BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Spillian - ECPv6.17.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://spillian.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Spillian REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250207T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250209T110000 DTSTAMP:20250102T191640Z CREATED:20240922T033058Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250102T191640Z UID:12402-1738947600-1739098800@spillian.com SUMMARY:Wild Ideas Creative Retreat | February 7-9 DESCRIPTION:Wild Ideas Creative Retreat\nFriday\, February 7 – Sunday\, February 9\, 2025\nYour chance to escape to the magic creative energy of Spillian for a weekend to work on that wild idea that has been burning a hole in your brain. Join us for a gentle convivium and chance for solo time to imagine deeply. \nGrab a corner\, a table in the tavern\, a seat by the fire\, or a chair in your room and have lots of time and space to work and explore and bring your wild idea to life. Maybe it’s a book\, or a set of poems\, drawing\, or a digital design…quiet projects that you can go deep into as everyone here goes deep into theirs. \nWe’ll provide sustenance throughout the weekend – a light dinner on Friday; breakfast\, lunch and a bigger feast on Saturday; and breakfast on Sunday. And of course coffee\, tea (including our own magical herbal offering\, Cat’s Love Tea\, with spearmint\, rose petals\, elderberries\, sumac\, and more)\, and adult libations will be at the ready. \nAnd we’ll have Spillian Permission Slips for you. You can grant yourself permission to hole up in your room and come down from your garret and grasp your vittles in your ink-stained hands and disappear back upstairs; or claim a corner in the library; or even just nap your way into dreaming your wild idea forward. We’ll gather for meals (unless you want to hide)\, with a special invitation on Saturday night to share the feasting table with your fellow dreamers and share a bit of what’s inspiring or stymieing you. Spillian co-founder Leigh Melander will lead the charge on sharing our wild ideas at dinner. \nThis is free-flow\, a reveling in ideas and the quiet that births them retreat. You’re welcome to come and stay for the weekend\, or come to take advantage of Spillian’s space and sustenance and lay your creative head elsewhere. \nWe are excited to finally be offering weekends like this! We’ve been hearing desire for this from many of our extended Spillian family over the years\, so we’re offering both this one in February as well as one in January. Spillian has been such a well-spring of creativity for people since the Fleischmanns created their retreat space\, and we are looking forward to sharing it with you in this special way. \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\, 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. In 2025\, her first book\, about the power of frivolity as a way into imagination\, Psyche’s Choice\, is being re-released\, along with her second book\, Just This Side of Crazy: Quest After Your Wild Idea. \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$175 per person until December 31\, 2024\n$235 per person after that date.\nSpillian is proud to underwrite some of the costs on this workshop\, hoping to keep the experience accessible to as many creatives as possible.  \n• Includes four chef-made meals\, snacks\, and coffee and tea service. Cash bar\, tax\, and gratuities not included.\n• Attendees are welcome to arrive any time Friday afternoon after 3 PM. We’ll have food out at around 6 PM.\n• Commuters welcome for the workshop registration fee. \nSpillian Lodging $235 per room for the weekend.\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. \n\n  \nReserve Now!\n  \n\nBe the first to know about upcoming events!\n\n\n \n \n Join the Spillian Email List\n \n "*" indicates required fields \n \n Name*\n \n \n \n First\n \n \n \n \n Last\n \n \n Email*\n \n What kind of Spillian adventure are you dreaming?If you'd like to tell us a little bit about yourself\, or what you're most intrigued by at Spillian\, please do! We'd love to hear from you. And stay tuned for our next email! Thanks so much for joining us.\n Submit \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Δ URL:https://spillian.com/event/wild-ideas-creative-retreat-january-7-9/ LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States CATEGORIES:Imaginarium,Retreat,Workshop,Writing ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://spillian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/creativeretreat2websitebirds.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190602T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190607T110000 DTSTAMP:20190510T105210Z CREATED:20171222T193817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190510T105210Z UID:10429-1559500200-1559905200@spillian.com SUMMARY:Creating Life: A Playwrighting Immersive DESCRIPTION:Creating Life: A Playwrighting Immersive\nJune 2 to 7\, 2019\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  \n[btnsx id=”11047″] \n\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 2\, at 6:30 PM to Friday June 7\, 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 30\, 2019. $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[btnsx id=”11047″] \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. In spring\, 2019\, he was hailed for a “tour de force” performance as Ahab in an innovative production of Moby Dick at Philadelphia’s renowned Hedgerow Theater. \n  URL:https://spillian.com/event/creating-life-a-playwrighting-immersive-2019/ LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States CATEGORIES:Imaginarium,Workshop,Writing ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://spillian.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/creatinglifewings-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180603T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180608T110000 DTSTAMP:20180515T125419Z CREATED:20171222T193817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180515T125419Z UID:9135-1528050600-1528455600@spillian.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://spillian.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/creatinglifewings-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR