Through poetry and intermodal art experiences, Ms. Butterfly guides you in a healing journey that paves a path for you to deepen your connection to yourself, others, and Mother Nature. Although every workshop has a different theme and context, each one is designed to nurture the participants’ creativity so as a medicine for the heart and soul.
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In collaboration with Lavia, this workshop will focus on the transition of the seasons. In the Chinese lunar calendar, there are actually 24 seasons 節氣, each one signifying a subtle change in our environment. On September 7 it will be “White Dew" or 白露 which means that the dewdrops in the morning will become more akin to frost. In honor of this transition we will create poetry and art to discover how we can prepare for the cooler times ahead, and what we can harvest from the summer time to keep us warm.
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This workshop will be centered on the idea on home making within. We all have a space inside of us, but is this space just a house or truly a home? This workshop will be aimed at fostering a stronger sense of stability and safety in our own inner worlds, and allowing ourselves to embrace the active construction, including decoration, cleaning, washing, fixing, the house that can make our inner homes the safe haven we all deserve.
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In collaboration with Hiraya, a collective for the visually impaired, Ms. Butterfly hosted a series of workshops that culminated in a festival. This began online for the Hiraya collective for the participants, and then it expanded into an in person portion that also opened the workshop to community members of La Union.
This workshop entitled "Sync Up: Re-Enchanting Relations With Nature, Each Other and Self" was an exploration on our perception of nature and how it reflects our values on how we live in a capitalist world. Challenging Darwinism as the only way to view nature, we observed our surroundings and wrote to what we found in nature as a way to re-enchant nature and our own lives.
This workshop entitled "A Writing Reflection on the Self: What Do We See in a Tree?" was an exploration on how we view trees in our modern world, and how we can, as Mary Oliver puts it, see that "this tree is not that tree." We each chose a new friend to make with a tree that was on the campus of University of Mount Alliance. Then we wrote poems to the trees and presented them to one another, bringing our new friends into the circle.
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