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SUMMARY:Find Your Holiday Spirits | A Mythic Catskills Weekend
DESCRIPTION:Find Your Holiday Spirits | A Mythic Catskills Weekend\nDecember 7 – 9\, 2018\nMaybe you adore the holidays… Maybe you look at them with a dry cynicism… And maybe you yearn for holiday celebrations that echo with a half-forgotten warmth and cheer. We’ve got you covered! From wry to rye\, we’ll help you find your holiday spirits. \nSpillian is delighted to partner with Table to Farm Tours to invite you to come and taste – literally and metaphorically – the terroir of the Catskills ciders\, beers\, and spirits and bring some back to your hearth for your celebrating this holiday season. \nJoin with us as we introduce you to an extraordinary group of makers who bring the soil\, water\, and grains and fruits of the Catskills to life as ciders\, beers\, and spirits. You’ll wander with the inspiring team from Table to Farm Tours on a private tasting tour to several of the finest craft brewers and distillers in the country\, and learn how they make their magic in bottles and kegs. \nAnd discover some of Spillian’s favorite mixed drink magic\, try your hand at mixology\, and celebrate with some special musical guests…and\, of course\, feast. The food. Oh\, the food… \nFind Your Holiday Spirits at Spillian. It’s Mythic. Local. Real. \nJoin us for the full weekend; for the Saturday tasting tour\, mixology contest and feast; or the mixology contest and feast. \n[btnsx id=”10260″] \n\nMythic Catskills Weekends\nSpillian’s Mythic Catskills Weekends are an intersection with the essence of the Catskills: the forests\, the mountains\, the people\, the deep stories that make this place so compelling. \nEach weekend celebrates a facet of this gem-like place: its food\, its fish and streams\, its ringing summer\, its snow-spangled winters\, its flowing creative life force. \nCome for a weekend of grand adventure. Feast. Explore. Hear the great stories and share your own.  Revel in the mythic possibility of the Catskills and find where it sings in your life – and then bring that song back home with you. \n\nFind Your Holiday Spirits | What’s Included\nFriday\nMixing It Up \n\nA robust farm-to-table charcuterie\, including local meats\,  cheeses\, spring greens\, house made hummus\, relishes\, chutneys\, and more from our neighboring farmers and food producers.\nA mixology class\, teaching you to make three Spillian favorite featured cocktails: The Spillian Trout Tail\, birthed at our Catskills Trout Tales events with Union Grove Distillery vodka and Tree Juice maple syrup; The Spillian Campfire\, with Prohibition Distillery gin\, pine simple syrup\, and smoke; and Spillian’s take on wassail\, featuring locally pressed cider.\nTales\, real and mythic\, about the history and lore of booze in the Catskills in front of the blazing fire.\n\nSaturday\nFinding Your Holiday Spirits Tour \n\nA Catskills breakfast featuring eggs from Spillian Farm’s ridiculous chickens.\nA custom Catskills distillery/cidery/brewery tour with Table to Farm Tours\, with flight tastings at each\, and a chance to buy the flavors you adore to spark your holiday celebrations. Our itinerary includes several award-winning Catskills spots:  Wayside Cider and Tap Room\, Roscoe Beer Company\, Catskill Brewery\, and Prohibition Distillery.\nA lunch at one of our local breweries.\nA chance to laze by the fire or on the porch for a bit before dinner\, watching the sky change down the valley.\n6 PM: A Happy Hour of Mixology Contest: with ingredients awaiting you\, featuring the amazing spirits from Union Grove Distillery\, including a very special chance to try their brand new\, small batch Fir Gin. Here’s your chance to mix the next great Spillian cocktail\, with naming rights! Get your inner mixologist working! The competition will be fierce…\n7 PM: A family-style  feast from Spillian’s chef Christian Van Etten\, featuring flavors from the farms you visited during the day. Menu coming soon\, but smoke and flame will be involved…\nA special guest appearance by Lady Parts\, a superb a cappella quartet to stamp out your inner Scrooge and make you all woogly with holiday spirit\nStorytelling of the history and legends of the Catskills and its colorful history with beers\, ciders\, and spirits.\n\nSunday\nThe Morning After  \n\nA Spillian breakfast.\nA class with Chef Christian on how to make the perfect post-celebratory\, comfort food anti-hangover over dish based on a generation’s old family recipe for chicken with home made noodles\, and maybe even a little hair of the dog. We’ll send the recipe home with you!\nA gathering around Spillian’s feasting table to down your the delicacies.\n\n\nThe Saturday Spirits Feast Menu\nA family style feast around our extraordinary mahogany dining table\, all dressed for the season. This table is a true place of convivium\, where tales are topped\, ideas are birthed\, and friendships created. Chef Christian Van Etten will be offering: \n\nSalad: with fried goat cheese and leeks\, grapes\, and hazlenuts\, over mixed greens with a local hard cider dressing\nPorchetta: a sumptious rolled pork loin and belly roast with herbs finished with Averna liqueur\nSliced duck breast and duck confit with a brandy and current sauce\nRoasted golden beets\, brussel sprouts with swiss chard and Drambuie balsamic glaze\nRum flambéed sweet potato and apple tian\nFarro with wild mushrooms and kale\, onions\, cooked in IPA\nPrune Armagnac Ice Cream with Dark Gingerbread\n\n\nPricing\nFull weekend fee includes all sessions including guided farm tour\, meals; Catskills ciders\, beers and spirits tasting; and lodging at Spillian.. Evening cash bar\, purchases on farms\, tax\, and gratuities not included. Click here to learn more about our splendid guest rooms! \nFull Find Your Holiday Spirits Weekend For One: $595\nPer person\, single room occupancy. Check in any time after 3 PM on Friday. \nFull Find Your Holiday Spirits For a Couple: $895\nFor the couple\, double room occupancy. Check in any time after 3 PM on Friday. \nSaturday Tour\, Feast & Festivities: $185 per person\n(Join us for the farm wander\, dinner\, and tales around the fire. Please be at Spillian by 9:45 for a 10 AM departure.) \nSaturday Feast & Festivities: $65 per person\n(Join us for the mixology contest\, feast and festivities. Cocktail hour begins at 6 PM\, dinner at 7 PM.) \n  \n[btnsx id=”10260″]\n\nAbout Table To Farm Tours\nOur goal is to connect the dots for you\, curating tours to a variety of local producers from creameries to tea blenders\, veggie farms to hard cideries\, creating an experience you’ll remember long after you’ve visited the Catskills. Hop in our comfortable van and we’ll take you on full day tour or come along for an evening of amazing libations and excellent farm-to-table food. You’ll have opportunities to meet individual farmers and makers\, hear their stories\, learn about their philosophies\, tour their site\, and taste some amazing food and drink. Learn more here. \n  \nAbout Lady Parts\nAn impressive collage of stunning voices unite to present Lady Parts.  Each individual ‘Part’ brings rich and varied experience that spans the globe and includes some of the worlds greatest performance venues.  Our individual repertoire covers nearly every imaginable genre from early music to opera to big band to pop/rock to new music. The result? Together we ‘Parts’ form a ravishing result to create a kaleidoscope of vocal color and imagination that captivates and engages. Catch us soon\, a vocal sound experience to savor! Learn more here.
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LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adventure,Dinner,Imaginarium,Mythic Catskills,Outdoors
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SUMMARY:Forage Your Feast | A Mythic Catskills Weekend
DESCRIPTION:Forage Your Feast | A Mythic Catskills Weekend\nNovember 2-4\, 2018\nIn this era of illusion\, many of us are yearning for realness. For authenticity. \nCome to the source and taste some…and bring some home for the holidays. \nSpillian is proud to partner with Table to Farm Tours to invite you to come and taste – literally and metaphorically – the terroir of the Catskills and bring it back to your table for your feasting this holiday season. \nJoin with us as we introduce you to an extraordinary group of farmers who love this land\, in all of its beauty and its harshness\, and produce food that tastes of all that the Catskills awaken in us. You’ll wander with the inspiring team from Table to Farm Tours to a hand-selected array of Catskills farms\, offering the bounty of late fall on a custom designed private tour. You can bring the flavors of the Catskills directly home to your celebrations. Food tastes different when you not only know where it comes from\, but also when you’ve met the folks who have brought it into being. \n[btnsx id=”10213″] \n  \nMythic Catskills Weekends\nSpillian’s Mythic Catskills Weekends are an intersection with the essence of the Catskills: the forests\, the mountains\, the people\, the deep stories that make this place so compelling. \nEach weekend celebrates a facet of this gem-like place: its food\, its fish and streams\, its ringing summer\, its snow-spangled winters\, its flowing creative life force. \nCome for a weekend of grand adventure. Feast. Explore. Hear the great stories and share your own.  Revel in the mythic possibility of the Catskills and find where it sings in your life – and then bring that song back home with you. \n  \n\nForage Your Feast | What’s Included\nFriday\nAn evening of Catskills Flavors \n\nA robust farm-to-table charcuterie\, including local meats\, dairy and vegan cheeses\, spring greens\, hummus\, relishes\, chutneys\, and more from our neighboring farmers and food producers.\nA flight of the Catskills finest ciders\, beers\, and spirits such as Awestruck Ciders\, Wayside Ciders\, Catskill Brewery\, Roscoe Brewery\, and Union Grove Distillery\, and Delaware Phoenix Distillery.\n\n\nTales\, real and mythic\, about farmed and wild food in the Catskills in front of the blazing fire.\n\nSaturday\nForaging Your Feast on the Farms \n\nBegin your day with a gentle guided moving meditation inviting you to savor a sense of place in the Catskills.\nA Catskills breakfast featuring eggs from Spillian Farm’s ridiculous chickens.\nA custom Catskills farm tour with Table to Farm Tours\, tasting and gathering the foods that speak to your soul and taste buds to inspire your holiday cooking.\nA lunch at one of our local farm-to-table restaurants.\nCatskills mulled hard cider cocktails on the porch\, and a chance to laze by the fire or on the porch for a bit before dinner\, watching the sky change down the valley.\nA five-course Autumn feast from Spillian’s chef Christian Van Etten\, featuring flavors from the farms you visited during the day.\nStorytelling of the history and legends of the Catskills and its food\,  and how it lands our yearning for a sense of place.\n\nSunday\nForaging Wild Woods Flavors \n\nA Spillian breakfast.\nForaging in the pines on Spillian’s property\, pine tea and a lesson with Christian on how to to make his butternut squash tortollini with brown butter & pine syrup sauce\nA gathering on Spillian’s porch for a farewell toast.\n\n  \nSaturday Feast Menu!\nWe decided that we needed six courses… \nCourse One\nAutumn Green Salad\nwith pickled red onion\, julienned apple & beet leather\, and goat cheese \nCourse Two\nHouse Made Butternut Squash Tortellini\nwith brown butter and pine sauce\, garnished with garlic mustard pesto \nCourse Three\nCoq au Cidre\na Catskills take on coq au vin with hard cider\, a splash of Courvoisier and mushrooms\, and parsnips\, served wild rice pilaf \nCourse Four\nRoasted Baby Eggplant\nwith mushroom risotto\, topped with peppernade\, balsamic reduction\, garnished with microgreens \nCourse Five\nBraised Short Ribs\nSlow cooked with orange\, all spice\, and wild thyme\, served with rutabagas poached in champagne\, baby carrots\, and potatoes confit \nCourse Six\nHouse made apple tart\, celeriac ice cream and black walnut praline \nWe are proud to share produce\, meats\, cheeses\, condiments\, and drink from:\nLa Basse Cour\, Sap Bush Hollow Farm\, Barber’s Farm\, Burnett Farms\, Two Stones Farm\, Harpersfield Cheese\, Dirty Girl Goat Dairy & Microcreamery\, Hubbell Family Farm\, Tree Juice Maple Syrup\, Catskill Brewery\, Awestruck Ciders\, Scrumpy Ewe Cider\, Wayside Cider\, Union Grove Distillery\, Prohibition Distillery\, Buck Hill Farm\, Bebert’s Moroccan Condiments\, and Spillian Farm. \n  \n\nPricing\nFull weekend fee includes all sessions including guided farm tour\, meals; Catskills ciders\, beers and spirits tasting; and lodging at Spillian.. Evening cash bar\, purchases on farms\, tax\, and gratuities not included. Click here to learn more about our splendid guest rooms! \nFull Forage Your Feast Weekend For One: $595\nPer person\, single room occupancy. \nFull Forage Your Feast Weekend For a Couple: $895\nFor the couple\, double room occupancy. \nSaturday Forage\, Feast & Festivities: $165 per person\n(Join us for the farm wander\, dinner\, and tales around the fire. Please be at Spillian by 9:45 for a 10 AM departure.) \nSaturday Feast & Festivities: $55 per person\n(Join us for the feast and tales around the fire. Cash bar cocktail hour begins at 6 PM\, dinner at 7 PM.) \n  \n[btnsx id=”10213″]
URL:https://spillian.com/event/forage-your-feast-a-mythic-catskills-weekend/
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SUMMARY:Your Hero's Journey® Redux: A Mythological ToolBox® 2018 PlayShop
DESCRIPTION:Your Hero’s Journey® Redux: A Mythological ToolBox® 2018 PlayShop\nSunday Evening\, July 22 to Friday afternoon\, July 27\nFacilitated by Robert Walter\, President of the Joseph Campbell Foundation\n  \nRobert Walter\, President\, Joseph Campbell Foundation \nDo you dare to re-imagine yourself? Are you hungering for a quest? Want to get rocked right out of your socks and change your life? \nJoin JCF President Bob Walter for Your Hero’s Journey® Redux: A Mythological ToolBox® PlayShop this July. \nFive days of inspired\, inspiring\, creative\, chaotic\, joyful\, and challenging play at the extraordinary historic Catskills creative retreat center\, Spillian: A Place to Revel. \nTogether we will recall our dreams\, rekindle visions\, and discover the myths we are living by through drawing\, dance\, story-making\, song\, masks\, medicine bags\, silliness and deep imagining of our own hero’s journeys. \nThe Mythological ToolBox® uses the deep wisdom of myth to poke a proverbial finger in the mix that is the way you look at yourself\, your goals and the life you want to dream into being. Join us in this magical\, mythical summertime ritual of rebirth. It can change everything. \nA Little Background \nThe birth of the Mythological ToolBox® emerges from an annual gathering on Joseph Campbell’s birthday. As he celebrated\, he would explore Carl Jung’s wondering\, “What myth am I living by?”— and when he realized that he didn’t know\, writing “I took it upon myself to get to know ‘my’ myth\, and I regarded this as the task of tasks.” He concluded\, “That’s what a birthday is for.”  Since 1988\, after his death\, friends and newcomers to Campbell’s work have been gathering to celebrate life and explore ‘their’ myths. Eventually these festivities were dubbed “A Mythological ToolBox” to acknowledge that familiarity with Campbell is not needed to retool the myths that shape one’s life — though a sense of humor certainly helps. \nIn what is emerging as a rich tradition at Spillian\, we are delighted to offer the fifth Mythological ToolBox® PlayShop at Spillian in 2018. This is an intimate\, luxurious adventure into Campbell’s ideas and your own mythologies\, with a small group and fine food in an exquisite place. \nThe workshop is facilitated by our good friend and colleague Robert Walter\, Joseph Campbell’s editor for a decade\, president of the Joseph Campbell Foundation\, and a poet/playwright with several decades of experience as group leader\, teacher\, publisher\, and theatrical producer/director/designer. \nJoseph Campbell\, 1904-1987 \nOur mix of individual\, small-group\, and collective activities will provide opportunities for both reflection and expression. Who were you? What mise-en-scènes inspire your biographical saga? What treasures have you banished to the basement or secreted in the attic? Who are you? What’s displayed in your home or dangling from your rearview mirror? Who do you aspire to be? What face do you envision in the mirror? What remains on your bucket list? If you dare to revision yourself\, then join our summertime rituals of rebirth. Please bring a meaningful but expendable totem and an unsung story or evocative song. \nRecommended reading: Myths to Live By\, The Hero with a Thousand Faces\, and The Power of Myth. \nThe Hero’s Journey® and Mythological ToolBox® are Registered Trademarks of the Joseph Campbell Foundation. \n_________________________________________ \nYour Hero’s Journey® Redux: Mythological ToolBox® 2018 Playshop Workshop Schedule\nThis workshop is five days long\,beginning on Sunday evening\, July 22\, at 7 PM and concluding Friday\, July 27\, after lunch.\n• Hero’s Journey® Redux attendees are welcome to arrive any time Sunday afternoon after 3 PM.\n• Please bring comfortable clothes and shoes.\n• Morning yoga or meditation class on the porch or in the meadow.\n• Commuters welcome for the workshop registration fee. Lodging is available onsite. \nWorkshop Fee: $820. 20% Off if you book by June 30\, 2018. Only $655!\nIncludes all programming\, materials and meals.\nSpillian offers eight delightful rooms. You can learn more about them here and make your choice on the registration page.\nNOTE: All of Spillian’s rooms are now reserved. Visit our friends at River Run Bed and Breakfast to make a reservation there! It’s just down the street and we offer shuttle service. \n  \n[btnsx id=”8986″]
URL:https://spillian.com/event/mythological-toolbox-2018/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imaginarium,Workshop
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SUMMARY:SpillianFest 2018
DESCRIPTION:SpillianFest 2018:\nMusic from the Hollows\nSaturday\, July 14 • 4 to 10 PM\nFeaturing\nBill Duke & the Hyzer Hillbillies\nYard Sale\nDylan Doyle Band\n• Advance tickets: $15/adult • $7.50 child\n• Door tickets: $20/adult • $7.50 child \n• Dinner a la carte from $3 to $5 each item\n• Cash bar\n \nTICKETS NOW AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR. \n  \n\n\n\nThe Magic\nThey say that sometimes on a summer’s evening\, when the wind is just right\, you can hear music drifting out of the Catskills hollows… It can break your heart and can make it whole again. And it can set your feet to dancing as if they’ve got their own will. This year\, you can find your way to Spillian’s hidden meadow and find that music for yourself.\n\n\n \n\n\nSongs of toil\, of love\, of hard-won joys\, thrumming with the life of this land and of the people who have made it home. Three bands\, forged from these mountain’s rocks and dirt\, from sunshine\, snows\, and blooming hawthorns.\n\n• The high lonesome tenor of Bill Duke and the Hyzer Hillbillies.\n• The twanging wit of the mountain men of Yard Sale.\n• The wipe-your-soul-clean driving blues of guitar-phenom Dylan Doyle and his band. \n\nCome for the music of the Catskills. Come for the music of us.\n\nSpillianFest 2018 Catskills Picnic\n• The much praised and nearly world-famous Spillian Trout Taco\n• The Spillian Veggie Taco (all that and with chipotle cauliflower instead of trout!) (vegan)\n• Beer & Onion Grilled Brats with sauerkraut\n• Catskills smoked local street corn on the cob (vegan)\n• House made tangy slaw (vegan)\n• Spillian Maple Caramel Corn (vegetarian)\n• Marshmallows for the bonfire (sinful) \nSpillianFest 2018 Cash Bar\n• Local beer from Catskills Brewery:  Ball Lightning Pilsner and Floodwatch IPA\n• Beringer wines: Pinot Grigio\, Chardonnay\, Pinot Noir\, and Cabernet Sauvignon\n• And of course\, Catskills Hurricanes \nSpillianFest 2018 Schedule\n• 4 PM Doors and bar open\n• 4-6 PM Bill Duke and the Hyzer Hillbillies\n• 4:30-6:30 PM SpillianFest Picnic (Until we run out of food!)\n• 6-8 PM Yard Sale\n• 7 PM Lighting the Bonfire\n• 8-10 PM Dylan Doyle Band\n• 9-10 PM Marshmallows for the bonfire \nPlease…no outside food or drink\, no drugs\, and no dogs. Thank you! \nSpillian’s Meadow\nThree years ago our first SpillianFest introduced the public to “The Meadow\, ” our gorgeous outdoor stage built into the old stone foundation of one of the original Spillian buildings. It was a revelry attended by more than 500 guests. Since then our magical meadow has hosted weddings\, workshops\, and gatherings. This summer\, we’re thrilled to introduce a new rustic pavilion\, handcrafted from trees from the property. \n  \n\nThe Music\nAbout Bill Duke and the Hyzer Hillbillies\n\nA local favorite folk and bluegrass group\, led by Bill Duke and his high lonesome tenor. \nThe Hyzer Hillbillies caught their name rolling down Hyzer Hill in Delaware County\, and finesse a combination of covers and original songs including the hit single “Hickster Man” on guitar\, banjo\, harmonica\, various things to drum on\, and the occasional shovel. Hey\, it’s Delaware County! There are two rocks for every dirt…everybody needs a shovel… \n  \n  \n\nAbout Yard Sale\n \nRoots experimentalists in the tradition of the Band\, Neil Young\, Dr. Dog\, and The Avett Brothers\, Yard Sale’s fluent playing and roughhewn\, uncorrected vocal virtuosity often transcends folk\, approaching the sop \nhistication of casual chamber music\, but always in the service of sturdy\, eccentric and emotionally stirring songs. Like the best of today’s smart indie Americana artists (including some of their Team Love Records label mates)\, Yard Sales plays freely with American myth\, haunted spirits\, and weird old styles but does so in a way that is less studied\, less groomed\, and more stylistically inclusive than many of their steadfastly retro peers. Learn more!  \n  \nAbout Dylan Doyle\n \nSouthern born\, Northern raised \, Dylan Doyle has been steeped in everything from Bob Dylan\, Wes Montgomery\, and Bill Withers to John Prine\, Jimi Hendrix\, and The Band.  From this comes a unique musical interpretation that lies somewhere within the delta of Roots\, Rock\, and Jazz\, giving him a style that defies classification. Touring nationally since age 15\, Dylan became a seasoned professional at a very young age.  He has played with such notable musicians Rob Stoner (Bob Dylan\, Don Mclean)\, John Platania (Van Morrison\, Natalie Merchant)\, Ben Cauley (Otis Redding) and Bill Payne (Little Feat).  Stoner called Dylan one of the most prodigious players he has known with abundant natural talent.  John Platania has referred to Dylan as “The Future.”  Ben Cauley\, after playing with Dylan in Memphis said\, “Dylan Doyle sounds like a young Jimi Hendrix.”  In the words of Bill Payne upon sharing the stage\, “Music is a conversation.  Dylan spoke beautifully and was listening to the musicians around him.  His play was imaginative and original. Attesting to Dylan’s versatility\, Dylan has played the King Biscuit Blues Festival three consecutive years as well headlining the Grateful Garcia Gathering\, the largest Grateful Dead festival in the Midwest\, and consistently packs houses around Europe and the United States. \n  \n\n 
URL:https://spillian.com/event/spillianfest-2018/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imaginarium,Music
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SUMMARY:Creating Life: A Playwrighting Immersive
DESCRIPTION:Creating Life: A Playwrighting Immersive\nJune 3 to 8\, 2018\nFacilitated by Robert Smythe\, MFA\nLooking to bring a play that’s been burbling in your unconscious to life or shape one that you’ve been stuck with? Join Guggenheim Fellow and acclaimed teacher and playwright Robert Smythe for a workshop that will unlock the secrets of making plays in high summer in the Catskills. This intimate intensive is perfect both for new and emerging writers as well as seasoned pro’s. \nCreating Life: A Playwrighting Immersive will focus you on knowing what exactly you are trying to say to an audience\, instead of how you are saying it. We’ll take the general themes and concepts that first led you to conceive of writing a play — or acting in one — and make them specific. \n[btnsx id=”9146″] \nDetails\nWe’ll work on getting the story out of your head and into a form that can be understood and interpreted by the other artists you will eventually direct\, perform beside or inspire. By the time you finish the first five-minute exercise\, you’ll be surprised at what you have inside you. You’ll learn how to use tension and rhythm\, and how to reveal states of mind through personal moments. You’ll write scenes and monologues. And love it. \nYou’ll discover that\, in addition or even instead of all the other things you thought you were\, you are a writer of plays. Not because someone told you that you are\, but because you know you are. \nIn each session\, you’ll spend time writing and then you’ll share what you’ve written with the rest of us. After you get feedback\, you’ll have free time to continue writing as you savor Spillian’s magical creative space\, and then we will join together again to further work what’s emerged. \nAs we move through the course\, we’ll explore how to write for the stage: not just how to write words for actors to speak\, but how to make things happen: how to create excitement and surprises\, and interest and emotion\, so that when people act out your play\, or see it in a performance\, they’ll understand exactly what you mean. \n_________________________________________ \nCreating Life: A Playwrighting Immersive\n Sunday evening\, June 3\, at 6:30 PM to Friday June 8\, at 11 AM\n• Attendees are welcome to arrive any time Sunday afternoon after 3 PM to check in.\n• Please bring comfortable clothes that you can move in.\n• An intimate workshop with only eight participants\, so you are sure lots of personal attention on your work. \nWorkshop and Lodging Fee: $685 until May 25\, 2018. $785 after that date.\nIncludes all chef-crafted meals\, sessions\, materials\, and lodging in one of Spillian’s delightful rooms!  You can learn more about them here and make your choice on the registration page.\n_________________________________________\nAbout Robert Smythe\, MFA\nRobert is an acclaimed theater artist and the founder of Mum Puppettheatre\, the only regional theater in the United States dedicated to puppetry\, serving as its Artistic Director for 23 years. During that time he wrote\, directed and performed over 20 original productions using puppets\, masks and human actors\, winning numerous awards and honors\, including four Barrymore Awards for himself and 13 for the company. He also led Mum on international tours on four continents. \nRobert is the recipient of Guggenheim\, Pew\, NEA and six Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowships\, and six Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theater in areas ranging from education to choreography. According to Philadelphia City Paper\, Smythe’s work with Mum “sparked the theater renaissance that continues to this day.” He was the first artist to receive a commission from the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts in 2008\, and the resulting collaboration between him and the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia\, Stravinsky’s “l’Histoire du Soldat\,” won the 2011 Barrymore Award for Outstanding Collaboration. \nHe is the founder of the Playwriting Program for the International Puppetry Conference at the Tony-winning O’Neill Theater Center. His work on motor contagion was been published in Acta Psychologica; his ground-breaking application of narrative theory to puppetry\, “Reading a Puppet Show: Understanding the Three-Dimensional Narrative\,” was published in The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance. Robert received his MFA in Playwrighting from Temple University\, where he was a University Fellow. Philadelphia Magazine named him “Best Professor” in their annual “Best of Philadelphia” issue in 2010. \n[btnsx id=”9146″]
URL:https://spillian.com/event/creating-life-playwrighting-immersive/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imaginarium,Workshop,Writing
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SUMMARY:Seeing Nature's Mind | Regenerating Place
DESCRIPTION:Seeing Nature’s Mind | Regenerating Place\nApril 27 – May 2\, 2018\n\n\n[btnsx id=”9106″]\nCelebrate May Day and the arrival of spring by embracing the land around us at Seeing Nature’s Mind | Regenerating Place.\nJoin us for an extraordinary several days exploring the power of patterns of nature in the Catskills\, learning to see nature and place as both inspiration and guide.\n\n\nTwo workshops offered together with our partners at 7group\, a renowned regenerative design and consulting firm. Featuring internationally recognized living systems specialist Joel Glanzberg and regenerative leader\, John Boecker.\nCome to both sessions (for a special price!) or join us for one\, and discover how the land around us can provide us the answers we seek\, in design\, in community\, and in life.\nThese workshops are a part of Catskills Trout Tales\, an innovative regional campaign celebrating the streams\, forests\, and wildlife of the Catskill mountains.\n\n  \nOur thanks to our sponsors from USGBC Central Pennsylvania\,  USBGC New York Upstate\, USGBC Long Island\, and the Good Work Institute.\n\n\n\nDetails\n• Join us for both workshops for a special price\, or register for one\n• Evocative\, challenging ideas\, experiences\, and conversations.\n• Lodging or primitive campaign on a superb 19thC mountain estate with 33 forested acres to explore.\n• A newly imagined Catskills cuisine: innovative\, fresh and local\n• CEU credits available through AIA and the US Green Building Council \n  \nSeeing with Nature’s Mind: Problem Evolving for a Living World\nWith Joel Glanzberg\n7 PM Friday\, April 27 at 7 PM to 11 AM Monday\, April 30\n“Most of our problems are caused by thinking differently than Nature works.”\n–Gregory Bateson \nPatterns are the language of life\, our original mother tongue. By triangulating the perspectives of traditional tracking (pattern reading)\, living systems thinking (pattern thinking) and regenerative design (pattern design)\, we can relearn to see with Nature’s mind and act as essential members of this living world with essential roles She is literally dying for us to play. \nBecause all living systems follow the same patterns\, learning to read them reveals where and how we can contribute to growing their health. We need to learn how to be open observers\, clearing the mirror of our minds to see behind the surface to the workings of the life of systems and how to find our place as active participants within them. \nThis workshop will be useful for designers\, artists\, and practitioners of all sorts\, as well as anyone interested in awareness and seeing the world in a different way. It is open to all levels of abilities. Though we will be using our bodies\, it will not be overly rigorous and appropriate for all physical abilities. Exercises exploring the patterns in our bodies\, our breath\, the landscape\, and our minds will take us from verbal and non-verbal dialog to movement\, as well as silent observation\, learning visceral ways to experience how living systems work\, and how to take our effective places within them. \n\n  \nRegenerating Place: Whole-Systems Design and Planning\n1 PM Monday April 30 to 5 PM Wednesday May 2\nWith John Boecker and Joel Glanzberg\nJoin us in learning together how to engage regenerative design and development in the places we shape\, using Spillian as a living lab. \nFor over two years\, John Boecker has been working with Spillian and its community to understand it as a place of regeneration for both people and the land itself. In this workshop\, we will dive deep into the master plan for the 33 acre estate\, learning how we can understand its unique identity as we imagine the future of its vision\, its historic buildings\, its landscape\, and its stakeholders. \nWorking in this way awakens a deep and caring sense of place that transforms how we see humans as partners in the ongoing evolution of living systems. Together we can improve the quality of life for all species as we co-create a vision for our built and natural landscapes and our communities by embracing the health of the whole\, not just the pieces. \nThe second in a series of Spillian/7Group regenerative planning workshops. For all those who are seeking a holistic way of understanding and implementing design for landscapes\, the built environment\, and communities. \n  \n\n\nPricing\nBoth Workshops Registration: $675 until April 20. $825 after that date.\nSeeing with Nature’s Mind: $395 until April 20. $485 after that date.\nRegenerating Place: $315 until April 20. $385 after that date. \nIf you’d like to bring a larger group of friends or colleagues\, please contact us for special  group pricing. \nFee includes chef-made meals\, materials\, and programming.\nEvening cash bar\, lodging\, and gratuities not included.\nNote: This fee is for the workshop. If you’d like to stay in the mansion\, please choose one of the rooms on the registration form. We are also offering primitive camping on site with your own gear. Commuters welcome. \nLearn more about the marvelous lodging in the Spillian mansion here.  \nLodging in Spillian Mansion Both Workshops: $465-$525\nLodging in Spillian Mansion Seeing Nature’s Mind: $285-$325\nLodging in Spillian Mansion Regenerating Place: $225-$275\nPrimitive Camping Onsite: $25 per person\nContinuing Education Certificate: Free! \n\n  \n\n\n Partners\nJoel Glanzberg\nJoel has been a builder\, farmer\, teacher\, writer\, storyteller\, naturalist\, and permaculturalist for over 30 years. His early work establishing the site and research behind Flowering Tree Permaculture and is featured in both Gaia’s Garden and Our Home“Our Home Book” as well as Brad Lancaster’s Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond Vol. 1\, and A People’s Ecology\, Greg Cajete ed.. Joel is a founding partner of Regenesis Collaborative\, which came together as an integration between permaculture and Living Systems Thinking technologies. Its founding was a response to the realization that so many of the blocks to implementing Living Systems Design work were not physical\, but in people’s understanding and thinking. Joel’s work with the Tracking Project provides another approach to understanding and working with patterns and the natural world\, as well as techniques for accessing the minds required. Learn more about Joel’s work on patterns and regenerative design at patternmind.org. \nJohn Boecker\nJohn is a founding partner in 7group\, an internationally recognized multi-disciplinary consulting firm focused on green and regenerative development. As an architect\, his practice has focused exclusively on green buildings and integrative design since 1996. He served on the LEED Steering Committee from 2002-2009\, and he Chaired the USGBC’s national LEED Curriculum Committee from 2002-2007. Along with his 7group partners and Bill Reed\, he co-authored The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building\, a seminal book published by Wiley in April\, 2009. He also co-hosted with Bill Reed the national Voice America radio program\, “Building Deeper Green: Reframing Sustainability.” As a highly sought keynote speaker\, John has lectured on the benefits of integrative design and regenerative development in 35 states and 14 countries. He has served as LEED Faculty since 2002\, and he was appointed a LEED Fellow in the inaugural class of 2011. \n7group\n\n7group has been a leading sustainability consulting group for over 20 years. These workshops mark 7group’s launch into its newest iteration of developing the capacity of projects and organizationsto affect how humans regenerate life through building. \n\n\n\n\n  \nSpillian: A Place to Revel\n\nSpillian is a portal for imagining…a retreat for imagining\, grounded deeply both in a sense of place and of play\, in history and possibility on an extraordinary historic mountain estate. \n\n  \nFrom Our Sponsors…\nUS Green Building Council Central Pennsylvania\nUSGBC Central Pennsylvania — through its members\, board and committees — focuses its work in three main areas: education\, advocacy and outreach. We represent 34 counties in the central part of the state\, including the state capital and a population of over 4.2 million people. Our efforts include regular educational and networking programs\, GreenCon\, numerous service projects\, and an annual awards program honoring innovative sustainable design. \n\n\nUS Green Building Council Upstate New York\nUSGBC New York Upstate members and Market Leadership Advisory Board are a diverse group\, and are passionate about green buildings and sustainable design. As a member of USGBC New York Upstate\, you’ll access a diverse\, dedicated community of professionals — who design\, construct\, manage\, finance\, insure\, maintain\, own\, and occupy buildings. Tap into their experience; share your own knowledge; and help us all transform the built environment! \nGood Work Institute\nFounded in mid-2015\, The Good Work Institute runs educational programs and enterprise support services that aim to assist these local community members and their organizations as they turn their aspirations for a better tomorrow into specific actions taken on behalf of the people and places of the Hudson Valley. Our mission to educate and connect a network of local community members and actively support their collaborative efforts to regenerate their places. \n  \n[btnsx id=”9106″]
URL:https://spillian.com/event/seeing-natures-mind-regenerating-place/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imaginarium,Outdoors,Regenerism,Workshop
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SUMMARY:A Mythic Catskills Weekend
DESCRIPTION:A Mythic Catskills Weekend \nA superb opportunity to dive deep into the streams and forests of the Catskills\, its evocative stories\, and its extraordinary cuisine\, with lodging at the historic Spillian estate.\nSOLD OUT!\nFeaturing:\nFriday\nAn evening of Catskills flavors.\n\nA robust farm-to-table charcuterie\, including local meats\, dairy and vegan cheeses\, spring greens\, hummus\, relishes\, chutneys\, and more from Burnett Farms\, Two Stones Farm\, Harpersfield Dairy\, Cheezehound\,  Catskill Chef’s Collective\, Peekamoose\, Bebert’s Condiments\, Dirty Girl Farm\, Bread Alone\, Lucky Dog Farm\, From the Ground Farm\, and more.\nA flight of the Catskills finest ciders\, beers\, and spirits\, including Awestruck Ciders\, Wayside Ciders\, Catskill Brewery\, Roscoe Brewery\, and Union Grove Distillery\, and Delaware Phoenix Distillery\nAn introduction to some of the evocative lore of the Catskills\, its landscape and the people who have called it home for thousands of years in front of the blazing fire\n\nSaturday\nA Day of Exploration and Story\n\nBegin your day with a gentle guided moving meditation inviting you to savor a sense of place in the Catskills\nA Catskills Breakfast: Spillian’s own farm-fresh eggs\, local buttermilk pancakes\, locally cured bacon\, bagels made that morning down the road\, fresh berries\, housemade granola\, fresh yogurt\, and Tree Juice maple syrup\nA wander with Will Soter\, co-founder of Upstate Adventure Guides\, up the path along Emery Creek\, one of the most spectacular creeks in the region\, with waterfalls\, moss covered banks\, and Hemlock Groves\, and discussion of the history\, flora\, and fauna along the way\nA lunch in the woods from Spillian’s chefs\nForaging for early spring herbs and wildflowers to spice up your dinner\, including ramps or garlic mustard if they’re up!\nA chance to laze by the fire or on the porch for a bit before dinner\, watching the sky change down the valley\nA trout feast\, featuring local trout\, your foraged sauce or garnish\, roasted late winter vegetables\, local greens\, and Spillian’s famous white pine and bee pollen chocolate bark\nStorytelling of myths and legends of the Catskills and our yearning for wildness\n\nSunday\nDiscover the poetics of angling\n\nA Spillian ‘Savory and Sweet’ breakfast featuring a breakfast salad made with farm-to-table greens\, bacon\, eggs\, and more\, along with a spectacular bread pudding with berries\, fresh fruit\, house made granola\, yogurt\, and local breads\nA wander into the magic of angling on the Esopus with Catskill Mountain Angler\, Mark Loete to try your hand at fly fishing\nA gathering back at Spillian for a farewell Catskills Cider Mimosa toast\n\n\nPricing\nFee includes all sessions including guided hiking\, foraging\, and fly fishing; all chef-made meals; Catskills ciders\, beers and spirits tasting; and lodging at Spillian for one person. Evening cash bar\, tax\, and gratuities not included. Click here to learn more about our splendid guest rooms! \nFor One: $795\nPer person\, single room occupancy. \nFor a Couple: $1270.00\nFor the couple\, double room occupancy. \n\n\n  \n\n\n\nThis weekend is a part of Catskills Trout Tales\, an innovative regional campaign celebrating the streams\, forests\, and wildlife of the Catskill mountains.\n\n  \n\nAbout Catskill Mountain Angler\nFrom Mark Loete: In 2002\, I moved my home and photography business from New York City to the Catskill Mountains in the mistaken belief that trout are more amenable to being caught by a local. I now make my home in Chichester\, NY\, on the banks of the Stony Clove Creek\, an aggressive double-haul from the historic Esopus Creek. \nLiving\, working\, and fly fishing in the “Cradle of American Fly Fishing” has sharpened my game\, taught me a bit of humility\, and given me an intimate knowledge of the region’s legendary rivers — Esopus\, Schoharie and the East and West Branches of the Delaware — and their tributaries. Exploring the rich fly fishing history and traditions of the Catskills — where it all began in America\, after all — has added another layer of enjoyment to the sport I love. \nI’ve heard it said that if you can find a way to make money doing something you love\, you’ll never have to work another day in your life. Sharing the excitement of fly fishing with others — young or old\, new or experienced — and maybe helping another individual catch the bug is my reward. That’s why I started Catskill Mountain Angler. \nLearn more here. \n  \nAbout Upstate Adventure Guides\nUpstate Adventure Guides have emerged as a preeminent licensed guide service in the Catskills and beyond. Co-founder Will Soter is the Vice President of the New York State Outdoor Guide Association\, hosts a weekly radio show on exploring the Catskills\, and is a regular contributor to various regional publications on the delights and challenges of hiking. \nUpstate Adventure Guides offers a range of options from interpretive nature walks\, to multi-day backpacking trips. We have programs for all ages\, and can custom tailor an experience for you\, or your group. \nLearn more here. \n  \nAbout Leigh Melander\, PhD\nAlong with being Spillian’s co-founder\, Leigh is a cultural mythologist\, presenter\, coach\, and creative artist. She offers workshops and organizational consulting on imagination and story nationally and at Spillian. She hosts a popular radio show (podcast coming soon!) called Myth America\, has appeared on national media as a mythology expert\, and is the Vice President of the Joseph Campbell Foundation. Her doctorate is in mythology and psychology\, and her first book\, Just That Side of Crazy\, is due out in early 2019. \nOur thanks to Esopus Creel for the gorgeous image for this event!
URL:https://spillian.com/event/mythic-catskills-weekend/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adventure,B&B Weekend,Imaginarium,Outdoors
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SUMMARY:Breathing Fire: A Wild Power Workshop for Women
DESCRIPTION:Breathing Fire: A Wild Power Workshop for Women\nMarch 9 to 11\, 2018\nFacilitated by Leigh Melander\, Ph.D.\, Spillian Co-Founder\nAre you burning to change your life and the world? Join us for Breathing Fire: A Wild Power Workshop for Women. \nIn most cultures\, women have been traditionally defined by three roles: maiden\, mother\, and crone. Each is a powerful metaphor\, each has value\, but they all live within society’s expectations.  They are often as much about how the world sees women as they are how we see ourselves. \nThere is another metaphor\, one that acknowledges women’s power\, our wildness\, and how we often stand outside the constructs of society. \nAnd that is dragon. Filled with fire\, with possibility\, with fortune\, and with danger\, dragons refuse to be bound by rules. \nHow do we see and embrace this power in ourselves\, even when we aren’t sure we can? How can we learn to ride this fire enough so it doesn’t burn ourselves or the people around us? And at the same time\, how can we understand that its very nature resists being tamed? How can we navigate the risks of unleashing this fire in a world that is often terrified by it? \nExplore your own fair fierceness through story\, movement\, and imagination. \n[btnsx id=”9048″] \n_________________________________________ \nBreathing Fire: A Wild Power Workshop for Women\nFriday evening\, March 9\, at 7 PM to Sunday March 11\, at 11 AM\n• Attendees are welcome to arrive any time Friday afternoon after 3 PM.\n• Please bring comfortable clothes that you can move in.\n• Commuters welcome for the workshop registration fee. Lodging is available onsite. \nWorkshop Fee: $275 until March 7\, 2018. $345 after that date.\nIncludes all chef-made meals\, sessions\, and materials.\nLodging in Spillian Mansion: $225-$275\nSpillian offers eight delightful rooms. You can learn more about them here and make your choice on the registration page.\n_________________________________________\nAbout Leigh Melander\, Ph.D.\nLeigh has an eclectic background in the arts as well as consulting in strategic planning\, outreach and marketing\, and event planning for over 20 years. She has performed\, and taught and facilitated explorations of imagination and creativity internationally\, working with individuals and groups to help them find their way to bringing their wild ideas to life. \nHer undergraduate degree is in performance\, literature\, and history from Penn State\, and she studied writing by invitation with Nobel Poet Laureate Derek Walcott at Boston University. She has a doctorate in cultural mythology and psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and wrote her dissertation on frivolity as an entry into imagination. She has has appeared in various media outlets\, including the History Channel\, as a mythology expert\, and has published articles in Spring Journal\, The Routledge International Handbook of Jungian Film Studies\, The Mythology CD-ROM. She hosts a weekly radio show on an NPR affiliate and podcast: Myth America\, an exploration into how myth shapes our sense of identity and serves as the Vice President of the Joseph Campbell Foundation and the editor of their MythBlast series.
URL:https://spillian.com/event/breathing-fire-a-wild-power-workshop-for-women/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imaginarium,Women,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Our Story: HumanNature\, A Regenerative Retreat with David Abram & Friends
DESCRIPTION:Our Story: HumanNature\nA Regenerative Retreat with David Abram & Friends\nOctober 1-4\, 2017\nSpillian: A Place to Revel\nCatskill Mountains\, NY\n\n\nJoin us for an extraordinary several days with internationally acclaimed writer\, ecologist and philosopher David Abram and colleagues working in regeneration and story.\n•• a gathering\nco-hosted by 7group and Spillian\, a world-class center for imaginal work and play in the Catskills mountains of New York.\n•• a celebration\nof the launch of a new era for 7Group\, as we deepen our commitment to regenerism.\n•• a birth\nof a new partnership between 7group and Spillian\, offering life-changing learning experiences.\n•• an opportunity\nto re-connect and re-member how we can live into a world that is more than human.\n•• for\ninspired dreamers\, questioners and questers about how humans can be more imaginal in and of the world\, and those working the intersections between natural and built environments. If you are seeking to understand the deeper connections between the natural world and the work – both vocation and avocation – that you do\, this is for you.\n\nDetails\n• From Sunday evening to Wednesday midday\, October 1 through 4\, 2017 at Spillian: A Place to Revel\n• Evocative\, challenging ideas\, experiences\, and conversations.\n• Camping onsite or lodging in a superb 19thC mountain estate with 33 forested acres to explore.\n• A newly imagined Catskills cuisine: innovative\, fresh and utterly local \nPricing\nWorkshop Registration: $579 SPECIAL EARLY REGISTRATION PRICING ONLY $499 UNTIL SEPTEMBER 15\, 2017! We’ve extended this special pricing for you for another five days!\nFee includes all sessions\, meals\, materials\, and 8% New York sales tax\, and a place to pitch your tent if you wish to camp. Evening cash bar\, camping gear/in-house lodging\, and gratuities not included. Note: This fee is for the workshop. We are offering free camping on site with your own gear. If you’d like to stay indoors in the mansion\, please choose one of the rooms on the registration form. \nPrimitive Camping Onsite: Free\n Lodging in Spillian Mansion: $275-$335 We have one room still available – The Scheherazade Room. If you’d like to stay with us\, please choose that room on the registration form.  \n  \n \n  \n[btnsx id=”8666″] \n\n  \n\n\n partners\ndavid abram\nDavid is a philosopher\, naturalist\, story teller\, author of Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology\, and The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World. He is helping to revolutionize our sense of what it means to be human in and of nature\, rather than being forever separate from a sentient world. \n\n  \n7group\n7group has been a leading sustainability consulting group for over 20 years. This event marks 7group’s launch into its newest iteration of developing the capacity of projects and organizationsto affect how humans regenerate life through building. \n\n\n  \n\nspillian: a place to revel\nSpillian is a portal for imagining…a retreat for imagining\, grounded deeply both in a sense of place and of play\, in history and possibility on an extraordinary historic mountain estate. \nOur Story: HumanNature is an Essence Project from 7group and Spillian. \n\n\n  \n 
URL:https://spillian.com/event/story-humannature-regenerative-retreat-david-abram-friends/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adventure,Imaginarium,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170723T150000
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SUMMARY:Your Hero's Journey® Redux: A Mythological ToolBox® 2017 PlayShop
DESCRIPTION:  \nYour Hero’s Journey® Redux: A Mythological ToolBox® 2017 PlayShop\nSunday Evening\, July 23 to Friday afternoon\, July 28\nFacilitated by Robert Walter\, President of the Joseph Campbell Foundation\nRobert Walter\, President\, Joseph Campbell Foundation \nDo you dare to re-imagine yourself? Are you hungering for a quest? Want to get rocked right out of your socks and change your life? \nJoin JCF President Bob Walter for Your Hero’s Journey® Redux: A Mythological ToolBox® PlayShop this July. \nFive days of inspired\, inspiring\, creative\, chaotic\, joyful\, and challenging play at the extraordinary historic Catskills creative retreat center\, Spillian: A Place to Revel. \nTogether we will recall our dreams\, rekindle visions\, and discover the myths we are living by through drawing\, dance\, story-making\, song\, masks\, medicine bags\, silliness and deep imagining of our own hero’s journeys. \nThe Mythological ToolBox® uses the deep wisdom of myth to poke a proverbial finger in the mix that is the way you look at yourself\, your goals and the life you want to dream into being. Join us in this magical\, mythical summertime ritual of rebirth. It can change everything. \nA Little Background \nThe birth of the Mythological ToolBox® emerges from an annual gathering on Joseph Campbell’s birthday. As he celebrated\, he would explore Carl Jung’s wondering\, “What myth am I living by?”— and when he realized that he didn’t know\, writing “I took it upon myself to get to know ‘my’ myth\, and I regarded this as the task of tasks.” He concluded\, “That’s what a birthday is for.”  Since 1988\, after his death\, friends and newcomers to Campbell’s work have been gathering to celebrate life and explore ‘their’ myths. Eventually these festivities were dubbed “A Mythological ToolBox” to acknowledge that familiarity with Campbell is not needed to retool the myths that shape one’s life — though a sense of humor certainly helps. \nIn what is emerging as a rich tradition at Spillian\, we are delighted to offer the fourth Mythological ToolBox® PlayShop at Spillian in 2017. This is an intimate\, luxurious adventure into Campbell’s ideas and your own mythologies\, with a small group and fine food in an exquisite place. \nThe workshop is facilitated by our good friend and colleague Robert Walter\, Joseph Campbell’s editor for a decade\, president of the Joseph Campbell Foundation\, and a poet/playwright with several decades of experience as group leader\, teacher\, publisher\, and theatrical producer/director/designer. Come and experience the Hero’s Journey® in creative\, chaotic\, joyful\, and challenging play. \nJoseph Campbell\, 1904-1987 \nOur mix of individual\, small-group\, and collective activities will provide opportunities for both reflection and expression. Who were you? What mise-en-scènes inspire your biographical saga? What treasures have you banished to the basement or secreted in the attic? Who are you? What’s displayed in your home or dangling from your rearview mirror? Who do you aspire to be? What face do you envision in the mirror? What remains on your bucket list? If you dare to revision yourself\, then join our summertime rituals of rebirth. Please bring a meaningful but expendable totem and an unsung story or evocative song. \nRecommended reading: Campbell\, Myths to Live By\, The Hero with a Thousand Faces\, and The Power of Myth. \nThe Hero’s Journey® and Mythological ToolBox® are Registered Trademarks of the Joseph Campbell Foundation. \n_________________________________________ \nYour Hero’s Journey® Redux: Mythological ToolBox® 2017 Playshop Workshop Schedule\nThis workshop is five days long\,beginning on Sunday evening\, July 23\, at 7 PM and concluding Friday\, July 28\, after lunch.\n• Hero’s Journey® Redux attendees are welcome to arrive any time Sunday afternoon after 3 PM.\n• Please bring comfortable clothes and shoes.\n• Morning yoga or meditation class on the porch or in the meadow.\n• We also can arrange an in-room massage for you at $100 for 60 minutes. Please make arrangements with us for this when you make your reservations. \nWorkshop Fee: $795 tax included.\nIncludes all programming\, materials and meals.\nWe just had a cancellation and we have the Klimt Room still available if you’d like to stay with us. Please choose this room on the registration form below. If you miss out on that\, you can contact River Run Bed & Breakfast for lodging. They’re just a couple of blocks from us and we can arrange a shuttle. \n[btnsx id=”8353″]\n 
URL:https://spillian.com/event/7929/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imaginarium
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SUMMARY:SpillianFest 2017
DESCRIPTION:SpillianFest 2017\nSpillianFest 2017. Remember the Perfect Summer \nSaturday\, July 15 • 1 to 9 PM\nMusic from Connie Mohar\, The Zydeco Revelators\, and Dylan Doyle & the Delta Gypsys\n• Door tickets: $20/adult • $7.50 child \n• Dinner a la carte from $3 to $5 each item\n• Cash bar\n\nSpillianFest is a glorious celebration of mountain magic\, world class food\, and seriously fine music from artists who catch Spillian’s magic and toss it back out to us. \nThis year\, a Spillian-style Catskills picnic to remember the perfect summer in the mountains\, made of sunburnt noses\, first loves\, and nights of a million fireflies. \nIn those perfect summers of the past\, friendships were stronger\, the food was tastier and the music….ah\, the music was the soundtrack to those days…burned into our heads with a connection that instantlly transports us back to more innocent times\, when a good lyric could pierce our souls and a great riff could thrill us like a kiss. \nOn July 15\, take a day\, come to Spillian and let’s see if we can’t remind you a little of that magic memory we each have in our head… \nCome and delight in the anthems of summer from…\n…the incomparable Connie Mohar as he wanders the crowd with his accordion\, playing your requests\n… the fabulous Zydeco Revelators as they bring their own Cajun magic to old favorites from the bayou and beyond\n…the one-and-only guitar phenom Dylan Doyle & the Delta Gypsys as they bring their superb roots rock & blues hearts to the songs of summer\, live broadcast from Spillian on WIOX Radio courtesy of our sponsoring partner\, Margaretville Telephone Company\, who are donating high speed internet access for the day to ensure a great broadcast. \nDance. Eat great eats\, and wash away your cares! \nSpillianFest 2017 Food\n• The much praised and nearly world-famous Spillian Trout Taco\n• The Spillian Veggie Taco (all that and no trout!)\n• Beer & Onion Grilled Brats with homemade sauerkraut\n• Catskills maple smoked corn on the cob\n• House made smoked mac ’n’ cheese\n• Spillian Angel Wings – our take on a powder sugar dusted fried dough that will satisfy the most demanding sweet tooth and echo the fairs of summer\n• Marshmallows for the bonfire \nSpillianFest 2017 Cash Bar\nFeaturing local beer from  Catskills Brewery:  Ball Lightning Pilsner and Floodwatch IPA\nFeaturing Beringer wines: Pinot Grigio\, Chardonnay\, Pinot Noir\, and Cabernet Sauvignon\nFeaturing Catskills Hurricanes\, with run \nSpillianFest 2017 Schedule\n1 PM: Doors and Bar Open. Instagram #spillianfest!\n1-3 PM Connie Mohar plays your favorite summer tunes on accordian\n2-6 PM SpillianFest Picnic Food Available (Until we run out!)\n3-5 PM The Zydeco Revelators bring their Cajun magic and get the party rocking\n5 PM Lighting the Bonfire\n6-8 PM Dylan Doyle and the Delta Gypsies\, Live Broadcast on WIOX Radio\, 91.3 FM\, streaming worldwide on wioxradio.org. High speed internet access graciously donated by Margaretville Telephone Company.\n8-9 PM Marshmallows for the bonfire and farewells until next year! \nPlease…no outside food or drink\, no drugs\, and no pets. Thank you! \nSpillian’s Meadow\nThree years ago our first SpillianFest introduced the public to “The Meadow\, ” our gorgeous outdoor stage built into the old stone foundation of one of the original Spillian buildings. It was a revelry attended by more than 500 guests. Since then our magical meadow has hosted weddings\, workshops\, and gatherings. This year at the meadow\, we unveil the new Spillian retro camp photo booth for the best Instagram selfies ever. \nINSTASTORM! #spillianfest #spillian #catskills \nTICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE GATE.\nGATE OPENS AT 1 PM SATURDAY\, JULY 15.\nADULTS $20 KIDS $7.50 (15 AND UNDER)\nSEE YOU THERE!\n  \nAnd We Have Rooms Available!\nA rare chance to stay at Spillian without claiming the entire facility for the weekend.\n$159/night for private bath\n$119/night for shared bath\nCall us at 800-811-3351 to make a room reservation in one of our magical guest rooms. Learn more about them here.  \n  \n\n\nAbout Dylan Doyle\n“Dylan Doyle is a great young musician with the soul of an old bluesman.” – John Platania\, Guitarist\, Van Morrison\n \nPhoto © James Rice Photography \n\nSouthern born and Northern bred\, eighteen year old Guitar Slinger Dylan Doyle embodies the best of both old and new music worlds. Steeped in the authentic sounds of blues and Americana — with influences as broad as the Mississippi river\, from Robert Johnson to John Lee Hooker\, from Buddy Guy to Bob Dylan\, The Band\, Bill Withers and Jimi Hendrix\, Dylan’s unique musical interpretation lies somewhere in the intersection of delta Blues\, Rock with just a taste of Funk that is uniquely his own. \nTouring since age 15\, Dylan has performed at the Grateful Garcia Gathering\, at the King Biscuit Blues Festival for the last 4 years\, and\, this year\, is planning his first European tour for early 2017. In short\, Dylan has been preparing all his life to take the stage for his first live CD\, and plant his flag where legendary artists have tread before. \n“There truly must be something in the water in Upstate New York. Dylan joined the group Minstrel (Connor Kennedy\, Lee Falco\, Will Bryant\, and Brandon Moss) and me last September at The Falcon in Marlboro\, NY. He sat in on Little Feat’s “Dixie Chicken” that evening. His playing was flawless and inventive. Live performance is not about only playing a song but being aware of the conversation and flow of those you’re playing with. He spoke beautifully and was listening to what was going on around him.” — Bill Payne\, Little Feat  \n  \nAbout The Zydeco Revelators \n \nZydeco Revelators deliver hot Louisiana-style dance music. Sweet Cajun accordion\, electric guitar and a powerhouse rhythm section\, and that cool metal rub-board vest\, touring the East Coast! Bring yer dancin’ shoes… Featuring Phil Passantino\, accordion/vocals\, Lou Selmi\, drums/vocs\, Keith Vukan\, bass/vocs\, Lawrence Ochs\, guitar/vocs\, and Arieh Bellehsen\, rub-board. \n  \n  \n  \nAbout Connie Mohar \n \nConnie is one of the gems of the Catskills. A Julliard-trained classical clarinetist and jazz sax man\, he has worked with the likes of Charles Mingus and Eddie Shaughnessy. That’s all lovely. But then there’s the accordion…Connie can play pretty much any tune you can dream up and shares it with virtuosity and a twinkle in his eye. He’ll be starting SpillianFest off right this year\, taking requests as he wanders the grounds! \n[/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]
URL:https://spillian.com/event/spillianfest-2017/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imaginarium,Music
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SUMMARY:Camp Spillian 2017: I Was A Dancer
DESCRIPTION:Camp Spillian 2017: I Was a Dancer\nJune 11- June 16\, 2017\nBy Invitation\nOn Camp Spillian 2017: I Was A Dancer… Each year\, Spillian is making a commitment in the second week of June to offer a special gathering to support creativity and community. At this point in its development\, this is a by-invitation event. The 2017 version is for former and current professional and semi-professional dancers that we know\, and Spillian is donating the facility (the mansion and grounds) so participants will only have to chip in to create meals together. In the future\, we may well opening this annual imaginal exploration up to applications\, but we are finding our way as we experiment with community who are already connected to our vision. \nThis year\, it’s Camp Spillian 2017: I Was a Dancer. \nThis will be a special week for friends old and new who have danced in our lifetimes. Many of us are midlife at this point; some have continued on in dance or other performing arts as a career\, as performers\, educators\, choreographers\, and directors. Others of us have left dance somewhere in our rear view mirror. But\, we believe that if you have been a dancer in your lifetime\, there is a connection to the power and beauty of dance that does not die. \nWe are going to explore that connection\, the yearnings\, the desires\, the joys\, and sorrows involved within the phrase\, “I was a dancer.” We will dance into this idea in conversation\, in movement\, in indoor and outdoor space\, culminating in a Thursday evening sharing in front of an audience of what we’ve discovered about ourselves. \nMORE DETAIL \nCamp Spillian 2017: I Was a Dancer is an event for current or former pro/semi-pro (i.e.\, serious) dancers who have a connection to Spillian. (My background is as a dancer predominantly in modern dance\, and that is what we’ll focus on this week.) \nWhat I’m interested in exploring is what it means to have been a dancer – and where are the spaces and openings that creates in our lives\, whether we are actively dancing now or not. Part of this is a deep yearning that I’ve been having to find a place for dance in my life again\, part of it a realization that I still think of myself as a dancer\, even though I’ve not been dancing in any real way for far too long. I’m fascinated by this\, and think it would be a deeply rewarding process to explore how dance gets into our bodies and our psyches with lasting impact. We will talk\, imagine\, and move. We can individually or as a group build some dances on ourselves\, and I am thinking that we will offer an informal performance on Thursday night\, the last night we are together\, for the community. We may also create a video from this week\, as I am hoping that it will capture some of the essence of Spillian’s work in the world in a special way. \nAlongside this question of what it means to have been/be a dancer\, I am interested in strengthening and reviving old creative relationships as well as building new ones. \nThis will be a workshop experience\, a gathering and creating of a clan – some who danced together years ago\, and some who are landed in the Catskills – to play creatively and lightly\, but with deep focus. As such\, it will only be open to participants until the public performance on Thursday evening. \nSpillian is donating the space for this week\, and participants will pool resources for food. We will have eight rooms available for out-of-town participants to stay onsite – nine beds plus a couple of rollaways. We can comfortably house 12 to 13 people without sharing beds. \nThis is an experiment in creative community building and our donation to that experiment. Spillian is planning to offer an annual version of this week\, an opportunity for cultural creatives to gain access to the site and its energy\, and we will be focusing on a new theme/community each year. The idea was birthed last year when we hosted a gathering of my husband/partner Mark’s clan of theater designers and technicians. It was a profound experience for them – and for us – and we felt that inviting people to come out of their daily lives\, particularly midlife\, to see how they are imagining themselves through memory and ideas about the future\, is something that deeply reflects Spillian’s mission about helping people to imagine past what they think is possible. \nEventually\, we may throw the doors open more widely and invite applications for this as a residency/workshop program\, but as we take these first initial steps\, we are excited to engage with our community and deepen its connections to our work\, our play\, and one another. \nIf you have questions\, please don’t hesitate to ask. \nThanks! \nLeigh Melander\nPartner/Founding Fomenter\, Spillian
URL:https://spillian.com/event/camp-spillian-2017-i-was-a-dancer/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imaginarium
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SUMMARY:Free Fire Cider! An Evening Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Free Fire Cider! An Evening Workshop\nJoin us for  Free Fire Cider! An Evening Workshop\, an evening of making one of the most powerful tonics for your immune system that you can create…and be a reveling revolutionary! \nFire Cider is a blend of roots and herbs mixed with apple cider vinegar and honey used for its health-enhancing properties. This particular formula and name was coined by herbalist Rosemary Gladstar in the 1970s. It has been reproduced\, adapted\, used and sold by thousands of herbalists over the past forty years. \nRecently\, a company trademarked the name fire cider\, in spite of the deep traditions of sharing in the herbalist and healing communities. Thursday\, Februayr 2 is FREE FIRE CIDER DAY across the world\, and is also Imbolc\, the celebration of the earliest moments of spring\, beginning deep in the soil. \nSpillian chef and Kitchen Witch Liza Belle Burke (from the Coven of Tree Huggin’) along with local Nurse Practitioner Denine Polen will lead us on an adventure of making our own Fire Cider. You’ll leave with a mason jar full of firey goodness and the glory of fighting to honor tradition over trademark. \nFree Fire Cider! An Evening Workshop\n7 PM\nThursday\, February 2\, 2017\n$5/person for supplies\nPLEASE RSVP Space and supplies are limited!\nCall 800-811-3351 or email us to reserve your space.
URL:https://spillian.com/event/free-fire-cider-evening-workshop/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imaginarium,Workshop
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SUMMARY:A Spillian New Years Eve Revel!
DESCRIPTION:A Spillian New Years Eve Revel!\nThe Spillian New Years Eve Revel 2016 will be a very special New Years Eve celebration\, with a full traditional English feast\, roaring hearths\, champagne\, a dash of Twelfth Night\, wassail\, saying farewell to this crazy year and ushering something new and magical\, creative toasts\, and an initiation\, for those who are interested\, into the League of Spillian Revelers. \nThe League of Spillian Revelers is a new group we’re forming who wants to be a part of Spillian’s extended family – who will think about ways that they can support Spillian’s mission and be in on special events\, like supper club dinners\, private musical events\, and more\, throughout the year. There will be secret decoder rings involved. Seriously. They’re arriving next week.\n \n\nThe evening will mostly be about celebrating the new year and meeting old and new friends\, with a dash of some silliness. You’re invited to come dressed to the nines – or dressed in a costume that either most defines who you are or what you’d most like to be. Your choice! \n\n  \n  \nA Spillian New Years Eve Revel 2016\nIn addition to feasting\, will include… \n\nA Spillian Toast Contest – bring your best toast and we’ll decide the winner. Fame will be yours\, plus a prize!\nThe Spillian Imaginal Treasure Hunt – it’s a secret! Learn more when you arrive.\nWishes for the New Year – bring your best wishes for how we might imagine the world a brighter\, more marvelous place\, and we’ll send them off into the wind together.\nTwelfth Night Cake – find one of the prizes in the cake and be crowned King or Queen of 12th Night\, supported by the Master of Revels and enjoying the mischief of the Lord of Misrule.\n\nSnapdragon – do you have the courage to grab the flaming raisin? An ancient bit of parlor magic that tastes divine.\n\nChestnuts. Roasting. Open fire. Seriously.\nLeague of Spillian Revelers Initiation – choose to join the League and become initiated (and the proud owner of a secret decoder ring to decode secret messages to special events and offers).\n\nThe Details \n\n7 PM – 1 PM (We’ll be doing some of the serious celebration early for those of you who like to celebrate New Year’s arrival somewhat earlier than midnight…and for the diehards\, we’ll be reveling on.)\n\n$50/person for the evening\, including dinner and champagne. Please let us know if you’re vegetarian or vegan so we can ensure we have treats for you to eat!\n\nA cash bar will be open as well\, featuring California wines as well as local spirits and beers.\n\nStay overnight! We still have a couple of rooms available; please let us know if you’d like to stay over after celebrating\nReservations required and advance purchase appreciated.\n\n  \n\nPurchase Your Tickets Online Now!\nJust look to the left on this page and look for the “Tickets” header. Choose how many tickets you’d like to order and click “Add to Cart.” Once you complete your order\, you’ll receive an email with your ticket information. Thank you! \nWe also have a couple of rooms still available if you’d like to stay overnight; please call us at 800-811-3351 for more information.
URL:https://spillian.com/event/spillian-new-years-eve-revel/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dinner,Imaginarium,Revel
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SUMMARY:SpillianFest 2016!
DESCRIPTION:SpillianFest 2016\nENTRY TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE AT THE GATE\n$20.00 ADULT/$7.50 CHILD\nSpillianFest 2016. A Magical Summer Evening in the Catskills. \nThe Bite of the Blues. The Brilliance of Young Musician Recording his First Live Album. A Taste of the Bayou. Bliss.\n“Dylan Doyle is like a young\, white Jimi Hendrix.” Ben Cauley\, Sole surviving band member of the Otis Redding plane crash. \nLast August\, on a warm idyllic summer evening\, more than 300 of your neighbors and friends made their way to Fleischmanns\, up a winding driveway\, to Spillian’s mansion and meadow for more than 2 hours of acoustic and plugged in blues based artistry from 17 year old Hudson Valley native Dylan Doyle. It was the first annual SpillianFest\, a magical evening of authentic Southern BBQ and smoking hot music\, framed by the inspirational setting of Spillian and the Catskill mountain. \nThere’s history in our mountains and there’s history in Spillian’s meadow—the very same meadow that has been the scene of weddings\, reunions\, birthdays\, performances and events over more than 100 years—a place where artistry\, history and geography have been fueling inspiration for decade after decade. \nThis year\, on July 23\, we’re turning the heat up even higher for SpillianFest 2016 — a Cajun inspired feast of music and food\, as Dylan Doyle returns to claim his piece of history. What really makes this evening a one-of-a-kind\, don’t miss event is that the entire show is being recorded for Dylan’s next CD – Live at Spillian and will be broadcast live by co-sponsors WIOX Community Radio! It’s your chance to be part of the live CD— as Dylan and some very special guests (stay tuned for details!) perform blues classics and new originals in a rocking\, dancing\, cajun food fueled afternoon and evening of great music\, and the reveal of Dylan’s newest original songs. \nWe’re hitting bayou blues and rocking it out this evening\, starting with a Cajun feast and the amazing get-your-feet-dancing-it’s-a-party groove of the Zydeco Revelators! \n\nSaturday\, July 23\, 2016\n4 – 6 PM – Cajun Feasting and the Zydeco Revelators\n6 – 8 PM – Dylan Doyle Band Live Concert Recording & Live WIOX Broadcast\n7 – 9 PM – Bonfire\nHow To Order Tickets\nENTRY TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE AT THE GATE\n$20.00 ADULT/$7.50 CHILD\n\nMEAL AND DRINK TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE GATE. \n\nFULL CAJUN DINNER (MEAT OR VEGGIE): $18.00\nDRINKS (BEER\, WINE\, COCKTAIL): $5.00\nSOFT DRINKS: $1.00\n\n\nAbout Dylan Doyle\n“Dylan Doyle is a great young musician with the soul of an old bluesman.” – John Platania\, Guitarist\, Van Morrison\n \nPhoto © James Rice Photography \n\nSouthern born and Northern bred\, eighteen year old Guitar Slinger Dylan Doyle embodies the best of both old and new music worlds. Steeped in the authentic sounds of blues and Americana — with influences as broad as the Mississippi river\, from Robert Johnson to John Lee Hooker\, from Buddy Guy to Bob Dylan\, The Band\, Bill Withers and Jimi Hendrix\, Dylan’s unique musical interpretation lies somewhere in the intersection of delta Blues\, Rock with just a taste of Funk that is uniquely his own. \nTouring since age 15\, Dylan has performed at the Grateful Garcia Gathering\, at the King Biscuit Blues Festival for the last 3 years\, and\, this year\, is planning his first European tour for early 2017. In short\, Dylan has been preparing all his life to take the stage for his first live CD\, and plant his flag where legendary artists have tread before. \n“There truly must be something in the water in Upstate New York. Dylan joined the group Minstrel (Connor Kennedy\, Lee Falco\, Will Bryant\, and Brandon Moss) and me last September at The Falcon in Marlboro\, NY. He sat in on Little Feat’s “Dixie Chicken” that evening. His playing was flawless and inventive. Live performance is not about only playing a song but being aware of the conversation and flow of those you’re playing with. He spoke beautifully and was listening to what was going on around him.” — Bill Payne\, Little Feat  \n\nAbout the Zydeco Revelators\n\nZydeco Revelators deliver hot buttered Louisiana-style dance music. Stompin’ cowboy zydeco classics and spicy originals… a bit of jambalaya seasoned with a dash of rock and jam… It all adds up to a groove and sounds you can’t resist! Honkin’ Cajun accordion backed by electric guitar and a powerhouse rhythm section. Don’t forget that cool metal rub-board vest too! Bring your dancin’ shoes… More info here… \n  \n  \nAbout SpillianFest \nA growing annual tradition on a summer’s evening at Spillian\, SpillianFest celebrates our deep mission – to help people imagine past what they think as possible. We join together to help this young artist not simply perform but to gather his tribe\, gather his creative energy\, and capture a mythical event into a recording that will help to launch the next major step of his career. Our goal at Spillian is to make that sense of possibility and magic sing in all that we do – with our entire community. Steeped in the creative flow of Catskills history with a passionate commitment to the future\, we are making magic together! \nAbout WIOX \nWIOX Community Radio is the Catskills’ wildly diverse\, live and local radio station blasting its signal throughout the New York City Watershed at 91.3 FM and to the world at \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nwioxradio.org. A proud community partner of WSKG Public Media\, WIOX broadcasts programming that is user generated by\, of\, and for a hyper-local and growing worldwide audience of volunteers and contributors. \nLive From Spillian: The Album\n\nThis album will be recorded this year at SpillianFest…featuring both some great familiar tunes and Dylan’s originals. \nAnd it will come wrapped in amazing original artwork by artist\, marketing guru\, and Bovina farmer\, Steve Burnett. This is Dylan\, playing Spillian…look closely at his guitar!
URL:https://spillian.com/event/spillianfest-2016/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dinner,Imaginarium,Music
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SUMMARY:Your Hero's Journey® Redux: A Mythological ToolBox® 2016 PlayShop
DESCRIPTION:Your Hero’s Journey® Redux: A Mythological ToolBox® 2016 PlayShop\nSunday Evening\, July 10 to Friday afternoon\, July 15\nFacilitated by Robert Walter\, President of the Joseph Campbell Foundation\nRobert Walter\, President\, Joseph Campbell Foundation \nDo you dare to re-imagine yourself? Are you hungering for a quest? Want to get rocked right out of your socks and change your life? \nJoin JCF President Bob Walter for Your Hero’s Journey® Redux: A Mythological ToolBox® PlayShop this July. \nFive days of inspired\, inspiring\, creative\, chaotic\, joyful\, and challenging play at the extraordinary historic Catskills creative retreat center\, Spillian: A Place to Revel. \nTogether we will recall our dreams\, rekindle visions\, and discover the myths we are living by through drawing\, dance\, story-making\, song\, masks\, medicine bags\, silliness and deep imagining of our own hero’s journeys. \nThe Mythological Toolbox® uses the deep wisdom of myth to poke a proverbial finger in the mix that is the way you look at yourself\, your goals and the life you want to dream into being. Join us in this magical\, mythical summertime ritual of rebirth. It can change everything. \nA Little Background \nFor years\, Joseph Campbell celebrated his birthday at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur\, California. To explain why\, he would tell of Carl Jung’s wondering\, “What myth am I living by?”— and when he realized that he didn’t know\, writing “I took it upon myself to get to know ‘my’ myth\, and I regarded this as the task of tasks.” “That’s what a birthday is for\,” Campbell would conclude\, “and what Esalen is about.” In March 1988\, five months after Campbell’s death\, several of his friends again gathered at Esalen for “Campbell Week” — a tradition that has endured. Eventually these festivities were dubbed “A Mythological ToolBox” to acknowledge that familiarity with Campbell is not needed to retool the myths that shape one’s life — though a sense of humor certainly helps. \nWe are delighted to offer the third Mythological ToolBox® PlayShop at Spillian in 2016 — the sole location for this workshop on the East Coast after almost 30 years at the world-famous Esalen. This workshop is facilitated by our good friend and colleague Robert Walter\, Joseph Campbell’s editor for a decade\, president of the Joseph Campbell Foundation\, and a poet/playwright with several decades of experience as group leader\, teacher\, publisher\, and theatrical producer/director/designer. Come and experience the Hero’s Journey® in creative\, chaotic\, joyful\, and challenging play. \nJoseph Campbell\, 1904-1987 \nOur mix of individual\, small-group\, and collective activities will provide opportunities for both reflection and expression. Who were you? What mise-en-scènes inspire your biographical saga? What treasures have you banished to the basement or secreted in the attic? Who are you? What’s displayed in your home or dangling from your rearview mirror? Who do you aspire to be? What face do you envision in the mirror? What remains on your bucket list? If you dare to revision yourself\, then join our summertime rituals of rebirth. Please bring a meaningful but expendable totem and an unsung story or evocative song. \nRecommended reading: Campbell\, Myths to Live By\, The Hero with a Thousand Faces\, and The Power of Myth. \nHero’s Journey® and Mythological ToolBox® are Registered Trademarks of the Joseph Campbell Foundation and used with permission. \n_________________________________________ \nYour Hero’s Journey® Redux: Mythological Toolbox® 2016 Playshop Workshop Schedule \nThis workshop is five days long\,beginning on Sunday evening\, July 10\, at 7 PM and concluding Friday\, July 15\, after lunch. \n\nHero’s Journey Redux® attendees are welcome to arrive any time Sunday afternoon after 3 PM.\nPlease bring comfortable clothes and shoes.\nMorning yoga or meditation class on the porch or in the meadow.\nWe also can arrange an in-room massage for you at $100 for 60 minutes. Please make arrangements with us for this when you make your reservations.\n\n  \nCall us at 800-811-3351 for more information about the workshop or lodging.  Space is limited!
URL:https://spillian.com/event/your-heros-journey-redux-a-mythological-toolbox-2016-playshop/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imaginarium,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Intro to Meditation Practice
DESCRIPTION:Intro to Meditation Practice\nCurious about meditation? Tried it before but looking for another chance to dive in? Here’s your chance at a very special Intro to Meditation Practice class. \nSpillian is delighted to introduce Brynn Yeager\, an American Meditiation Society Certified teacher\, as she offers a 2 hour dive into meditation on Monday\, July 27 from 10-12. \n  \nAbout the Class\nMeditation is a simple and effortless process where you connect with the silence and peace within yourself. You connect with a deeper level of yourself\, the stillness within\, and gradually over time\, you begin to live from a place of steadiness and inner peace. \nA meditation practice is beneficial in many ways including reducing stress\,normalizing blood pressure\, enhancing creativity\, and much more. Meditation is a way of reaching and directly experiencing the depths of who you truly are\, taking you from a limited\, conditioned mind and into your heart.  Practices are taught step-by-step\, and you are led gently and gradually based on your own experience. This intro class will give you the tools to continue on the path toward full practices or a good base for a regular practice. \nThis two-hour course will be an intro to the basic practices taught by the American Meditation Society. AMS offers full practices that are well balanced and designed to accommodate those with a busy schedule. The full practices include a range of practices that promote balance through opening the heart and focusing the mind. In this course\, we will be covering a basic relaxation technique and mantra meditation. All levels of meditators are welcome! \nMonday\, July 27 from 10 AM to Noon\n$10 suggested donation. \n(Half for AMS and half for the instructor; Spillian is delighted to donate our space for this event!) \nAbout AMS\n\nThe American Meditation Society is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to providing meditation classes and meditation techniques that are personalized. A range of instruction is available including meditation for beginners to advanced practices that are designed for the individual. \n  \n  \nAbout Brynn Yeager\n\nBrynn Yeager is completing her bachelor’s degree in Community Based Mindfulness\, Meditation\, and Creativity through the College Scholars Honors Program at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. She is the president of the Mindfulness and Meditation Clib on her campus and is also a member of Boss Dance Company\, a student run organization. During the academic year\, she is the Marketing Photographer for the Clarence Brown Theatre. She is also a dancer\, teacher\, board member\, and choreographer for Momentum Dance Lab\, a local adult modern dance company in Knoxville. Her goal is to open a community center in Knoxville that focuses on mental health through meditative practices\, with the goal of serving the undeserved in her home town.
URL:https://spillian.com/event/intro-meditation-practice/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imaginarium
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SUMMARY:Main Street Boot Camp - MARK Project
DESCRIPTION:Save the date! \nWe’re delighted to announce that the MARK Project is going to present the second Main Street Bootcamp at Spillian on April 11 and 12\, 2016.  \nThis promises to be a very special event – last year’s version was a sold out crowd sharing brilliant ideas about how to revitalize our communities through creative planning\, economic development\, historic preservation\, visioning\, and most of all\, working together to strengthen the weave of our villages and towns. \nThere will be a host of speakers again this year\, working rich ideas about how we make our main streets (and beyond!) sing. \nIf you live in the Catskills and want to learn more about what you can do with and for your community\, you need to be here! Stay tuned for lots more details…but make sure you get it on your calendar! \nFrom the Executive Director of the MARK Project: \nI’ve had the honor of serving as Executive Director of the MARK Project since July of 2008. Rarely a day goes by that I’m not completely awed by these alluring\, majestic Catskill Mountains. Yet\, those of us who have made the life decision to coexist with this often demanding landscape are challenged with a constant balancing act. Quality of life\, economic stability\, community vibrancy and humanity all play a role in fostering our sense of place in the Catskills. So many of us cherish this region with our hearts and souls and invest time\, energy and resources to make life better. However\, in the absence of a coordinated and cohesive process\, our work becomes weakened by our inability to make effective change. My question to you is this: are we working hard to reach our own individual goals and objectives\, or is there a broader design that will make our whole communities thrive? \nFor nearly four decades\, the MARK Project has been working to bring resources\, talent\, and investment to the region. Our list of successful projects continues to expand: from helping economically challenged households with their health and safety issues and providing safe and affordable housing opportunities; to the injection of financial resources to our Main Streets and small businesses; to assisting start up organizations and providing capacity to smaller organizations; to taking on the harrowing and unpleasant task of recovery and rebuilding in the post-Irene environment. MARK also continues to tackle regional issues whenever they arise\, and looks to initiate those community projects that are symbiotic and mutually beneficial to all. This is certainly an exhausting and often thankless effort. \nYet\, there is still something missing — coordination and cooperation. \nWe are at a pivotal moment in the Southern Tier and the Catskills. For the first time in decades\, there are available resources and opportunities to help our communities flourish and we have a library of planning efforts behind us that will help position us to make a substantial difference. But without a unified approach\, our efforts will be fruitless. This is not about any one person or organization taking credit. It is not about one Main Street getting more attention than another. It is not about whether the arts are more important than outdoor recreation or whether an infrastructure project takes precedence over the development of a trail system. They are all interconnected and all contribute to the vibrancy of our communities and the region as a whole. \nAs we move forward\, I am charging myself with the task of forging cooperative and collaborative efforts\, and I am asking all of you to do the same. Now is the time to get our Main Streets talking to each other\, to get community leaders to the table and help them stay on task\, and to think about transformational projects and programs. We already know our potential. Now let’s make our goal to work together to create the vibrant and sustainable region that we envision — now and for future generations. \nPeg Ellsworth
URL:https://spillian.com/event/main-street-boot-camp/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imaginarium
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SUMMARY:Find the Essence: Regenerative Whole-Systems Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Find the Essence:\nA Regenerative Whole-Systems Planning Workshop\n\nJoin us for the first in a trio of truly extraordinary workshops at Spillian\, using the place itself as a living lab as we learn together how to thing in a deeply creative\, connected\, regenerative way about projects and places anywhere in the world as we imagine a master plan for the 33 acre historic estate. Led by two of the nation’s most visionary leaders in sustainability\, architect John Boecker and film maker Tom Keiter of 7group\, this series will blow open your imagination and give you powerful tools to imagine past what you think is possible. \nQuick Details\n• Friday through Sunday\, February 19-21 2016\n• Beginning Friday at 5 PM and ending at noon Sunday\n• $385 SPECIAL $299 includes all meals and materials\n• $325 for lodging for Friday and Saturday at Spillian. Commuters also very welcome. Lodging space is limited. \n• Click here for full schedule.\n• Call 800.811.3351 to make reservations or for more information.  \n____________________________________ \nDeveloping Regenerative Thinking at Spillian\nIn order to realize its full potential\, the regenerative planning process must build our ableness to think systemically and holistically about whole living systems and our role in serving the transformation of those systems. Therefore\, as Spillian embarks on a master planning effort aimed at guiding its future evolution\, all those interested in learning how to engage regenerative design and development are invited to participate. Accordingly\, the regenerative planning process for this effort at Spillian is being conceived as an instrument for developing regenerative thinking among all of us as members of communities. This process is currently being designed around a series of workshops aimed at building the capacity and capability of all participants and stakeholders to think in an integrative whole-systems way. Three workshops are currently envisioned for the arc of this process: \n• Workshop #1: Find the Essence: A Regenerative Whole-Systems Planning Workshop On\n                                Alignment . . . February 19 -12\, 2016\n• Workshop #2: Goal-Setting . . . dates to be determined\n• Workshop #3: Concept . . . dates to be determined \nAs indicated above\, the first of these workshops is planned for the weekend of  beginning on Friday evening at 5:00 and concluding at 11:30 on Sunday morning. Here’s what we’ll be starting with! \nAlignment Workshop Purpose: \nTo develop and align around the Purpose of creating a place-sourced Master Plan for Spillian and Principles for guiding its development\,\nIn a way that fosters interconnectivity between active participants in a fulfilling co-creative process of regeneration that values the role of all stakeholders\,\nSo that the work of Spillian energizes and empowers stakeholders to continually transform the quality of their lives\, their unique communities\, and beyond indefinitely. \nAlignment Workshop Products: (Targeted Outcomes) \nFunctional \n\nDevelop and align around the Purpose of developing a holistic Master Plan for Spillian\nImage and understand project potential for place-sourced regeneration\n\nAlign around regenerative language and basic frameworks for working effectively\nIdentify current conditions and restraints\n\n\nDevelop and align around value-adding processes (VAPs) to be delivered to stakeholders\n\nIdentify and develop an understanding of core stakeholders\nDevelop Principles for delivering VAPs in balance to each core stakeholder group\n\n\nInvite the fluidity of fun\, play\, bliss\, and a lightness of being\n\nBeing  \n\nExperience a regenerative and collaborative spirit that genuinely values each participant’s role.\nEngage transparent co-exploration and collective discovery of unrealized potential that is sourced from what is unique about this particular community and this particular place.\nInvite the fluidity of fun\, play\, bliss\, and a lightness of being.\n\nWill \nExperience that working on this project will help each of us manifest what we really care about in a meaningful way for ourselves\, our community\, and the larger world. \nProject Aim: \nTo Develop a Master Plan for Spillian as an evolving place for regenerative restoration (across three lines of work) with the creation of a new Performing Arts Pavilion serving as an instrument for developing the next phase of Spillian’s development. \n____________________________________ \nAbout Regenerative Whole-Systems Planning\nEach particular place is alive\, unique and evolving.  If we want to flourish over time\, we must understand that we are in mutually beneficial relationship with each particular place and that humans play a participatory role in the vitality of the living systems in which we are nested. \nThe basis of regenerative whole-systems planning lies in understanding that role through understanding the uniqueness of each place we live and work – and what created and continues to create that unique identity. The cultural environment we call a community is a living system composed of many complex cultural and natural systems that form a web of mutual support. The health of cultural (and economic) systems is ultimately dependent on the health of natural – or living – systems. \nRegenerative planning is rooted in the belief that healthy living systems have an inherent capacity to continually generate new sources of life for and within themselves and their environment – i.e.\, to re-generate. This work is grounded in a philosophy that humans (and human activities) are not apart from the development and ongoing evolution of such healthy living systems; rather\, humans serve a participatory role in their continuing viability and vitality. Through the practice of developing how we are thinking in this way about whole living systems\, any project can be leveraged as a highly effective acupuncture point for helping transform community vitality and regenerating life. \nThere are two interrelated dimensions in this regenerative planning work: \n\nAt its entry level\, Regenerative Design is a practice for reversing the systemic decline in living systems and creating the basis for self-renewing socio-ecological vitality.\n\n\nRegenerative Development is a continual process that builds the capacity\, capability\, and will of stakeholders to serve as co-designers and active participants in the continual evolutionary transformation of their unique place.\n\nRegenerative Development and Design comprises a meta-discipline that combines the pattern thinking and practices of Ecological Design\, Permaculture\, Biophilia\, Organizational Psychology\, Neuroscience\, and Integrative Design. \nThe purpose of regenerative planning is to facilitate and guide the evolution of a place toward its highest creative and productive potential in a way that explores its unique nature and capacities (essence)\, so that planning efforts improve the capability of all living systems (including the larger whole-system in which each place is nested) to evolve towards higher levels of vitality and viability indefinitely. Through a series of workshops\, participants experience this work through highly interactive engagement and discussion around how building and development can be seen as an instrument for healing\, sustaining\, and regenerating the community of life in each unique place by re-membering that we play a participatory role in the vitality of the living systems in which we are nested. \nThe process of working on projects from this whole living-systems perspective shifts the focus of everyone’s attention from simply solving problems and working only on “things” (such as buildings) to seeing any such project as an instrument for working on realizing the highest creative potential of the larger systems in which the project is nested (and inter-dependent). This shift in focus builds an understanding of the particular nature of each unique community/place and the particular reciprocal interrelationships (between human and “natural” systems) that create that uniqueness. \nWorking in this way awakens a deep and caring sense of place that becomes transformational by serving as the source of new community spirit and individual will grounded in what people really care about. Communities all over the world currently engaged in this process are reconciling longstanding deep divisions\, improving the quality of life for all inhabitants (all species)\, and delivering real value to all stakeholders by collaboratively co-creating processes of reciprocal exchange aimed at the health of the whole\, not just the pieces. \n_______________________________ \nAbout John Boecker & Tom Keiter\nJohn Boecker serves as a founding partner in 7group\, an internationally recognized multi-disciplinary consulting firm focused on green and regenerative development. As an architect\, his practice has focused exclusively on green buildings and integrative design since 1996. He served on the LEED Steering Committee from 2002-2009\, and he Chaired the USGBC’s national LEED Curriculum Committee from 2002-2007. Along with his 7group partners and Bill Reed\, he co-authored The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building\, a seminal book published by Wiley in April\, 2009. He also co-hosted with Bill Reed the national Voice America radio program\, “Building Deeper Green: Reframing Sustainability.” As a highly sought keynote speaker\, John has lectured on the benefits of integrative design and regenerative development in 35 states and 14 countries. He has served as LEED Faculty since 2002\, and he was appointed a LEED Fellow in the inaugural class of 2011. \nTom Keiter has over 30 years of experience as a communications consultant\, filmmaker and developer of multiple media communications tools.  He is a founding partner in storyshop llc\, a documentary production group and has been producing for public television and independently.  He has produced numerous projects on green building and sustainability issues\, including Pennsylvania’s Building Green in PA program\, a series of DVD tools\, including Lessons Learned\, first utilized in USGBC’s LEED Training Workshops.  A partnership with Rocky Mountain Institute produced a two-program High Performance Building series\, Perspective & Practice and High Performance by Integrative Design.  He originated the nationally distributed public television project Water Blues\, Green Solutions\, which was a follow-up to Liquid Assets\, both focused on water.  His work has received four Emmy Awards\, as well as recognition in the International Film & Video Festival\, CINE Golden Eagle\, the Communicator Awards\, and the Engineering Journalism Award from the American Association of Engineering Societies. \n__________________________________ \nWorkshop Registration\nReservations\nWe welcome both ‘day campers’ and ‘sleep over’ campers\, so please let us know if you’d like to stay with us or off site. \nFood\nA light dinner Friday\, Breakfast\, Lunch\, and Dinner Saturday\, and Breakfast  Sunday from our in-house chef are included in the price of the workshop. We are happy to provide vegetarian and basic gluten free options at all meals; if your diet needs are more restrictive\, please touch base with us when you book your reservation to see if we can accommodate you. \nOur cash bar will be open both Friday and Saturday evenings\, featuring a hand-selected array of wines\, beers\, and spirits. \nLodging\nWe have eight delightful rooms available for guests. Check them out to see which one catches your fancy! We anticipate that these will fill up quickly\, so be sure to fill in the reservation form below so we can book your reservation. Click here to learn more about our rooms. \n___\nPricing\nWorkshop Regular Registration: $385  SPECIAL $299!\nRooms are $325 for two nights\, single or double occupancy\nBook a massage for $100/hour\n(workshop and lodging subject to additional sales tax)\n\nFor more information or to register\, please call us at 800-811-3351. Thank you!
URL:https://spillian.com/event/find-the-essence-regenerative-whole-systems-workshop/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imaginarium,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Regenerism: Place-Sourced\, Whole Systems Planning | Myth America Radio
DESCRIPTION:Regenerism on the Radio\nJoin Spillian Co-Founder Leigh Melander\, Ph.D. and special guests John Boecker and Tom Keiter of 7Group as we dive deep into the world of renegerism — a next-generation way of thinking about sustainability\, place\, essence\, and how systems work as a whole. \nIf nature is our source for learning how to think systemically about whole living systems and our role in serving the transformation of those systems\, we must understand the ecological worldview that humans are a part of nature\, not apart from it.  At Spillian\, we are engaging with John and Tom as coaches in an amazing regenerative master planning process that has been designed to build the capacity and capability of all of us (as members of communities) to experience how development can be an instrument for healing\, not just doing less damage. \nWe’re offering a workshop in February that will use Spillian as a lab to go deep into how we can define the essence of a place\, its stakeholders and what geniuses they bring and need in a whole-system\, and how we can translate this to our lives\, our communities\, our work\, and our play. And most importantly\, why that matters. This is powerful stuff. \nYou can learn more about John and Tom and this workshop here!  \nBut in the meantime\, please join us Tuesday morning on @WIOX Radio 91.3 FM and streaming worldwide on wioxradio.org  on Tuesday\, January 5\, 2016 at 9 AM ET for what promises to be a powerful\, evocative conversation about place and how we imagine it. \n••••••• \nAbout Myth America\nJoin host Leigh Melander\, Ph.D.\, and her guests from around the world as we explore the powerful\, evocative mythologies that inform who we are.  Myths are the stories that we tell and the stories that tell us.™\nThey are the metaphors that shape our imagination of the world around us. \nThe ancient Greeks said that myths were the things that were most and least true simultaneously. Far from just being a lie\, myths pulse in the background of all of our lives — our selves\, our families\, our communities — we tell ourselves stories about all of them. What are the myths we’re living in and how are they living in us? \nMyth America. 9 AM ET on WIOX 91.3 FM or streaming at http://wioxradio.org/\nA project of Spillian LLC\, a creative center offering programming in imagination\, story\, myth\, sustainability\, and community. \n 
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