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description welcome (including phone cameras).
Facilitator: Frances Litman. See bio on page 55.
Length: 2 half days
Date: Sat & Sun, May 30 & 31, 2015 Time: 1pm-5pm
Cost: $135 + applicable taxes
Best to Register by: Sat, May 16, 2015
Fearless Strokes:
Activate Your Wild Imagination TAEA3930
This is a two-day artful exploration that will help you to paint from a place of relaxation and openness. Enter an inner journey to discover the world
of your imagination with this fearless painting adventure where you can experiment with colour and play with paper, activate your imagination,
and become aware of the intimacy of artful expression. Put aside your inner critic and try it all! No fear or previous painting experience is required.
Facilitator: Marlyn Farrell. See bio on page 51.
Length: 2 days
Date: Sat & Sun, Apr 11 & 12, 2015 Time: 9am-4pm
Cost: $155 + applicable taxes
Best to Register by: Sat, Mar 28, 2015
Loose Interpretation:
Embracing Your Reluctant Artist TAEA3935
For any level – especially blocked artists and those who believe they can’t paint.
Learn to paint from a process perspective and still be amazed with the results. We’ll paint
en plein air on the beautiful RRU campus. Learn to paint directly, without sketching, and to paint purposefully, using watercolour as a medium that can’t be “corrected” to work with “mistakes”. Let go of perfectionism and develop intuition and spontaneity
by discovering painting as a meditative act.
Facilitator: Tasha Diamant. See bio on page 50.
Length: 4 half days
Date: Sat, May 23, 30, Jun 6, & 13, 2015 Time: 1pm-4pm
Cost: $175 + applicable taxes
Best to Register by: Sat, May 9, 2015
beyond what “this” is, or “I” think about what I “see”, makes it possible to engage with the “that-ness” of the objects of perception. You will be introduced to the practice of “Deep Noticing”. Pre-Requisite: Opening the Good Eye.
Facilitators: Michael Wood (see bio on page 60) and Julie DuBose (see bio on page 51).
Length: 4 days
Date: Tue, Apr 28-Fri, May 1, 2015 Time: 9am–5pm
Cost: $395 + applicable taxes
Best to Register by: Tue, Mar 31, 2015
Miksang: Opening the Good Eye – An Introduction to Contemplative Photography TAEA3931
Experience the discipline and delight of direct seeing and perception-based photography. Begin to develop the ability to synchronize your mind and eye so that your habitual patterns of seeing and labeling dissolve in a moment of stunning, vivid perception. Through visual exercises and assignments, develop con dence in your ability to connect directly with what you see, staying present with the perception as you
fully understand its qualities, and then express your vision precisely with your camera.
Facilitators: Michael Wood (see bio on page 60) and Julie DuBose (see bio on page 51).
Length: 1 evening, 4 days
Date: Wed, Apr 22-Sun, Apr 26, 2015 Time: Wed, 7pm-9pm, Thu-Sun, 9am-5pm Cost: $395 + applicable taxes
Best to Register by: Wed, Mar 25, 2015
Mixed Media: A Process of Self-Discovery through Art-Making TAEA3929
In this studio workshop, participants will work in
a variety of methods and processes that are not about
an end product, but about the journey along the way. Artists take risks, breaking things down and re-constructing them just to discover something they did not know could possibly exist. Following unusual prompts you’ll learn how to create endless, ever-evolving art work, learning to let go while paying close attention to what kinds
of thoughts and emotions arise along the way.
Facilitator: Val Salez. See bio on page 58.
Length: 1 day
Date: Sat, Nov 15, 2014
Time: 10am-4pm
Cost: $95 + applicable taxes
Best to Register by: Sat, Nov 1, 2014
Moral Imagination:
Arts-Based Strategies for Peace-Building TAEA3942
Arts-based initiatives, including theatre, are increasingly being used as part of peacebuilding strategies at different stages in the cycle of violence of war-torn societies. This course explores
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Miksang: Making Contact – Discovering THAT
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Where we have tasted the mind of equanimity, or evenness about what we see, we begin to develop certainty in the view that “there is such a thing as unconditional perception that does not come from self of other.” Developing openness
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THE ARTS