JOE GOODE PERFORMANCE GROUP SHARES A SERIES OF ‘MOVEMENT FOR HUMANS’ CLASSES: OPEN TO ALL VETERANS
Mindful Movement for Veterans is held:
ONLINE Mondays from 1pm – 2pm
Meeting ID: 882 0846 7834
Passcode: 797393
IN-PERSON Wednesdays from 10-11am
Address
San Francisco VA Clinic
401 3rd Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
Mindful Movement for Veterans is an ongoing partnership between the Joe Goode Performance Group and the San Francisco VA Health Care System through the SF Downtown Clinic and Integrative Health & Wellness Clinic, Whole Health Clinic.
There are two classes offered. Mondays online from 1-2pm and Wednesdays in-person from 10-11am at the VA Downtown Clinic.
Mindful Movement for Veterans Classes are designed to promote the mind-body connection, through use of gentle, mindful movement and breathing to cultivate a sense of ease and well being. Classes are adapted for all bodies and levels of mobility. No movement experience is necessary or needed.
The classes are part of The Resilience Project, which aims to explore how humans deal with trauma, using storytelling and performance as a way of finding universality and strength in the face of adversity. Previous performance centered processes included interested class participants being invited to share their stories in interviews that were woven into a live work performed by the company.
The Resilience Project is sponsored by California Arts Council Impact Grant
Class is facilitated by Joe Goode Performance Group Teaching Artists: Damara Vita Ganley, Wailana Simcock, B Dean and Mo Katzman
Questions: [email protected]
Accessibility: We are committed to creating an accessible environment for all veterans, all the classes are adapted for all bodies and levels of mobility. Service animals are welcome. Sign language interpretation (ASL) can be scheduled with notice.
READ ABOUT PAST RESILIENCE RESIDENCIES
2019 Resilience Project at the Contemporary Jewish Museum
ABOUT THE RESILIENCE PROJECT
The Resilience Project is derived from JGPG’s Human Kind performance series, an experimental performance series centered around the ways in which we are fallible and imperfect, using real stories from the community to drive the process of creation. The Human Kind process was then adapted into a residency format where Joe and the company interview a specific group of participants, using their individual responses and stories about resiliency to develop the text for a staged work that collides words and movement, gesture, and song into a visceral experience of the participants profoundly moving stories.
“Resilience to me is about falling down and getting up. It is about absorbing the impossible difficulties that come one’s way. I have discovered through doing these interviews, that it can also be about pressing the restart button, about accepting tragic and often devastating circumstances, and moving on to create a new condition for one’s life.”-Joe Goode
The first residency of the Resilience Project took place in 2013 in Manhattan, Kansas at the Institute for Health and Well Being of Military and their Families in collaboration with Kansas State University. The company worked with returning veterans from Iraq/Afghanistan, who came back from conflict with life changing injuries or disabilities, both physical and emotional.
“They communicated the essence of the resilience challenge in military veterans in ways that mere words cannot express.” -Director of Military Affairs for K-State