About this Event
SOLE SUMMER 1-DAY RETREAT SERIES - The Art of Care
Sponsored and Co-Presented by For Freedoms, SOLE's 'Art of Care' Retreats are centered around somatic experiences, meditation, music, soulful gastronomy, and creative practices which can spark renewal and inspiraton for culture workers, caregivers, and artists of all walks of life.
The SOLE 'Art of Care' Retreat Pillars:
1. Reconnection: Somatic Practice & Elemental Wisdom
2. Deep Listening: Meditation & Mindfulness
3. Creative Rewilding: Imagination & Embodiment
4. Regeneration: Immersive Nature & Earth-based Practices
August 10th facilitated by Miguel Rivera, Micheline Berry, Michelle Woo
SOLE expands its immersive podcast series (SOLEFUL on Spotify/Apple) to create our first collaborative, artist-led retreat series focused on the Art of Care.
As we collectively navigate these turbulent times, we hope to be a guide for the creative heart in urgent search of renewal and strength. Hosted at a stunning, private Artist loft in the heart of Venice, CA we will move and meditate to live percussion with Micheline, share the soleful gastronomy of Michelle Woo and participate in a native "prayer tie" ritual, allowing us to connect in a visceral way to who we are as nature itself.
Come practice, play and learn together surrounded by a panoplay of art and light.
August 10th / Private Artist Loft / Venice CA
10am Retreat Begins with Invocation by Miguel Rivera
10:30am Opening Circle
11am-12:30pm Movement Meditation/Somatic Journey with Micheline Berry and Live Percussion (artists tba)
12:30-2:00pm Food For The SOLE: Home-Cooked Culinary Love by Chef Michelle Woo
2:00-3:30pm Celebrating our Ancestors Native Tie Making with Miguel Rivera
3:30-4:00pm Closing Circle with Miguel, Micheline and Michelle
*Open to artists and practitioners of all walks of life and all levels of practice!
*Please wear clothes you can move/dance in
Exact address will be given upon registration.
Note: Your registration fee is Tax Deductible!! :)
Miguel Rivera is a writer, translator, award-winning sound editor, mentor and musician and currently works with at-risk youth, Armed Forces veterans, communities in recovery, formerly incarcerated individuals, as well as those seeking wholeness and guidance. His work builds unity, interdependence, and resilience across cultures in the US and world-wide.
Micheline Pierrette Berry is an artist, producer, embodiment catalyst and filmmaker. She has spent the past 27 years teaching embodiment frameworks as a way to spark creativity, heal trauma and reconstruct new narratives of radical imagination, identity and belonging. Her immersive trainings and retreats offer brave and catalytic spaces to make art, build community and transform.
Michelle Woo is a cultural producer, art historian and curator based in Los Angeles. She is a Co-Founder of For Freedoms, an artist-run organization that models creative civic engagement for which she received a ICP Infinity Award in 2017 and a National Art Award in 2022. Her diverse role includes strategy and design of national campaigns, public art initiatives, exhibitions and programming. She also advises artists and organizations on business management and cultural strategy.
Gratitude to our sponsor, For Freedoms, for their generous support in making our SOLE SUMMER 'Art of Care' Retreat Series possible!! For Freedoms centers art as a catalyst for creative civic engagement, discourse, and direct action.
To learn more about For Freedoms: forfreedoms.org
To learn more about SOLE (The School of Lived Experience): sole.house
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Venice, Venice, Los Angeles, United States
USD 95.00 to USD 200.00