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Fearless Strokes:
Activate Your Wild Imagination TAEA2971
This is a 2-day artful exploration that will help you 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 previous painting experience required.
Facilitator: Marlyn Farrell. See bio on page 44.
Length: 2 days Date:Sat&Sun,Mar2&3,2013 Time: 9am – 4pm
Cost: $155 (tax exempt)
Best to Register by: Sat, Feb 16, 2013
Introduction to Puppetry TAEA2976
Simple, beautiful, joyful and incredibly complex, the humble art of puppet theatre breaks through creative boundaries. Elements of drama, storytelling, dance, music, visual arts, and ritual combine in this ancient and ever expanding art form. Explore puppetry through exercises in physicality, improvisation, story crafting, puppet manipulation, design,
and building in an art form where boundaries are as limitless as the imagination and there are no right or wrong answers, only wildly creative (and fun) alternatives.
Facilitator: Tangle Caron. See bio on page 41.
Length: 1 day
Date: Sat, Mar 23, 2013
Time: 10am – 4:30pm
Cost: $95 + applicable taxes
Best to Register by: Sat, Mar 9, 2013
Intermediate Puppetry
TAEA3038
Calling all dolly-wagglers, puppet-mongers, and creative types. Puppetry offers an expansive, breathtaking,
and fun landscape to explore creativity and unexpected discoveries. This is for people who have taken Introduction to Puppetry or already have experience in the Puppet Arts. Advanced techniques include cooperative and shadow puppetry and constructing soundscapes, culminating
in short puppet shows that you create yourself. Build on the elements of character, improvisation, puppet manipulation, design,
and building.
Facilitator: Tangle Caron. See bio on page 41.
Length: 1 day
Date: Sun, Mar 24, 2013 Time: 10am – 4:30pm
Cost: $95 + applicable taxes Best to Register by: Sun, Mar 10, 2013
Miksang: Opening the Good Eye –
An Introduction to Contemplative Photography TAEA2972
An introduction to the discipline of direct seeing and perception- based photography. Develop your ability to synchronize
your mind and eye, where habitual patterns of seeing and labeling dissolve in a moment of stunning, vivid perception. Develop con dence in your ability to connect directly with what you see, staying fully present with perception as you understand its qualities and then express your experience precisely with your camera.
Facilitators: Michael Wood. See bio on page 52. And Julie DuBose. See bio on page 43.
Length: 1 evening, 4 days
Date: Wed – Sun, Nov 21 – 25, 2012 Time: Wed, 7pm – 9pm, Thu – Sun, 9am – 5pm
Cost: $495 (tax exempt)
Best to Register by: Wed, Nov 7, 2012
Miksang: Making Contact – Discovering THAT
TAEA2973
Develop certainty in the view that “there is such a thing as unconditional perception that does not come from self or
other.” Discover the openness beyond what “this”, or “I” think about what I see, and make
it possible to engage with the “thatness” of the objects of your perception. You will be introduced to the practice of “Deep Noticing”. Pre-Requisite: Opening the Good Eye (see description this page).
Facilitators: Michael Wood. See bio on page 52. And Julie DuBose. See bio on page 43.
Length: 1 evening, 4 days Date:Wed–Sun,May1–5,2013 Time: Wed, 7pm – 9pm, Thu – Sun, 9am – 5pm
Cost: $495 + applicable taxes
Best to Register by: Wed,
Apr 17, 2013
Power Doodling:
Letting the Little Picture Reveal the Big Picture
TAEA3036
Learn the basics of “visual note-taking” and increase
your ability to retain and convey information, focus your attention, and unleash creative problem-solving genius you never knew you had. Enjoy freer creativity and spontaneity, increased ability to visualize
a problem or situation non- verbally, and better focus
in meetings and lectures. Absolutely no artistic skills required, but if you love to draw you’ll learn techniques to apply to your art.
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