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Grief House Summer Arts Camp

Sat, Aug 03

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Olde Growth Farm

Bring your grief and your stories to Summer Camp at Olde Growth farm in Gaston, Oregon

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Grief House Summer Arts Camp
Grief House Summer Arts Camp

When & Where

Aug 03, 2024, 1:30 PM – 10:00 PM

Olde Growth Farm, 13800 SW 405th Pl, Gaston, OR 97119, USA

Who

What

Bring your grief to Summer Camp at Olde Growth farm in Gaston, Oregon! 

How would your loss and grief feel if you interacted with them playfully, with no plan for how they should show up, no anticipated end product or outcome, no expectation of expertise or resolution no requirement for excellence? What if you offered them a kind, generous, inquisitive invitation to move around and show themselves to you and a community of fellow grievers, with guidance and encouragement in ways one might play with grief from folks who feel well grounded in their practice?

If you'd like to come give this experiment a try - feel welcome at Grief House Summer Arts Camp!

We will break the day into two sessions, so folks who are in the longer format workshops can switch out to the drop in activities and vice versa.

We will have gluten free, vegetarian snacks and dinner provided by plants growing on the farm, supplemented with food from a few local growers. And music and dancing into the evening. This is a family friendly event! Bring your beloveds of all ages.

Arts Camp Schedule

1:30 - 2:00: Welcoming - orientation - thanks to the land and the beings who hold us.

2:00 - 4:00: First Session - choose your own adventure with one of the following:

  • Snakey Grief Group
  • Dream Theater Group
  • Storytelling Group
  • Creature Camp Activities

4:00 - 4:30: Break for snacks and wandering about and finding your way to your second session choice

4:30 - 6:30: Second Session

  • Snakey Grief Group
  • Dream Theater Group
  • Storytelling Group
  • Creature Camp Activities

6:30 - 7:30: Whole Group Grief Activity

7:30 - 8:30: Dinner - folks can offer their grief art to the whole group if they choose

8:30 - 10:00:  Closing with togetherness and music

Workshop Details

Snakey Grief aka Snake Dance

Led by Chelsea Biagioli

In this workshop we'll have an opportunity to see how our stories can web together to create a performance that embodies the collective. We'll start by spending a bit of time learning about the symbolism of snakes and how they relate to grief.  This will lead into a short, guided, embodied breath meditation session, where we'll sit and dream with snake energy with time left over to let our creative juices flow. Then, in small groups of 3 or 4, we'll workshop a collective story that will be performed with a 6 foot snake puppet. This offering is a chance for your grief to be communally held communally and, through the magic of puppets, transformed.

Dream Theater

Led by Sascha Demerjian & Laura Green

Performance and theater are central in the ancient shamanic practices of dream healing. Dream Theater brings all the elements of a dream to life - the dreamer can run with the wolf, push back a wave, or have a conversation with the doorknob. In a group of up to 6 people, we will share a dream, choose the cast, set the stage, choreograph the moves, compose a script and rehearse - making adjustments, refinements and additions as we're called. Then we'll move into a finished production followed by feedback from the dream characters speaking in their own roles. This powerful work allows the dreamer to move beyond the point of fear, interruption and blockage in the original dream and explore the dream landscape in the safety of a supportive community. It deepens and bonds energies and opens pathways to understanding and resolution.

Storytelling

Led by Laura Scott

This workshop will help you find and tell your stories. We will gather our raw story material based on lived experience. Then we will practice translating those experiences into oral and/or written stories. Story is one of our oldest artforms, pre-dating the written word. Telling stories can expand our understanding of self and others, and close the gap between us. What stories do you wish there were more of? What stories are missing from your favorite podcasts, books, tv, movies? Let's tell those stories.

There will be a chance to practice telling your story aloud at camp, plus an invitation to record your story for an episode of the Portals Podcast or publish it on the Grief House blog. 

Creature Camp

Facilitated by El & Brie

All your grief creatures are welcome at camp: your soft and silky, weepy ones, your spikey, slimey ones, your rarely seen tree dwelling feathered grief and enormous, lumbering club-weilding grief - everyone can come to camp. In this nook of the farm you'll be invited to call all your creatures out and see who comes. There will be prompts to help you see and meet them and activities to help you show them to the world - collage, mask-making, t-shirt design, face and body painting and costumes. We're excited to get to know all the wild and tender ones you carry.

Tickets

$45 - A ticket at this price will cover the cost for food, a small tithing to the farm and provide a stipend to facilitators

$65 - A ticket at this price will offset discounted tickets. Any money we make beyond cost will be paid out to folks providing offerings.

$35 - A ticket at this price will cover our costs.

About choosing your own price:

If you are financially stable and can offer more - we feel grateful. If you are financially shaky and need to pay less - we're also grateful for your presence. This is how we make community and wellness - all of us offering what we have.

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The Grief House is not a replacement for skilled mental health care. We cannot provide acute crisis intervention. If you’re struggling to find the help you need, we are happy to offer referrals and suggest resources. If you feel like you might hurt yourself or someone else, help is available 24 hours a day from the National Suicide Hotline

(1-800-273-8255) or by dialing or texting 988.

If you are having a medical emergency, please dial 911.

All are welcome here. This is an LGBTQ+ and BIPOC-affirming place.

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