Re: [nobawc-announce] Co-Creation Across Class Immersion Invite 4/9-4/12 (fwd)

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

Are you going to this?

 > From: Noelle  <noelle>
 > Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 07:05:14 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 >  > From: "Robin Bean Crane via nobawc-announce list" <http://www.lists.nobawc.org/~nobawc-announce>
 >  > Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:59:06 -0700
 >  > 
 >  > Hi friends,
 >  > 
 >  > Hope you all are feeling resourced. I wanted to invite you all to a
 >  > workshop applying embodied storytelling practices to healing our
 >  > relationship to capital and the divides it often causes. It's called Co-
 >  > Creation Across Class: Exploring Our Relationship to Money and Solidarity
 >  > <
 >  > https://docs.google.com/document/d/15I4fRkK1EUxNdeaG5miH39I-NWgUWk17_I5F1IC9KZ8/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.swwy7pizzf2 >.
 >  > Art.coop will be co-hosting this with Pati Hernández of Telling My Story
 >  > <https://tellingmystory.org/> in *Oakland, April 9-12*. Please feel free to
 >  > pass this along to friends of all class backgrounds - especially comrades
 >  > you want to deepen in solidarity with.
 >  > 
 >  > *Apply here
 >  > <
 >  > https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc5jsPKwOxvG7xr8qxarMyXobqE8LZzqWeyG44vwjfY5DihAQ/viewform?pli=1 >*
 >  > by
 >  > March 17 (let me know if you need more time). There are more details below
 >  > or a full description here
 >  > <
 >  > https://docs.google.com/document/d/15I4fRkK1EUxNdeaG5miH39I-NWgUWk17_I5F1IC9KZ8/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.swwy7pizzf2 >
 >  > .
 >  > 
 >  > And if you can't participate in the workshop, *you are invited to the
 >  > performance Saturday April 12 *at 5:30pm at Canticle - reply to me to RSVP.
 >  > 
 >  > How are the stories of capitalism stuck in your body? And how do they
 >  > uphold the borders of class that keep us divided rather than in solidarity
 >  > with one another?
 >  > …If you want to explore these questions using embodied and creative
 >  > practices like theater, then we invite you to join Art.coop and Pati
 >  > Hernández of Telling my Story for our upcoming immersion, *Co-Creation
 >  > Across Class:
 >  > Exploring Our Relationship to Money and Solidarity Through Theater.* This
 >  > in-person workshop seeks to be a container to collaborate across the
 >  > divides of class. We will explore the “invisible walls” of capitalist
 >  > culture that prevent us from embodying deeper solidarity. We will use a
 >  > combination of personal “testimonials”, group “manifestos” and 
 >  > ensemble
 >  > skit-building to look at how we each can break scripts we’ve inherited and
 >  > live into a more liberatory and authentic role.
 >  > 
 >  > *When*: April 9-12 (5:30 - 8:30pm pacific time weekdays and full day and
 >  > performance on Saturday)
 >  > 
 >  > *Where*: Canticle Farm, Oakland, CA
 >  > 
 >  > *Why this why now?* I'm hoping this workshop creates a container for
 >  > skill-building at an intimate, interpersonal scale. On a personal note,
 >  > Pati changed my life working with her 2013-2016 inside prison and rehab
 >  > facilities in VT. Pati transformed my sense of social change as a
 >  > love-based process of mutual humanization, a constantly co-creative act of
 >  > relationship. She's an elder who has lived through facism practicing
 >  > theater and art as healing modalities - extra important at this moment!
 >  > 
 >  > *About the facilitators:* Pati Hernandez is an incredible Chilean artist,
 >  > grandmother, and teacher who draws upon Paolo Freire as a deep influence in
 >  > “naming the world as it is”. Robin Crane and Marina Lopez from Art.coop
 >  > will be supporting Pati on the facilitation team and are available to
 >  > support folks in in*corp*orating what we learn - letting the lessons drop
 >  > into our bodies, daily practices, and ways of relating over time. Without
 >  > prescribing or predicting next steps, we will be here for the follow through 
 >  > of whatever re-storying emerges.