Spirited Monday Evening Salon
Play
When did you last do something for no reason at all? Who taught you to stop playing, and why do we hand children the right to be silly and take it away from ourselves?
Monday, July 26, 2027 at 7pm
When did you last do something for absolutely no reason? Not for health, not for progress, not to post about it afterwards. What was it, and why don't you do it more?
Who taught you to stop playing, and when did it happen? Was it a person, a job, a grief, or just the slow business of being an adult? Why do we hand children the right to be silly and quietly take it away from ourselves?
What's the difference between play and leisure, and why does one leave us lit up and the other leave us flat? Can work be play? Can marriage? Can grief, even, have play in it somewhere?
What did you play as a child that you are still playing now in disguise? What would your eight-year-old self make of your Saturdays? What would it take to let them in on one?
Come at midsummer with your sense of humour and no agenda. This is the evening the series exhales before it starts again in the fall. Expect to laugh, and possibly to be handed something to make.
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Sixteen seats only — the evening only works small. $35 a seat, and the whole $35 comes back to you as credit toward anything you take home that night. Fill in the form and press Hold my seat: you go straight to payment for all your seats at once (up to four), and your place is confirmed once it is paid. Coming with a bigger group? Write to Heidi@almaspiritinspired.com.
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