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Back Fence PDX Storytelling Shows

February 2021

Drop the Mic Listening Party

Join us for an online listening party for Drop the ...

27 Feb

8:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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Upcoming Shows & Workshops

February 2021

Feb 27 2021

Drop the Mic Listening Party

Online

March 2021

Mar 12 2021 - Jun 25 2021

The Workshop Workshop – Facilitating Transformation

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Mar 14 2021

Moon School – A Poetry Workshop

Online

Mar 24 2021

Poetry Feature for the Poetry Idiots

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May 2021

May 04 2021 - Jun 08 2021

Spring Storytelling Intensive

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May 06 2021

Rooted: A Poetry Workshop with The Poetry Lab

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Congratulations to my life love @brianstephenellis

Congratulations to my life love @brianstephenellis on completing novel #3 this morning! It takes so much dedication and heart to cross the finish 🙌🏼 as your personal witness, I’ve gotten to see the daily of it up close, so I know you know I know. I’m so proud and happy for you, bubbles time ✨✨✨

Last chance to sign up for the free talk and Q&A t

Last chance to sign up for the free talk and Q&A tomorrow morning (or recording of it!) - Where Troubles Melt Like Lemon Drops: Trauma-Informed Practices for Facilitating Groups on Zoom. Registration link stops working today at 2pm PST 🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋 thank you David Lynch for modeling strangeness and openness and freedom

I don’t know when NASA named the Mars rover Pers

I don’t know when NASA named the Mars rover Perserverance, and I know they didn’t name it that to personally motivate me, but it’s working. Seeing this photo of Martian star fields is like a strong shot of keep going, we know you’re at your edge, keep going, but also stop and look around, wow, ok great now keep going further.

Mercury is direct, the moon is on the wax, and pow

Mercury is direct, the moon is on the wax, and powerlessness is still being resolved. I know all of us who can are sending our extra heart and any extra dollars to Texans, who took the brunt of the storm this time. What happens to any of us happens to all of us, and truly, in this time of climate change consequences, it can and will be all of us that suffer in turn as systems breakdown. The world continues to highlight for us what’s broken, dysfunctional, and deadly - systems-wise - so that we Know (!) what must be re-imagined and rebuilt and re-regulated - reharmonized - for the benefit of everyone.

Basically 2021 is striking the same tension building chords as 2020, with only slightly more resolving chords. And I’ll take what I can get. One of the few things I know with total clarity that I am here to be of service to voices and their healing and their stories and their creativity and vocational calling - and that I have to do that in my own style. I have to do it so deeply in my own style that it gives permission to others to do it in their style. I discover what my style is through constant invention and experimentation, by treating my entire life and all my work as a poem I’m feeling my way through.

Right now, I’m experimenting with ways to exquisitely support and love on other creatives and leaders who are called to facilitate creative processes and change. It’s such hard and important work. It’s not too late to sign up for this Friday’s free talk on trauma-informed practices for facilitating groups on Zoom. And there are 3 spots left in this coming 4-month course I’m calling “the workshop workshop.” If you’ve been looking for a way to accelerate your development as a facilitator and workshop leader, or just to have a beautiful supportive process for yourself, like those you provide for others, this could be for you. Head to thecultofmindy.com to learn more, and don’t hesitate to reach out as you consider what your personal spring needs.

You’re invited to this special Drop the Mic, Zoo

You’re invited to this special Drop the Mic, Zoom listening party! Next Saturday February 27th on the full moon in Virgo ❤️🧡💛⁠
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Drop the Mic is an audio storytelling project collaboration with Artists Rep and Back Fence PDX featuring the work of some of Portland’s best storytellers: Chris Williams, Darshanpreet Gill, Katie Nguyen, Kisha Jarrett, Lauren Modica, Monica Choy, Shauna Hahn, and Vin Shambry; co-produced and co-hosted by B. Frayn Masters and Mindy Nettifee⁠ (me!) All the stories were recorded in October, and the storytellers all worked with the theme (during the 2020 portal, during the run up to the election, during a Mercury retrograde) CAN I GET A DO OVER?⁠ It’s so so good, and this one time listening party on Zoom will be packed with extra party treats to enjoy from the comforts of your own zone.
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Ticket link in bio until the event! “Doors” open at 6:30 pm PST for preshow, stories start at 7pm. We’d love to have you there with us. It’s going to be a lot of fun!
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Pisces season is nearly upon us friends - mutable

Pisces season is nearly upon us friends - mutable water, time of the great emo cosmic melt, here to unfreeze us out of winter into spring. I know we all could use some heat and power at this time - in all the ways.

Another round of Moon School is coming up soon - a 4-week poetry workshop synced with the moon cycle that I’ll be teaching with my other half Brian S. Ellis. This one starts Sunday, March 14th with the new moon in Pisces and takes us into spring and Aries commencement vibes and April and all that flowering. The workshop is online and the water will be warm for poets at any and all levels who want to begin or deepen their practice. While the moon is on the wax, I will focus on rituals of generation and somatic practices for getting into creative flow. When the moon is full and starts to wane, Brian will guide us through embodied editing practices for mining and polishing our poem gems. You’ll get access to 4 live & recorded 90-minute workshops and a steady river of original writing prompts - all new for those considering taking it again. If you’re feeling called to join us, please do! Anyone can sign up by March 13th - all the links are in my bio. 3 sliding scale spots are available - DM me to inquire for yourself or a friend.

Happy new year! Yin Metal Ox energy for all of us

Happy new year! Yin Metal Ox energy for all of us 🙌🏼 Discipline, care, and hard work 🙌🏼 We are not stuck, we can tend and repair, we can be large and have horns 🙌🏼

Ox lessons via @theknowculture

The new Snow Moon arrives today/Thursday at 11:06

The new Snow Moon arrives today/Thursday at 11:06 am PST at 23° of Aquarius. This moment is maximum Aquarius. Besides the sun and moon being conjunct there, forming the new moon, Jupiter and Venus are nearby at 12° of Aquarius, and Saturn and a retrograding Mercury are in Aquarius as well. It’s a rare and gorgeous stellium, this much energy gathering in one place is activating something big. The gift the Aquarius archetype offers is an open, unconventional mind – a mind capable of changing and learning and receiving beautiful visions and radical revisions. We need this hot synth right now. This next level receptivity. We need fresh, bright, weird ideas that can grow into new enlightened forms.

There’s nothing we need to “do” with this new moon exactly, but it feels like today and the next few days will bless us with some divine cosmic perspective. Some questions I’m asking, that you could ask too: what are you learning now about how past events and conditions created the present moment? How can you create the initial conditions and inciting incidents for the future you want? Not for yourself, think farther out than that - think generations from now, when your body is flowers and your lifeforce has dissolved back into the great mystery. Think about the kind of ancestor you want to become, what you might need to pull that off, and then set a course to get there.

I’ve been hearing this Rumi spell like a song on repeat for the last few days:

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep.

You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.

People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.

The door is round and open.
Don’t go back to sleep.

Aquarius visual inspiration: Inuit snow goggles regrammed from @soooodeeeep, snowy pigeons in front of a Mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan captured by Helen & Frank Schreider, reality/dream meme regrammed from @experimentalfilmsociety, and “Sound Experiment” by the painter Mark Rogers. Rumi translation by Coleman Barks 🙌🏼

Happy Tuesday friends, happy Mercury retrograde, I

Happy Tuesday friends, happy Mercury retrograde, I’m feel like I’m preparing for the coming new moon by trying to finish all my homework from the last new moon 🌒 I have some workshops coming in March I want to shout out - another cycle of the Moon School poetry workshop is coming, plus a special 4-month small-group container for creatives who teach workshops or would like to. But before all that I am giving a free 90 minute talk + Q&A on Friday, February 26th at 9am PST on trauma-informed practices for group facilitation on Zoom. I want to pass on some of the really useful perspective gems and strategies I’ve learned in the last year, from my own teaching practice, from talking with other trauma therapists and teachers, and as a student/receiver of online trainings. Pandemic Zooming turned out to be a rich environment for applying research about trauma and the voice. I would be so honored if you passed it on to anyone you know who is teaching and facilitating groups on Zoom and might want in on this! The talk will be recorded (but not the Q&A) so register even if the timing bums you out. All the info is in the bio link.

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