with Masankho Banda, Carolyn Renee & Jennifer Denning

InterPlay Performance Untensive 2024 Atlanta

Showing up and perfoming out in ATL
Masankho Banda, Jennifer Denning, MSW, and Carolyn Renée

Atlanta, GA

Thursday-Sunday, Nov. 7-10, 2024

Only 20 in-person slots! (Filling up, but still some spaces available!)

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

We will be telling stories, moving, and using our voices, in person in Atlanta, GA.

All three leaders are long-time performers and leaders of performance troupes


SCHEDULE (all times Eastern)

Thursday - 7 pm - 9 pm

Friday - 9 am - 5 pm

Saturday - 9 am - 5 pm

Sunday - 9 am - 3 pm

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

To wrap up the weekend, there will be a performance on Sunday at 1 PM at The Mask Center in the Little 5 Points Community Center.

The cost is $495. Payment plans available

Please do a Covid test Thursday morning before the event starts and if symptoms arise. (We will have KN95 masks on hand.)

Folks who play an instrument (guitar, drum, mandolin, etc.) should feel free to bring it for the Untensive there will be opportunities to play.

24 NOV Performance Untensive - Atlanta
Note for Office

Cost: $495

Registration/Information: Register using the Pay Now button or email office@interplay.org if you need a payment plan

Venue

The Mask Center * Little Five Points Community Center * Atlanta, GA

1083 Austin Ave. NE, #008
Atlanta, GA 30307
Free parking in the back lot. Come in the back entrance - The Mask Center is inside the Little 5 Points Community Center - When you come in the back lower level take a left and the Mask center is about 1/2 way down the hall on the right.
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

Jennifer Denning, MSW
Jennifer is keenly interested in using the InterPlay forms to promote racial justice and healing and has collaborated in developing and leading the workshops “Sankofa Communities” and “Using Body Wisdom to Build Just Communities.” She directs InterPlay Atlanta's performance group, Soulprint Players. She launched InterPlay Atlanta’s programming with women in prison and has taught regularly at Trinity House and The Friendship Center. Jennifer has also worked as a professional actor and taught and directed with Synchronicity Theatre’s “Playmaking For Girls” program for over fifteen years. Her work has long centered on the intersection of creativity, spirituality and social justice. Jennifer currently works as a financial social worker, using financial education as one tool to advance economic equity. She delights in weaving deep breaths, InterPlay storytelling forms, and body awareness into her workshops. Jennifer is a former co-president of the Body Wisdom Board of Directors and a founding member of InterPlay's Racial Equity and Transformation committee.
Carolyn Renée
Carolyn Renée Morris (she/her), since 1995, spanning three decades, "Carolyn Renée" has been a pivotal cultural organizer. She blends her roles of teaching artist, activist, and healer into collaborations for social change. She was raised in a community of matriarchal healers, including priestesses, seers, and herbalists and learned from these interactions how to help others. Carolyn Renée seamlessly integrates these influences into her InterPlay practice and daily life. She draws inspiration and transformative tools from *Jegnas and applies her own expertise in art and social change gained from years of firsthand experiences and professional development aimed specifically at dismantling racism. Her extensive work includes 15+ years of teaching girls to write and perform their stories through Playmaking for Girls, a community program of Synchronicity Performance Group and her own we.Pod initiative. In 2022, she co-led the InterPlay Life Practice for Spiritual Leaders. She’s a devoted Nichiren Buddhist for 38 years. Carolyn Renée is currently part of the fifth cohort of Tami Simon's Sounds True Inner MBA program, learning from esteemed spiritual teachers how to integrate her wealth of experiences and to grow into the best version of herself.

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