CALENDAR OF OPPORTUNITIES!!
Several gatherings coming up this winter and spring to connect, create, and cultivate and commune with other interesting people in the Nashville area!
the new website will be open soon at www.MorningStarArts.net
Come see what's evolving! Be part of a new beginning.
SoulStories:
An Exploration of the InterPlay of Nature and Soul
Come and join in for this four week series of gatherings to share art, spirit, stories, movement, collage, writing and mutual support with other sweet folks and guest community artists! Our "text" will be the lifestories and learnings of each participant with a special interest in noticing/celebrating/deepening our connections in the natural world. We'll share some forms that will aid us in expressing the myriad ways our encounters in/with nature have influenced our lives thus far, and discover some new tools to expand our engagement with the mysteries of our deeper dreams and desires. After some recent experiences with doing the work of SoulCraft and SoulCollage and encounters in nature, Kelly Eagar and I are moved to offer time and space for some deep play-- witnessing to, crafting and and sharing our soul stirrings in simple but profound expressive mediums of story, sound, stillness and movement. In the warm and comfortable, candlelit space of The PlayRoom of my home at 309 Canberra Ct., and with the music of nature and our own voices as soundtrack, we will explore the ways that our lives have been shaped by encounters in the more-than-human world, discover the places of disconnect, and provide opportunities to re-member our place in the Oneness with all that is. Each Winter for several years we have offered these sessions as an opportunity to breathe deep, to focus on having inner stillness, quiet, deep connections with others, and an opportunity to be gentle with ourselves and savor this way of BEing in the world to prepare for Spring and the season of new growth.
Space is limited to 12 so call and reserve your space today. We'll be meeting each Monday from 6:30-8:30pm,The love offering requested is $20 for drop ins, or just $60 for the 4 week series.. Please register by calling 615-594-4410 or email- dianamorningstar@gmail.com.
Also, please share this opportunity with your friends! We even have some wonderful people coming all the way from Louisville each week to join us! Don't miss it!
FEB 13-15
HeartsWideOpen
A Valentine's Weekend Retreat and Community Performance
Celebrating Love and Healing Relationships
See flyer here! Details coming soon
If love were a song what would it sound like? Do you recognize love in your dancing body? Love means so many different things to so many people, what does love mean to you? This will be a weekend of celebration and reflection! Are you seeking love or do you wish to have more love in your relationships? There is an abundance of love in the world in all its forms-- let us connect with it in song, story, dance and stillness.
• Share stories of love across time
• Sing and create songs that celebrate love
• Discover and celebrate your wisdom about love
• Participate in a Ritual of Love
• Dance on behalf of those in our lives who need love
• Renew your Vow to love yourself
• Heal the wounds of love lost
• Enliven your body, awaken your sensuality
Dates & Times: Sat, Feb 13th 10am- 5pm, Sun, Feb. 14th 2p-5pm, Global Potluck, & Open Community
Celebration- 6:30-8:30pm, and Mon, Feb. 15th from 10-12, 5-8pm- closing with Soulstories
Locations: Sat & Sun-Unity Church for Positive Living: 4319 Saundersville Road Old Hickory, TN,
Mon-The PlayRoom, 309 Canberra Ct. Hermitage, TN (Come to any or all sessions!, just RSVP pls)
Cost: The value of this retreat is $150-250, and the gracious folks at the church are providing us a beautiful space. We ask that you make a generous contribution toward this experience as fully as you are able, but please do not let the cost be a barrier to your participation.
Register: 615-594-4410, dianamorningstar@gmail.com
Your facilitators for HeartsWideOpen are:
Masankho Banda- a multi - disciplinary Performing Artist, Educator and InterPlay Leader originally from Malawi. He brings many unique perspectives to his work around the world. Using the performing arts and InterPlay Masankho motivates and inspires people of all ages to work together to bring about peace, social justice andcultural understanding. For his international peace work through the arts he was awarded an Unsung Hero of Compassion Award by the Dalai Llama. In 1997, he started UCanDanc’ African Healing Arts to bring his passion for dance and storytelling to communities around the world. www.ucandanc.org 510-773-7328
Thandiwe Shiphrah- a poet, orator and "artist of encouragement" A transplant from D.C. (by way of Albuquerque), she will share the ways in which she uses language to motivate people toward greater levels of fulfillment in their personal and professional lives. She is doing fabulous one-woman shows and collaborations with her partner Daniel Arite that include CDs, and very interesting combinations of spoken word, music and sound effects. contact her at thandiwe@hotmail.com, 837-6487
Diana MorningStar Ault- aka MorningStar is a powerhouse of energy when it comes to bringing diverse groups of people together for change. She is an artist, activist, and faciltator of InterPlay. She shares the practices of storytelling, song, and movement that make up the ancient core of social healing and transformation, cultural understanding, healing and transformation. dianeault@bellsouth.net. The current evolution of her work she is calling MorningStar Community Arts Collaborative, and these new C.A.M.P. parties will take us back to the roots of the connection between arts and social action. dianamorningstar@gmail.com
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Diana (Morningstar) Ault is a community artist, activist, producer, and mostly fulltime grandmother now! She loves creating cultures of peace by bringing people together to play across lines of race, class, and culture, recognizing the oneness and interdependency of all beings.
Come and be part of any and all of these great events and be part of our amazing community of artists! Call 615-594-4410, or email for more information- dianamorningstar@gmail.com
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