DISCOVERY WEEKEND
DISCOVERY WEEKEND
2nd – 4th JUNE 2023
MAS GRAS
Callús – Barcelona
We are excited and nervous to be back at Touch&Play Barcelona. This is a call to reconnect or join us for the first time and make your mark as this community continues to evolve.
The Touch&Play movement has a rich history of exploration through finding out and experiencing. Evoking a sense of diverse tribe through experimental qualities of play in consensual environments, which gives us a rich ground in which to explore and create community together.
The practices and areas of exploration include Contact Improvisation, somatic practice, Embodied Consent, Dance, Healing Practices, Power, Sensation, Role and Rope Play, Authentic Movement, Performing-Witnessing; Conscious Sexuality, Gender Explorations, Queering the Dance, Nature based practices, Spiritual practices and more to come.
With so much love for this project and for the spirit of co-creation, we extend this offering to you, either if you are a new comer or a you come with the begginer’s mind, and we welcome you home to this diverse community of dancers, somatic explorers and embodied humans.
This is a gathering about play, vulnerability and building community rich in emotional, sensorial and erotic intelligence.
SAVE YOUR SPOT
OFFERINGS
Our Discovery Weekends are filled with inspiring offers that form the bedrock of the Touch&Play work and community. In these smaller gatherings programming is focused on a single track creating a strong group field and a deep shared journey. Our schedule while structured has flexibility to shift to the needs and wishes of the group. Our facilitators will adapt the order and content of certain offerings to enhance the communities experience. We start with a deep dive into Touch&Play’s Embodied Consent work practice expressing our desires and boundaries in an effective way. During the days a the core facilitators will offer a number of shorter workshops to familiarize folks with the different T&P flavors and the evenings are dedicated to jams and more open and improvisational activities. To enhance the co-creational aspect of the gathering T&P community members are welcomed to share their own offerings during one of the days of the retreat.
Topics and offerings at Touch&Play events Focus on the exploration of the Relational Body and are drawn from practices that include: Contact Improvisation, conscious sexuality, Kink, Gender exploration and queerness, Ritual arts, Tantra, Grief work, Primal play, Ecosexuality, Rope play, Polyamory, Authentic movement, Play Fighting and Expressive arts.
MOVE AND DANCE
EXPRESS AND CONNECT
COMMUNITY AND SOLO TIME
KINK & AUTHENTICITY
RITUAL & NATURE
Container
We hold containers focused on embodied consent and boundaries, inclusivity, support, and radical nonjudgment; we hope to cultivate an essential sense of trust for edge-pushing explorations to bravely unfold.
All are warmly welcome, to come as your full, unfiltered, beautiful self.
Here, we can cultivate a space of radical celebration – of removing the layers and wounds of shame, stigma, and oppression, and remembering a sense of freedom, choice, authenticity, and deep connection to ourselves, to each other, and to this great earth.
Schedule
*This is an orientation. Activities and times might suffer variations.
FRIDAY
16h Arrival
Opening cercle
Consent workshop
19:30h Dinner
21h Intro to CI & Music Jam
SATURDAY
8h Morning Practice
9h Breakfast
10h Warm-up
Embodied and authentic practices
The Oracle
13.30h Lunch & Break
16h Sub-dom dances
Exploring kink
19:30 Dinner
21h T&P Fest
SUNDAY
9h Breakfast
10h Nature and embodiment
12h Closing cercle and gather your stuff
13:30 Lunch
TEAM
Our discovery weekends are created and held by a small team of core facilitators. The facilitators are normally elders from our community with a intimate knowledge of the culture and praxis that form the roots our the Touch&Play work.
The participants – a group of dancers, movers, somatic learners, spiritual magic makers, embodied humans, vulnerable deep-divers, and relational explorers – are also invited to propose an offering during the gathering
We call in this community, expanding within and expanding throughout, to gather in a new creation.
you are warmly welcome, to come as your full, unfiltered, beautiful self.
DANIEL J. HAYES
Daniel Hayes is a Medical Doctor, public health scientist, eco-anarchist and practical idealist. He’s been playing, dancing, meditating and conversing CI for over 15 years and actively sharing his curiosity and knowledge and doubts for the past decade. He is the founder of the Touch&Play Project, which explores the edges of Contact Improvisation by inviting our (al)chemical bodies into the dance. Through artistic and academic research he hopes to highlight the potential of CI as a tool to create authentic connections with oneself and the other by bringing it into play, communication, BDSM, therapy, education, sexuality, somatic mindfulness and more.
TRINIDAD GARCÍA ESPINOSA
Performer /activist/ creator
Equally interested in the somatic field, the performance and improvisation, postfeminism and gender politics, identities, practices unconventional sex and relationships.
“I come from the field of culture, the performative feminist field of discourse analysis, dedicated to the training and prevention of sexist violence, through the movement for the promotion and coeducation in schools and institutes in sexual education. I’m as well interested with performance improvisation, post-feminism and gender politics, identities and sexual practices and unconventional relationships”.
Trinidad has been working regularly as a contact improvisation teacher since 2001 in Barcelona and at festivals such as the New year festival of Barcelona, dances Summer festival, Freiburg Contact festival, Madrid contact festival, in touch festival, Dance Here project, Xplore among others.
Riki Parenti
Musician and Dancer.
T&P global: Mara (Cynthia). Zinnda. Nick. Queralt Jorba.
VENUE & PRACTICALITIES
MAS GRAS is our venue. Montserrat are the mountains that will accompany us.
Our home
COMMUN SPACES
Indoor dance space
Communal dinning room
Kiwa and other sacred spaces
SORROUNDINGS
Forest and nature
Village 10 minuts by car
ACCOMODATIONS
Shared Bedrooms
Camping with tent or van
Nourishment
Local organic products.
Delicious Food.
Mainly vegetarian meals.
Practicalities
GUIDELINES
GETTING THERE
Mas Gras, Callús (Barcelona)
Directions to arrive to Mas Gras here
Once your register you will receive a document to self organize share rides.
ARRIVING & DEPARTURES
Arriving Friday at 16h
Departure Sunday at 15h
Economic contribution
Your spot will be reserved once you have paid the non-refundable reservation of 150€.
First tickets have a discount of 25€
The rest of the payment will be in cash on the arrival on the 2nd June between 16 and 18h.
We offer slidding scale to adapt to different economic realities. Your non-refundable reservation will be reduced from the total.
Standard – Total 325€
Abundant – Total: 400€
Reduced – Total: 275€. To be able to use the subsidized ticket you need previous approval from the organitzation. Send an email explaining your case.
How do I place myself on the sliding scale if there are different ticket price options?
We aim to both keep our prices accessible, while holding financial sustainability.
Please help us meet this balance by paying, with intuition and integrity, the highest price point you are able to afford.
We offer supported tickets by previous application because there are participants that are contributing a bit extra with their economic contribution.
Consider paying more on the scale if you:
-own the home you live in
-have investments, retirement accounts, or inherited money
-travel recreationally
-have access to family money and resources in times of need
-work part time by choice
-have a relatively high degree of earning power due to level of education (or gender and racial privilege, class background, etc.) Even if you are not currently exercising your earning power, I ask you to recognize this as a choice.
Consider paying less on the scale if you:
-are supporting children or have other dependents
-have significant debt
-have medical expenses not covered by insurance
-receive public assistance
-have immigration-related expenses
-are an elder with limited financial support
-are an unpaid community organizer
-are a returning citizen who has been denied work due to incarceration history
This sliding scale description was written by Hadassah Damien, founder of Ride Free Fearless Money
Language
We will facilitated the event in Catalan. We plan to shift to Spanish or/and English if participants need it.
What’s the easiest way to get to the venue?
Once you complete your payment you receive a message with a link to an spreadsheet to self organize share rides with other participants.
Privat transportation. Dust roat.
Check out the Mas Gras website for directions on how to arrive.
What to bring?
Thinks you might consider to bring…
sun protection, mosquito repellent, earplugs and long sleeves cloth (is useful for mosquitos, sun, dance and roll, chilly…).
Warm cloth for night in case is cold.
Shoes to be in the forest. Shoes to take them off and on 20 times a day.
Towel (no need to bring lynen)
Comfy cloth to move and roll around, your favorite outfit or costume, knee-pads…
Water bottle
Headlamp (highly recommended)
Cash (ATM in the village)
A book, a note book, contact cards, nice handcraft objects that you make, toys…
What are the sleeping arrangements like?
We will all be in beds and bunk beds in shared rooms from 4 to 8 people. There are some spots for vans or free camping. The price is the same either sleeping in the dorm or camping.
Contact
Registrations: registrations@touchandplay.org
Other inquieres: barcelona@touchandplay.org
DISCOVERY WEEKEND
BARCELONA
TOUCH&PLAY GLOBAL
Founded in 2010, the first Touch&Play event happened in Germany from an exploration of the chemistry and edges of Contact Improv. At its core is exploring the “relational body” with values centering on authenticity, inclusion, play, embodied consent and tribe. The first Touch&Play in the US happened in 2016 and has since been an annual event held at Earthdance. We seek with curiosity, play and vulnerability how to individually and collectively dismantle the systems of oppression that live in our bodies, minds and spirits… weaving us into deeper connection with ourselves, each other and nature. Dance, kink, BDSM, somatics, BMC, authentic relating, NVC are some of our influences as we awaken more vibrantly our emotional, somatic and erotic intelligence.
“Leave the relationships more beautiful than you found them.”
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