Our Offerings Are Going Online
Beginning June 7, 2010, A Spacious Place will offer online arts/spirituality courses through our website. The first course, When God Walks Away: Exploring and Enduring the Dark Night of the Soul, has Dr. Kaye McKee as its guide.
John of the Cross coined the poetic term "dark night" for a painful, perturbing, and ultimately blessed stretch on the spiritual journey. The experiential 7-week course will explore metaphors for aspects of the dark night as depicted in film, music, visual art pieces, and literature. We will differentiate the Night of the Senses from the Night of the Spirit; we will also differentiate the dark night from depression. Course participants will engage in spiritual practices designed for dark night endurance.
The classes run from June 7 - July 23 (You log on at your convenience each week. Course includes PowerPointTM lecture, spiritual practice options, arts options, weekly chat room, and discussion questions.)
Cost for the course is $75 for nonmembers and $65 for members or high school/college students. If you need a scholarship, please contact us by email or by telephone at 512-439-7410.
Click here to register online for the course.
Creativity/Spirituality Journal
A Spacious Place is creating an online journal. If you wish to submit a scholarly piece related to creativity and/or spirituality, please submit your piece to Contact@aspaciousplace.com.
Camp
Our "Myth & Magic" Creativity Camp invites campers to create their 
own hero myths. We'll do storytelling through film,
through bookmaking, through the creation of urns, and more. Also, we'll make music, thanks to Mike Lawrence, and play
games that explore the Hero Cycle. And, of course, there will also be a messy art day!
| Dates: | July 26 - 30 |
| Time: | 9 am - 4 pm |
| Place: | 7105 Gentle Oak Drive, 78749 |
| Ages: | 1st - 6th Completed |
| Cost: | $75 for first camper in a family, $65 for each remaining camper (we are simplifying to keep the costs extremely low this year due to people's economic needs) |
Click her to register. Register promptly to assure a space for your camper(s).
Tailgate Offerings
At A Spacious Place we enjoy loading the trunks of our vehicles with creative goodies and motoring out to group homes, apartment complexes, camp sites, churches, and campuses. We provide opportunities for creative and spiritual expression to persons who have developmental delays, persons in transitional or low-income housing, and children, to name a few. We just get in our cars and follow the need. If you know of an organization that might benefit from A Spacious Place's Tailgate Offerings, we'd love to hear from you! Contact kaye@aspaciousplace.com.
Ongoing Offerings
Click here for more information on Spiritual Direction.
PAST COURSES
"Roar of Love"
A study of C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia. Facilitated by David Gentiles, "Roar of Love" was a five week class that involved discussion of the Chronicles with a comical pretest to begin each session. To view the pretests and test your knowledge, click here.
David is a graduate of Baylor University and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He is currently the associate pastor at Journey Imperfect Faith Community, the father of three amazing daughters—Ariele, Hannah and Calla—, an incurable Cleveland Indians baseball fan and a lover of chocolate milk.
Switching Lenses: Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary through Photography
Through the lens of an ordinary point-and-shoot camera, we learned how to explore the beauty that surrounds us every day and how to use the computer to transform your photos into works of art.
Jim Sipowicz was the arts guide for this course. Jim is a graphic artist and the owner of Shell Media, a fine art print company. Jim is also a gifted photographer.
Agony & Ecstasy: An Arts Journey Through the Human Soul
Using visual and musical art pieces that depict the redemptive power of suffering, we journeyed through the agonies and ecstasies of the human soul.
Our guide for this course was Carlye Brookshire. Carlye has a degree in art studies and has been an art teacher for both elementary and high school-aged students.
Creative Journaling Workshop
(with apologizes to Charlie Daniels)Nathan came down to Austin,
looking for a workshop to lead.
We all had pen and paper;
He got us up to speed.
Oh well, bad verse aside, our participants explored questions like "What makes a great title or first line?" "Are poets born or bred?" and "What is art?" They wrote and they read. They described the weekend as inspiring and transformative. Thanks, Nathan! Click here to view testimonials and creative writing pieces from attendees of our previous writing weekend.
A Home of Her Own
Our thanks to Jane Manning who did a dramatic reading of her original play and to Cy Young, her husband, for composing the musical score.
Thank you to the food artists who provided us delicious treats with a story side dish and to our visual artists who displayed their work and shared their proceeds with A Spacious Place.
Thanks to our performing musicians and all who came to support creative people in their creative work.