Ellen Furey – Lifting the Ceiling
07 ⇾ Jun. 11 2027 (Monday – Friday)
09:30 to 12:30
Weekly rate:$95
Drop-in:$28
French, English
Registration will open on Monday, February 1, 2027.
#Creative process #Interdisciplinary #Toolbox
© Sasha Onyshchenko
Objective
Lifting the Ceiling (the proverbial one tacitly created to block out awareness of our vast skies) is a workshop designed to help us recognize latent dreamscapes for life, work and art making, as big and as good-feeling as we can muster; stretching to include the too big, too much, too ambitious, the too idealistic, the impractical.
I desire to create deeply affirming and positive collective experiences that validate who we really are as either spiritually or fantastically more than human, soul beings perhaps, allowing us space to explore outside of practicality and current conditions (personal, interpersonal, societal).
Content
The workshop rehearses imagining and believing the possible worlds we desire—not through a framework of reform, but through one of confident fantasy. What is (y)our desired future and present, and how can we rehearse it into life?
Drawing from my background in spiritual accompaniment, psychic development, and non-medical death care, I will delve into exploring alternatives to a mindset of precarity. Exercises will include adapted writing prompts, movement scores, work-outs, short meditations, structured sharings/discussions and paired reflections aimed at nurturing potential and courage.
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Biography
Ellen Furey is a performer, choreographer, psychic guide and death doula working in experimental and contemporary dance. Her practice has been sustained by an interest in discursive, collaborative processes that emphasise both the mess and power of our subjectivities as individuals and as temporary collectives. She is finding ways to centre an idea of creativity as an infinite, yet often quashed or relegated, resource that can support us relating to this world through avenues that are multiple, unexpected, renewable, powerful, and purposeful, within and outside of the arts.
“This workshop refreshed my relationship to hope, possibility, and dreaming within my practice. The use of music, physical writing, and movement were all fertile ground for connecting me to imagination, sensitivity, listening, and expansion.”
— Anonymous
Partners
This workshop is supported by the Conseil de la formation continue arts et culture de Montréal (CFC) in collaboration with Studio 303. The CFC’s continuing education activities are supported by the Intervention-Compétences program, thanks to the financial participation of the Quebec government.
