“Power and Intimacy” - The Guardian
This is an experimental journey into the wider shores of courage, power and intimacy as vocal artists.
We’ll work a lot with improvising with language, with being seen and heard, and themes of taboo and Paradigm Shift.
Paradigm Shift
What breaks your heart in our world? What do you want to see change?
What comes up in you as you turn towards the big outer, the deep inner; our times; and what we are living through? What more beautiful world does your heart dream of?
Experiment with using your voice to call in change, by being a voice for it among humans, and by, potentially, praying, calling in, giving strength to life-honouring, earth-honouring ways of being in this world, and may they become bigger than an extractive violent colonial paradigm that funds genocide and subsidises fossil fuels $7 trillion a year (globally).
How can our voices be part of tipping the balance? Let’s try.
Taboo
Can we widen the truth frame, as vocal artists; so we can stand in our ground while giving voice to realms of human experience so often couched in privacy, shame, and unspoken-ness. Can we ease our own shame, and that of others, if we use the power of art to give voice to universal themes? What comes up in you as you sing this openly; as you witness others do so? We’ll explore this.
The literal and the lyrical; the poetry of vocal improvisation and the power of art, grounded in compassion, which we’ll cultivate together.
We’ll hold a strong container of confidentiality and safety, and have each other’s backs as we feel what we feel as we give voice to what is authentic.
Together, we become braver
Together, we grow in voice and power
Together, can we heal our pieces of the world?
The Structure
We’ll work at the Moor Imagination Collective in Buckfastleigh. The cafe there caters for us; local, very healthy, partly organic, vegan food; 3 meals per day are included.
We open 4-6pm on 21st October, dine together and sing a little that evening.
Morning practice 8-9am - yoga or dance
Breakfast 9am - lunch 1pm, Dinner 6.30pm
Sessions run 10-1 and 2.30 - 6.
There are evening sessions on the Tuesday (not very late) and Thursday (quite late).
On the last day 24th October we finish by 3.30pm at the latest.
Accommodation
There 2 initial accommodation options.
The Christian Community - £40pp pn. They’re right across the road from MIC and have 4 very comfortable clean bedrooms and a small self catering kitchen (and a chapel, and a workshop space).
Local air bnb - £50 pp pn, £65 for private en suite room. A lovely shared house with 4 bedrooms / 6 beds, 1 mile away. It’s a 5 min drive or a 30 min country walk.
To book accommodation please email Dan info@brionygreenhill.com. The sooner the better, as we can’t realistically book the local air bnb until a few people want to stay there.
Cost
The cost includes all teaching / space holding, 3 meals per day at the MIC cafe - healthy, vegan, partly organic - and optional morning practice each morning at 8am (dance / yoga). It does not include accommodation.
Tier 1: £525
Tier 2: £375
Tier 3: £250
There are 2 assistant places at £95 and 2 Name Your Price places.
We trust you to select your Tier with integrity. You will not be assessed.
Would you like to contribute to The Scholarship Fund? Any amount is very welcome; it’s to help widen access to this work.
Level
If you are a Newcomer to CVI with Briony, please make sure you do an intro course before this one.
This is for folks who have already worked with Briony, so Journeypeople, Advanced Students and Alumni.