Upcoming Workshops & Events
Awake Mind : Writing, Drawing, Contemplating
A weekend virtual retreat at Tara Mandala with Victress Hitchcock & Barbara Bash
New Date!
Saturday & Sunday, October 2 & 3
Gathering in the space of open awareness and letting our creativity come out and play.
For more information and to register
visit victresshitchcock.com
Ongoing Teachings & Events
Circle Events
ONGOING MONTHLY EVENT
First Wednesday of each month
We meet on zoom monthly to explore three questions through a timed contemplative format. Come to engage - slow down - listen deeper - to ourselves and others.
Contact Barbara Bash directly via email at barbarabash@gmail.com for more information and zoom link.
Participants Share
“Thank goodness Barbara, our Big Calligraphy Mind workshop teacher, said that “taking photos of our work is sweet and poignant” because this is a calligraphy workshop that has participants destroy what they create right after the paint hits the paper. “Oh my,” I thought. I loved this workshop. There are few opportunities in everyday life to play with gobs of black paint and see where the brushstroke takes you.
The class was held in the ABC Home store in NYC. Deepak Chopra’s studio is right here. The room is surrounded in Thich Nhat Hahn’s original calligraphy. The setting is extraordinary.
The sign on the sidewalk just outside the workshop says, “In Pursuit of Magic.” It stopped me. I realized that if this blog has a theme, pursuing magic pretty much sums it up.”
THREE THINGS BIG CALLIGRAPHY MIND TAUGHT ME
Brushstrokes on paper are alluring to me. In fact, after this experience with calligraphy, I signed up for a watercolor class.
Finding stillness and slowness is important, especially among the chaos of living in the fast-paced PR business in New York City was really welcome. In Barbara’s follow-up email, she expressed it so well, “That was a sweet and strong encounter with all of you on Sunday afternoon, gathering in that quiet open space in the midst of the humming ABC world -brush joining with ink / mind / heart and aliveness showing up!”
Creativity fills the space you give it. I’ve never taken a class quite like this before, but was able to surprise myself with what I created by virtue of giving myself permission and the space to make.
Barbara Bash, creator of the Big Calligraphy method.
Nancy Moon, “My first circle. Heaven, Earth, Human. In one stroke”
2021 Events & Workshops
Sky, Earth, Heart: A Way to Meet the World
with Barbara Bash
January 16th, 2021 (on Zoom)
An exploration of the ancient and universal principles of heaven, earth and human and how they express themselves through art of the natural world. Beginning with what is overarching and wide, moving to what is settled, on the ground, the insight of the heart is revealed. Barbara will share her process and offer images of her visual work.
Interactive talk & demonstration presented by Touching the Earth Collective and Shambhala Online
Dharma Art & the Artist (third in the series)
EXPRESSIVE BRUSH:Making a Mark
with Barbara Bash
Tuesday May 18th 2021 7:00-8:00 pm ET
(on Zoom)
Following the brush the world is revealed.
The Alive Line
Four Zoom Gatherings
and a Month of Creative Practice with Barbara Bash
February 25 - March 18th 2021
Bringing forth the life moving within, grounding on the page, the truth of the moment is revealed. Each week we will explore a different creative practice - straight line, heaven, earth and human spontaneous brushstrokes, drawing and writing together, alive handwriting with three line poems. Each day you will have the opportunity to post that day’s expression to share and enjoy together. Class limited to 10.
SLOW HANDWRITING: A Contemplative Practice
with Barbara Bash
Saturday, June 12, 2021 10:00am-12:00pm PT
(on Zoom)
Our handwriting is a form of artistic expression that is accessible, unique and reflective of who we are in this moment. Drop in to this close at hand visual voice and discover the creative self. We will slow down our handwriting - working big, loose and illegible - small precise and clear - with pencils, pens and brushes, letting our true expression come forth. Letters become words become three line poems. The alphabet sings.
Hosted by the Shambhala Center of Los Angeles and part of the Contemplative Creativity Lab.
OPEN EYES: Children’s Book Art of the Natural World
Exhibit from August through October 2021
Stone Ridge Library
3700 Main Street, Stone Ridge, New York
AWAKE MIND: Writing, Drawing Contemplating
A weekend virtual retreat with Victress Hitchcock & Barbara Bash
Saturday & Sunday, October 2 & 3 2021
Gathering in the space of open awareness and letting our creativity come out and play.
2020 Teaching & Events
Mindfulness Resident for Creativity & Innovation
January - May 2020
Colorado College
Colorado Springs,
LEAPING LETTERS: From Nature to Pictograms to the Alphabet
Wednesday February 19, 2020
A visual performance exploring the writing of the world, beginning with the calligraphic movements of birds and weather and water and growing things, distilled through the hand into pictograms, evolving into the journey of the alphabet, ending with a spontaneous poetic expression joining space, form and heart.
Cornerstone Art Center
Flex Room, Colorado College