Unlearning Practices Retreat

Unlearning Practices Residency – Artscape Toronto. 2015

Unlearning Practices Residency was a two-week facilitated exploration of other ways of knowing and being. Unlearning is an active practice of de-conditioning our bodies and minds – and researching through embodiment and expanding our ability to feel. Drawing from years of research in the fields of somatic practices, performance art, alternative pedagogy, social justice and eco-feminist philosophy, Unlearning Practices facilitate both personal and shared explorations of how to re-wild inner landscapes and open up our senses and perception to the living world around us. In the natural setting of Toronto Island, the residency was structured as a creative workshop retreat, offering daily facilitated exercises, hands-on tools and resources for individual exploration, embodied research methods, individual studio time, communal meals, and the opportunity to collaboratively produce a final event. For anyone working with embodiment, performance art, dance, alternative pedagogy, land art, social justice, healing, or simply craving to realign through creative processes – this residency offers the space and tools to nourish and regenerate yourself while opening up to new sources of inspiration.