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Class Three of the Into the Motherhouse Series in Sylvia’s sunny studio in downtown Point Reyes Station.
Note that these classes can be taken as a series (see link above for discount), or as one-offs.
During each session Sylvia will tell a fairytale or myth, weaving it back into its root systems in matrilineal Old Europe during the Neolithic and earlier. There will be time to creatively respond to the stories through mythic writing exercises, ceramics, and textile work, and to share together in the spiraling sisterhood of the Motherhouse.
In our final session, Sylvia will tell her version of the myth of Demeter’s search for her daughter Persephone. This telling will challenge the orientation and tone of the classical-era Homeric Hymn to Demeter, rerooting this myth into its prepatriarchal origins while also highlighting its emergence at a time in the ancient world when patrilineal law overthrew matrilineal law.
We will meet Demeter in her full-seeding, absolute abundance, not as a lesser goddess scorned by Zeus’s new laws, but as the Mother of Life, the mother who has never stopped holding her lantern high for us as we emerge again and again from the underworld back to the light.
We will work with clay to create vessels for and of Demeter, which will be fired by Sylvia in her kiln and returned to participants the following month.
Saturday September 19th, 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm.
EXACT LOCATION & DETAILS SENT OUT BEFORE EACH SESSION
Class Three of the Into the Motherhouse Series in Sylvia’s sunny studio in downtown Point Reyes Station.
Note that these classes can be taken as a series (see link above for discount), or as one-offs.
During each session Sylvia will tell a fairytale or myth, weaving it back into its root systems in matrilineal Old Europe during the Neolithic and earlier. There will be time to creatively respond to the stories through mythic writing exercises, ceramics, and textile work, and to share together in the spiraling sisterhood of the Motherhouse.
In our final session, Sylvia will tell her version of the myth of Demeter’s search for her daughter Persephone. This telling will challenge the orientation and tone of the classical-era Homeric Hymn to Demeter, rerooting this myth into its prepatriarchal origins while also highlighting its emergence at a time in the ancient world when patrilineal law overthrew matrilineal law.
We will meet Demeter in her full-seeding, absolute abundance, not as a lesser goddess scorned by Zeus’s new laws, but as the Mother of Life, the mother who has never stopped holding her lantern high for us as we emerge again and again from the underworld back to the light.
We will work with clay to create vessels for and of Demeter, which will be fired by Sylvia in her kiln and returned to participants the following month.
Saturday September 19th, 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm.
EXACT LOCATION & DETAILS SENT OUT BEFORE EACH SESSION