Living Hyphen's Storytelling Playshops
At Living Hyphen, we want to go deeper than representation and move towards truly cultivating diverse voices by creating an inclusive space and supportive community to encourage a practice of tender and courageous storytelling.
Monday, July 6 – Joy & Justice: An Embodied Storytelling Playshop
Join Living Hyphen on Monday, July 6 for an embodied storytelling playshop guided and inspired by adrienne maree brown’s book ‘Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good.’ Through gentle movement, creative/reflective writing, and arts-based prompts, we’ll lean into the moments that sustain us – laughter, beauty, care, connection – and consider how these experiences shape our visions for a more just world.
Monday, July 13 – Generative Frictions: An Embodied Storytelling Playshop
Join Living Hyphen on Monday, July 13 for an embodied storytelling playshop that invites us to slow down and practice holding complexity and nuance. Through gentle movement and grounding practices, as well as arts-based prompts, reflective writing, and storytelling, we’ll explore how seemingly opposing truths can coexist. Together, we will create an imaginative and embodied container for holding contradiction, nuance, and paradox through our creative practice.
Monday, July 20 – Good Grief: An Embodied Storytelling Playshop
Join Living Hyphen on Monday, July 20 for an embodied storytelling playshop that honours the many shapes of our grief. Through grounding practices, reflective writing, and doodling, we will explore what may feel tender or hard to say. Our grief lives in many spaces – within endings, across distances, in the transitions of our uncertain world, in the quiet ache of things that didn’t turn out as we may have hoped. In a world that often pushes us to hide these heartbreaks, this embodied storytelling playshop encourages us to lean into the complexity, expansiveness, and richness of our grief(s).
Monday, July 27 – Embracing Contradiction: An Embodied Storytelling Playshop
Join Living Hyphen on Monday, July 27 for an embodied storytelling playshop that invites us to slow down and practice holding complexity and nuance. Through gentle movement and grounding practices, as well as arts-based prompts, reflective writing, and storytelling, we’ll explore how seemingly opposing truths can coexist. Together, we will create an imaginative and embodied container for holding contradiction, nuance, and paradox through our creative practice.
Registration
Living Hyphen’s creative workshops operate on a pay-what-you-can model to make them accessible to everyone, regardless of financial circumstances. We invite you to contribute an amount that feels sustainable for you, knowing that your contribution helps support the facilitators and makes future community offerings possible. These tiers are meant to help guide your decision, so contribute what best reflects your current financial capacity and the value this experience holds for you.
$10 – Community: For those with limited income or financial constraints.
$25 – Cultivate: Supports our facilitators’ labour and material costs.
$40 – Grow: Reflects the true cost of the workshop and helps sustain Living Hyphen’s work.
$50 – Solidarity: Subsidizes spots for others who need reduced pricing.
No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
July 6
to July 27, 2026
Doors open at 7p.m. and the program begins at 7:30p.m.
Registration is sliding scale ($10-$50) No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
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