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Witnessing Without Colonizing: a two-hour experiential puppetry workshop to practice witnessing as an embodied ethical act.
Can we stay in contact with what we see and not manage, consume, or interpret it?
Can we perceive without possession?
Where do we reach for meaning, and what do we miss when we do?
Can we learn to see and accompany with more care and curiosity?
Through guided Deep Puppetry exercises, we practice animating simple materials as autonomous partners. Participants move between being animator and witness, attending to the subtle ways in which we leap to decide what something is and what it means. These are learned reflexes, and they can be unlearned.
We practice freeing our gaze, softening our presence, and staying-with when complexity and incoherence feel like a threat that requires domination and control.
We engage in movement, reflective dialogue, and symbolic play to cultivate an embodied ethic of attention that honors the Life that moves through all things.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14
ZOOM
4pm-6pm Central European Time
8:30pm-10:30pm India
3pm-5pm UK
10am-12pm Eastern
7am-9am Pacific
500 SEK (approx. 53 USD)
Together, we do our best to disrupt Zoom expectations around production, urgency, and transactional connection.
All are welcome. No experience needed.
Live attendance is not mandatory. A recording will be available for seven days.
You will need:
-One square-ish piece of fabric 10-20 inches (25-50cm) along one side. A scarf, pillowcase, hand towel, t-shirt will do.
-One large, square-ish piece of pliable paper at least 24in/70cm. It can be packing paper, kraft paper, tissue paper, wrapping paper, newsprint, floral paper, or the like.
photo by Marisa Feto
Witnessing Without Colonizing: a two-hour experiential puppetry workshop to practice witnessing as an embodied ethical act.
Can we stay in contact with what we see and not manage, consume, or interpret it?
Can we perceive without possession?
Where do we reach for meaning, and what do we miss when we do?
Can we learn to see and accompany with more care and curiosity?
Through guided Deep Puppetry exercises, we practice animating simple materials as autonomous partners. Participants move between being animator and witness, attending to the subtle ways in which we leap to decide what something is and what it means. These are learned reflexes, and they can be unlearned.
We practice freeing our gaze, softening our presence, and staying-with when complexity and incoherence feel like a threat that requires domination and control.
We engage in movement, reflective dialogue, and symbolic play to cultivate an embodied ethic of attention that honors the Life that moves through all things.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14
ZOOM
4pm-6pm Central European Time
8:30pm-10:30pm India
3pm-5pm UK
10am-12pm Eastern
7am-9am Pacific
500 SEK (approx. 53 USD)
Together, we do our best to disrupt Zoom expectations around production, urgency, and transactional connection.
All are welcome. No experience needed.
Live attendance is not mandatory. A recording will be available for seven days.
You will need:
-One square-ish piece of fabric 10-20 inches (25-50cm) along one side. A scarf, pillowcase, hand towel, t-shirt will do.
-One large, square-ish piece of pliable paper at least 24in/70cm. It can be packing paper, kraft paper, tissue paper, wrapping paper, newsprint, floral paper, or the like.
photo by Marisa Feto