Friday March 28, 2025, Westward Look Inn, Tucson AZ
Goddess Creativity in Action: Ritual Theater Creation & Performance
with Annie Finch
This collaborative group will interweave our Goddess Creativity into an interactive ritual theater performance to share with the full conference on Saturday evening. All who are ready to contribute your gifts of music, song, poetry, art, masks, dance, acting, theater production, puppetry, stagecraft, ritual, etc.—or who are simply drawn somehow to help manifest this magical event—are warmly invited to join us.
Please come ready to create; after a very brief introduction to the principles and practices that distinguish Goddess Creativity from patriarchal notions of creativity, we will dive right in to embody them together.
Special notes: 1. Full participation in this gathering means a commitment to support and/or participate in Saturday night’s performance. We may also decide by consensus to rehearse in between. You don’t need to commit to this before our meeting, but please be aware! 2. If you do intend to participate, please bring with you to this meeting any and all musical instruments, recordings, decorations, props, costumes, sacred items, etc. that you feel inspired to bring (if you need to choose colors, please choose RED things). 3. Finally: Annie has an exciting idea for an overall theme but doesn’t want to spoil it for our Saturday night audience by publishing it here:) So, if you want to be invited to a zoom to discuss this idea in advance, making it easier to plan what to bring along, please email Annie asap through her website anniefinch.com/contact.
Annie Finch is poet, writer, speaker, teacher, and ritual performer. Her books include seven poetry collections, poetry translation, verse drama, prosody, the poetry-writing textbook A Poet’s Craft, and the anthology Choice Words: Writers on Abortion. She earned a Ph.D from Stanford University and her work has been recognized with the Sarasvati and Robert Fitzgerald Awards. Founder of Poetry Witch Ritual Theater, she collaborates frequently with music, theater, and dance.
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