TAP YOUR TRUTH
My mission is to honor your creative well-spring, to encourage you to believe that it is sacred, to help you experience it as your best resource, and to then provide you with tools to share the gifts that will rise forth as a result.
Advent Dark Journal
NOVEMBER 26, 2023 - JANUARY 6, 2024
Push back on the pressure to perform the holidays in picture perfect ways by sprinkling your days with creative gestures designed to inspire and comfort.
A Warm Evening of Writing and Ritual with Suzi Banks Baum
DECEMBER 20, 2023
Free event for the Rising Forth Community open to all ages 16 on up.
Advent Dark Journal
NOVEMBER 26, 2023 - JANUARY 6, 2024
Online and in your home
Push back on the pressure to perform the holidays in picture perfect ways by sprinkling your days with creative gestures designed to inspire and comfort.
What if your holiday season felt sheltered?
Who would you be during the holiday season if you knew you had an oasis to return to, a place where you refuel?
Advent Dark Journal is a collective of creative humans who lean towards candlelight and poems, who know that a daily practice is an anchor-point when the weather blows cold. Let yourself in for 6 weeks of guided creative practice with Advent Dark Journal. Easy to access lessons are released each Sunday beginning November 26. Three Zoom events are optional.
Sign Up TodayIn the midst of the cultural expectation to provide a flawless holiday, Advent Dark Journal gave me a place to be messy, improvisational, and find within the common symbols of Christmas a deeper metaphorical meaning of the imagery through collage art. Furthermore, there were additional quiet activities, such as listening to music while bookmaking or sipping a cup of Suzi's tea that were very grounding for me. Advent Dark Journal finds you where you are and offers you what you need regardless of whatever else is happening in those last weeks of the year.
MARISA MOKS
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Winter Haven, Florida
The workshop costs $310. This includes 6 weeks of lessons posted on the Kajabi learning platform & community sharing within that learning space. Expect to be inspired by poems, a weekly centering meditation, and small art projects.
A luscious package of carefully curated art supplies for three small book forms, collage, and rituals. Each package contains 6 envelopes of treasures to be opened in concert with the weekly lesson release. The package also contains contributions from a delectable group of artists.
A guide for materials you will need to collect.
This workshop follows the Moon and the tides of nature as winter comes to the Northern Hemisphere. It is not connected to any religious practice. Intended for people ages 16 years on up.
Advent Dark Journal is a way to navigate the holiday season to find your own sense of the sacred.
Sign Up here
"I am so grateful to be led by you at this time in my life.
Happy Winter, Suzi "
- xoxoxo
NANCY REDFORD
BACKYARD ART CAMP
AUGUST 2024
My backyard in Great Barrington, MA!
Backyard Art Camp is an outdoor book art & ritual workshop in the Berkshires
Camp 2024 is in the works. Stay tuned for more information in January 2024.
Link to frequently asked questions is here.
"Camp is sacred, essential, delightful, expansive, generative, meaningful, and such a messy-in-the-paint good time! This was a return to a familiar place, both in the magic that is Hollenbeck, and the familiarity of sisterhood, mudra flow, process, and celebrations with alumni sisterhood. Camp plants seeds in my heart - they root while I make paste paper - then they bloom all year long as I return to what we've created here in my daily practice."
KARLEE FAIN
All supplies & printed instructions included in Camp fee. Also includes libations and bug juice.
You cover housing & travel & lunch. Look for rentals/hotels in the Great Barrington, MA area. Closest airports: Albany, NY & Hartford, CT.
Public transportation from the New York City & Boston area is convenient. My home is three blocks from Main Street, Route 7.
This program is for you if you...
- comfortable working outdoors in all weather
- want to nourish your attention and work with your hands-totally no tech situation here
- want to replace the nasty messages you got about how messy or wrong your art making is
- are an established artist seeking to fine tune your skills
- want to explore mixed media techniques, learn about inhabiting a journal, and are willing to play at the intersection of literary and book art.
- yearn for creative community and sanctuary where your creative expression will be valued above all else.
"Great teacher...Suzi's workshop was a real treat."
Learn more about the Art & Wellness Retreat at Snow Farm.
