Ritual, Play, Food, & Performance to End the Year
Year End! A Festive Retreat
Survived 2012? Celebrate InterPlay Style!
Phil Porter and
Cynthia Winton-Henry
Oakland, CA
Sunday, Dec 30, 7–9 pm & Monday, Dec 31, 1 – 10:30 pm or midnight
Take a Deep Breath and let it out with a
• a Sigh
• a Song
• a Dance
• a %^$%##**)!%$!!
Sunday Dec 30 & Monday Dec 31
Come shake it out, move, breathe, and play with the year InterPlay Style! Easy creative practices help you remember 2012 with gusto, fondness or a good Rid-dance!
Make an I SURVIVED 2012 T-Shirt! Eat good food. Meet new friends. Have some fun with this crazy life. Maybe even perform in an InterPlay Cabaret!
Where? InterPlayce's beautiful studio.
Schedule
Sunday 7-9pm Sing and Dance in the Dark: Join in the creation of a spiral out of tree branches. Enjoy beautiful music. Bring losses and joys to the center using candlelight. Make a communal wreath and let the stars do the rest of the work.
Monday 1:00-10:30 or till the clock ticks midnight.
1pm-3:30 Community Play led by Phil Porter
4:30-6:00 Making I Survived T-Shirts or Quiet Time with Cynthia Winton-Henry
6pm-7:30 Catered Meal
7:30-9:30 Performance Jam led by Phil and Cynthia
9:30-10:30 The last Hoorah! Drinks and Dessert
10:30- Midnight. Stay as long as you want to dance, drum, hum or shmooze.
• a Sigh
• a Song
• a Dance
• a %^$%##**)!%$!!
Sunday Dec 30 & Monday Dec 31
Come shake it out, move, breathe, and play with the year InterPlay Style! Easy creative practices help you remember 2012 with gusto, fondness or a good Rid-dance!
Make an I SURVIVED 2012 T-Shirt! Eat good food. Meet new friends. Have some fun with this crazy life. Maybe even perform in an InterPlay Cabaret!
Where? InterPlayce's beautiful studio.
Schedule
Sunday 7-9pm Sing and Dance in the Dark: Join in the creation of a spiral out of tree branches. Enjoy beautiful music. Bring losses and joys to the center using candlelight. Make a communal wreath and let the stars do the rest of the work.
Monday 1:00-10:30 or till the clock ticks midnight.
1pm-3:30 Community Play led by Phil Porter
4:30-6:00 Making I Survived T-Shirts or Quiet Time with Cynthia Winton-Henry
6pm-7:30 Catered Meal
7:30-9:30 Performance Jam led by Phil and Cynthia
9:30-10:30 The last Hoorah! Drinks and Dessert
10:30- Midnight. Stay as long as you want to dance, drum, hum or shmooze.
Cost: $99 for the full event (meal and 12 hours of rollicking) $79 for Monday (meal and 10 hours of rollicking) $20 for Sunday night only
Registration/Information: 510-465-2797 info@interplay.org
Venue
InterPlayce
2273 Telegraph Avenue (at 23rd St.)
Oakland, CA 94612
InterPlayce is the center of the InterPlay universe. The offices for Body Wisdom, Inc. are also located here. The building is at the corner of 23rd and Telegraph, one block north of West Grand. It is just a few blocks from the 19th Street Downtown Oakland BART station, and on several convenient bus lines. On-street parking is always available at night and metered during the day. It is also easily accessible by several of the major freeways.
Click here for a map.
Leaders
Phil Porter
Phil is one of the founders of InterPlay. He is a teacher, performer, writer, and organizer. With Cynthia Winton-Henry he is the co-founder of WING IT! Performance Ensemble, and has written several books, some in collaboration with Cynthia, including Having It All: Body, Mind, Heart & Spirit Together Again at Last and The Slightly Mad Rantings of a Body Intellectual Part One. Phil is particularly interested in the use of InterPlay in organizational life, and believes that InterPlay can be a powerful tool to create communities of diversity and peace.
Cynthia Winton-Henry
Cynthia Winton-Henry, co-founder of InterPlay with Phil Porter, has researched "what the body wants" in the arts, in jails, shelters, slums, hospitals, churches, businesses, classrooms, doctoral programs in theology and the arts, and in multicultural education. She develops somatic curriculums to address racism, leadership for the Earth, and spiritual intelligence with an eye to supporting millennials. A featured speaker on the Body Intelligence Summit and a keynoter at conferences, Cynthia is the author of What the Body Wants, Having It All: Body, Mind, Heart & Spirit Together Again at Last; Dance - A Sacred Art: Discovering the Joy of Movement as Spiritual Practice, Chasing the Dance of Life: A Faith Journey, and The Art of Ensoulment: A Playbook on How to Create From Body and Soul.. Check out her writing, The Dancing Center, on Substack, her Hidden Monastery Online Dance Chapels and courses for those seeking spiritual intelligence for our time at cynthiawinton-henry.com.