Celebrating Art and Joining the Justice
InterPlay's Art and Social Change Weekend
Join in the Intergenerational Experience
Gigi Koser Baradan,
Agnotti Cowie, and
Litha Rodriguez
Saint Paul, MN
March 28th - March 30th
InterPlay's Art & Social Change Weekend workshop invites you to explore the powerful role that art plays in shaping social transformation. Through InterPlay's tools and forms, you'll deepen your understanding of how creative practices can challenge injustice and foster change. This is an opportunity to nurture your artistic gifts, not only for personal growth but also for community-building and advancing justice. By engaging with folks interested in the same, you'll strengthen your ability to use art as a tool for collective action and social impact, contributing to a more equitable and compassionate world.
For those still new to InterPlay, it is an active and creative approach to unlocking the wisdom of the body. It is easy, fun, and life changing, and you do not need to consider yourself creative to play! InterPlay’s simple forms guide participants through movement and stories, songs and silence, ease and amusement. In the process, we discover the wisdom in ourselves and our communities. And welean into growth through ease and affirmation.
No previous InterPlay experience needed.
Weekend Schedule:
Friday, March 28th:
Session: 7pm-9pm
Saturday, March 29th:
Session: 10am-12:30
Lunch Break: 12:30-2pm
Session: 2pm-4:30pm
Dinner and Community Night on Saturday March 29th are Open to Everyone!
Community Dinner: 5pm-6pm
Moo Baradan will provide a chili dinner but please RSVP by March 21st. Agnotti will be sharing about Body Wisdom, the non profit sponsor of InterPlay Twin Cities and inviting people to donate to support transformational play. RSVP to Dinner HERE
Community Night: 6:30pm-8:30pm
Invite friend and family to experience the ancient ways of witnessing each other in story, sound and movement.
Sunday March 30th:
Session: 1:30pm - 5pm
For those still new to InterPlay, it is an active and creative approach to unlocking the wisdom of the body. It is easy, fun, and life changing, and you do not need to consider yourself creative to play! InterPlay’s simple forms guide participants through movement and stories, songs and silence, ease and amusement. In the process, we discover the wisdom in ourselves and our communities. And welean into growth through ease and affirmation.
No previous InterPlay experience needed.
Weekend Schedule:
Friday, March 28th:
Session: 7pm-9pm
Saturday, March 29th:
Session: 10am-12:30
Lunch Break: 12:30-2pm
Session: 2pm-4:30pm
Dinner and Community Night on Saturday March 29th are Open to Everyone!
Community Dinner: 5pm-6pm
Moo Baradan will provide a chili dinner but please RSVP by March 21st. Agnotti will be sharing about Body Wisdom, the non profit sponsor of InterPlay Twin Cities and inviting people to donate to support transformational play. RSVP to Dinner HERE
Community Night: 6:30pm-8:30pm
Invite friend and family to experience the ancient ways of witnessing each other in story, sound and movement.
Sunday March 30th:
Session: 1:30pm - 5pm
Cost:
$350 - early bird discount until March 1
$395 - Full tuition
Contact Heather Gigi for scholarship request
Registration/Information: Submit a Payment or Contact Agnotti or Gigi for more information (Contact info below)
Venue
Twin Cities Friends Meetinghouse
1725 Grand Ave
Saint Paul, MN 55105
We meet in the beautiful Meeting Room on the main floor. Street parking is available. Enter through the side door (down the sidewalk), not the front door.
Leaders
Gigi Koser Baradan
Gigi Baradan is a life-long student and teacher of many healing modalities, including laughter, play, spiritual deepening and flu shots. She has been InterPlaying for over 20 years, and leading for over 10. She says it keeps her flexible in both body and spirit. Playfulness has been a potent antidote to her conservative upbringing and to her "serious" profession as a pharmacist. Perhaps her favorite InterPlay practice is simply to "take a deep breath and let it out with a sigh". It's Transformative every time!
Agnotti Cowie
Agnotti Cowie (they/she) attended the first ever “Art & Social Change: InterPlay for Millennial Leaders” in 2010. Since, she joined InterPlay’s national board as well as becoming a certified InterPlay leader. Agnotti facilitates workshops worldwide employing a variety of pedagogical techniques such as InterPlay, Theatre of the Oppressed, Devising, puppetry and clown. Currently they are based in Chicago where they lead workshops in schools, organizations and with social movements including as Co-Artistic Director of Opera-Matic, bringing participatory arts to public spaces. Recently, they have taken their work around the globe teaching InterPlay workshops in India, Germany, Australia, Bali and Chile.
Litha Rodriguez
|she/they| Communications Coordinator for InterPlay since 2023, oversees several aspects of InterPlay's communications, including newsletters, some aspects of the InterPlay website, and the general promotion of InterPlay events and activities. Oakland resident (Occupied Huichin Ohlone Territory), entrepreneur, intersectional feminist, Artivist, Witch, dusk dancer, Tarologist, Reiki II practitioner, astrology apprentice, Non Violent Communication student, writer, editor, and marketing magic maker. Native of Nicaragua, specifically Bilwi on the Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast. Joy, play, pleasure, rest and connection are her tools of resistance. Lover of sunsets, rituals, playlists, coffee, herbs, vibes, mental health, therapeutic tarot, and the multiple and infinite ways of existing in an image, a collage, or the words conjured in a poem.