saturday, march 4th: 7pm,led by devon kelley-yurdin
You are invited!
Saturday night at PurimFest we will be Going For It! Because how can we world-build together without trying things in front of each other? We're hoping this exercise in vulnerability, humor, and gentle stretches to our comfort zones can bring us closer to each other and maybe even loosen us up for Sunday's Purimshpiel.
Going For It is an exercise in bravery and community care disguised as an experimental/amateur talent show. It is an invitation to share the hidden corners (if it feels safe), try things outside your wheelhouse, or share old things with new people. At Going For It, expertise is superfluous and perhaps even discouraged. It is less about talent (having it, not having it) and more about building muscles around community care, collective joy, creativity, and bravery. Ideas and inspiration can be found below!
Ideas & Inspiration
Play the one song you know on guitar, try the stand up act you've always wanted to perform, lead a group in song for the first time. Untangling knots? Consensual/conceptual group participation? Who's to say! There must be a wealth of new tricks up folks’ sleeves as a product of three years of pandemic isolation, right? Or maybe just leaving the house on a Monday night is Going For It enough. If you're not interested in being the center of attention, maybe there's something you're doing in the background that doesn't involve standing in front of people. Creativity is, obviously, encouraged.
Participation Framework
The event fosters a communal exchange, through sharing and support and discussion, in place of an audience/performer dynamic. This space is about us all deciding for ourselves what feels available and maybe a little brave, and for some people all of those things mean “just” witnessing. Vulnerability and experimentation can come in a billion forms, however big or small. Participants are invited to self-assess their own participation and know that their choices will be respected as long as they, too, are being respectful. No racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, antisemitic, fatphobic, ableist, or any other oppressive content will be welcome. This is a sex and body-positive space.
Devon Kelley-Yurdin will be encouragingly holding this space for us, find them at the festival if you want to brainstorm, think you have an idea but first want to talk it through, or need a pep talk! Or email them at [email protected].
An ever-growing FAQTF (frequently asked questions, thoughts, fears) can be found at devonkelley-yurdin.com/goingforit.
Saturday night at PurimFest we will be Going For It! Because how can we world-build together without trying things in front of each other? We're hoping this exercise in vulnerability, humor, and gentle stretches to our comfort zones can bring us closer to each other and maybe even loosen us up for Sunday's Purimshpiel.
Going For It is an exercise in bravery and community care disguised as an experimental/amateur talent show. It is an invitation to share the hidden corners (if it feels safe), try things outside your wheelhouse, or share old things with new people. At Going For It, expertise is superfluous and perhaps even discouraged. It is less about talent (having it, not having it) and more about building muscles around community care, collective joy, creativity, and bravery. Ideas and inspiration can be found below!
Ideas & Inspiration
Play the one song you know on guitar, try the stand up act you've always wanted to perform, lead a group in song for the first time. Untangling knots? Consensual/conceptual group participation? Who's to say! There must be a wealth of new tricks up folks’ sleeves as a product of three years of pandemic isolation, right? Or maybe just leaving the house on a Monday night is Going For It enough. If you're not interested in being the center of attention, maybe there's something you're doing in the background that doesn't involve standing in front of people. Creativity is, obviously, encouraged.
Participation Framework
The event fosters a communal exchange, through sharing and support and discussion, in place of an audience/performer dynamic. This space is about us all deciding for ourselves what feels available and maybe a little brave, and for some people all of those things mean “just” witnessing. Vulnerability and experimentation can come in a billion forms, however big or small. Participants are invited to self-assess their own participation and know that their choices will be respected as long as they, too, are being respectful. No racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, antisemitic, fatphobic, ableist, or any other oppressive content will be welcome. This is a sex and body-positive space.
Devon Kelley-Yurdin will be encouragingly holding this space for us, find them at the festival if you want to brainstorm, think you have an idea but first want to talk it through, or need a pep talk! Or email them at [email protected].
An ever-growing FAQTF (frequently asked questions, thoughts, fears) can be found at devonkelley-yurdin.com/goingforit.