The Bleeding Circle works in progress show and a fresh round of Tabooboo
The BC WIP show is next week, and Tabooboo happens this Sunday
The Bleeding Circle Works in Progress Showcase SECOND ROTATION
Thursday 5.30.24 6-8pmPST on zoom
The Bleeding Circle, a group in apprenticeship to the spirit of blood and menstruation, has been in ceremony for the last 6 months. We have been researching, playing in, and creating works from the origins of culture making. Now we are stepping out of our retreat to offer our bloody fruits to our wider community. There will be visual art, poetry, stories, and more. We will explore emerging "metaforms" based on Judy Grahn's theory that menstruation was the impetus for establishing measurement and externalizing inner knowings through collective ritual. Join us for an evening of reflecting and bringing into form what lingers in the liminal and indescribable.
Thursday 5/30 6-8pmPST, by donation, NOTAFLOF. Donations will go toward supporting Palestinian refugees (exact organization or family TBD)
The next 6 month cycle of The Bleeding Circle begins in July or August. To get on the waitlist to learn more fill out this form
About the organizer:
Larissa (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist, facilitator, ritualist, and trained therapist. One of their ongoing inquiries is how quickly and easily we can get groups of people to remember and inhabit a state of playfully sacred awe, not as a fixation on quickness, but to prove again and again how close spiritual resource is at all times. They design experiences and events that vitalize and shape culture toward greater nourishment for all, including personal and communal reckoning with what we tend to exile in ourselves and in the world. Larissa also recognizes that artmaking is a birthright that belongs to all humans, and seeks to liberate artmaking itself as a force in reality. They are a mixed race, non-binary person living with chronic pain and health issues, and this blend of life experiences informs how they design. They work 1-1, with romantic partners and families/small groups on liberatory relating. They also offer trainings, play-labs, retreats, and performance workshops for organizations and the public. Some of these can be found through the Animist Arts patreon.
instagram: @kaullarissa
Tabooboo Play continues at the Patreon Playground
Sunday 5.26.24 10am-12:30pmPST
We have just completed our three part Tabooboo series “Meditating on Origins.” This series focused on getting clearer and more intimate with the spirit or "origins" of Tabooboo, (what Larissa is sourcing from as this way of playing gets developed). Starting Sunday we will be identifying specific Tabooboos to play with and refine over time, so if you’ve been hovering around the Tabooboo table you can still catch up on the recordings from our meditating on origins series and join in. Technically you can join at any time, since it is an open play-lab and all sessions are recorded and posted to patreon, but this is not a beginner experience so keep that in mind.
What is Tabooboo?
"Tabooboos" are qualities, experiences, and roles that we tend to avoid or crave individually and collectively. We will build our capacity to enjoy working from Totality, incorporating exiled elements like pain and exhaustion in our expression as opposed to narrow definitions of art or beauty (organic deviance). We will also train in how to ride out intense energy shifts and release without overwhelming ourselves or the collective field (ecstatic restraint). Our "techniques" will include meditation/contemplation, character development and interviews, live coaching, witnessing, and reflection processes.
This is Embodied Research guided by nondual (holistic) animist principles, the roots of creative expression, and play. Devising as metabolizing, and metabolizing as devising! Varies each month. Training in light ritual improv, devising, subtle sensing, and co-dreaming. They will include elements from previous offerings like Deathclown methods, Social Curious, lay the f*ck down, What Play Be, as well as our combined training in Viewpoints, Buffon, Butoh, Systemic Constellations, Theater of the Oppressed, Physical Theater, and more. As always our knowledge of nervous system health, how organisms learn, and nondual animist relating will steward everything we do.
To access the Tabooboo Play labs you need to sign up for the playground tier on patreon
starts at $50/month
The playground tier includes monthly meditations, Spiral Reset, pop up offerings, and many hours of past workshops and such.
Thanks for reading,
L