Contemplative Arts
A one-day workshop with Lisa Freedman and Suzy Sureck
Saturday, June 29th
11:30AM -5:30PM
Gardiner Studio
2694 US 44 55, Gardiner, NY 12525
nature / writing / art / poetry / breath
Join Lisa Freedman and Suzy Sureck for a day of contemplative arts at Stone Wave Yoga in scenic Gardiner.
Do you love to write or wish to grow your writing practice?
Do you wish to experience flow and letting go through color and ink?
Do you work in multiple art forms and wish to relate them?
Open to all levels
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What to expect.
Preliminary Agenda (subject to adjustment)
10-11am Yoga- complimentary optional class
11:30-12pm Introduction to workshop
12-1:30pm Breathe /Read /Write meditation and free writing (B/R/W is Lisa’s signature course)
1:30 - 2:15pm Lunch (bring your own lunch and enjoy the property! There is a toaster oven, microwave and small refrigerator on site)
*Tea and Water Available at Studio
2:30-4:30pm Ink drawing with Suzy, gesture and flow in color
4:30-5pm Discussion of contemplative arts with Lisa and Suzy
5-5:30pm Reading and book signing
$150 | Per Person
EARLY BIRD SPECIAL: $115 | Per Person if registered by June 5th, 2024!!
About Lisa and Suzy
Suzy Sureck is an internationally recognized multidisciplinary artist whose drawing, writing, sculpture, and video installations involve physical and metaphoric qualities of wind, water, and the poetics of shadow and light. Suzy draws with inks and water to reveal innate intuitive movement. Collaborating with nature, she draws with light to create shadow play and experiential ecological installations. Cross-pollinating disciplines, she merges traditional media and technology to bring nature’s wisdom to audiences experientially through text, image, audio, and video.
Suzy’s works have been exhibited in galleries, museums, sculpture parks, biennials, art foundations and alternative spaces in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, Korea, Australia, and India. Recent works include projection performances in the Hudson Valley, Germany and New York’s Lincoln Center. She has been awarded residencies at MassMOCA, Yaddo, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Art Omi, Studios of Key West, Vermont Studios and Arts, Letters Numbers. Her works have been reviewed in the New York Times, Hyperallergic, Sculpture Magazine, World Art, Flash Art and. New Observations. Suzy received a Masters’ Degree in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy in Michigan and a BFA from the Cooper Union, as well as studying at The Slade School of Art in London. She lives and works in New York City and the Hudson Valley, and is an educator at Pratt Institute and DIA.
Click here to learn more about Suzy: suzysureck.com.
Lisa Freedman is an author, activist, and professor of creative writing at The New School in New York City. She holds an MFA from the New School and is certified as a mindfulness meditation teacher by Dhama Moon/Tibet House. She founded and directs Breathe/Read/Write, an online community where Lisa weaves mindfulness together with writing and revising. As Lisa puts it, meditation is about listening, listening without judgment, and cultivating the ability to open one’s heart to all that is. She also brings this perspective and this pair of practices – meditation and writing – to her work as a writing coach who offers developmental and editorial guidance on a wide range of projects.
Lisa has taught and presented extensively -- for the International Women’s Writing Guild, New York Zen Center, United Nations, Extinction Rebellion, and many others. She collaborated with the International Women’s Writing Guild to create ROOTS/TRUNK/SKY, a collection of writings from the Imagination & Justice Meditation & Free-Writing Circles. Lisa’s poems and prose have appeared in Satya Magazine, The New York Times, the anthology Resist Much, Obey Little, and more.
Click here to learn more about Lisa:
breathereadwrite.com | lfwritingcoach.com