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Improv By Night

Saturday, March 25 @ 8:00PMSat, Mar 25 @ 8:00PM

tbc, Ottawa

All instruments and levels welcome (you can also be a beginner with just a few scales under your fingertips to participate)! We will be improvising, playing with drones, rhythm machines, creating ' Music of the Future', making soundscapes in a live setting. Stay within your comfort zone and gently venture into more sharing as you feel comfortable. The second hour will be a guided 'Spontaneous Orchestra' experience. Let your imagination and creativity out, hone your listening skills, become aware of your heightened responsiveness and just come out to have fun creating free improv.

There will be 4 classes scheduled, one every month!! Your improv chops will develop over time, so I will post the classes as the dates are confirmed. Bring a friend who is either experienced or new to improv and I will work the varying experiences into the classes.

$20 is the suggested donation for the class...and it is pwyc (pay what you can). If you are interested in donating to support the program and the rental of a larger space for future classes, your donations will be greatly appreciated.

See you there!!!

Margaret Maria.

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BIIMA Creativity and Improv Retreat in Italy

BIIMA Creativity and Improv Retreat in Italy

Monday, July 17 @ 7:00AM — Monday, July 31 @ 7:00PM (CEST, UTC+02)Mon, Jul 17 @ 7:00AM — Mon, Jul 31 @ 7:00PM (CEST, UTC+02)

Breno, Italy , Breno

Award-winning composer and cellist Margaret Maria, came to composing in a unique and unorthodox way. Join a group of peer artists (composers, music producers, writers, choreographers and musicians) and explore the depths of your imagination with Margaret Maria guiding you. Her unique approach will help you find your unique signature, or expand your concept of it. Wherever you are on your journey as a musician or creator, regardless of genre or arts discipline, this retreat will unlock the true artist within. Participate in a groundbreaking process that taps into your authentic creativity and expands your horizons. Unearth ideas and sounds of all kinds on 'inspiration walks' throughout Breno, gallery tours, and other unique excursions. The group will refine their skills and work together towards a mutual goal: spontaneous creation.

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'Improv by Night' - please consider donating to help make these classes/jam session pwyc for those who wouldn't be able to participate, to cover the artists' fees and to help find a great space for our improv work in Ottawa (and eventually in Toronto).  Thank you so much for your support.  Love, Margaret Maria. 

Creativity and Improv Retreat

July 17-31, 2023 Breno, Italy

Come on a creative holiday retreat with me in Italy this July!!

For the first time, I am guiding a group of the curious and the creative on a journey into the heart of creativity and finding one’s own inner muse (the muse lives within us, they are not external, although we gather externally the energy we need to create internally!)

Not only will you share two beautiful weeks of incredible food, majestic walks in the Alps, Italian language lessons, daily meditations, but also be immersed into my ‘Seeds of Creativity’ course and ‘Spontaneous Creations’ ensemble! As a musician I will also offer 'The Creative Performer' which explores our heightened choice making and creating a unique sound signature, and I will also be featuring the innovative and transformative, Alice Kay Kanack's 'Creativity Ability Development Method (CAD)' for all levels of experience. 

We will be highly experimental and free form, curating our experience as we go, finding where our ideas are emanating from, exploring our own ‘cycle of creativity’, consistently ‘making something out of nothing’ and being open to everything around us as inspiration for ‘what comes next’.

Just bring your curiosity and energy, along with an instrument if you are a performer, a writing pad if you are a writer, your dance attire if you are a choreographer or dancer, your open mind if you are a novice creator or just want to find out more about living your life through the creative lens.

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PWYC donations to support this event are welcome and appreciated

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