Image by LILLETH. [ID: birds-eye, black and white image of five beings wearing black mesh pods and laying in fetal position, spread out across sand.]
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Visioned and Co-Facilitated by CPR 2023 Artist-in-Residence LILLETH, this one-day workshop will be a space to explore moving and sonic meditations, extending from their iterative project, STRATA. STRATA is a multi-sensory performance, a collective lucid dream, an urgent embodied call to slow down and experience our (be)longing. This project is growing in community with creative collaborators across overlapping orbits of the project, including Rad Pereira, Jen Anaya, Lester St. Louis, Kelley Shih, Tianna Nicole, Sohina Sidhu, Xiaoyue Zhang, Jack Fuller, Jackie Rivera, dioganhdih hall, Ayelet Haschahar, David Lee Sierra, Sarah Finn, Julia Kaganskiy, and many others. Please see credits for the ongoing project here.
An in-progress performance and exhibition of STRATA will be presented by CPR in June 2023.
Detailed notes on accessibility and what to expect:
What to expect: The workshop will be two hours long. It will begin with some intention setting and meditation. Then you will be invited to do some movement and stretching. Then you will be invited to move through the space with other participants. There will be an opportunity for some release, and then there will be an intentional closing.
Duration: The workshop is 2 hours long, 5pm - 7pm. Doors open at 4:45, and doors close at 5:10. No late entry after that. However, you can leave at any time if necessary.
What to wear:
Please wear comfortable clothes you can move in, and shoes for movement like sneakers (though you can be barefoot or wear socks).
We invite you to wear monochrome, so your top and bottoms are matching in color.
Movement: CPR is ADA accessible, bathrooms, gender neutral bathrooms. The workshop invites walking and movement around the space with other participants, as well as stretches and exercises that involve therapeutic movement (e.g. physical therapy, Alexander technique, somatic experiencing, yoga, walking meditation, trance, and meridian healing movement).
Divination: The workshop will also include spiritual language, divination, and ritual practice co-facilitated by different collaborators of this project. We will have very intentional openings and closings. If you would like more information about the traditions we are calling upon and our spiritual praxis, please reach out to studio.lilleth@gmail.com.
Sound/ASL interpretation: The music will call upon solfeggio healing frequencies, harmonic minor scales, rhythmic beats, and droning sound scapes. We will not be offering ASL interpretation for the workshop. This iteration foregrounds, in some ways, sound as a tool of healing. However, for our June performance, we are actively crafting more access practices to expand the multi-sensory engagement of the project, including research into ways the healing frequencies we are activating positively impact non-auditory cells. Thank you for your patience as we build our processes slowly and intentionally.
Light: The workshop will involve bright light, saturated colorful light, low-light, slow pulsating light, and darkness.
Scent: there may be some lingering scent of incense in the space; however, nothing will actively be burning. There will be additional essential oils and herbs bottled at the care station for your personal use as needed.
Care Station: You can participate as much or as little as you would like, and can leave the room at any time. We will have a facilitator on site who can support you in positive resourcing in the event that this embodiment work activates any difficult and urgent emotions or sensations that would be best supported by leaving the space. We will also have a facilitator who can offer reiki if you are experiencing pain mid-workshop, and spiritual grounding if you are feeling activated.
Covid: We will ask everyone to submit a same-day covid form, and ask that you not attend if you are experiencing any cold, flu, or COVID-related symptoms. Masks will be required at all times, unless you are drinking water.
Documentation: We will be documenting the workshop with video and photography.
Virtual Participation: we are not offering a live-zoom because we don’t have capacity at this time to do so in a care-centered way. However, after the workshop, we will be developing an audio recording and transcript of parts of the workshop that would work well in that format. If you are interested in receiving these materials for your own access and engagement, please message studio.lilleth@gmail.com.