Dear friends:
Side by side with all that challenges us in this world, in this time, I still
find hope in mystery and symmetry:
still, there are shapes made fa'a, in the likeness of nature, in siapo, the ancient bark cloth art of Samoa,
still, there are people who live, make and breathe this art,
who speak of timu rain, and sami the sea and about finding their way home,
still, there are students who write poetry in response to a stranger,
still, one person's journey of colonization and liberation inspires others into their own,
still, there are mountains in Spain made of memory and magic,
still, there are travelers who choose to step into their stories in these mountains.
Side by side with the odds of finding a way to live following what calls to you,
there are evens...
...even that could happen and does, unfolding in its own shade and sun.
May we trust what is calling out to us, may we respond...
This month, I am moved to share
I also offer
individual sessions on metaphor and movement, writing and editing. Please
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each out if they speak to you
. I am here and glad to help nurture the story only you can tell, in the way that only you can tell it.
And finally, in the spirit of
spring cleaning for a new year
, may I invite you to
CHOOSE your interaction with this list. It
has been drawn together from
many different projects I've done
over the years and
your interests may have changed, I know mine have
! - so please
- STAY - no action needed - just be here and read!
- DEPART if you feel moved (and you are always welcome back) - UNSUBSCRIBE at the bottom of this email, just one click will do it
- SHARE this email with friends who are welcome to SIGN UP for these newsletters - share buttons below!
- CONNECT - write to say hello, share news of a new project, I'll be adding a NEWS FROM FRIENDS section in upcoming emails.
Thank you, as always for reading!
Here's to faraways made close by connection, story and hope!
Shebana
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Encounters: American Samoa
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write * journey * embody
a seven day writing adventure in a magic mountain town in southern Spain
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(our June 1 session is full! so we've added another session)
June 15 to 21, 2020 - Capileira, Granada
What will emerge when you give yourself the gift of a retreat to evoke la naturaleza dentro – your true nature - earth wind fire water and ether –and embody the encounter in writing and movement?
Early Bird Discount- Register by March 10
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*step into your story*
– a special package of guided sessions for 3 months to
jumpstart your writing/creativity projects in 2020.
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I’d love to work with you to manifest your memoir, fiction, metaphor, hybrid writing, solo performance – or any creative project that is calling you. I've found that often, when you open up your stories to another nurturing point of view, unexpected insights and pathways can illuminate
the storyspace
Give yourself the gift of exploring the places where your resonant visions live and write them, speak them, move with them, manifest their mystery.
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This 3 month package features
- 3 hour-long individual sessions with me in person (in the Santa Fe area) or via Skype
- nurturing responses to your work
- receive inspiring emails + audio messages once a month (for 3 months) -
all to
catalyze
your creativity/writing projects in 2020
so you start the new year by stepping
brightly
into your storyspace
Fee $345 usd
Please contact me at writeoutloud13@gmail.com with any questions
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Contact:
writeoutloud13@gmail.com / cell 609 651 5840
ABOUT ME:
Read TESTIMONIALS
here
and
here
from folks
who have worked with me as a story consultant and workshop participants
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*write - one on one*
private, individual, guided writing sessions
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prompts * triggers * flights of fancies * thoughtful responses *concept editing
to generate new work, edit older pieces.
Sliding scale – contact me for rates
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virtual workshops
recorded versions of workshops that you can do at home
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These are recorded versions of two workshops I offered last year.
I’ve recorded them as audio sessions that guide you with prompts, visualizations, writing exercises and there are links to other readings, writings, music, video.
After purchase, you'll receive an email from me with a link to a Dropbox folder (you don’t need to have Dropbox to access it) with all the audio and pdf files.
Download and then
Listen, savor, write - at home, at your own pace, your own time,
and whenever you’re done, email me a few samples your writing
and I'll respond with a brief email.
(p.s: please don't upload the audio files to social media – thank you)
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Gratitude in Metaphor and Movement: 2 sessions/audio files - $60 usd
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write and embody prose and lyric
squares of sufficiency, of thanks
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Faraway is Close Mongolia –
4 sessions/audio files - $80 usd
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Create from the encounter with stories and songs of MONGOLIA and other faraways..
featuring recordings and stories from my year on the steppes of Mongolia – and the city too!
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cross cultural encounters in metaphor and movement to awaken the
stories under the skin,
indigenous to each of us,
the stories only we can tell.
farawayisclose.com
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SHEBANA COELHO is an award-winning writer and filmmaker, originally from India, who has conducted
Faraway is Close
cross-cultural creativity workshops in New Mexico, Hawaii, Mongolia and American Samoa. She received a Fiction Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts and a Fulbright to Mongolia. Her stories, poems and articles have been published in US and international journals and her multimedia documentaries have been broadcast on BBC Radio Four, Public Television (PBS), and the Discovery Channel among others. She is currently developing and touring a solo play, The Good Manners of Colonized Subjects with accompanying creativity workshops to enable us to stand up in our stories. Read more at
shebanacoelho.com
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Faraway is Close - Shebana Coelho
| cell 609 651 5840 | PO Box 715 Tesuque NM 87574 |
farawayisclose.com shebanacoelho.com
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