InterPlay Worldwide

What is InterPlay?

InterPlay is an accessible art form that anyone can do, a body-based spiritual practice that relieves stress and creates ease and a way to build community based in improvisational play.

Read answers to some “FAQs” about InterPlay!

Photo: Inclusive Education group using InterPlay in New Zealand

InterPlay Basics

A great workshop at InterPlayce in Oakland! New to InterPlay? Want to refresh your knowledge of the forms? This workshop is a great way to get down to the nitty gritty and learn the forms of InterPlay! Use your voice, your dance, and your story in community.

Next workshop is Sunday May 18, 2-4:30 PM

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2nd International InterPlay Conference

August 26-30, 2008

Join a world-wide gathering of InterPlayers in Berkeley, California. Come for fun, connection, new ideas, reunions, San Francisco Bay Area sights and sounds, workshops, plenaries, performances, dancing, storytelling, singing, and even some silence.

Registration is limited so reserve your spot soon!

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Ongoing Weekly Classes at InterPlayce

Six opportunities each week to drop-in at InterPlayce for a class. Play when it is convenient for you!
Mon 10:30 am-12 noon (women),
Tues 6-7:30 pm,
Wed 10:30 am-12 noon & 7:30-9 pm,
Thu 7-8:30 pm (men)*,
Fri 10:30 am-12 noon.

*Thursday evenings will become a Men's class beginning Mar 6, 2008. Using all the InterPlay forms to tell stories, move, give voice, connect, and share stillness, Theron Shaw creates a space for men to give support, play, and create together in transforming ways.

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Class schedule for ongoing classes at InterPlayce.

Check out the InterPlay Dance Anywhere video.

Hooplas!

The InterPlay community now has a new ritual called the “Hoopla!” which can be used to celebrate all sorts of life-transitions. We often have to jump through hoops to get where we need to go.

Photos of the “Blessing of the Hoops” at a recent retreat on Vashon Island in Washington and their use in the blessing of newborn Kairos, daughter of Leah Mann and Ela Lamblin.

Listen to InterPlay co-founder Cynthia Winton-Henry’s story about the development of the Hoopla!

InterPlay in Morocco

Diane Saliba Ault and Masankho Banda will lead a group of 20 InterPlayers (American and Australian) to Morocco June 3–15, 2008 on a mission of cultural exchange. They will be attending the Festival of World Sacred Music in Fes and meeting and playing with extended family and friends of Diane’s son–in–law, Zouhair, in Rabat and Marakesh.

InterPlay will provide the foundation for travelers to process their experiences as well as provide the bridge across differences in language and faith between the InterPlay travelers and Moroccan locals.

Read Sara Jane Ault’s reflections on Why Morocco and Why Now?
Follow the Morocco blog for more details!

InterPlay Leadership Program Graduation

There was much rejoicing and celebrating of this year’s Oakland Leadership Program Graduates at InterPlayce on April 19. Congratulations to: Bobbie Bolden, Mary Dalton, Harmony Gates, Annie Goglia, Anna Yoo-Kem Heo, Kathleen Hering, Amy Shoemaker, Ma Prem Suraja, Joe Voytek, and Kelly Williams!

This year’s Oakland Leadership Group was mentored by four new Leadership Mentors. Congratulations to: Susan Main, Elizabeth Mendana, Randy Newswanger, and Amy Smith!

New Year's Celebration at InterPlayce

Thank you to Don Moseman for capturing these images of the playful party at InterPlayce!

Photos from the Oakland Art Murmur

InterPlay artist Mary Sobrina Kuder and InterPlay Intern Amy Shoemaker organized an amazing evening at InterPlayce. Urban Altered or Praying Upside Down was an evening of art, music, costumes, and fun.

Photos from the Malawi Trip

InterPlay founders Cynthia Winton-Henry & Phil Porter teamed up with WING IT! member and International InterPlay leader, Masankho Banda, to take a group of InterPlayers to Masankho’s homeland in Africa. 43 InterPlayers from the United States and Australia went to visit the village of Tukombo in Malawi as peace ambassadors. They played, connected, learned, and experienced a world that changed their global point of view.

Read their reflections in the Malawi blog.

Here are photos taken by Ron Ault and Baina Masquelier on the trip.