LIFting the ceiling

Workshop hosted by Studio 303

Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal

June 9-13, 2025

9:30 am to 12:30 pm (Mon-Fri)
Full week: $95 (taxes included)
Drop-in: $28 (available one month prior)
Language of instruction: English
Questions can be asked in English and French

Lifting the Ceiling is a workshop dedicated to recognizing latent dreamscapes for life, work and art making, as big and as good-feeling as we can; stretching to include the too big, too much, too ambitious, idealistic, currently impractical.

We’ll navigate building a deeply affirming experience for each other that might validate who we are as more than individual humans, allowing us space to explore possibility in current conditions (personal, interpersonal, societal- ie collapse, multiple genocides, division, climate overwhelm).

The workshop rehearses imagining and believing the possible worlds (or even moments) we desire—not through a framework of reform, but through one of grounded fantasy, and a belief in dignity. What is our desired future and present, and how can we rehearse it, palliate it, into life right now?

We will practice alternatives to a mindset of precarity. Exercises will include adapted writing prompts, movement scores, work-outs, short meditations, structured sharings/discussions and paired reflections aimed at nurturing potential and courage.