Permission, Possibility and Voice

A Workshop and Performance

Saturday April 1st, 2023

the Workshop

Our voices are one way we communicate our inner experiences with the outer world. It is also how, overtime, we've learned to sensor, edit and shrink our voices in order to belong to a family story or a cultural story that doesn't value the fullness of our humanity.

Led by Denise Casey and Corinne Sharlet, LPC we'll explore permission as a practice. By centering voice and vocalization as the main tools of self-reflection, we'll slow down the practice of expression and learn how to relate to, listen and trust the many different parts of ourselves, from the inside out, that are longing for a new story. Through voicework, breathwork, movement, active imagination, songwriting and drawing participants will learn more about the many internal patterns and beliefs that influence our capacity and agency to express our voices with love and courage.

No experience singing is necessary.

the Performance

In Playing the Game, Denise Casey explores the many games she's played in order to belong- from taking cover in a monastery to skip out of rehab, to going halfway across the world to hear the Himalayas, or time traveling through a seventh grade science class. In this 60-minute, one-woman play, Denise follows the games she's played through the seen and unseen world into a larger collective moment, the summer of 2020. Part memoir, part meditation, part make believe, Playing the Game is unshaking in its exploration of possibility and courage.

“Denise Casey is a master storyteller and gifted performer. Playing the Game gives truth to the claim that the more we mine our own experiences of suffering, of insight, and of grace, the more universal our story becomes. Casey stages a performative autobiography that never forgets that - more often than not - we are a mystery even to ourselves.” - Katie Gough, dramaturge and Associate Professor of English & Theatre at UVM

Location

Opening To Life / 3942 Se Hawthorne BLVD, Portland, OR 97214

When

Workshop 1-5pm

Performance 7pm

Cost

$85 includes the workshop and performance $20 performance only

Contact Corinne with any questions