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Instructor: Avery Grace
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Biography: Avery Grace (they/she/elle) is a life-long writer of all stripes--a poet-playwright, dramaturg, theater director, and more. An alumnus of both the Kennedy Center's Playwriting Intensive. Avery is particularly proud of the fact that they have been teaching for more than 20 years at this point, beginning with--and now continuing with--facilitating written creative expression with young people. Avery practices living into new futures by infusing liberatory creative performance and popular education practices into community spaces, and is endlessly and eternally moved by the power of our individual and community stories. |
Classes by this instructor
Showing Up For Our Times: Guidance and Encouragement from Mystical Traditions
Whatever it has been like to be us as individuals right now, we can likely all agree that the intensity, speed and uncertainty of change in our times makes them, as the ancient Chinese sayings goes, "interesting."
Despite the tone of this clever adage, the world's historical and spiritual traditions offer many diverse practices of being with change and uncertainty. This gathering offers a supportive community space for participants to explore their own experiences of transformation. Together, we will survey spiritual, emotional and body-based practices in an experiential and non-appropriative way.
Over the course of five meetings we will explore the question:
What offerings might some of humanity's mystical traditions have for us to meet the circumstances of our lives of, well, today?
From Zen Buddhist meditation and Sufi zikr, to contemplative practices, creative expression and personal reflection, we will come together in community simply for the purpose of having experiences. Through these practices and shared exploration, participants will have opportunities to shift consciousness in order to better meet whatever personal and societal issues live with and within us right now.
No prior experience is necessary. Come as your are, with curiosity, openness, and a willingness to explore mystical traditions. January 19, 2027 to March 16, 2027 | 6:30pm-8:00pm PST | Bend
Despite the tone of this clever adage, the world's historical and spiritual traditions offer many diverse practices of being with change and uncertainty. This gathering offers a supportive community space for participants to explore their own experiences of transformation. Together, we will survey spiritual, emotional and body-based practices in an experiential and non-appropriative way.
Over the course of five meetings we will explore the question:
What offerings might some of humanity's mystical traditions have for us to meet the circumstances of our lives of, well, today?
From Zen Buddhist meditation and Sufi zikr, to contemplative practices, creative expression and personal reflection, we will come together in community simply for the purpose of having experiences. Through these practices and shared exploration, participants will have opportunities to shift consciousness in order to better meet whatever personal and societal issues live with and within us right now.
No prior experience is necessary. Come as your are, with curiosity, openness, and a willingness to explore mystical traditions. January 19, 2027 to March 16, 2027 | 6:30pm-8:00pm PST | Bend
Meaningful Expression: The Language of Performance
What moves people? What makes a live performance effective? What inspires feeling and speaks meaning-often without words?
All you have to do is show up and be yourself, and together we will learn performance techniques you can use to express your own experiences and ideas, whether it's for a live performance or the stage of life.
Everyone can develop skill, and this class celebrates participants of all levels of experience and talent-from those who have no prior experience of any kind, to those who may have a history in theater or other kind of performance.
Provided materials and experiential activities will help all participants build out and refine their personal tool kit or repertoire for expression. You will enhance your abilities to collaborate and communicate as part of the creative process, while also discovering and deepening a mastery over your personal performance language for expressing meaning. January 23, 2027 to February 6, 2027 | 10:00am-1:00pm PST | Bend
All you have to do is show up and be yourself, and together we will learn performance techniques you can use to express your own experiences and ideas, whether it's for a live performance or the stage of life.
Everyone can develop skill, and this class celebrates participants of all levels of experience and talent-from those who have no prior experience of any kind, to those who may have a history in theater or other kind of performance.
Provided materials and experiential activities will help all participants build out and refine their personal tool kit or repertoire for expression. You will enhance your abilities to collaborate and communicate as part of the creative process, while also discovering and deepening a mastery over your personal performance language for expressing meaning. January 23, 2027 to February 6, 2027 | 10:00am-1:00pm PST | Bend