with Masankho Banda, Susan Main, and Phil Porter

InterPlay Performance Workshop - Nov 2023!

In person (InterPlayce in Oakland) and Online
Masankho Banda, Susan Main, and Phil Porter

Oakland, CA

Friday, November 3rd at 9 am PT - Sunday Nov. 5th, 2023 5pm PT

Only 20 in-person slots!

Calling all InterPlay performers and ready-to-be performers for a weekend of performance forms and expanding our range!

We will be telling stories, moving, and using our voices, both in person at InterPlayce and online. We will be using some new technology to create this hybrid event. Some sessions will join both the in-person and online groups, and some sessions will focus on these groups separately. The three leaders will rotate between the two groups.

All three leaders are long-time members of the WING IT! Performance Ensemble and all three will be present in Oakland.


SCHEDULE (all times Pacific)

Friday - 9 am - 5 pm

Saturday - 9 am - 5 pm

Sunday - 9 am - 5 pm

We anticipate the in-person slots filling up fast, so if it’s calling to you, sign up today! The 20 available in-person spots will be on a first-come, first-served basis.

To wrap up the weekend, there will be a performance on Sunday afternoon at InterPlayce that will include both the in-person and online groups!

The cost is $395 for in-person or $295 for online. Payment plans available; partial scholarships available for online participants.

In-person participants: Please do a Covid test Friday morning before the event starts and be prepared to wear a mask if someone requests we mask. (We will have KN95 masks on hand.)

Registration for Performance Workshop
Note for Office

Cost: $395 for in-person; $295 for online

Registration/Information: Use the Pay Now button to register. Contact office@interplay.org with registration questions.

Venue

InterPlayce & Online

2273 Telegraph Ave
Oakland, CA 94612
This is for hybrid events that are both in-person at InterPlayce in downtown Oakland and also online.
Leaders
Masankho Banda

Masankho is a multi - disciplinary Performing Artist, Certified InterPlay Leader, Educator and PeaceBuilder. He brings many unique perspectives to his work around the world. He learned the fine arts of storytelling and dance from his Malawian culture spending many long days and nights listening to stories and dancing to music that captivated his mind, shaped his being, nourished his soul and strengthened his spirit. Using performing arts Masankho motivates and inspires people of all ages to work together to bring about peace, social justice and cultural understanding. In 1997, he started UCanDanc—African Healing Arts to bring his passion for dance and storytelling to communities around the world. Masankho has been a Certified InterPlay Leader since 1999.

Masankho can also be reached at these phone numbers: +265 99 255 5338 or 88 113 8655 (available on Whatsapp / FaceTime)

Also: Skype : kamsisi
Facebook / Twitter: storytelling4u

Susan Main
Susan Main has her BA in Dance and Theater from UC Santa Cruz and has been leading InterPlay and performing with Wing It! Performance Ensemble since 1995. Her leading experience includes Interplay Camp, New Years Eve Retreats, Untensives, Monday women's group, monthly Deepening and the Leadership Program. She infuses InterPlay into her 12-step recovery work, nature play, tap dancing, dance teaching, attitude and life. Her specialty: creating a safe and playful haven for creativity and truth...wit and laughter.
Phil Porter
Phil is one of the founders of InterPlay. He is a teacher, performer, writer, and organizer. With Cynthia Winton-Henry he is the co-founder of WING IT! Performance Ensemble, and has written several books, some in collaboration with Cynthia, including Having It All: Body, Mind, Heart & Spirit Together Again at Last and The Slightly Mad Rantings of a Body Intellectual Part One. Phil is particularly interested in the use of InterPlay in organizational life, and believes that InterPlay can be a powerful tool to create communities of diversity and peace.

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