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Deepening into the Artistry of InterPlay

Make a Splash!
Elizabeth Mendana Shaw, Krista Gemmell Harris, Leah Mann, TraceyJoy Miller, and Laurie Rudel

Seattle, WA

One Saturday a month 9:30 am- 4:00 pm Oct. 11, Nov. 1, Jan 10, February 7, March 7, April 11, May 2, June 6

We are excited to be launching a new program in Seattle! One Saturday a month we will invite a local guest InterPlay artist and master teacher to lead a daylong InterPlay class with an emphasis on inviting more artistry and crafting to our InterPlay forms. InterPlay Leaders, Betsey Beckman, Krista Harris, Leah Mann, Harriet Platts and others will share their passion for InterPlay forms and how they use them to enhance lives and work while immersing us in an adventurous pool of crafting and play!

Each month the last hour of our time together will be spent "splashing around" with artistry, crafting, witnessing and affirmation.

March 7th with Krista Harris

April 11th with Sheila Collins National InterPlay Board President

May 2nd with Elizabeth Mendana Shaw

June 6th with Laurie Rudel, Sharie Bowman, and TraceyJoy Miller

Cost: $700 for all 8 sessions plus special Friday Night Jam with Phil Porter December 5th 7-9 pm OR Drop-in rate of $120 per day

Registration/Information: Sharie Bowman at infoseattle@interplay.org or call (253) 740-8209

Venue

Queen Anne Christian Church

1316 3rd Ave W & W Lee St
Seattle, WA 98119
www.qaccweb.org
Neighborhood parking. Along 3rd Ave W there is a single door entrance with a stained glass window beside it. Come in that door and go up the stairs and through the double doors to the Fellowship Hall. Wear layers!
Leaders
Elizabeth Mendana Shaw
Elizabeth Mendana, MFA, is a member of the InterPlay-based Wing It! Performance Ensemble in Oakland, CA and is an international InterPlay leader and performer. She is versed in dance, theatre, and stage wisdom with a special gift for caring about people and art at the same time. The San Francisco Chronicle has called her dancing "Stunning" and "Hypnotic". She has performed with several San Francisco choreographers as well as presenting her own creative work with her company Mendana Productions. She has recently relocated to Seattle where she hopes to continue creating performance art, teach Pilates, and make a home.
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Krista Gemmell Harris
Krista loves moving and playing with people. She is a gifted teacher and master InterPlay leader who has a long history of inspiring people to find more joy, ease, and wisdom in being bodies. Krista has been leading InterPlay since 1993. She is one of the original InterPlay pioneers who helped create InterPlay communities and Life Practice Programs outside the Bay area. Krista has an M.F.A. in Dance and is certified in both Laban Movement Analysis and InterPlay. Authentic Movement, Insight Meditation and Shibashi QiGong also inform and enrich her life and work. Krista has been an advocate for both deepening the experience of stillness in InterPlay and for bringing more playfulness into her meditation communities. Along with other InterPlayers, Krista is beginning to explore how the InterPlay tools and forms can be used to support social action education and change. 2131 NW 93rd St Seattle, WA 98117 United States Email: kristaharris@comcast.net 206/784-8030
Leah Mann

Leah Mann (she, they) is a dancer, choreographer, somatic practitioner, and arts educator, focusing on embodied social justice. They are Co-Director of Lelavision", a performance and production company based on Vashon Island, WA, that combines kinetic sculpture, dance and music. Leah is Artistic Director Emeritus of Moving in the Spirit, a youth mentorship, urban outreach program, utilizing the praxis of dance to develop life skills (Atlanta, GA). Through their kinetic learning style, they work to cultivate community through the common denominators of the human experience.   Most recently they have been facilitating movement, music, and play with medically fragile youth, Muslim immigrants, and pregnant people in recovery. They are in an ongoing science-art collaboration with Morehouse College / Andrew Young Center for Global Leadership focusing on wellness and healthy ecosystems micro to macro.  Leah has been InterPlaying since its inception!!

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TraceyJoy Miller
TraceyJoy has been InterPlaying since 1999. She discovered InterPlay in the Twin Cities, trained as an InterPlay leader in Oakland for three years; live and led InterPlay in the Seattle area for 12 years before returning to the Twin Cities in 2022. Since her 20’s she has studied and applied a variety of approaches to accessing the wisdom of her body and healing. And, she loves supporting others to do the same. She spent many years committed to working on herself; working to become “good enough”. Thankfully InterPlay has brought a balance of levity, playfulness, and community to her life long, sincere explorations as a human being. She considers herself a “Recovering Serious Person”.
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Laurie Rudel

Ordained in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ in 1988 Laurie served as Pastor of Queen Anne Christian Church in Seattle from July 1991 through February 2017.

In 1995 she began leading InterPlay classes in Seattle. In 1997 she created SpiritPlay (melding InterPlay with worship forms and spiritual practice) for clergy, spiritual leaders and seekers. Since then she has taught Secrets of InterPlay and the InterPlay Leadership Program.

Laurie loves to write, weave, knit, sing, weed, sketch, read, and participate in Modern Western Square Dancing with the Puddletown Squares.

Now in retirement Laurie serves on the Board for the Grunewald Guild in Leavenworth, Washington, a center for the exploration of art, faith, and community. In addition to serving on the Board for the Guild she co-facilitates worship and a class for their Sacred Arts Week.

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