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SUMMARY:The Parsifal Project: a community arts project
DESCRIPTION: \nThe Parsifal Project\n  \n  \nThe Parsifal Project is a community project that aspires towards a contemporary envisioning of the famous medieval legend\, one that recontextualises the Parsifal legend for a modern multicultural audience.  \nWhat is it about? \nWriters\, poets\, philosophers and artists tell us that myths and legends hold spiritual insights into the sacred wisdom of past cultures\, but what about the spiritual insights we need to navigate our current world? Drawing on the cultural heritages we bring with us\, the Parsifal Project seeks find meaningful resonance between this medieval myth and contemporary intergenerational audiences. \nUsing the talents of a diverse cast and a script written by playwright Peter Oswald\, the project aims to make a significant contribution to our understanding of the Parsifal legend in light of Anthroposophy\, as a cosmopolitan Michaelic impulse and as a metaphor for modern human development. The story is our future; if so\, its mythic themes could be critical to today’s youth\, to all of us.  \nWhether your interest is in the spiritual foundations of the legend\, the literature\, creative writing or performing\, there is something here for anyone and everyone fascinated by the whole collection of Grail legends and its interpretations\, medieval or modern\, book or film. \nTimeline for the project \nThe project has five stages highlighting different arts and media: \n\nJune –  July 2022: Parsifal Unpacked\nCompleted. Explored the original story through performance\, literary text and thematic discussion.  \nSeptember – November 2022: Parsifal Reimagined\nCompleted. A series of  writing workshops where we reimagine the story through the lens of current cultural perspectives. \nJanuary 2023 – November 2023 : Parsifal Rescripted\nOngoing script development in conjunction with performance-based creative development intensives with on-the-floor exploration on the themes explored in Stages 1 and 2.  \nFebruary 2024 – February 2025: Parsifal Reinterpreted\nAuditions\, eurythmy and music workshops from February. Rehearsals begin in April 2024\, using the script based on Parsifal Rescripted. \nApril -May 2025: The Parsifal Project performance\nSaturday 26 April at 5.30 pm ACST\nSaturday 3rd May at at 5.30 pm ACST\nSunday 4th May at 2.30 pm ACST\nVenue: Living Arts Centre\, Mount Barker Waldorf School\, Mt Barker\, SA \n\n  \n  \nProject Director: Jo-anne Sarre\, Artistic Director of Ink Pots Arts \nJo-anne Sarre has worked in the performing arts sector as a freelance director\, actor\, storyteller\, playwright and educator since her four-year Speech and Drama training at The Harkness Studio\, Sydney in 1986. She has a Diploma of Teaching (Primary 1980-1982)\, a Diploma of Creative Speech and Drama (The Harkness Studio in conjunction with The Goetheanum School of Spiritual Science 1983-1986) and first-class Honours in Drama (Flinders University 2009). Other trainings include MICHA in the US and various Michael Chekhov practitioners in the UK and Europe (1997-2009).  \nJo-anne has performed in local\, national and international arenas as an independent performing artist including as a freelance storyteller\, with the Aphaia Eurythmy Group (Poetry Recitation)\, and as an actor with Ink Pot Theatre\, The Rose Theatre Company and Portal Productions UK (The Soul’s Awakening). During her career\, she has trained Steiner/Waldorf teachers across Australia (Rudolf Steiner College\, Sheoak College)\, in the UK (Emerson College)\, India and China. This includes supporting teachers in their own artistic development in poetry recitation\, storytelling\, acting and directing as well as assisting in classrooms\, directing plays etc with both primary and high school students. In 2016\, she was also Assistant Voice Coach at Flinders University Drama Centre with Dawn Langman. \nAs co-founder of Ink Pot Theatre (the professional touring company) and founding Artistic Director of Ink Pot Arts Inc (a community arts not-for-profit)\, she has been actively engaged in bringing high-quality theatre as a catalyst for personal transformation and community cultural development inspired by Anthroposophy. \n  \n  \nFeature image credit:  Seamus McArdle\nPhoto credit: Jo-anne Sarre \n  \n“Most societies have come to define themselves by their historical myths and national narratives. We are\, who we say we are… People grow up believing they live within a story … what is the story we believe we are living within? Where is our narrative going? “   \nProf. David Blight\, 2009
URL:https://www.anthroposophyau.org.au/event/the-parsifal-project-2/
LOCATION:Living Arts Centre\, Mt Barker School\, 27 Sims Road\, Mount Barker\, SA\, 5251
CATEGORIES:Artistic,SA branch
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SUMMARY:Art as a Spiritual Practice - and Why We Need This
DESCRIPTION:  \nWhat can art do for us? The Arts are well known as a activity for supporting our health and wellbeing by nourishing us with creativity\, music\, plays\, inspiring films and beautiful pictures. But practised in a structured\, disciplined yet imaginative way\, art\, any of the Arts\, can act as meditation does – as a schooling path of spiritual development. \nThis webinar discusses how essential it is for Anthroposophists to have some form of artistic practice to strengthen and order the soul life\, to ‘school it’\, so that we have the forces to meet the challenges coming to meet us out of the future – and how to go about this. \nThe webinar also acts as an introduction to the new v online training\, starting in March.  \nIn the act of creating\, spirituality and art meet \nRudolf Steiner intended the artistic to be central to the pursuit of spiritual investigation he named ‘Anthroposophy’\, just as he believed creativity to be central to what it means to be human. Yet access to the spiritual is not simply a given today. In our materialistic age\, the soul needs awakening to its inmost needs\, perhaps far more than we realise. The path to the spiritual needs to be actively cultivated with our whole being\, not just our head. The arts play a role here beyond the aesthetic. \nBecoming artistic is an inner need of Anthroposophy. Without it\, Anthroposophy cannot go into the future. If not imbued with the artistic impulse\, then Anthroposophy will go short of breath\, according to Steiner:  \n\nIn an inartistic atmosphere it goes short of breath; only in an artistic element can it breathe freely. Rightly understood\, it will lead over to the genuinely artistic without losing any of its cognitional character. \n\n  \nThis webinar also introduces the Art as a Path of Schooling for the Soul training. \nWhen \n7pm AEDT 15 February\, 2024 \nCost \nEntry by $20 donation \nHow to book \nBook Here! \n  \nFor more information \nContact Fiona Campbell for more information.  \n  \n  \n  \n\nThe spiritual world lives in the artistic\, as a “living\, colourful\, form-bearing weaving and being’ reality”\nTherefore\, working with the arts\, out of the arts\, must become central to our way of engaging with Anthroposophy. \n\n  \nFeature image: OIA\, courtesy of Fiona Campbell
URL:https://www.anthroposophyau.org.au/event/art-as-a-spiritual-practice-and-why-we-need-this/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Fiona Campbell":MAILTO:paintedspace@gmail.com
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