Play Us A River is a semi-regular improvisation space – a pool of play to dip in to and remind your body just how alive you are and can feel – facilitated by Scarlet Hall. The space is guided by the play of rivers moving through our landscapes -their banks, meanders, currents, movement, stillness and the wider ecologies and social histories they connect to.

“learning to open myself to this practice, has been way of reconnecting with something long forgotten in me.” Katie, Nurse

Come join the Subtle Spring edition at New Brancepath Village Hall here in the Deerness Valley

7.30pm – 9.30pm, Thursday 20^th February for 6 weeks, with a special Saturday afternoon outdoor performance-as-ritual session on 22^nd March.

Suggested donation: £55 for the block or £12 per session. But always NOTAFLOF! (No one turned away for lack of funds)

Email or text me to book a place. scarletsumagr@gmail.com 07564 550231

Improvisation is something we are all always doing – what shall I wear, what shall I eat, how shall I respond to what that person said.

“Really keeps me going from one week to the next – it’s so freeing to put aside the anxiety and really learn how to play!” Sage, Academic

In creative improvisation we get interested in finding new choices to get out of the ruts we can find our lives stuck in. We practice entering and returning over and over to that state of flow, of relaxation and aliveness. In this Subtle Spring edition we will play gentle quiet games from which new ways to move and play together might emerge. This can be both deliciously sweet and freeing and equally a little scary.

“Playful and profound, I have found out new things about myself and the world.” Charlie, Occupational Therapist

We will hone our skills of embodied listening, flexing our attention muscle and moving from the subtle – think the first bud unfurling. We will bring in stories and histories of this place – social, ecological and geological – to inspire us. We will work solo, in pairs and as a whole group, and at any point your improvisational move can be to witness. We will also learn some frameworks for making sense of this work we do together, drawing on my ongoing interest in nondual animism.

On Saturday 22^nd March we will head outdoors for a workshop-as-ritual to celebrate the spring arriving in the valley.