Portland, OR
Play to Find Out Experience DEEP STEEP
A stage-lab-playground where people of all creative backgrounds converge
The most immersive version of our Play to Find Out Experience yet. Our always changing Play to find Out Salon sandwiched between two full exploratory workshops. Hosted in collaboration with Participatory Arts Collective. Sessions can be attended as drop-ins as needed, but we encourage people to attend the entire weekend in order to receive the full benefits of what we are offering. This may be the only time we do this! To RSVP email Larissa at larissakaul@gmail.com (you will be added to the Participatory Arts email list) and send your donation via Venmo @Larissa-Kaul write DEEP STEEP in the notes, or bring cash day of. We have offered a sliding scale donation range, but everything is pay what you can. Do not let the financial$ be a barrier <3 please note that we may take photo and video during this event Sliding Scale suggested donation for All Saturday and Sunday: $230-100, NOTAFLOF (No one turned away for lack of funds) All day Saturday: $130-65 NOTAFLOF All day Sunday: $100-50 NOTAFLOF Workshop 1, Saturday 7/22 11am-2pm, Sliding Scale suggested donation $60-30 NOTAFLOF This session will include longform practices, meandering through meditation, movement, sound, writing, and painting. We will shed and release, shed and release, unwind unwind unwind. Spacious landing, surfing in authentic expression, and preparation for playing in the salon Break/Conversation 2-3pm Pre-play Workshop 2 Saturday 7/22 3-5pm facilitated by Participatory Arts Collective, 3-5pm, Sliding Scale $30-15 NOTAFLOF This session will be a more focused lead up to the salon. Get feedback and assistance with devising an exercise, a costume, a character, an art piece, a blobby desire that needs to be sharpened. Get a look “behind the scenes” of how we (participatory arts collective) are creating the experience together. Play to Find Out Salon Saturday 7/22 5-9pm facilitated by Participatory Arts Collective, 5-9pm, Sliding Scale $40-15 NOTAFLOF This will be more dynamic, sustainable risk taking. Potluck food and music. A stage-lab-playground where people of all creative backgrounds (or none at all) converge in purposeful play. Eclectic characters host myriad practices, games, and scores that may touch into theater, dance, music, poetry, visual art, and crafts. With costumes for all, secret assignments, and surprise visitors, these are whimsical anti-professional artistic potlucks. Bring your creative ingredients, your cravings, your sumptuous artistic recipes, or your empty plates. If you want to share a WIP find a collective member and let them know! In addition to fully facilitated workshop space during the day and curated activities in the evenings, there will be space during Salon for attendees to share WIP or lead games/practices they want to facilitate. Integration 1 Sunday 7/23 11a-1pm Suggested donation sliding scale: $50-25 NOTAFLOF Dance, movement, meditation, writing, and conversation to digest what came up for us during our workshop and salon experiences. An opportunity to ask questions, offer and receive feedback, and harvest what you want to take with you into the rest of your life and the next iteration of your artistic practice. Rest & Social Food Break 1-2pm Integration 2 Sunday 7/23 2-5pm suggested donation sliding scale : $50-25 NOTAFLOF More digestion together, room to improvise and make requests
Audience Role
During Saturday night's salon: Audience members can sit back and witness, spend time at an altar, scribble in the art corner, eat food, jump into a game or structure, offer their own works in progress or idea. During the full workshops before and after the salon: Longform practices in meditation, movement, sound, dance, writing, and more will be facilitated for participants.
Ages: All ages
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About Animist Arts
Animist Arts (Directed by Larissa Kaul and Dare [sohei] Carrasquillo) create from a nondual animist lens, which means we treat all phenomena as beings and living systems that have inherent spirit-full capacity and agency, and exist outside of human concepts of good/bad or right/wrong. We understand all beings to be interdependent and impermanent, compound parts of ecosystems and collective bodies that arise, transform, and decay at varying scales and timelines. Further, we engage with artistic expression and creativity as ancestral technologies around which diverse social processes can aggregate, mutate, and distribute according to specific needs and contexts. This can range from individual research projects, devising works of art, shifts in organizational structures, bringing balance into relationships and communities, and creating deeper awareness and adaptation across networks, human and nonhuman. Play-as-Learning, Indigenous wisdom principles, queer ecology and disability justice show us ways to ethically manage our human desires, pains and fears as we work towards harm reduction and equitable social systems–while simultaneously cultivating our personal and collective death practices for the benefit of all beings, seen and unseen; known, unknown, and unknowable.