NYC Deep Fun
“You can learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation”
Welcome to Deep Fun: a “playshop” centered around exploring various types of collective effervescence, physical play, and wild jubilation! I've been doing this playshop for the past several months in western MA and even once in Arizona, and now it's New York's turn! I'm hoping to put rubber to road and tour Deep Fun up the east coast this summer, so if you know of any communities/contacts/spaces that would host an event like this, please fill out this Google Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScCxp_eo2Lo5PNcdokRDUliU_0Buto-HMDT_vL2B7apzmkWvQ/viewform?usp=sharing
Some philosophical jazz: Beyond just being "whimsical", playfulness is an attitude towards life that allows room for and celebrates failure, risk taking, and the general messiness (and courage) of humanity. In a communal state of play, we reveal parts of ourselves and our fellows we wouldn't have discovered otherwise, and we become more available to express ourselves and receive others' expression. The way you play reflects the way you connect with others, learn new things, and problem solve, so Deep Fun is an opportunity to actively research yourself and your attitudes to life, all while having a damn good time and being in exhilarating community!
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Deep Fun is a highly-physical facilitated communal play session, drawing loosely on my years of experience as an actor, clown, physical performer, and educator. We'll be going on a hunt for our fun, exploring when we've reached the peak of our fun, and experiencing the feeling of "collective effervescence", an experience of well-being and harmony when engaging in an activity with a shared purpose -- In this case, play in the form of collective exercises, frivolous activities, cooperative games, singing simple songs with great gusto (maybe), on-your-feet group problem solving, and much running (and perhaps rolling) around. You might liken this workshop to something you'd see in a corporate team-building/improv workshop, and there may be some similarities. Yes, we will explore playfulness as a conduit for community-building, and we will also be actively "researching" the feeling of physical pleasure, thrill, and wild abandon as a channel for deep self-inquiry.
The workshop follows a loose structure of four categories of play/game: Collective Play (playing together with the sole intention of having/exploring what's fun), Collective Competition (playing together with the intention of winning), Pair Play (exploring what's fun as we play in pairs), and Individual Play (exploring what's fun as you play on your own). Once we reach the peak of our fun as a collective, we move to a fresh, new game, keeping the workshop vital, uncomplicated, and responsive. It's a fast-paced, high energy, game-packed play session intended to invite vulnerability and connection through a heightened state of presence. With only two hours, we may not get to all of these categories, and that's okay!
We will feel what it's like to share and sustain joy as a collective. We’ll revisit how fun it was to goof around with our friends at recess. We’ll shake up our adult egos and stories about play and research what is truly fun in our bodies, and when we’ve reached the peak of our fun. We’ll all probably look like idiots, but at least we’ll be doing it together!
Bring an open mind, indulge your animal body, and wear clothes to be active in! The workshop has benefitted from being intergenerational, so while it’s not a kid-centric space, young people 10+ are welcome.
Logistics: The A.R.T. in Fort Greene, 138 S Oxford St, in the upstairs Great Room. Saturday, April 26th, 6:30-8:30pm, $20-40 sliding scale, Venmo or cash (Venmo preferred)
Questions? Text me: 832-766-0123
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