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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:The Threshold
DESCRIPTION:An artist’s musings on ageing and the end of life\, from the point of view of women\nby Judith Clingan AM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nThere will be three performances: 4pm and 8pm Saturday 4 March and 11am Sunday 5 March. Admission is ticketed: $40 full\, $30 concession\, available online from mid-February. \n\n\n\n\nBackground Notes \nJudith (Judy) Clingan is a composer\, writer\, artist\, educator and multi arts director/creator. Since early 2021 she has been interviewing many women aged 70 and older\, and asking them to write thoughts on a range of issues related to the ageing process\, as well as our varying attitudes to the end of life. Their answers have helped her greatly in writing a script\, entitled The Threshold. She has also composed fourteen short pieces of music (for choir\, strings\, wind and piano\, as well as bells and singing bowls). She is now (in December) painting a series of visual images to amplify the shifting moods. The ambience Judy is aiming for is a subtle mix of humour\, grief and transcendence. \nThree performances are planned for March 2023 in the Chapel of the ACC&C – creating an intimate café atmosphere\, with the audience invited to take a cup of tea to one of multiple small tables\, while the three actors (all ageing women) will speak from small stages interspersed among the tables. Musicians will sing and play from a corner; individual musicians will occasionally interact with the actresses. The main wall of the chapel will be used from time to time for projections of words\, especially when they are perhaps difficult to hear well in choral rendition\, as well as the painted images. The text will vary between intimate dialogue and the delivery of poems\, both whimsical and heart- wrenching. The dialogue and some of the poetry is Judy’s; some is from the classical canon of great English writers; some she has invited from women poets both in Australia and elsewhere. While of course it is impossible to write a piece which will speak equally meaningful to every member of the audience\, she is trying to touch on a wide range of experiences\, practices and beliefs. Judy has so far held seven script-reading sessions with older women in and beyond Canberra\, which have sometimes led to emendations. \nJudy says: “I have been very interested to discover\, across the twenty months I have so far spent on this project\, that while some women are unwilling to explore their thoughts on the topic of ageing and death\, others are delighted to be given the opportunity. Maybe death is our last great taboo. At least\, those of us living an affluent\, western lifestyle very rarely experience the raw reality of death\, and very rarely live day by day alongside a person dying slowly. I expect that in those societies where multi-generational families exist together in the one home\, the realities of ageing and thoughts about the end are experienced daily. In our society older people are usually sequestered away\, out of sight even of their families for most of the time. Certainly it isn’t often that our artists dare to think about the void – or perhaps the unknown something – which awaits us all. I hope that The Threshold might be a step towards a more vigorous exploration of this topic.” \n\n\n\n\nWhen? \nSaturday 4 March2023 at 4:00 pm and 8pm\nSunday 5 March at 11am \nWhere? \nChapel at the Australian Centre for Christianity & Culture\, Charles Sturt University\n15 Blackall Street\, Barton\, ACT 2600 \nBookings \nBook here \nFor more information \nPlease contact Judith Clingan
URL:https://www.anthroposophyau.org.au/event/the-threshold/
LOCATION:Australian Centre for Christianity & Culture\, 15 Blackall St\, Barton\, ACT\, 2600
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