Salutations Psychodrama Friends!
The Theatre of Spontaneity is Coming
Around Again
Cherry season is over, and it was a bumper season, the peaches and apricots are harder to find, and we’ve planted our leeks and kale. Freesias and daffodils left in last year are poking their little green fingers up. They’re a reminder that Spring will follow Winter. But not yet! Winter’s a-coming ……
Come along to the Theatre of Spontaneity and feed your soul, paying tribute where it’s due, join in a community gathering, as since ancient times. Feel free to bring “a little something”, found object, poem, whatever, that connects you with yourself and or expresses something for you, and which you feel ok to share in our Theatre.
Here we are in the first month of Autumn, and approaching the end of April. It’s a time when the sun moves lower across our skies, the evening comes down earlier and rapidly with a poignancy that can pierce the heart, and even the crickets who have been so persistent are subdued.
We live our lives in the perpetual cycle of growth and contraction, Death and Rebirth, tied to the movement of our Earth and its Sun. The Celts held a Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter or the "darker half" of the year, when cattle were brought back down from the summer pastures and when livestock were slaughtered for the winter.
In our country below the equator, by 30 April–1 May we will be half way between the Autumn Equinox and the Winter Solstice. It can be a time when old losses rise to consciousness, a sort of “balancing of the books” before the inevitable hibernation which will follow: an in-between-not-altogether-comfortable sort of time. Perhaps it’s because we ourselves are made of the dust of the cosmos and unto that dust we will return, we can feel at this time very mortal and close to our departed loved ones. We have an opportunity to remember those who have gone before us, to pay respects to our ancestors, family members, elders, friends, (including “pets”), who have passed on.
It can also be a time for “bedding down” as farmers prepare the land to lie fallow before the seeding of Spring, when the world will awaken and spawn new life. But that’s another story ……..
Di Kearney is a Psychodramatist and Social Worker who works with children and adolescents.
Details for this event:
Gather together for a cup of tea or coffee from 6 p.m for a 6.30 p.m sharp start at the Psychodrama Institute of Melbourne, 155 Langridge St, Collingwood.
$20.00 ($15.00 MPS Members) SUPPER provided!
RSVP by Friday, 15 February 2013 to Gavin O'Loughin 0403 597 685
www.psychodrama-institute-melbourne.com
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