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Postponed due to weather:
New date coming soon!
Resonance at Three Springs Community Farm: Nature Play
Resonance at Three Springs Farm is a one-day immersive gathering where nature, creativity, and community come together. Through guided meditation, gentle hikes, theater games, and collaborative art, participants explore simple tools for presence, nervous system reset, and connection, with yourself, each other, and the living world around you.
DTH: Dancing the Political
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Sunday, MAY 3
10AM PT ○ 1PM ET ○ 6PM GMT
Join Aviva Arts’ Artistic Director Debórah Eliezer and special guest Saed Mansour for a live, online workshop.
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Our bodies carry stories, pain, and memory that extend beyond our personal experience, shaped by ancestry, identity, and the political and social worlds we move through. In this workshop, we will explore and embody these layers of perception through movement, improvisation, and creative expression.
Coming Up in May:
DTH: Celebrating the Song of the Mother
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Sunday, MAY 10
10AM PT ○ 1PM ET ○ 6PM GMT
Join Aviva Arts’ Artistic Director Debórah Eliezer and special guest Amal Bisharat, Director of Aviva Arts' latest work in development, SWITCH via Zoom.
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Join Amal Bisharat and Debórah Eliezer on Mother’s Day for a creative dedication to all the ways we honor the Mother. Through song, guided meditation, ritual, and reflection, we’ll explore practices that root us in our lineage, collective care, and compassion.
DTH: Poetry as Resistance
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Sunday, MAY 17
10AM PT ○ 1PM ET ○ 6PM GMT
Join Aviva Arts’ Artistic Director Debórah Eliezer (Central Portugal) and special guest Gabriel Cortez (California) via Zoom.
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Through guided writing, listening and embodied presence, we will explore poetry as a practice of resistance and remembrance. Together, we’ll practice drawing on the natural world for inspiration to illustrate our emotional landscape in fun, surprising, and moving ways.
To the People of Iran: You Are Not Alone
There are moments in history when silence becomes a position.
Today, we stand with the people of Iran — artists, students, families, dreamers — whose lives are being systematically erased by violence and repression.
This is not about borders, governments, or ideologies.
This is about human beings.
Humanity knows no borders.
Grief knows no nationality.
Dignity does not belong to the state, it belongs to the people.
Aviva Arts is listening.
We listen to the voices of Iranians who are asking the world not to look away.
We believe in culture as resistance.
We understand art as generational memory.
We practice collective presence as protection.
To the people of Iran: you are not alone.
Your lives matter.
Your voices are heard.
We stand with you
Now and always.
Looking for resources and assistance navigating what’s happening at the federal level?
Theatre Communications Group has a highly valuable resource list to help.
Welcome to Aviva Arts, an arts and wellness hub for innovative cultural practice. We value personal relationships and champion innovative models of connection that build bridges of empathy for today's world.
“The theater of epic vision, purpose, recovery, repair, and care needs new rituals. We don’t need to be entertained. We need to gather. ”
–Peter Sellars, World Theatre Day
We do this by:
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CONVENING
Facilitating community gatherings such as webinars, dialogues and in-person retreats which align artistic inspiration with the natural world.
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CREATING
Producing performance experiences that interrogate form, center underrepresented bodies and endeavor to respond to the prompt: what is the artist’s role in society now?
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CO-LEARNING
Facilitating liberatory public workshops through a social justice lens.
“As our activities are shared digitally to the internet, we also consider the legacy of colonization embedded within technological structures. This includes the equipment and high speed internet which are not available in many indigenous communities. The technologies that are central to much of the art we make also leave a significant carbon footprint, contributing to changing climates that disproportionately affect indigenous and marginalized peoples worldwide. We invite you to join us in acknowledging all this, as well as our shared responsibility to consider our roles in reconciliation and decolonization.”-Based on Adrienne Wong of SpiderWebShow and from Dr. H “Herukhuti” Sharif Williams from CUNY Racial Justice and Performance Conference.
