Half-Day Workshop with Corey March 8 in Berkeley

The Creative Moment

a workshop with

corey fischer

You’ve learned that you can’t step in the same river twice. But even so, putting your feet into the water can become a dry habit sooner or later. What happened to the exhilaration and excitement that carried you so far along your particular Journey?

Maybe you need to [re] discover play. In Sanskrit it’s called lila. And it carries a lot more meaning than the English word: play as creation, as delight in the present moment.

I’ve been doing my best to engage in lila and creativity for the last forty years or so, finding my way down and into that molten core where creative impulses start to flow. My vessel has been theatre – as an actor, writer, director, improviser and teacher. I’ve also found great joy in clay and paint, with pencils and cameras, with drums and guitars.

In the three hours we’ll spend together, we’ll overturn the post-industrial rule that only “professional” artists are entitled to express their creativity. In the safety of each others’ positive regards, we’ll learn how to make a safe place in which we can play with movement, voice, language, silence, space, shape and imagination. Through these elements, I’ll introduce you to some ways of touching your own creative energy that I’ve found to be central to my work.

You’ll leave with packets of metaphorical seeds to plant in your imaginary garden. (The one that poet Marianne Moore said must contain a real toad.)

sunday, June 8
2pm - 5pm
western sky studio
2525 8^th street berkeley

$50 ($40 before May 20)
mail check to: corey fischer
20 sunnyside ave
suite a, mill valley, ca 94941

or, click here to register online at
brown paper tickets

Corey Fischer has been creating and performing theatre for nearly forty years. In 1978, he co-founded Traveling Jewish Theatre and still serves the company as writer, actor and director. He has received numerous awards and fellowships including a Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays award for his play, See Under: Love. Fischer’s fiction and non-fiction has appeared in several anthologies and magazines Before the founding of TJT, he worked in film, television and theatre with, among others, Robert Altman and Joseph Chaikin. Corey works with professional artists, dedicated amateurs and beginners – privately and in groups – as a creative guide. He serves as mentor, guide and coach for the Bay Area improvisational ensemble, Tumbleheart.