April 1- Kosmic Mamas Kindergarten Class
St. Ann's Episcopal Church in East Nashville. A six week session to gather with other willing boys and girls and relearn the ability to PLAY! Every Tuesday night 6-8pm. $15, $75 for all 6 sessions. Come join us and learn the BASIC "forms" of story, song, dance & stillness.
The core group of "Mamas" (Dayo, Adora, Paula, Jessica & Diane) will be traveling to Chicago to participate in the Regional InterPlay leaders gathering. (see below) We'll be developing a core "body to knowledge" to take with us to peform in The Unbelievable Beauty of Being Human.

April 5- Discovery Center in Murfreesboro- Family Day sponsored by the Rutherford County Psychotherapists Association. Come bring your kids for some simple activities with story, song & dance! The family that stays together plays together! Contact Tina Obrien at tinavin@dtccom.net for info.

April 5 & 6- Galactic Gateways EXPO- will be sharing a booth with Wendy Behr of Transformational Dance... come by the fairgrounds and dance with us!

April Sunday - Murfreesboro InterPlay session in the works, TBA

May 22-26-Chicago, "Higher Play, Deeper Planting" InterPlay Leaders gathering with a performance of the Unbelievable Beauty of Being Human. A group from Nashville participating and envisioning a global gathering of InterPlay leaders HERE in NASHVILLE in the summer of 2004

June 23 to June 27 at Berkeley A special summer week & performance with InterPlay founders, Cultures of Peace: InterPlay in Activism, Spirit, and Creativity with Masankho Banda, Phil Porter,and Cynthia Winton-Henry How do we play with diversity and explore common ground in order to move beyond tolerance toward multicultural health? Creativity can play an essential and life-giving role in this kind of peace-making. To restore playfulness and authentic curiosity is to encourage mutual commitment and understanding. Masankho, Phil, and Cynthia offer the philosophy and practice of InterPlay, based in twenty-five years of research and development, to stimulate social transformation through creativity, spirit, and affirmation. Part of the Graduate Theological Union Cooperative Summer Session held on the campus of Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, California. 2 Continuing Education Units. To register call 1-800/999-0528, ext. 1268. The cost is just $280 for a weeklong program & we can share housing and arrange cheap airfare.

June 27- Cultures of Peace Performance at Holy Names College in Oakland. see www.interplay.org for details, or write Cynthia at bodywiz@aol.com.

LEADERSHIP PROGRAM in the fall of 2003 - With the support of the national InterPlay program, I hope to initiate a year-long InterPlay leadership program modeled after other such programs in other regions around the country. (Nationwide and in Australia there are about 450 people now trained as InterPlay leaders.) I went through the Asheville program led by Ginny Going and Tom Henderson, and will work closely with them and other regional leaders to create a program that will work for us locally. Being centrally located in the south, I think we may attract people who have done some InterPlay in Georgia, Alabama and Kentucky as well as Tennessee folks! If you want more connection, more joy, more health, more spontaneity in your personal and professional life-- then this is the program for you. I loved the freedom I felt and had so much learning through what felt like just pure play! InterPlay is sneaky that way!

FALL of 2003- WorldPlay: Cultures of Peace - Cynthia & Masanko are putting together a Southeast tour-playing with diversity. This will be a large public gathering from people from all parts of the world… concluding with performance celebration! Who would like to play host and work/play with me to envision/create this one? I would like to have a planning playgroup with people from every continent to bring together the stories, songs, dances and peace practices from many places to share with our community in order to build global understanding.
Check the Web site for details at www.interplay.org or bodywiz@aol.com

Each of us is a living channel for unique and valuable gifts to the world.  Peace, Joy, Art, Truth, Invention, Beauty, Humor, Love, Children…and Much, Much More.  Choose something you dream of bringing into the world.

Let us know if you would like to join a retreat down by theTennessee River, (2 hrs. south of Nashville) where you’ll find an environment of fun, ease, inspiration, and support in which to explore and play with possibilities for action. April 26-27, just $100 with cooperative leadership.