A two day workshop retreat designed to awaken your creative practice through mindfulness and play.

Dates

Sunday/Monday 9/10th March
Sunday 9am – 6pm 
Monday 9-3pm.

You will experience workshops from visual artist Gabby Willmott, writer/teacher John Irving and movement artists Viv Rogis & Elizabeth Cameron Dalman.

Suitable for everyone.

Cost: Workshops only

• One day (Sunday only) $150 
• Full 2 days $220
• Includes lunch, morning & afternoon tea

Cost: Workshops plus accommodation & fully catered

• Workshops 2 days, plus 1 night accommodation in a shared room. $375
• Workshops 2 days plus 2 nights accommodation in a shared room. $470
• BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL: Follow this link https://events.humanitix.com/prelude

About the Artists and their workshops

Dr Elizabeth Cameron Dalman is a pioneer of modern dance in Australia. Her practice continues to create vibrant and powerful dance with a unique Australian perspective. This is an anniversary year marking 60 years since she founded Australian Dance Theatre.

Elizabeth founded Mirramu Creative Arts Centre in 1989 and then Mirramu Dance Company in 2000. Throughout her creative life nature has been central to her work and she will share some processes for drawing inspiration from the landscape around us over the weekend. 

Viv Rogis is a pilates and movement practitioner with 30 years experience. She believes in the power of movement as medicine for the body and mind. She is interested in movement as art, as fun, as medicine, as community.

Her practice incudes performance, choreography, teaching, curating, researching, & writing about dance. Most recently she has been focused on pilates to help people reach their movement goals including pain reduction, prehab and rehab, as well as strength and capacity building for athletes and dancers. She has recently returned to Canberra from Melbourne to take up the role of Assistant Director at Mirramu Creative Arts Centre. 

The Workshops – Viv

With Viv you will start from the breath as the first movement of the body and then explore pandiculation as a reflexive release, progressing to simple movement patterns to release tension in the body and wake up our mind-body connection. This will be a very gentle experience suitable for all body/minds. 

John has worked as a teacher /writer for many years. He has been a writer in residence for The City of Melbourne and The City of Hawthorn, where amongst other projects, he co-ordinated La Mamma Poetica with Mal Morgan, and initiated Hawthorn Readings.

He has had work published in numerous magazines and newspapers as well as three books; Moonstricken, Menhir Press, Poetry; In Our Time, M.C.C., Oral History; Nowhere Man, Bystander Press, fiction; He is presently finalising a novel, ‘That’s How It Is…..SEE’

The Workshops – John Irving

That’s How It Is…..SEE

John invites you to come on a meditative journey to try to bring to light all the lost stories we have hidden in our own imaginations. All you need is a pen, a notebook and an open mind.

Gabby Willmott is a gentle, supportive, and encouraging teacher who facilitates a nurturing, inclusive environment for people to explore, express and reflect. In Gabby’s art classes, participants learn mindfulness and meditation techniques and playful, explorative, intuitive, and expressive artmaking techniques. No prior art, meditation, or mindfulness experience is necessary.

The Workshops – Gabby Willmott

Marking Movement

If your movement or dance was a drawing what would it look like? How do you move in a way to create lines on paper that express how you think or feel? 

In this workshop we will use simple drawing, meditation, and movement techniques to express ourselves on big paper sheets!

About Accommodation – space for 8 people only is available

All accommodation at Mirramu is in shared rooms with 3-4 people in a room depending on numbers. You will need to bring a towel but sheets and bedding are provided. There are two bathrooms that are also shared

About Catering

This event is fully catered with simple healthy food. If you have favourite snacks please feel free to bring them for your own consumption. We will ask everyone to fill out a registration form by Wednesday 5th March which will include dietary requirements.

Financial Hardship/Abundance – We have tried to keep the costs as low as possible for this retreat and so the current price is our concession price. 

If you are experiencing financial hardship but would still like to come to the workshops please contact Viv via email: viviennerogis@gmail.com or phone 0417663778  to discuss our skills exchange program. 

If you are in a position of financial abundance we would welcome a donation to the event to help cover the costs of artists and venue.