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Traditions & Culture
Solo Performance Workshop
TAEA025
This workshop offers a rich teaching ground to explore
and develop each participant’s creativity, working and supporting one another as a group. Individual presentations will be shared with the rest, and guided group discussions will help to further develop your performance. The workshop promotes self-expression, enhances skills, opens new perspectives and teaches participants how to provide and facilitate a perceptive, empathic, non-critical atmosphere where creativity can emerge and grow.
Facilitator: Lina de Guevara.
See bio page 53.
Length: 2 days
Date: Sat, Oct 24-Sun, Oct 25, 2015 or Sat, Mar 5-Sun, Mar 6, 2016 Times: 10am-4pm
Cost: $135 + applicable taxes
Best to Register By: Sat, Oct 10, 2015 or Sat, Feb 20, 2016
The Wisdom of Crows:
Exploring How Stories Shape Our Lives
TAEA023
We live in an ocean of stories, but which stories do we want to guide us? Narrative, in its many forms, hooks our attention as we seek models for how to live. Stories – our own, and others –showuswhoweareandwho we can become. The wisdom traditions of the world offer us a wealth of metaphors to explore the journey to wholeness.
Discover the role of stories and storytelling in bringing clarity and vision to your life.
Facilitator: Margo McLoughlin. See bio page 60.
Length: 1 day
Date: Sat, Nov 28, 2015
Time: 10am-4pm
Cost: $75 + applicable taxes
Best to Register by: Sat, Nov 14, 2015
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Aboriginal Ways of Being and Knowing: Introduction to Coast Salish Culture
TATC013
Experience a rich day-long interaction with Coast Salish culture, a complex heritage thousands of years old and deeply rooted in the natural world. This gathering will help foster a deeper understanding of traditional Aboriginal culture, as well as an appreciation for the contributions of Aboriginal ways of knowing within our contemporary culture using
art and storytelling in Coast Salish design, exploring both male and female roles in traditional society, sustainable living practices, traditional land use, traditional foods
and ethnobotany.
Facilitator: Charlene George. See bio on page 55.
Length: 1 day
Dates: Fri, Nov 6, 2015 or Sat, Apr 23, 2016
Times: 10am-4pm
Location: Nov (RRU), Apr (Sooke) Cost: $155 + applicable taxes
Best to Register by: Fri, Oct 23, 2015 or Sat, Apr 9, 2016
Calling Thunder:
Making a Drum
TATC014
This hands-on workshop
will provide an opportunity
for participants to make
their own drum from scratch while learning on many levels. Explore the ceremony of drum making, its cultural history, step-by-step creation of a drum, drumstick teachings, nishing and caring for your drum.
This is a cultural presentation in its fullest sense and includes discussions that thread
through various disciplines including physics, geometry, the environment, biology, science, art, music, dance, drama, craftsmanship, history, community, and spirituality.
All supplies included.
Facilitator: Glenn Patterson.
See bio page 62.
Length: 2 days
Date: Sat, May 14-Sun, May 15, 2016 Time: 8:30am-4:30pm
Cost: $295 + applicable taxes
Best to Register by: Sat, Apr 30, 2016
Contemporary Coast Salish Carving TATC015
Spend a creative weekend learning this hands-on art with a master carver. Find out how to safely handle and sharpen
a carving knife and tools,
and how to draw and carve Contemporary First Nation Art designs into the wood provided in class.
Facilitator: Howard La Fortune, Sr. See bio page 58.
Length: 2 days
Date: Sat, Nov 21-Sun, Nov 22, 2015 Time: 10am-4pm
Cost: $245 + applicable taxes
Best to Register by: Sat, Nov 7, 2015
Indigenous Epistemology TATC012
Join us for an experiential examination of the contrasts between “Western European” and “Native North American” beliefs. We’ll discuss the impacts of “Colonization” including Canadian and US government policies directed at Native persons and their communities, the “Indian Residential School System”, “The Indian Act”, the high rates of incarceration of Native people in Canada, problems of abuse, addiction and poverty. Celebrate the diverse Cultures of the Americas including painting, sculpture, lm, design, music and theatre
of the past and present.
Facilitator: Glenn Patterson. See bio on page 62.
Length: 1 day
Date: Fri, Apr 22, 2016
Time: 8:30am-4:30pm
Cost: $125 + applicable taxes
Best to Register by: Fri, Apr 8, 2016
The Pure Drop:
The Musical and Poetic Wisdom
of Irish Tradition TATC011
Embrace a personal exploration into themes of heritage, inheritance, and aspects of our
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