Creative Explorations in Felt Making and Poetry with Linda DeGraf, Mary Watters, and Cheryl Hellner
March 19-21, 2004
Friday 7pm - Sunday 1pm
Retreat House
Come away to Rolling Ridge on this first weekend of winter into spring and explore new ways of tending your own creative soul.
Friday Evening
- Opening circle with guided felt making activity
- Introduction to the rich associations and metaphors of felt making
- Time to share around the circle ways we each tend and care for our own creative soul
Saturday
- Making a felt art piece together--a community art work--to be given as a gift and displayed at Rolling Ridge
- Time for rest and reflection, journaling, walking and exploring the land
Saturday Evening
- Poetry writing time with gentle guidance on ways to nurture the life of a poem
- Time to read aloud the poems which serve as soul guides for us at this time in our lives (bring poems --your own or the poems of others -- to share)
Sunday Morning
- An open time for continuing our poem writing explorations
- We will conclude with a celebration/blessing time and lunch
Leaders: Linda DeGraf, Cheryl Hellner, Mary Watters, and the Meditative Arts Committee.
The cost of the retreat is $75 plus a $15 material fee. Contact Vivian at vvatrr@juno.com for more information or if you would like to register.