Calgary Arts Development’s classified listing is a free service for Calgary’s arts community. All content for the classifieds is user-submitted. Calgary Arts Development makes no endorsement to any agency, organization, corporation or individual who submits listings. We trust our readers to use their own judgement when responding to ads. Calgary Arts Development believes that artists should be paid for their work. For job postings and open calls, please share salary ranges or payment. Please note that ads for jobs outside of Calgary and area may not be posted. Archived August 7, 2018 Fall 2018 Course Offerings Trance-formation and Transformation in theory and practice have been essential in the development of our lives and art practices. We completed doctorate degrees in education with a primary interest in developing ourselves as researchers and teachers dedicated to creative change, growth, healing, transformation and liberation. Our work as artists/researcher/teachers seeks to reform/ transform our shifting identities while reconciling the shadowed histories of our colonial ancestral heritage and the damages to ecosystems and Indigenous Peoples and their ways. The courses below are ways we invite others to engage a slow activism approach to the transformation of one’s self in relation to culture and nature through art. Trance Based Learning & Inquiry: Introductory Course A six-week course on Monday evenings from 7:00 to 9:00pm October 15 – November 19, 2018 Facilitators: Barbara Bickel and R. Michael Fisher This workshop will introduce participants to basic trance processes offering a deeper understanding of oneself, others and the more-than-human world. It is a generative practice of opening up to arational modes of knowing and being with roots in indigenous shamanism, surrealist art, and contemporary Reclaiming wiccan practices. Barbara has worked with trance in her art practice since 2000 and has been teaching the process to artists and arts educators since 2017 as a way to expand possibilities of the human imaginary. Participants will work individually, in pairs and as a group to learn the process of creating an intentional space for trance-based inquiry and learning, reclaiming the human birthright of entering alternative states of consciousness for self and planetary recalibration, restoration and transformation. Dress comfortably and bring a yoga mat or blanket. Location: McHugh House Gallery (1515 Centre St. S) Pre-registration required prior to October 12, 2018. Email studiomatrixial@gmail.com. All courses are offered within the framework of a gift economy. See gifting page for details. Persons of all backgrounds and abilities 16 years of age or older are welcome. Ma Pose Posture Practice 13 bi-weekly drop-ins on Wednesday evenings from 7:00 to 9:00pm in conjunction with the new and full moon October 10, 24, 31, November 7, 21, December 5, 19, 2018 and dates TBA in 2019 Facilitator: Barbara Bickel, co-founding member of the Gestare Art Collective Ma Pose are a practice developed by members of the Gestare Art Collective inspired by ancient Venus figurines categorized in the work of Annine van der Meer in her published book The Language of Ma the Primal Mother: The evolution of the female image in 40,000 years of global Venus Art, and the Ecstatic Trance Posture practice developed by anthropologist Felicitas Goodman. Through their practice of Ma Pose postures the Gestare Art Collective has created a unique curriculum process to restore body wholeness and perceptions through embodied learning, generated new stories for the individual and collective, and re-claimed art histories that move us closer to de-colonization and healing processes possible in matrixial (Ettinger 2005) and Indigenous cosmologies (Four Arrows, 2016; Wilson, 2008). Dress comfortably and bring a yoga mat or blanket. Location: McHugh House Gallery (1515 Centre St. S) Pre-registration with intent to attend all or some drop-in evenings recommended by October 8, 2018. Email studiomatrixial@gmail.com. All courses are offered within the framework of a gift economy. See gifting page for details. Persons of all backgrounds and abilities 16 years of age or older are welcome. Studio M* A space for arts, culture & healing studiom.space
Trance-formation and Transformation in theory and practice have been essential in the development of our lives and art practices. We completed doctorate degrees in education with a primary interest in developing ourselves as researchers and teachers dedicated to creative change, growth, healing, transformation and liberation. Our work as artists/researcher/teachers seeks to reform/ transform our shifting identities while reconciling the shadowed histories of our colonial ancestral heritage and the damages to ecosystems and Indigenous Peoples and their ways. The courses below are ways we invite others to engage a slow activism approach to the transformation of one’s self in relation to culture and nature through art. Trance Based Learning & Inquiry: Introductory Course A six-week course on Monday evenings from 7:00 to 9:00pm October 15 – November 19, 2018 Facilitators: Barbara Bickel and R. Michael Fisher This workshop will introduce participants to basic trance processes offering a deeper understanding of oneself, others and the more-than-human world. It is a generative practice of opening up to arational modes of knowing and being with roots in indigenous shamanism, surrealist art, and contemporary Reclaiming wiccan practices. Barbara has worked with trance in her art practice since 2000 and has been teaching the process to artists and arts educators since 2017 as a way to expand possibilities of the human imaginary. Participants will work individually, in pairs and as a group to learn the process of creating an intentional space for trance-based inquiry and learning, reclaiming the human birthright of entering alternative states of consciousness for self and planetary recalibration, restoration and transformation. Dress comfortably and bring a yoga mat or blanket. Location: McHugh House Gallery (1515 Centre St. S) Pre-registration required prior to October 12, 2018. Email studiomatrixial@gmail.com. All courses are offered within the framework of a gift economy. See gifting page for details. Persons of all backgrounds and abilities 16 years of age or older are welcome. Ma Pose Posture Practice 13 bi-weekly drop-ins on Wednesday evenings from 7:00 to 9:00pm in conjunction with the new and full moon October 10, 24, 31, November 7, 21, December 5, 19, 2018 and dates TBA in 2019 Facilitator: Barbara Bickel, co-founding member of the Gestare Art Collective Ma Pose are a practice developed by members of the Gestare Art Collective inspired by ancient Venus figurines categorized in the work of Annine van der Meer in her published book The Language of Ma the Primal Mother: The evolution of the female image in 40,000 years of global Venus Art, and the Ecstatic Trance Posture practice developed by anthropologist Felicitas Goodman. Through their practice of Ma Pose postures the Gestare Art Collective has created a unique curriculum process to restore body wholeness and perceptions through embodied learning, generated new stories for the individual and collective, and re-claimed art histories that move us closer to de-colonization and healing processes possible in matrixial (Ettinger 2005) and Indigenous cosmologies (Four Arrows, 2016; Wilson, 2008). Dress comfortably and bring a yoga mat or blanket. Location: McHugh House Gallery (1515 Centre St. S) Pre-registration with intent to attend all or some drop-in evenings recommended by October 8, 2018. Email studiomatrixial@gmail.com. All courses are offered within the framework of a gift economy. See gifting page for details. Persons of all backgrounds and abilities 16 years of age or older are welcome.
