This weekend training uses the InterPlay practice to talk about social movements and how Millennials are changing the world. We will share our stories, express our voices and move to our movements. This training is intended for self-proclaimed Millennials (ages 18-35) who are involved in social change in a variety of capacities. From teachers to students, artists to politicians, from the streets to your home, we will explore the many facets of social change and how our stories and full-selves can play with changing the world for the better. This is an introduction to the two-week training in Oakland California called Art & Social Change: InterPlay for Millennial Leaders led by numerous facilitators including Agnotti Cowie.

This un-tense multiple-day retreat will gently immerse you in the easy-body practices of InterPlay, a practice that teaches groups and individuals to tap into their artistic authority and positively affect other people. In InterPlay you will find new access to your stories, movement and voice. This is an easy way to experience the powerful integration of mind, body, heart and spirit. It is also a quick way to gain community connection. Plus, you learn concrete tools that you can apply in your daily life and work, like exformation, body wisdom practices, easy focus, and the physicality of grace.

InterPlay is something that anybody and any body can do—regardless of size, shape, ability, race, culture, gender, sexuality, belief, or nationality. All you need is a little willingness. Expect to laugh, savor and relax. Expect to be surprised by what you can do!

InterPlay is a worldwide community of artist-activists who believe in their ability to change the world through creative expression. Developed over the last twenty-five years by Phil Porter and Cynthia Winton-Henry, InterPlay is a practice that teaches groups and individuals to tap into their artistic authority and positively affect other people. For more info, visit www.interplay.org

About the facilitators

Agnotti Cowie attended the first ever “Art & Social Change: InterPlay for Millenial Leaders” in 2010. Since, she joined InterPlay’s national board as well as becoming a certified InterPlay leader. This past summer, she returned to Oakland as a facilitator of the Art and Social Change training. Agnotti facilitates workshops worldwide employing a variety of pedagogical techniques such as InterPlay, Theatre of the Oppressed, and Devising. Currently she is based in Chicago where she does workshops in schools, organizations and with social movements. Recently, she has taken her work around the globe teaching workshops in Vietnam and India.

Rehana Tejpar is a mother, dancer, theatre artist and community arts facilitator dedicated to staging stories of social importance, and evoking community dialogue. Using popular education, Theatre of the Oppressed and Art of Hosting techniques, she has been designing curriculum and facilitating leadership programs with young women, children and youth in Canada, Kenya and India for the past 10 years. Since 2011 she has been playing with InterPlay and is currently a leader in training. She is an active performance artist in dance-theatre and is currently working on Eventual Ashes’ Ocean Carving: A Performance in Water, to be performed in the 2015 Rhubarb Festival.