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Life Meets Theatre: A Dialogue of Soul & Spirit with Peggy Rubin
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WorkshopFriday, October 1, 2010 10:00am - 3:00pm
Price: $77 if paid by Sept. 15; $97 Sept. 16 or after
Actor-author Peggy Rubin teaches a workshop and signs her new book To Be & How To Be.
Your life is a work of performance art in progress. This workshop invites you to take the stage as the star of that life!
Creative writing and performance techniques, including improvisation exercises, will guide your remembering of your high purpose, and provide alchemical stirrings as you engage your soul and spirit in holy conversation. Part of the process is discovering the difference each participant discerns between soul and spirit.
Both actors and those with no acting experience can benefit from this class. Come and "feast your life" as the poet invites, and live as the Sacred Actor you are. In the process you will:
- Enhance your creativity
- Discover your authentic voice
- Invigorate your brain's power as pattern-maker
- Renew your celebration of all life experiences
- Invite expression of your deep emotional gifts
- Strengthen your connection to the Source Place for your life energy
- Heighten your awareness of the sacred presence in all life
Margaret Nash (Peggy) Rubin is founding director of the Center for Sacred Theatre in Ashland, Oregon. Primary activities of the Center include the creation of workshops in Living Life as Sacred Theatre, and Sacred Studies of the Divine Feminine. She is also the principal teaching associate of Jean Houston, Ph.D., in Dr. Houston’s worldwide multicultural transformational work and in her schools of spiritual studies. Working with Jean Houston, Peggy Rubin has presented classes, workshops and trainings throughout the United States, and in Australia, New Zealand, England, Ireland, Sweden, Greece, Egypt, The Netherlands, India, West Africa, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Jamaica, and on behalf of the United Nations Development Programme, in Albania, St. Lucia, Barbados, Kenya, and the Philippines.
Peggy has been acting all her life, for the animals and the occasional breezes, for the cotton and hay fields, and for neighbors and visitors to her family farm in South Texas. She studied theatre at Lon Morris College and the University of Texas in Austin, where she received a degree in Fine Arts.
For many years, Peggy worked as both an actor and as Public Information and Education Director for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Peggy’s acting roles, spanning more than 50 years, include Electra in Sophocles’ Electra, Cressida in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida, Mother Courage in Brecht’s Mother Courage and Dolly Levi in Wilder’s The Matchmaker.
Peggy's book on Sacred Theatre, To Be & How To Be, was published in 2010 by Quest Books.