Join artist-educators Shannon Litzenberger and Mairéad Filgate, collectively known as PlaySpace, for a rare opportunity to spend 5-days immersed in creative practice on the beautiful campus at the Haliburton College of Art and Design.
Cultivate presence, receptivity and wonder through embodied creative practice as you waken your creative intelligence – the felt, intuitive capacity that fuels imagination, insight, and artistic expression. Through a weave of movement, guided reflection, poetry, and simple visual arts practices, explore creativity as an embodied, relational process that connects you to yourself, to one another, and to the living landscape. Some practices will take place outdoors in the Haliburton Sculpture Forest, inviting you to connect with the elements as collaborators in your creative process. Through simple rituals and noticing practices, explore how creativity arises in the dynamic interplay between body and environment, self and nature. By attuning to the rhythms and textures of the natural world, cultivate presence, receptivity, and wonder. No artistic experience is required.
Dates: 9 am – 4:30 pm, August 17-21, 2026
Location: The Haliburton School of Art and Design, Fleming College – 297 College Drive, Haliburton, ON
For more information and to register, see here.
*Accommodation options are available on campus.
About
PlaySpace is a creative facilitation partnership led by artist-educators Shannon Litzenberger (Toronto) and Mairéad Filgate (Montréal). Together, they design interventions using embodied, ensemble-based play, investigating its potential as a transformative methodology to foster collaborative leadership, community wellbeing, and inclusive culture-making. PlaySpace’s ongoing research is currently supported through affiliations with the School of Cities and the Department of Arts, Culture, and Media at University of Toronto. The development of their work has grown from collaborations with many professional artist peers and through partnerships with the Ivey Business School at Western University, the Department of Urban Planning and Design at Concordia University, and with funding support from the Canada Council for the Arts.