Please remember that the schedule (like all things in life!) is subject to change.

Morning Session

Cha Dao, the way of tea

ceremonial tea sitting

Touching the intangible: a collaborative drawing exercise
led by Sofia Belen

Rituals, like art, help us reach toward the intangible. What happens to our experiences and practices when we place limits and remove rationality? How can we translate something that can only be felt or experienced into a physical process? Touching the Intangible helps you release creative baggage alongside another person while listening to music.

Collaborative movement performance
led by Tamara Chu & friends

using the drawings from Touching the Intangible as source material, Tamara will guide collaborators through a movement performance.

Volunteers needed!

Ambient DJ set by Kia Kimera

Round out the morning session with an ambient DJ set while you quietly reflect, journal, or any other quiet practice you enjoy.

Light refreshments (pastries, coffee, more tea, etc...) will be available

1 — 2pm Lunch hour: read, eat, reflect

bring your lunch and enjoy the final bits of Kia Kimera's ambient set.
pick out a book from our library (or bring your own!) to read, explore your TMI packet, or socialize with others.

We will have light refreshments and N/A beverages for all ticket holders.

Afternoon Session

Água Viva reading discussion
led by Chelsie Joy Valerio & Daniel Lucas

If language is a ritual passed down, what are we missing because of the rules, standards, and expectations of language? What is missing from our language? Is it possible to express the truth? What parts of reality have no synonyms? If we can't get at these experiences in writing, what must we do?

Reading discussion led by Chelsie Joy Valerio & Daniel Lucas

We will be discussing an excerpt from Água Viva by Clarice Lispector

If you will join for the reading discussion, make sure to have done the reading!

Download a PDF of the reading here: AguaVIVA.pdf

Weaving: an installation & discussion
presented by Elizabeth Meiklejohn

description coming soon...

Photography as Ritual: Nicole Meldahl in conversation with Rob Brodman, Christine Huhn, Jeff Masamori, and Danica Taylor.

Join along as local historienne Nicole Meldahl explores "Photography as Ritual" through a conversation with four local photographers.

What does photography have in common with ritual? Nicole's hypothesis is: Time. All three facets of photography–from creating a photograph, experiencing an image, and preserving it in an archive–include an incredible amount of reverence: a devotion to taking, seeing, and keeping. The essential elements in Ritual are also reverence and Time. We'll see how all these elements interact through the lenses of our featured photographers in a conversation guided by the Patron Saint of Photography: Susan Sontag.

Senses & Scentmaking
presented by Dapo Oni

Exploring how scent interacts with other senses to create more memorable and accessible experiences.

Learn more about Dapo's scents at Venture

Soup dinner

plus a conversation
by (and with) John Lindsey

Soup dinner comes with ALL DAY or AFTERNOON ticket purchases!

There will be one vegan option for soup.

Dinner will be provided by John Lindsey, proprietor of The Great Highway gallery and the soon-to-open Rusty Ladle.

John will also talk with us about soup, art, and how things come together to become greater than the sum of their parts.

Learn more about The Great Highway

Learn more about the Rusty Ladle

we may even talk about recent soup + art events...

Educational Television screening
presented by Joshua Mendez Valdez

Round out the evening with a trio of short films that explore time. How do our bodies keep time? How do we synchronize with nature? And how do we work with the mechanics of time?

These films will be presented by Joshua Mendez Valdez and are part of Educational Television. Learn more during the presentation!

In the mean time you can check out Educational Television yourself!