The Firefly gathering 2022

 What an honor to be teaching at The Firefly Gathering 2022, in Western North Carolina, where "folks come together to share skills and ancestral knowledge with the common goal of expanding their capacity to live well with Earth and one another. Days are filled with classes of all kinds, each offering skills to connect us with Earth, our human heritage, and the great wonders of life. Evenings are filled with live music, dancing under the moon and stars, and, of course, the fireflies themselves!"

I'm am honored to be teaching alongside amazing instructors in all fields of back to the Earth honoring and community connection, some of which I have learned from and admired for decades!

I'll be teaching Theater of the Oppressed as well as Games for Connection and Community.

Hope to see some of you there!

https://www.facebook.com/events/624173275523807

Kia ora Theatre of Liberators!

Thank you so much for your creativity & fun at our work/playshop on Sunday.

It was great to see so many folks enjoy a rainy day by making new friends/allies through playing games!

We would love to have another session soon, so keep an eye out or follow us at
https://www.facebook.com/the-movement-collective-112031944355600

We'll let you know as soon as we've booked it. 

In solidarity,
Jen & Andy

Acroyoga and Theatre of Liberation in June

 

One more month! With such a great turnout with so much enthusiasm we're gonna go it for one more month! In May we worked on bird, shinstand, cadlestick, shoulderstand, and creative play.  I've got more goodness in store for June. Tuesdays in June come along for more beginner's Acroyoga classes. Then on Thursday's join us for a jam from 7:30 pm til late at Community Art Works at 11 Achilles Ave, Nelson CBD. All bodies and levels welcome. Come solo or bring a friend  https://www.facebook.com/events/382442599829073 and then.... We have more goodness coming in June! Theater of Liberation   What is Theatre of Liberation (ToL)? Augusto Boal, a Brazilian theater practitioner, created Theater of the Oppressed to support people to explore how power operates in their lives, and how to work towards solidarity. Based on his work, we practice ToL, using games and exercises to explore how we can more fully engage in our lives, co-creating possible tomorrows. Come join us! Sunday JUNE 6th 2021 at Natural Living Yoga, 87 Atawhai Dr. Cost; Koha Please bring Friends and Allies!!   If you like what we do and want to keep in the know, please like us at The Movement Collective on FB.

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.
<3

Theatre of Liberation in Motueka!

Kia ora Whanau

Come along to play and share!

What is Theatre of Liberation (ToL)?

Auguusto Boal, a Brazilian theater practitioner, created Theater of the Oppressed to support people to explore at how power operates in their lives, and how to work towards solidarity.  Based on his work, we practice ToL, using theatre games and exercises to explore how we can more fully engage in our lives, co-creating possible tomorrows.

Come join us!

in 

Motueka

on 

Day of Self Soverigenty 

(Queen's Birthday)

Monday JUNE 3rd 2019

3pm-6pm

Community House, Decks Reserve, Motueka

Cost;

Koha

Please bring;

Friends and Allies!!

Stepping into Student Roles

Andy and Jen have been taking the summer months (or winter, depending which hemisphere that you're in) off from teaching to step back into student role.  

Andy just finished up a Theater of the Oppressed facilitator training with Marc Weinblatt at the Mandala Center for Change.  He's incredible, they're incredible, and they work using applied theater, anti-oppression education, grassroots community workshops, mask work, movements arts, ritual and play. 
www.mandalaforchange.com

Then he joined forces with the the maestro Giovanni Fusetti, who was teaching Bouffon and the Ecstasy of Mocking at the Celebration Barn in Maine, USA.  Both Jen and Andy have studied The Red Nose with him, which he introduces as.... "Welcome to a unique adventure, in which poetry meets healing and your personal clown will reveal some aspects of your own crazy wisdom.
A human being, alone in front of the audience, a Red Nose, the smallest mask in the world. 

www.GiovanniFusetti.com

Meanwhile, Jen headed to NYC to work with TOPLAB, taking a Theater of the Oppressed Workshop "Looking at Class Consciousness, Class Struggle and Self-Organizing Using Image Theater" facilitated by Janet Gerson and Marie-Claire Picher.

www.toplab.org

Next week she heads back to Glover, VT, to play in the open field and under the wide sky with Bread and Puppet Theater. Donation run, for over 50 years, Bread and Puppet uses cardboard and cornstarch to create political absurdity and dreamscapes.  According the the founder/orchestrator Peter Schumann, "Puppet theater is the theater of all means. Puppets and masks should be played in the street. They are louder than the traffic. They don’t teach problems, but they scream and dance and display life in its clearest terms. Puppet theater is of action rather than dialogue. The action is reduced to the simplest dance-like and specialized gestures. A puppet may be a hand only, or it may be a complicated body of many heads, hands, rods and fabric. We have two types of puppet shows: good ones and bad ones, but all of them are for good and against evil. ” -Peter Schumann

www.breadandpuppet.org

And she's planning to round out the season with the Manitoulin Clown Conservatory in Canada.

http://www.manitoulinconservatory.com

We're soaking up all the inspiration and insight to bring into our work and out to all of you!