from all kinds of colonizations. The felt body sense of inspiration - in you, in the community creating with you - is not a kind of sugarcoating over the real world. It changes the world and you on a cellular level. It has mysterious ripple effects through all aspects of your life. It emboldens the world of nature and creativity; it sets right the imbalances in the world.
Step into this small step with me, with other kindred spirits, aagé chalo, let us go into a journey to reclaim the lost stories and bring them home.
TO REGISTER
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Choose your payment method
Paypal (shebana@gmail.com). Please choose “send to someone you know”
Zelle (info@shebanacoelho.com)
Bizum (+34 602 656 384 for 19 euros)
You’ll receive a Zoom link within a day of your payment.
The Do It At Home version of Create for the Love of it
If you can’t make it and/or would like to have a reference version, I’m recording an At Home Guided Creativity Meditation. Imagine having a bower of creativity in your own space, your own time, you sit and play a 15 min Audio Guided creativity session, where I lead you through a series of exercises, drawing on the same nature themes. Plus a reference PDF with relevant links. Available for $8. Sent to you on Jan 16. Yours to play and replay whenever creativity calls or stalls :-)
WHAT FOLKS HAVE SAID ABOUT MY CREATIVITY WORKSHOPS
“Shebana Coelho is one of those people whose natural grace and intelligence can’t help but inspire the rest of us to shine brighter. Her natural voice in writing and open heart mixed with imaginative powers make her a fine teacher of writing.”
“Shebana is engaging and generous...She has a magical way of guiding the body, mind and soul of people who work with her in a way that opens them to deep levels of themselves and the story they want to tell.”
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS
write me at info@shebanacoelho.com or message me at
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