Writing from the Soles of Your Feet: A Writing and Creativity Adventure for Adults (age 16 and up)
Sunday December 10th
12-4pm
8 Students max
This workshop will be held in Shaking the Tree's rehearsal/office space (2136 SE 8th Ave)
"The duende is not in the throat: the duende surges up, inside, from the soles of the feet.”
—Federico García Lorca
The great Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca described the duende as a mysterious and elusive force in art that arises from deep within the artistic soul. It's the passionate, authentic, and sometimes dark energy that infuses creativity with raw, honest emotion. It’s not about surface beauty or perfection, it’s about pouring your true self into your creations. In this multimedia workshop, you will be guided to explore your personal connection to duende through a series of writing prompts inspired by the work of García Lorca, and will have the opportunity to turn your words into works of visual artwork to be showcased in the Shaking Tree gallery space.
12-4pm
8 Students max
This workshop will be held in Shaking the Tree's rehearsal/office space (2136 SE 8th Ave)
"The duende is not in the throat: the duende surges up, inside, from the soles of the feet.”
—Federico García Lorca
The great Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca described the duende as a mysterious and elusive force in art that arises from deep within the artistic soul. It's the passionate, authentic, and sometimes dark energy that infuses creativity with raw, honest emotion. It’s not about surface beauty or perfection, it’s about pouring your true self into your creations. In this multimedia workshop, you will be guided to explore your personal connection to duende through a series of writing prompts inspired by the work of García Lorca, and will have the opportunity to turn your words into works of visual artwork to be showcased in the Shaking Tree gallery space.
Facilitators
Stephanie Adams-Santos
The work of Stephanie Adams-Santos spans poetry, prose, and screenwriting. Their work reflects a fascination with the weird, numinous, and primal forces that shape inner life. Stephanie is the author of several full-length poetry collections and chapbooks, including DREAM OF XIBALBA (selected by Jericho Brown as winner of the 2021 Orison Poetry Prize) and SWARM QUEEN'S CROWN (finalist for a Lambda Literary Award). Stephanie was a Staff Writer and Story Editor on the television anthology horror series TWO SENTENCE HORROR STORIES (CW/Netflix). In addition to their literary work, they are creating an original Major Arcana tarot deck called Tarot de la Selva. More about Stephanie and their work can be found at www.obscurobeach.com
The work of Stephanie Adams-Santos spans poetry, prose, and screenwriting. Their work reflects a fascination with the weird, numinous, and primal forces that shape inner life. Stephanie is the author of several full-length poetry collections and chapbooks, including DREAM OF XIBALBA (selected by Jericho Brown as winner of the 2021 Orison Poetry Prize) and SWARM QUEEN'S CROWN (finalist for a Lambda Literary Award). Stephanie was a Staff Writer and Story Editor on the television anthology horror series TWO SENTENCE HORROR STORIES (CW/Netflix). In addition to their literary work, they are creating an original Major Arcana tarot deck called Tarot de la Selva. More about Stephanie and their work can be found at www.obscurobeach.com
Michelle Ruiz Keil (she/her) is a playwright, tarot reader, and the author of two novels, All of Us With Wings and Summer in the City of Roses, a finalist for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. Michelle’s short fiction was featured most recently in the Buckmxn Journal and the anthology Dispatches From Anarres. Her most recent dramatic writing featured in the ensemble production Forbidden Fruit at Shaking The Tree Theater. She is a 2021 Tin House Scholar, a 2022 Regional Arts and Culture Council grantee, and the recipient of residencies from Hedgebrook, The Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, and the Bloedel Reserve. Born in San Francisco, Michelle has lived in Portland, Oregon for many years where she curates the fairytale reading series All Kinds of Fur and lives with her family in a cottage where the forest meets the city.
This free workshop is made possible by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Past Events
The House of Bernarda Alba Staged Reading
The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca
Translated and Directed by Dylan Hankins
Saturday October 28th at 2pm
One of the three plays in Lorca's rural Trilogy, along with Blood Wedding. The House of Bernarda Alba, Lorca's extraordinarily powerful drama, the last he wrote before his assassination, explores the darkness at the heart of repression. When Bernarda's husband dies, she locks all the doors and windows. She tells her grown-up daughters to sew and be silent. “There are eight years of mourning ahead of us. While it lasts not even the wind will get into this house.” But locks can't hold back the growing tide of desire.
Cast
Bernarda Rebecca Lingafelter
Angustias/Woman 1/María Josefa Paulina Jaeger-Rosete
Magdalena/Woman 2 Kale'a Lee-Fleishman
Amelia/Woman 3 Olivia Mathews
Adela/Girl Sofía Marks
Maid/Prudence Kasia Caravello
La Poncia Cristi Miles
Martirio/Woman 4 Rachel Wells
Stage Manager Pedro Dominguez
Translated and Directed by Dylan Hankins
Saturday October 28th at 2pm
One of the three plays in Lorca's rural Trilogy, along with Blood Wedding. The House of Bernarda Alba, Lorca's extraordinarily powerful drama, the last he wrote before his assassination, explores the darkness at the heart of repression. When Bernarda's husband dies, she locks all the doors and windows. She tells her grown-up daughters to sew and be silent. “There are eight years of mourning ahead of us. While it lasts not even the wind will get into this house.” But locks can't hold back the growing tide of desire.
Cast
Bernarda Rebecca Lingafelter
Angustias/Woman 1/María Josefa Paulina Jaeger-Rosete
Magdalena/Woman 2 Kale'a Lee-Fleishman
Amelia/Woman 3 Olivia Mathews
Adela/Girl Sofía Marks
Maid/Prudence Kasia Caravello
La Poncia Cristi Miles
Martirio/Woman 4 Rachel Wells
Stage Manager Pedro Dominguez
Yerma Staged Reading
Yerma by Federico García Lorca, translated by Jo Clifford
Directed by Joellen Sweeney
Saturday October 21st at 2:00pm
One of the three plays in Lorca's rural Trilogy, along with Blood Wedding. Yerma is the tale of an impassioned childless woman living with her husband in rural Spain. Tortured by her incessant longing to conceive a child, she is driven by madness to commit a heinous crime.
Cast
Yerma Tricia Castañeda-Guevara
Maria/Washerwoman 3 Leiana Petlewski
Pagan Old Woman/Washerwoman 2 Maria Porter
Girl 1/Washerwoman 4 Kayla Hanson
Girl 2/Washerwoman 1 Claire Aldridge
Male/Sister 1 Moisés Araguaney R. Da Silva
Female/Sister 2/Washerwoman 5 Becca Wirta
Dolores/Washerwoman 6 Josie Seid
Juan Phillip Ray Guevara
Victor/Shepherd Anthony Shepherd
Stage Directions Kai Hynes
Stage Manager Emily Hogan
Directed by Joellen Sweeney
Saturday October 21st at 2:00pm
One of the three plays in Lorca's rural Trilogy, along with Blood Wedding. Yerma is the tale of an impassioned childless woman living with her husband in rural Spain. Tortured by her incessant longing to conceive a child, she is driven by madness to commit a heinous crime.
Cast
Yerma Tricia Castañeda-Guevara
Maria/Washerwoman 3 Leiana Petlewski
Pagan Old Woman/Washerwoman 2 Maria Porter
Girl 1/Washerwoman 4 Kayla Hanson
Girl 2/Washerwoman 1 Claire Aldridge
Male/Sister 1 Moisés Araguaney R. Da Silva
Female/Sister 2/Washerwoman 5 Becca Wirta
Dolores/Washerwoman 6 Josie Seid
Juan Phillip Ray Guevara
Victor/Shepherd Anthony Shepherd
Stage Directions Kai Hynes
Stage Manager Emily Hogan
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Shaking the Tree Theatre is located at 823 SE Grant St.
Portland, OR 97214
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