Face painting and Henna: Festival season is coming!!

Oh the glorious sun! How many ways can I sing your praises?!
The garden in full bloom, windows open, bikes dusted, calendar filling...

It's time to celebrate by being out under the sky, gathering with other beautyfull people.

I've got a face painting and henna gigs coming up...

Sunday, October 25th at the Ngatimoti festival

Saturday, November 7th at the Nelson Ciderfest

Sunday November 29th at the Great Christmas Market

 Saturday December 5th at the Moutere Hills Country Christmas Market

January 3rd at the Heritage Fair

January 31st at the Sarau Festival

February 28th at Kaifest

March 20th at Marchfest

I'd love to see you all there!

Body Art 2019/2020: Festival and Market Pictures

I get so focused and in the groove, I totally forget about photos!

Here's a few that I did manage to capture.

Enjoy and see you all in the spring and summer!!

Festival Season is Upon Us

We are so excited that the sun is back, the days are long, and the rivers are plentiful.

This summer season will find us sharing our skills and passions at festivals all over Aotearoa.

After an incredible month in Montreal diving deep into the pedagogy and practice of AcroYoga with the mesmerizing and awe-inspiring AcroYoga Montreal crew, Jen will be focusing the next few months on sharing her movement inspiration.  

To start things off, over five fabulous days of camping and playtime over New Years 2020, Jen will be teaching workshops at the Mix festival, one for beginners, and one for finding your creative flow.  Come discover new ways to twist and push and balance and play!

More AcroYoga soon after, at Nelson's infamous Evolve festival, January 24th-26th

And then she'll be heading up the north island to one of her favorite community festivals, Voices of Sacred Earth at Kawaipurapura Retreat Center

And to top it all off, Andy will be leading a Contact Improv Workshop: Exploring Place and Inanimate Partnership, at the Conscious Dance Aotearoa gathering, here in Motueka.

So much movement! So much goodness.

See you all there!!

 

Body Art: A whirlwind of Face painting and Henna in Festival Season!

So much goodness coming up!

I'll be facepainting and doing henna at a whole slew of fabulous markets and events this season.  Starting things out at the Ngatimoti festival and the Day of the Dead in Nelson, I'll also be at the Stoke School Market and Truck Show, The Great Christmas Market in Nelson, the Mistletoe Market in Blenheim, Uniquely Nelson, the Sarau Festival, the Lantern Celebration, and even stepping in at the Original Gypsy Fair in Richmond and Greymouth. Whew!

Hope to see you all there!!

Story Bridge - "These Stories Are Ours"

They came out singing.

"These stories are not just mine. These stories are ours"

Story Bridge never fails to tug at my heart.
Eight amazing individuals came together to tell stories that changed their life, from leaving a long and love-filled marriage to being flooded out of a home, discovering what true friendship is like, to receiving a phone call that no one ever wants to receive.
They came courageously, they came tenderly, they came playfully, and they brought their stories to life in a way that literally left audience members in tears.

Thank you.

To Creative Communities Tasman for supporting this event.

To the actors, who shared their humanity.

To the audience, without you the stories would just be echoes.

To the people in all of our lives that fill our lives with stories.

Stories remind us what we already know.
That we fall in love with each other through our stories.

Theater of Liberation in Motueka - in Pictures

Such a powerful crew was gathered!  Powerful in how each of you separately, walk in this world and the gifts you carry and share, and powerful in the way we have begun to weave them together.

But how to capture a mood in photos?
I wish the small comments, the insights, the gestures could be met with lighting and photography skills worthy of their import.
In the meantime, I'll snap shots on my camera, just to give you all a glimpse, a reminder, of some of the touching moments we had together.

Thank you for coming together with us.

Enjoy these moments.
Stay in touch.
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