Reclaiming Your Body through African Dance, Poetry
and Art
Our bodies store feelings and can release them through
dance. Combined with journaling, poetry, and clay sculpting,
this workshop will free us from the constricting messages
we have been given about our bodies. This special workshop
will be co-led by Lisa Ezzard, an African dance teacher,
poet and all around amazing woman. Lisa has taught in
many settings, bringing out the juicy and expressive movements
of our bodies in a fun and non-threatening way.
April 12, 2008
Spirit Sticks
Connection and loss are both essential elements in our
lives. While painting with vibrant dyes on yards of pure
white silk, stretched on a circle of bamboo poles, we
celebrate our connections with others and with the beauty
of nature. As we create "spirit sticks
" with the silk and bamboo, we also acknowledge
the grief of loss, death and separation and the power
of the spirit to move us forward. (Please note, a $10.
materials fee will be added to the cost of this workshop.)
What relationship is more complex than that of mother
and daughter? The process of creating affirmation dolls
is handed down from African American slave mothers, who
practiced this tradition with their daughters as a way
to preserve a sense of dignity, hope and survival of spirit.
This will be a day dedicated to our mothers, daughters
and sisters and will be enriched if you can come with
either one from your own family or someone who has been
like a "mother", "daughter" or "sister" to you. Through
the use of yarn and cloth you will learn to create dolls
which preserve the strength and dignity of life, countering
the critical voices from the past that have held us back
from embracing our full creativity and self confidence.
June 7, 2008
Painting Your Journal with Jane LaFazio
Record your life, your trip, or your daily adventures
in an illustrated journal as you spend a meditative day
drawing and sketching in the healing gardens. Jane will
guide you through basic drawing, inking and watercolor
painting. You'll choose simple objects,
vignettes or vistas to draw and paint, and then journal
your thoughts right onto the drawings. At the end of the
day you will create a small book with your artwork. The
class is geared for beginners, but all levels are welcome.
Fifteen dollar materials fee includes everything you 'll
need: watercolor paper, ink pen and watercolor set with
brush. See Jane's watercolor sketchbook
at http://janeville.blogspot.com/
( $15. materials fee)
July 12, 2008
Women & Anger
This ever-popular workshop empowers us as women to explore
the full range of our emotions, from joy to grief, from
delight to anger. Have you been socialized to be sweet,
gentle and quiet, while a part of you would like to scream?
How easy is it for you to say "NO"? Here's a chance for
you to assert your power. Come try out the exhilaration
of claiming your full voice in this fun-filled workshop.
For women only, sorry guys!
August 16, 2008
Passages: Exploring Life's Transitions
Times of transition can bring instability to our lives.
Changes also challenge us to explore new ways to move
forward. This workshop provides a variety of art experiences
designed to help us reflect on the patterns of our life
passages. We playfully end the workshop by creating "survival
kits" to help us along the journey. It has become our
tradition to begin the year with this workshop to "jump
start" the season. NO artistic skill is necessary, only
the willingness to play.
Saturday, November 15
Create Your Own Heart: Hearts of Stone Workshop
Come learn the contemporary fresco process on natural stone as we celebrate the beauty in our own hearts. Using broken mosaic we will be adding paint to decorate, celebrate and discover the intrinsic beauty in the cracks, crevices and the multi faceted surfaces of the stone and the heart. "Broken hearts may be mended, nailed, screwed or left slightly readjusted. Sometimes it's in the breaking that one finds the necessary pieces to put their heart together", says d.goth.
(materials fee $10)
December 6, 2008
Painting Your Journal with Jane LaFazio
Record your life, your trip, or your daily adventures
in an illustrated journal as you spend a meditative day
drawing and sketching in the healing gardens. Jane will
guide you through basic drawing, inking and watercolor
painting. You'll choose simple objects,
vignettes or vistas to draw and paint, and then journal
your thoughts right onto the drawings. At the end of the
day you will create a small book with your artwork. The
class is geared for beginners, but all levels are welcome.
Fifteen dollar materials fee includes everything you 'll
need: watercolor paper, ink pen and watercolor set with
brush. See Jane's watercolor sketchbook
at http://janeville.blogspot.com/
( $15. materials fee)
All participants are required to preregister. A $25.00,
nonrefundable deposit is required for each workshop you
plan to attend. Deposits are due prior to the workshop.
Download a 2008 workshop information, schedule and registration
form click the button below.
Location:
California Center for Creative Renewal
1905 Crest Drive Encinitas, CA 92024
Time:9:00am
to 5:00pm
Cost: $95.00 per workshop ~some work scholarships
are available ~$10 discount
if registered 2 weeks early ~$5 discount
for each additional workshop
Bring: ~comfortable clothes
(to get good and messy in) ~a journal to write in ~bag lunch
Gourmet breakfast provided in the garden
Image at left: Hildegard von Bingen
Workshop Leaders :
Lisa Ezzard has studied West African dance for
the past 15 years. She currently teaches African dance
at the YMCA in Encinitas and leads women's
writing workshops throughout the year. Lisa has a graduate
degree in comparative literature, has taught language,
writing, and literature for both adults and children for
20 years, and is a published writer and poet.
Kim Itkonen is a serial autodidact with numerous
skills and interests. She is an artist and musician who
is passionately interested in the physiological and emotional
and artistic production of the voice.
Jane LaFazio is a mixed media artist working in
paper and cloth. She 's worked in watercolor
since 1992, and her work can be seen on
www.PlainJaneStudio.com and her blog JaneVille.blogspot.com
Lauren Lee is a silk artist, jeweler and poet.
She has been the artist in residence at the Center for
the past five years, bringing beauty, creativity and a
great sense of humor to our workshops.
Ellen Speert, director of the California Center
for Creative Renewal, is a Board Certified and Registered
Art Therapist as well as a Registered Expressive Arts
Therapist. She is a founding member and past president
of the San Diego Art Therapy Association. Ellen leads
workshops for groups, organizations and spiritual communities.
For more information on Ellen click
here
d.goth is a professional artist and published poet, has developed programs, taught art and poetry and is the founder of Hearts of Stone and d.goth contemporary frescoes. Her work has received numerous awards and is in many collections.
"Sowing
the Seeds of Creative Renewal since 1981. "
