East West Bookshop: Meet the Author & Workshop

Wednesday, November 2
The Art of Play: Ignite your Imagination for Insight, Healing, and Joy
7:30pm • Free, but call to reserve a seat
As we get busier, it gets harder and harder to make time for ourselves. Joan Stanford talks about simple and useful tools you can use to carve out time for yourself, learn to play again, and inspire imagination in ways that bolster health, happiness, and creativity. These ideas can be implemented into and helpful with your work and home life. Joan will discuss tips and techniques, and will answer questions. See workshop, Nov 3

To reserve tickets, please call 650-988-9800

Thursday, November 3
Artful Play to Enrich your Life Workshop
7-9pm • $20 thru Nov 2, $25 day of
Everyone is busy nowadays. This workshop helps artists and non-artists alike carve out time to pay attention to the imagery in our daily lives that can expand our awareness and joy. Making time in this way helps with health and healing, as well as refreshing our minds and bodies to face our lives anew. Joan Stanford is a board-certified art therapist and full-time innkeeper who has been facilitating creativity groups for over twenty years, encouraging people of all ages, especially non-artists, to expand their awareness through playing with art materials. Attendance limited to 15. See lecture, Nov 2

To reserve tickets, please call 650-988-9800, or buy online: http://www.eastwest.com/events_2016_november

FOR THE JOY OF IT! CREATIVE RETREAT WITH JOAN STANFORD & MARILYN HAGER

mendocino art center yurtSo many have asked if we’ll be doing another film/art night. We are back minus the dinner and are hoping you will join us as we watch Inocente, the 2013 Academy Award Winner for Best Documentary Short. It presents the story of a 15-year-old undocumented homeless immigrant, who fiercely pursues her dream of becoming an artist.

We will watch the film and then adjourn to the yurt to respond with art making and or writing followed by group sharing about the film and our creations. The yurt is full of all kinds of art supplies. So come play with paper, paste, collage, watercolor, poster paint, glitter, glue, feathers, fabric, beads, pipe cleaners, popsicle sticks, whatever strikes your fancy. Or bring your journal and respond with writing, poetry or prose. You need no experience in any of the arts to participate, We promise. We take special care in our groups, to create a safe, nonjudgmental. atmosphere so you can relax and enjoy, no matter what your experience with this sort of expression.

Facilitated by Joan Stanford ATR-BC, Board certified Art Therapist and Marilyn Hagar, MA, Registered Expressive Arts Therapist.

Space is limited so register early. Contact Marilyn at mkhwalker99@gmail.com

MORE CONTACT INFO

Marilyn Hagar
FOR THE JOY OF IT!
Creative Arts Retreat
Mendocino, Ca
707-937-4546
mkhwalker99@gmail.com
www.forthejoyofit.org
www.facebook.com/forthejoyofit