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Playful Pathways To Peace - Pittsburgh PA

Masankho Banda and Sheila K Collins,PhD

Pittsburgh, PA

Thursday evening Thursday evening Nov. 30 2006 7-9 pm

Masankho Banda and Sheila Collins team up to bring together a diverse group of folks. Drawing on the children and adults individual and collective gifts through song, story rhythm and stillness, this evening presentation and workshop will give participants an appreciation for each other's life experiences - honoring both similarities and differences.

Cost: $15 adults, $10 seniors and students Weekend workshop participants free

Registration/Information:

Venue

Sarah Heinz House

One Heinz Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15212

SHH is near the 16 th St. bridge and the ketchup sign on the near North Side.

  • From 28 exit E.Ohio .
  • Turn onto Chestnut St. toward the bridge.
  • Park in the lot on your right. (SHH white van in lot.)
  • Walk toward the Heinz plant, (ketchup sign is on your right)
  • Make left turn under the railroad tracks.
  • The house is on your left.
Leaders
Masankho Banda

Masankho is a multi - disciplinary Performing Artist, Certified InterPlay Leader, Educator and PeaceBuilder. He brings many unique perspectives to his work around the world. He learned the fine arts of storytelling and dance from his Malawian culture spending many long days and nights listening to stories and dancing to music that captivated his mind, shaped his being, nourished his soul and strengthened his spirit. Using performing arts Masankho motivates and inspires people of all ages to work together to bring about peace, social justice and cultural understanding. In 1997, he started UCanDanc—African Healing Arts to bring his passion for dance and storytelling to communities around the world. Masankho has been a Certified InterPlay Leader since 1999.

Masankho can also be reached at these phone numbers: +265 99 255 5338 or 88 113 8655 (available on Whatsapp / FaceTime)

Also: Skype : kamsisi
Facebook / Twitter: storytelling4u

Sheila K Collins,PhD
Sheila K. Collins is the director of InterPlay Pittsburgh and the Wing & A Prayer Pittsburgh Players, an InterPlay-based performance troupe she founded in 2006 to assist human service agencies and art organizations in accomplishing their noble purposes. A former professional dancer, Sheila has described herself as a “dancing social worker” for over 40 years, throughout her careers as a therapist, social work professor, and writer.

She is the author of Stillpoint: A Playbook for Caregivers to Find Ease, Time to Breathe, and Reclaim Joy, which since its second edition, co-authored by Christine Gautreaux, has become a popular weekly online class, and Warrior Mother: Fierce Love, Unbearable Loss and the Rituals That Heal.

She’s been known to travel the country enlisting InterPlayers to help her Perform her Books, demonstrating how InterPlay tools help us get through life’s ordinary and extraordinary, “tough challenges”

Her latest book, The Art of Grieving: How Art and Artmaking Help Us Grieve, and Live Our Best Lives explores how the arts of storytelling, dance, music, and visual arts help mourners navigate episodes of grief, process loss, and extract meaning and wisdom for their future lives.

sheilakcollins@gmail.com 817 706-4967 120 Chapel Harbor Dr Pittsburgh Pa 15238

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