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Mas Pinet, South of France
Day of Arrival.
If you are traveling from out of state or out of country, please plan to arrive the day prior to the workshop start date. This will give you the opportunity to check in, relax, and start to enjoy the city.
Day 1: First day of the workshop.
Introduction to the workshop goals and processes.
Why study creativity?
Creativity across cultures and the ages
Creative people and companies – how they think, work, live
Your creative work
Exercises in automatic drawing, writing, and multiple perceptions.
Day 2:
Exploring insights from your unique past experiences.
Exercises in story creation and telling, three dimensional imaginary worlds, and reflective relaxation.
Day 3:
Your creative, present strengths.
Exercises in sentence play, stream of consciousness, and you are the protagonist.
Day 4:
Your creative blocks.
Exercises in finding inspiration, sense and question games, and norm destruction.
Day 5:
Creative possibilities.
Exercises in photography, active listening, cultivating confusion, and prolonged observation.
Day 6:
Developing a consistent practice for your creative development.
Exercises in mandalas and map making, journal writing, and collaborative creativity.
Day of Departure.
Please plan to depart either very late in the day on the last day of the workshop end date or the following day. This will allow you plenty of time to check out and to travel to the airport after the end of the workshop.
Note: The order and nature of the exercises used in each workshop may vary.
Materials to Bring
- Journal
- Sketchpad, 9x12 or larger
- Several sheets of larger paper, 16x20 or larger
- Colored pencils
- Pastels
- Charcoal pencils
- Sharpener
- Scissors*
- Eraser
- Glue Stick*
- A few of your favorite magazines
- Camera
- Sun Hat
- Sunscreen
- Towel or pillow to sit on the floor
- Closed-top container for any beverages you may want to bring with you
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* Please carry these items in your checked baggage so they are not confiscated by airport security.
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Meet Our Hosts
Former Cirque du Soleil
performers, Jade and Karine
High wire walker Jade Kindar, and gymnast/stunt woman Karine Mauffrey welcome us this summer to their artist retreat in the South of France.
Jade started performing on the wire at the age of 14 with the acclaimed Circus Smirkus Youth Circus. He went on to study under renowned high-wire walker Rudy Omankowsky Jr. in France and has since performed in countless shows and festivals around the world. He has done skywalks throughout Europe, the U.S., Russia, and Oman. For four years, he also starred in the high wire act in Cirque du Soleil's show, La Nouba.
After a 17-year gymnastics career in her native France, Karine joined the world famous troupe Cirque du Soleil and, for four years, starred in the power track/trampoline team of La Nouba, where she met Jade. Since then, she has worked as a stunt woman making motion pictures in Hollywood with directors such as Zemeckis, Spielberg, M. Night Shyamalan, and others.
Karine and her husband Jade dreamt of returning to France and living a healthy, organic, eco-friendly life, so they bought an ancient provincial stone house in the South of France and named it Mas Pinet. They have converted the Mas and the surrounding terraced river valley into an artist retreat. They also continue to travel around the world performing individually and as a couple.
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