Artist Support Group

Sundays 7:30-8:30PM Eastern Standard Time (October 2023-March 2024).

On Zoom

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This is a weekly gathering of artists. Hearing others in various stages of similar situations seems to allow a slow way of processing alongside others, without necessarily being in direct conversation with one another or through focusing on any one certain problem.

Participants are from different disciplines and are not all from Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. Feel free to invite others you feel might be interested.

The meeting structure is loosely based on a 12 step model.

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Proposed order of events for a meeting:

  • Welcome- Hello

  • Someone recaps the below structure.

  • We will go around the room and introduce ourselves and our artistic hats or other relevant titles, pronouns, where we're from or are located.

  • We ask that someone offer a simple 1-3 paragraph reading on creative practice or related wisdom. (Feel free to have one prepared but if no one offers one, I'll have something ready.)

  • We sit for 10 minutes of writing or meditation, quiet time, cameras off.

  • We move into sharing: 1.5 minutes each (no feedback), approximately 20 minutes. Someone will offer to be a timekeeper and they will say "gentle reminder" at the 1.5 minute mark of each share. *For the 1.5 minute shares, let's share in "I" statements, rather than "we" or "you" statements, and try to speak to the group rather than to an individual. Let's refrain from directly commenting, offering advice or interrupting another person's share.

  • 1.5 minute shares can be about:

-anything related to your artistic or life practice currently.

-anything spurred from the reading

-where you're at with your current projects

-what question or block or contradicting plans or life events are coming up, if any

-tools, mantras, outlooks you already benefit from and want to remind yourself of as you move through the uncertainty of making new things

- what are you are calling in.

  • Then, someone offers a quote, wish or prayer and then we call it a day.

  • End of main part: (approximately 8:30pm EST)

The zoom room will remain open afterwards, if people wish to continue, for time to:

  • Ask questions-

  • Share if you didn't get a chance earlier-

  • Ask for or offer feedback-

Open discussion.