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SUMMARY:Carsie Blanton in Concert: Creative Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Carsie Blanton in Concert: Creative Revolution         \nSaturday\, July 13 • 5 to 9 PM\nAn Intimate Summer House Concert Featuring\nAcclaimed Singer/Songwriter & Activist Carsie Blanton\nCelebrating the Birth of The Kirkside Virtual Food Hub\n\nTickets: $55 for Local Summer Picnic and Concert\nCash Bar Featuring Local Beers & Spirits\nHappily accepting donations for the Kirkside Virtual Food Hub\n\nOnly A Handful of Tickets Left! Tix on sale until 3 PM!  \nBUY TIX NOW!\n  \n\nA Reveling Rebellion\nThe word Spillian means to revel in Old English. It comes from the same root word as rebel and frivol…delightful reveling rebellion is in our blood. This summer\, in the mountains that have birthed protest music that has changed the world\, we’re offering a unique chance to rebel with piped piper extraordinaire\, Carsie Blanton. \nAnd in that spirit\, we’d like to celebrate a small but important bit of rebellion fighting against the corporatization and globalization of the food industry: an emerging project to bring our Catskills farmers\, restaurateurs\, and hoteliers so we can all thrive. The Kirkside Virtual Food Hub will break the craziness of food going from Delaware County to NYC just to come back for sale\, and build truly fresh\, truly local food\, its story and connections to our residents and visitors so we all can thrive. The Kirkside Virtual Food Hub is a brainchild of The MARK Project and its flagship effort to invent new ways to bring community and visitor resources together in learning and play at the Inn at Kirkside. \n5 PM: Join us for a summery picnic featuring flavors from our local farms by our Chef Christian Van Etten\, featured local beers and cocktails\, and exciting news about the Virtual Food Hub. \n7 PM: Carsie and her fab cat bass player will join us for a 7 PM show that will have you roaring to change the world. \nThe Menu! \n\nGreek Lemon Potato Salad with Mint (V | VG | GF)\nSmoked Pulled Pork Sliders on House-Made Parker House Rolls\, Red Onion Jam\, Kimchee & Arugula\nZucchini Fritters with Smoked Trout\, Corn Crema\, Pickled Scallions (GF)\nZucchini Fritters with Smoked Carrot\, Corn Crema\, Pickled Scallions (V | VG | GF)\nSweet Sesame & Lime Cabbage Salad (V | VG | GF)\nElote Charred Corn Salad (V | GF)\nChef Christian’s Bruschetta Salad with House-Made Baguettes (V | VG | GF without baguettes!)\nBlackberry Corn Cobbler (V )\n\nFeatured Cocktail: The Trout Tale \nLocal vodka\, mint from our garden\, seltzer\, and a splash of local maple syrup. \n  \n\nThe Music: Carsie Blanton\n \nCarsie Blanton is a songwriter with hooks\, chutzpah\, and revolutionary optimism. “It is possible to face the world as it is – rapidly heating\, ruled by grifters\, ravaged by profitable wars – and still have hope\,” she says of her newest release\, After the Revolution\, produced by Grammy-winner Tyler Chester. “Not the narrow\, grasping hope you might hang on an election or a billionaire\, but a patient\, zoomed-out hope.” Inspired by artist-activists including Nina Simone and Woody Guthrie\, her catalog careens through American popular song from folk and swing to pop-punk protest anthems. \nWith her unique mix of humor\, craft\, and social critique\, Blanton has amassed a small menagerie of viral hits (Rich People\, Shit List\, Fishin’ With You) and a dedicated fan base. In addition to fifteen years on the road with her band\, Blanton volunteers as a political organizer\, and was recently published in The Nation.  \n“Beautiful\, militant anthems.” – Ken Tucker\, NPR’s Fresh Air \n“Carsie Blanton is fighting fascism with big hooks and an even bigger heart.” – American Songwriter \n\nThe Kirkside Virtual Food Hub\nA next-gen vision for how our local farmers and our local restaurants can strengthen one another and the region. For over 150 years\, the Catskills’ economy has been largely driven by independent small farmers and hoteliers. In this era of corporate food\, it has become very (even at times absurdly) difficult for restaurants to get food from local farms onto their tables\, despite best intentions and efforts. The Kirkside Virtual Food Hub will be a solution to this: bringing these communities together with a powerful set of digital and transportation tools that will build connections and resources\, including: \n\nDevelop forecasting tools for farmers to anticipate restaurant needs and plant to order rather than on spec\, removing a layer of farming risk and building their resilience.\nStrengthen restaurateurs’ abilities to elegantly reflect the seasons and terroir of the Catskills in their menus and better understand and reflect the stories of this place and why local food matters.\nCut the ‘grow in the Catskills\, ship to NYC and ship back to the Catskills’ current distribution channels and provide direct transport of local foods to local tables in the moment at peak freshness.\n\nThis is an initiative of the Inn at Kirkside\, a flagship effort by the regional community foundation\, the MARK Project\, transforming the historic Kirkside Estate into a hotel/restaurant with an integrated educational program that provides experiential learning to aspiring professionals in the hospitality and tourism industries\, encourages and cultivates entrepreneurship\, serves as a model of green technologies\, and supports the local food producing system. You can check out the Virtual Food Hub visioning plan here! \nSpillian is proud to be partnering with the Virtual Food Hub; we believe that it’s a seriously cool vision to strengthen the area\, both economically and culturally\, and build environmental and social equity for our local community. \nBUY TIX NOW!
URL:https://spillian.com/event/carsie-blanton-in-concert-creative-revolution/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
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SUMMARY:Call Me Love 2024: Birthing a New Way of Power
DESCRIPTION:Call Me Love: Birthing a New Way of Power\nThursday April 11 – Saturday April 13\, 2024\nFacilitated by Leigh Melander\, Ph.D.\nSpillian Co-Founder\nA private workshop for Regenerative Nexus and 7Group co-conspirators.\nA deep dive into how we might dissolve the boundaries between female and male\, human and nature to re-imagine how power can serve to regenerate our world together. \nA group of us gathered a year ago to begin this work\, beginning with how defining gender in the ways that contemporary western patriarchal culture has skewed power and connections for all stakeholders. We used Sir Ian McKellen’s exquisite embrace of love on the podcast Three Little Words as a metaphorical starting point.\nYou can watch that here. \nThis year\, we will explore how we can birth|rebirth and generate|regenerate our understandings and use of power in both philosophical and deeply practical ways in our work and relationships with one another and the planet. \n•••Idea Vessels\n\nthe water we’re in\nThe Stories We Tell | The Stories that Tell Us \ncreating a brave space\nPermission | Courage Skills\n \nbeyond binaries\nBeyond Either | Or… and Beyond Both | And \npower games\nStymied | Embodied | Spirals \nchallenges and pathways\nGentle Destabilization | Inviting Vulnerability | Savoring Uncertainty \nnourishing water\nEmpathetic Imagination | Nutrient Exchange |The Circle of Togetherness \nbeing – doing\nCo Act | Praxis | Love \n•••Schedule\nThursday\, April 11 \n\n3 PM: Room Check-In | Hang Out By Fire\n5 PM: Casual Dinner\, Cocktails\, and Greetings\n6 PM: Evening Opening Session\n8 PM: Free Fireside Time Until You’re Tired\n\nFriday\, April 12 \n\n9 AM: Breakfast\n10 AM – 1 PM: Morning Session\n1 PM: Lunch\n1 PM – 5: PM Afternoon Session\n5 PM: Cocktails or By-Yourself Time\n6 PM: Dinner\n7 PM: TBD\, Group Call – Evening Session or Free Fireside Time\n\nSaturday\, April 13 \n\n9 AM: Breakfast\n10-11 AM: Final Session\n11 AM: Check Out\n\nPlease Note: This event is by invitation only.  \nReserve Now!\n\nAbout Leigh Melander\, Ph.D.\nLeigh has an eclectic background in the arts as well as consulting in strategic planning\, community outreach & 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. She spent 13 years working in asset-based community building in communities across California\, and with students\, faculty and a wide range of artists and activists at the University of California Santa Barbara’s MultiCultural Center. \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. \nShe 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 at various conferences and on 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 hosted Myth America®\, a weekly radio show about  how myth shapes our sense of identity on an NPR affiliate for three years and is transitioning to a podcast\, and served as the Vice President of the Joseph Campbell Foundation and the editor of their MythBlast series for four years. She is the author of Psyche’s Choice: The Frivolous Revolution\, and the upcoming Just This Side of Crazy: Dream Your Wild Idea to Life. \nTen years ago\, she and her husband opened Spillian\, located on the National Register of Historic Places former estate of the Fleischmanns Yeast family in the Catskills as a place to revel in imagination and possibility. \n\nJoin our Mythic Catskills Adventures email list and be the first to know about upcoming events:
URL:https://spillian.com/event/call-me-love-2024-birthing-a-new-way-of-power/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imaginarium,Mythic Catskills,Women,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Breathing Fire: A Wild Power Workshop for Women | February 2-4
DESCRIPTION:Breathing Fire: A Wild Power Workshop for Women\nFebruary 2-4\, 2024\nFacilitated by Leigh Melander\, Ph.D.\, Spillian Co-Founder\nAre you burning to change your life and the world? \nJoin us for a weekend celebrating the fire we hold in us\, the dragon fire of the Catskills mountains\, and the embers of fire festivals traditionally celebrated in winter and early spring to imagine the power and life of the coming year. \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. \nReserve Now!\n\nWhat to Bring\nWe invite you to bring an idea to work\, an activity to dive into\, a piece of your own dragon self to share. What brings you fire? And what might ignite your fellow dragons? We will gather and co-create the flames together\, celebrating our power together. If you’re not sure what you might bring with you\, please feel free to reach out. And if you’re curling around the edges at the idea\, never fear – we will have lots to share. \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. Her first book in the Frivolous Revolution series\, Psyche’s Choice\, has been released as on Amazon\, with additional books coming in 2024. \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 at various conferences and on 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 hosted Myth America®\, a weekly radio show about  how myth shapes our sense of identity on an NPR affiliate for three years and is transitioning to a podcast\, and served as the Vice President of the Joseph Campbell Foundation and the editor of their MythBlast series for four years. \n\nPricing\nWorkshop Registration Fee:\n$295 until January 25\, 2024.\n$395 after that date.\nSpillian is proud to underwrite some of the costs on this workshop\, hoping to keep experience accessible to as many women as possible.  \n• Includes all chef-made meals\, sessions\, and materials. Cash bar\, tax\, and gratuities not included.\n• Attendees are welcome to arrive any time Friday afternoon after 3 PM.\n• Please bring comfortable clothes that you can move and make stuff in.\n• Commuters welcome for the workshop registration fee. \nSpillian Lodging $235 \nSpillian offers eight delightful rooms. You can learn more about them here and make your choice on the registration page. All rooms are available on a first-come\, first-served basis. The Jules Verne Room has two double sized beds\, and is appropriate for sharing with a roommate. If you are coming with a friend and would like to share that room\, one guest should reserve the room. Fees for all of the rooms are the same for single or double occupancy for the weekend\, and are in addition to the workshop fee. \nReserve Now!\n\nJoin our email list and be the first to know about upcoming events:
URL:https://spillian.com/event/breathing-fire-a-wild-power-workshop-for-women-2024/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imaginarium,Mythic Catskills,Women,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Call Me Love: Exploring Gender\, Power\, and the Planet
DESCRIPTION:Call Me Love: Exploring Gender\, Power\, and the Planet\nApril 6-8\, 2023\nFacilitated by Leigh Melander\, Ph.D.\nSpillian Co-Founder\nA private workshop for members of Regenerative Nexus.\nA deep dive into how the stories we tell of gender and power might be turned on their heads to shatter the boundaries between female and male\, human and nature to re-imagine and regenerate our world together.  \nIdea Vessels\ncall me love\nThree Little Words\, with Sir Ian McKellen  \nwords\, words\, words\nWords With Etymological Juice \nthe stories we tell | the stories that tell us\nMyth | Archetype |Story \nhonoring and healing wounds\nGentle Destabilization | Inviting Vulnerability | Savoring Uncertainty \nblowing up binaries\nBeyond Either | Or… and beyond Both | And \ncontaining wild multitudes\nFeMale ~ HumaNature | We Are All the Things \nens?\nThe Circle of Togetherness \n  \nReserve Now \n  \n\nAbout Leigh Melander\, Ph.D.\nLeigh has an eclectic background in the arts as well as consulting in strategic planning\, community outreach & 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. She spent 13 years working in asset-based community building in communities across California\, and with students\, faculty and a wide range of artists and activists at the University of California Santa Barbara’s MultiCultural Center. \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. \nShe 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 at various conferences and on 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 hosted Myth America®\, a weekly radio show about  how myth shapes our sense of identity on an NPR affiliate for three years and is transitioning to a podcast\, and served as the Vice President of the Joseph Campbell Foundation and the editor of their MythBlast series for four years. Her first book in the Frivolous Revolution series\, Psyche’s Choice\, has been released as on Amazon\, with additional books coming in 2023. \n\nJoin our Mythic Catskills Adventures email list and be the first to know about upcoming events:
URL:https://spillian.com/event/call-me-love-exploring-gender-power-and-the-planet-23/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imaginarium,Mythic Catskills,Women,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Breathing Fire: A Wild Power Workshop for Women
DESCRIPTION:Breathing Fire: A Wild Power Workshop for Women\nFebruary 3-5\, 2023\nFacilitated by Leigh Melander\, Ph.D.\, Spillian Co-Founder\nAre you burning to change your life and the world? \nJoin us for a weekend celebrating the fire we hold in us\, the dragon fire of the Catskills mountains\, and the embers of fire festivals traditionally celebrated in winter and early spring to imagine the power and life of the coming year. \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. \nReserve Now! \n\nMythic Catskills Adventures\nSpillian’s Mythic Catskills Adventures 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 gathering 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\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. Her first book in the Frivolous Revolution series\, Psyche’s Choice\, has been released as on Amazon\, with additional books coming in 2023. \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 at various conferences and on 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 hosted Myth America®\, a weekly radio show about  how myth shapes our sense of identity on an NPR affiliate for three years and is transitioning to a podcast\, and served as the Vice President of the Joseph Campbell Foundation and the editor of their MythBlast series for four years. \n\nPricing\nWorkshop Registration Fee:  $295 until January 25\, 2023. $395 after that date.\n• Includes all chef-made meals\, sessions\, and materials. Cash bar\, tax\, and gratuities not included.\n• Attendees are welcome to arrive any time Friday afternoon after 3 PM.\n• Please bring comfortable clothes that you can move and make stuff in.\n• Commuters welcome for the workshop registration fee. \nSpillian Lodging \nSpillian offers eight delightful rooms. You can learn more about them here and make your choice on the registration page. All rooms are available on a first-come\, first-served basis. The Jules Verne Room has two double sized beds\, and is appropriate for sharing with a room mate. If you are coming with a friend and would like to share that room\, one guest should reserve the room. Fees for all of the rooms are the same for single or double occupancy and are in addition to the workshop fee. \nReserve Now!\n\nJoin our Mythic Catskills Adventures email list and be the first to know about upcoming events:
URL:https://spillian.com/event/breathing-fire-a-wild-power-workshop-for-women-february-2023/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imaginarium,Mythic Catskills,Women,Workshop
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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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