[Jubilee] Moving Stories, Healing Stories - time to register

[Christopher Fitz]

Just SIX WEEKS until the Jubilee Troupe, /Moving Stories, Healing 
Stories/ retreat.  That means, if you haven't already, it's time to 
register!  Please consider joining us September 22-24 for this this 
unique opportunity in the junction of creative arts, social change and 
spiritual renewal.

*MOVING STORIES, HEALING STORIES*

A Retreat of Story Work and Play
To Transform Our Lives and Our Communities
with Keynote Julie Portman, Obie Award winning performer

September 22-24, 2006
Camp Eder - Fairfield, PA
8 miles west of Gettysburg, PA
75 miles northwest of Washington, DC

    Strengthen your roots. Stretch your branches.

          Learn tools for community transformation.

               Connect to others in creative work and play.

*Moving Stories, Healing Stories* is an opportunity to explore spiritual 
enrichment and community renewal processes through exciting forms of 
interactive drama, movement and other creative arts. Activities include:

* working with specific storytelling tools, exploring personal stories
* sacred times for telling our stories
* forums for sharing our skills, ideas, media and findings
* "getting into our bodies" with quietness and play
* personal and group devotional time
* sharing meals and supportive fellowship
* unstructured "free" time!

*Why Stories?*  During our year facilitating, performing and worshiping 
in communities across the U.S., we saw how universal stories and 
storytelling could be.  When we introduced storytelling pieces in 
workshops or worship services, we consistently heard a murmur of 
response from people hearing members of their community tell their 
stories.  The meaningfulness was unmistakable.  And so was the 
enthusiasm.  We decided to explore the story further.  What can we learn 
from our own stories?  What can we gain from witnessing others stories?  
How can we learn and share this ancient ritual in our own community?

Keynote leader Julie Portman will bring her *Life Stories Workshop* to 
the retreat, a unique method of unlocking the potential for all of us to 
discern and tell our empowering stories -- and to witness the power-full 
stories around us.  Julie is an Obie Award winning theater director and 
performer and a founder of Ki Theater in Washington, Virginia.

InterPlay instructor Judith Reichsman will lead a workshop to provide 
improvisational and playful tools to further explore the stories we have 
already generated. Judith, from Marlboro, Vermont, brings over fifteen 
years of Interplay experience and leadership to the retreat.

Find out more and register online at: 
http://jubileetroupe.org/events/2006-retreat.htm

Sponsors:  Unity in the Community (Manassas, VA) is the principle 
sponsor of this event with co-sponsorship from the York Friends Meeting 
(PA) <http://www.bym-rsf.org/quakers/meetings/york.shtml> and the 
Jubilee Troupe, an independent project sponsored by On Earth Peace, the 
New Community Project and the Brethren Peace Fellowship.

We look forward to seeing you at this exciting and powerful weekend.

The Moving Stories, Healing Stories planning group,
 Chris, Joy, Christina, Jessica, Arlene and Tabea

   www.jubileetroupe.org