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Tellabration! Saturday, November 9, at 3 pm

 

Couple throngsculp

Tellabration! Yay!!!
Saturday, 11/9 at 3 pm
8 Hancox Street, Stonington

To honor storytelling, the Ct. Storytelling Center hosts storytelling events throughout the state during the month of November.
The Dragon’s Egg has consistently been a part of this event.
This year, we shall have a Living Room Tellabration!!! With a number of tellers, on
Saturday, 11/9, at 3 pm
At our home at 8 Hancox Street, in Stonington.
The tellers: Steve and Ako, Nick, Tami, Marya.
Please join us! There will be tea and cookies and stories and You!

I look forward to seeing you. Rsvp so I have an idea of the seating, and cookies!

And – put this on your calendar: we shall have a round robin reading of
A Child’s Christmas in Wales on December 8th, at 2 pm.
Rsvp.

I look forward to seeing you!

xo namaste, Marya

Cat dog

Homage to Merce

Lovely!   Wish I could go..

Samhain

 

Cat butterfly Yale

Samhain blessings

The moon will be transiting scorpio from about midday on Thursday through Saturday eve. It will be “void of course” in the middle of Saturday night for a short time. The moon will be dark and then new early Friday.

Coinciding with the dark moon this Friday Nov 1, the next few days are an especially potent time for a home ritual. Samhain (aka Halloween or All Hallows) is the halfway point between fall equinox and winter solstice.

Lunar Samhain is traditionally the dark moon closest to the halfway point between fall equinox and winter solstice.

The dark moon spans 3 days when the moon is not visible, so you could celebrate this Thursday, Friday or Saturday.

burn white sage!

Samhain ushers in the dark time of the year, when like the plants, you’re naturally pulled down to your roots—to draw inward and rest.

Many cultures consider this to be the time of the year when the veils between the worlds are thin. So it’s a powerful time to connect with your beloved dead and ancestors.

It can also be a time of letting go—perhaps an old way of being, or your experiences over the past year.In whatever way you choose honor Samhain this year, this seasonal marker is a powerful opportunity for healing.

(taken from Corinna Wood’s message)

Tellabration!!

Marya elf

Tellabration!

11/9 at 3 pm

To honor storytelling, the Ct. Storytelling Center hosts storytelling events throughout the state during the month of November.
The Dragon’s Egg has consistently been a part of this event.

This year, we shall have a Living Room Tellabration!!! With a number of tellers, on
Saturday, 11/9, at 3 pm
At our home at 8 Hancox Street, in Stonington.
Please join us! There will be tea and cookies and stories and You!
Rsvp

And – put this on your calendar: we shall have a round robin reading of
A Child’s Christmas in Wales on December 8th, at 2 pm.
Rsvp.

I look forward to seeing you!

Upcoming Living Room Events!

Misty at jane lahr s

 

Next Sunday, on October 20th, we shall have tea and read, together, The Birthday Party, by Harold Pinter, in our Living Room at 8 Hancox Street in Stonington. You may read or listen. I look forward to seeing you!
Do please RSVP.

Then, on November 9th, Saturday, at 3 pm, we shall have our Living Room Tellabration, for tellers and listeners alike! Please come, and let me know via email if you would like to be a teller or a listener.

We shall have a Holiday Gathering in December to read A Child’s Christmas in Wales… we might do this as a zoom meeting as well as an in person one. Date tbd. Interested?

I don’t think we can do a living room holiday bazaar, as we have been wont to do at the Egg in past years, but I shall think on that! heh.

This week, I have marya zoom yoga on Tuesday at 8:30 am
and on Friday and Sunday at 8 am.

And the full moon is on Thursday!!

xo marya

Tellabration is coming!

Hallow orange leaf

As usual, we plan to host Tellabration 2024, but we have no Dragon’s Egg this year.   

I am thinking of alternative ways to honour and celebrate storytelling during November: 
These would be in our Living Room in Stonington, so it would be informal, and would be a bit more like a small gathering/party for friends.
I would use the official Storytelling Center proclamation and have various tellers.  This could also include poets who have poems that may also tell a story, or Singers who have a song that tells a story.  
 I think it might be fun, and an alternative to the event at the Egg.

Here are the date possibilities I have:
11/9 at 11 am or at 3 pm or at 4 pm
11/10 at 4 pm
11/17 at 3 or 4

More information to follow.   Yay!

Luminaria!

Luminaria walkway

Luminaria walk at Copp Family Farm last night, October 4th –

Luminaria anna aarya adeline indigo grace

Luminaria frida2

magic was indeed afoot!

 

Luminaria aarya mushroom2

yay Aarya, Anna, Grace, Adeline, Indigo, Madeline, Frida, Jennifer, Rachel, David, Dan, and moi!

Closing Party at the Hygienic is Thursday, Sept. 26

 

Janvier1

Painting by Janvier Miller

Greetingsi!

I so look forward to seeing you all for our Closing Party for the show at the Hygienic,
which has featured work by Eva Leong, Gus and Jan Miller, Dan Potter, Marya Ursin,
on Thursday – 9/26 – from 4-6 pm.
The Hygienic Galleries is located at 79 Bank Street in New London.

 

Micheline  Pencil pastel and sumi ink on paper 17 x  22 $500

Painting by Dan Potter

This is your last chance to see the show!
I shall be taking it down late afternoon on Saturday.

Eva MARKET 17 x 66 oil on linen $3 900

Painting by Eva Leong

I am planning on a panel discussion with the artists, and then a short poetry reading by Melanie Greenhouse, Lana Orphanides, and Dan Potter. This will run from 4:30 – 5:30, roughly, though we may begin a bit earlier, like 4:15, if we are so moved.

We’ll serve seltzer and cookies.

Ceramic Sidewalk figures

Sculpted figures by Gus Miller

Please come!

namaste, marya

 

Marya ceramic

Ceramic by Dan, painted by Marya

Show imagined, curated and hung by Marya Ursin

Dragon’s Egg Presented yesterday!

Univ set clare stairs

 

It happened!

Univ set 24 garet

We came, we opened our hearts and minds to dance and theatre and music, and the audience came to complete the circle.

Univ set 24 andrea

I am in awe of the performers, and so very grateful to all for performing, watching and listening, coming to the egg, supporting one another.

 

Univ set 24 matt
It was a wonderful event.
Blessings on all.

Dragon’s Egg Presents!

 

Jenny italy

The Dragon’s Egg Presents at University Settlement performance is on This Saturday, the 21st, at 2 pm ( in NYC) and promises to be a rich experience of dance, music, theatre!
Experience new worlds!
Give yourself time to get there, and be on time, as late entry may be tricky.
You can pre pay and reserve tickets with me, via cheque or pay pal :
https://paypal.me/dragonseggstudio
Or by cheque to the Mystic Paper Beasts, 8 Hancox, Stonington, Ct. 06378.

Thank you! xo Marya Ursin

Performers:
Alison Cook Beatty Company, Celestials, Stroller Scene, TINATA, Ara Fitzgerald, Haus of Glitter, Morgan Griffin, Anabella Lenzu, Catherine Messina, Garet Wierdsma, Andrea Ward.
stage manager: LD Kelley, lighting: Emma Rivera, film recording: Dan Potter
Producer/MC/organizer: Marya Ursin
Directions:
For the Dragon’s Egg Presents on Sept. 21, at 2 pm,
at University Settlement in NYC,
184 Eldridge St.
Here are the closest subway stops:
B/D to Grand Street
F to 2nd Avenue
6 to Spring Street (though this is the furthest “closest” stop)