InterPlay Atlanta July News THE SECRETS OF INTERPLAY COMING SOON!  The Secrets of InterPlay September 28th-29th InterPlay Life Practice Program leaders, Christine Gautreaux, Carolyn Renée & Jennifer Denning Learn how you can use the tools and ideas of InterPlay to  unlock the wisdom of your body.  Get your body, mind, heart, and spirit all on the same page. Learn more about yourself through connection and community.  Create more ease and fun in your life! This multiple-day event will give you direct experience in many aspects of the InterPlay system developed by Cynthia Winton-Henry and Phil Porter over the last 28 years. The Secrets of InterPlay is the first part of The InterPlay Life Practice Program which will begin in Atlanta in October 2018.  Friday, September 28th, 7-9 p.m., Saturday, September 29th, 9:30 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sunday, September 30th, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Registration/Information: 510-465-2797 or info@interplay.org UPCOMING FREE INTROS TO THE LIFE PRACTICE PROGRAM Saturday, July 14th 10-11:30 A.M. The Mask Center Friday, August 17th 12-1 P.M. Sevananda Natural Foods Co-op Sunday, August 19th 1-2 P.M. Norcross Cultural Arts Center Sankofa Communities:  Embracing Yesterday, Creating Tomorrow Soulprint Players offering a "gesture choir" on the theme of Sankofa                      -photo by Ruth Schowalter Sankofa: "It is not taboo to fetch what is at risk of being left behind." On Wednesday, June 27th, InterPlay Atlanta's Soulprint Players partnered with the Early Edgewood-Candler Park Biracial History Project to lead the community in a ritual honoring and remembrance of the thriving black community that once lived in Candler Park. Soulprint Players shared the timeline illuminating the systematic edging out of the black community.  Audience members are led in a "one hand dance" on behalf of our ancestors                             -photo by Ruth Schowalter           The performance was followed by a community discussion about the effects of gentrification and how we can advocate for affordable housing and equitable communites in the present. More information about a September performance and continued community engagment coming soon! Our Liberty is Bound Together InterPlay Atlanta partners with "Set Them Free" Three Sentence Immigration Stories of the Plight of Turkish Refugees. Here, doing the InterPlay "Pittsburgh Form," one of the workshop participants finishes her three sentence story with the gesture of prayer and others follow. -photo by Ruth Schowalter InterPlay Atlanta is collaborating with Turkish immigrants and those seeking refuge in the Metro-Atlanta area. Joining Hafsay Grd of "Set Them Free," InterPlay leaders Ruth Schowalter and Christine Gautreaux are helping women and teenage girls to tell their immigration stories and that of 10,000 Turkish women and 650 children held unjustly in Turkish prisons. On June 26th, close to twenty-five women and children gathered for the storytelling workshop, "Our Liberty is Bound Together" at the Istanbul Cultural Center Atlanta and Atlantic Institute in Milton, Georgia. This performance workshop was part of the Art and Social Justice programming.   Stay tuned for an upcoming storytelling workshop in August!