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Join us at the Durham Art Gallery for the first of our 2025 Creative Skill Sharing Workshop Series.​​
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Experience the transformative power of Deep Listening® with artist Julia White, in this unique session that is accessible to anyone who has an interest in listening. No experience necessary.
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​Enter 'Wild Woven Hollow', an immersive installation by the artist currently on exhibit, that features a forest soundscape, and is in itself, an invitation to listen deeply. We will gather within this evocative sculptural landscape to explore the practice of Deep Listening® through exercises that feature energy, dream & bodywork awareness, listening, sounding and 'Sonic Meditations'. The workshop will culminate with an opportunity to go even deeper as we share and listen and make art together. In this 'free-form' maker session, we will create Listening Journals out of blank-page notebooks that can be embellished, collaged, painted, drawn on and worked with creatively as you wish.
What is Deep Listening® ?
‘Deep Listening®, as developed by American composer Pauline Oliveros, is a practice that explores the difference between the involuntary nature of hearing and the voluntary, selective nature of listening. It includes bodywork, sonic meditations, and interactive performance, as well as listening to the sounds of daily life, nature, one’s own thoughts, imagination, and dreams. It cultivates a heightened awareness of the sonic environment, both external and internal, and promotes experimentation, improvisation, collaboration, playfulness, and other creative skills vital to personal and community growth.’
(excerpt from www.deeplistening.rpi.edu/deep-listening/)
INSTRUCTOR/FACILITATOR: Julia White is an installation artist that creates dreamlike sculptural landscapes with her enigmatic abstract forms. She combines the raw beauty of nature with elements of light, sound and architecture, through a creative process that is uninhibited yet deliberately refined. Originally from Toronto, White received a BFA from Queen’s University, then followed her roots to a round house in the country near Walter’s Falls, ON, where she now lives on land with a creek and a forest of trees.
Made possible by funding from the Community Foundation of Grey Bruce.
When
February 23, 2025
1pm-4pm
Fee
$35 ($30 for members)