Grant #211704 to Arising Quo

 We want to prototype creative and embodiment-based tools for shifting awareness in the field of eco-social justice: a shift from me to us and from we human to We Gaia.

We reclaim our imagination power to go beyond what we are taught to be “normal” and reconsider the Earth, not as an entity separated from us (to exploit and consume) but rather as a connected part of our beingness. Collective Imagination is for us a door for “at first unimaginable” possibilities of interconnectedness.  We will facilitate a Theatre and Stories that Reconnect workshop, an emerging practice combining Work that Reconnects, Social Presencing Theater, Theatre of the Oppressed, and narrative practices.

We will involve people from different backgrounds, genders, and social statuses. Together, we will prepare an interactive performance as a prototype model enacting Gaia’s perspective, needs, and dreams into the decision-making. Local institutions will be invited to support the process and be spect-actors in the performance.

We will share with the Collective Imagination community a video of the performance, an in-depth review article of the work, including poems and images created during the final event.