Deep Play Immersive in Philadelphia August 6th-7th 2022
Deadline to Register 7/29!!!
Dear Ludic Liberators,
I’ve been going to the public pool in my neighborhood for Adult Swim almost every day. Immersing my body in cool water has been a tremendous relief during this prolonged heatwave. But I’ve also been enjoying exploring new forms of play that being in the pool makes possible: I can float, wiggle, climb on other bodies, flip upside down, propel myself through space. My partner makes a “hoop” with his arms just below the water surface, and I swim through it, giddy and gliding. It’s my favorite hour of the day! It feels so good to play with my whole being.
For over 2 years I’ve been designing games for the screen. It’s been much more interesting and thrilling than I could have anticipated. Constraints fuel creativity and many experience makers forced to adapt to the collective restraint of the pandemic pushed the interactive capacities of the internet and created actual relational magic. But the embodied sensorial world has so many more interfaces for us to play with, and so much to explore for practitioners of ludic liberation.
Which is why I’m EXTREMELY EXCITED that some of my Deep Play Institute colleagues and I are converging in my hometown of Philadelphia for an Immersive Deep Play Workshop on August 6 & 7. I hope you will consider joining us for this once in a lifetime experiment. It’s quite affordable for how much we’re going to do and will definitely never happen again in the same way!!!!
Maybe you’re feeling ready for this kind of play too? :) See below for details:
RESET / RECESS
August 6th-7th 2022, Philadelphia PA
registration closes on July 29th
Join The Deep Play Institute for a sensorial and relational weekend R*E*S*E*T. As we return to shared physical space, how are we leveraging the increased richness and interactivity of our environments and senses? What identities and relations are we bringing to our encounters? Could they be re-envisioned and improvised towards more playful, nourishing, and mutually liberating forms?
This weekend intensive is not the relaxing retreat of a lush spa day but an active re-calibration inside a soft blank matrix. We’ll come together in a giant empty container to experiment with ways we relate to space, sound, smell, touch, time, and sociality. We will engage in iterative exercises and games to help us question and reinvent our ways of being within and between our bodies. Our “interfaces” will be movement, emptiness, trust, caution, voice, story, sound, darkness, attention, focus.
Our facilitators will draw on their experience in: Internal Family Systems, Contact Improvisation, Circling, Authentic Relating, Nonviolent Communication, Psychodrama, Theater of the Oppressed, Existential Games, Somatic Awareness, Nancy Stark Smith’s Underscore and Pauline Oliveros's deep listening.
Sample activities: exploring the space blindfolded, psychodrama vignettes, mapping parts of self, mythic imagining, napping, chanting, humming, collective dreaming, sharing weight very slowly, role play, chance procedures, grounding practices.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Dates: Saturday Aug 6th & Sunday Aug 7th.
Place: Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia PA (1400 N American St)
Price: Our program is tiered based on 3 income levels. Tier 1 $270. Tier 2 $185. Tier 3 $100. BIPOC Tier 3. Please see chart for more info.
Breaks & Meals: Meal breaks are scheduled into the day for both Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday participants can find a local restaurant to get food for lunch or pack their own lunch. On Sunday we are asking participants to bring their own lunch as we will transition immediately from activities to a meditation and debrief over lunch.
Covid Policy: Participants will be required to take an at-home antigen test the morning of the event, and arrive to the workshop with a negative test. If any participant develops symptoms throughout the workshop they will need to re-test. Masks will be required for proximity-based activities, so participants are required to bring a mask that will be used for these sections of the event. Given Covid's constant ebb and flow these policies may change and we will update participants as to this change if it occurs.
Accessibility: The IceBox Project Space is a wheelchair accessible space with a ramp at the main entrance.
Max Number of Participants: Participation is limited to 18 so sign up soon if you are interested!
SCHEDULE
SATURDAY AUG 6TH
10:00am Arrival
10:30-1:30pm BLOCK 1
1:30am-3:00pm Lunch Break
3:00-6:00pm BLOCK 2
SUNDAY AUG 7TH
10:00am Arrival
10:30-1:30pm BLOCK 3
1:30-3:00pm lunch + meditation + debrief
Come play with this dufus ^^
xoxo
Natalia
Existential Gamemaker / Destroyer