ELEMENT: FIRE
Community, togetherness, relaxation, openness, connectivity, excitement, nurturing, performance, sharing, enthusiasm, fulfillment, validation, interdependence, celebration, collaboration, ease
- Share time, space, work
- Commune with people, see art, meet makers
- Grounded time of surplus that doens’t ask us to rush
Practices
- Creative community, connection, and collaboration
- Prompts
- where do you feel you most belong?
- what acts of service do you regularly perform?
- who do you want to thank?
- name some teachers and what they teach you
- what is the difference between a friend and acquaintance?
- is there a group to join that can enrich creative practice?
- List ten people you want to connect with this summer. What are your creative ties? How could they uplift your voice? Is there a new craft that could harmonize with your current one?
- Prompts
- Creative conversation
- dinner party
- hear about others’ creative concepts, receive energy
- ask everyone to bring a short poem to share
- salon style: share WIPs
- themed dinners to inspire creativity
- bring item to group altar
- conversation topics - draw from a hat
- dinner party
- Know your audience
- Who is ideal audience? Seek editor or workshop group
- Event to showcase finished work
- The action can be small
- What can you learn about your artwork thru the way others witness and receive it?
- Plan your performance
- Envision and write five scenarios of inventive, inspirational performances
- DIY tours
- Stealing time for practice. Remember to have fun!
- Align with the sun (cold baths, watermelon)
- Shedding
- Adjust discipline to adapt with weather
- What can be put down to better fill arms with pleasures and delights of season
- Summer cleanse (juices, fruits)
- Swimming
- “Let creativity be like water.”
- Cleanse, cold baths
- Fullness (drink freely, relish)
Month by Month
June: find good pause in project to turn toward social plans. tie up loose ends to lean into spontaneity
Summer Solstice: Root into outward state of being. Solstice party! Intention of extroversion
July: Time to travel, indulge in community, do a short residency
August: final trips, luxuriate in the heat, spoil yourself with swims and friends. Tune into creative focus a bit as summer ends
Summer → autumn: be slow as you turn inward, do not rush. Steal moments of summer that still exist