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Jubilee Retreat Weekend

Spiritual Energizing and Skill-Sharing through Improvisational Arts

Explore spiritual enrichment, community renewal and peacemaking action through new forms of interactive drama, movement and other creative arts. Activities include:

• personal and group devotional time
• playing with basic movement exercises
• learning liberating theater games
• telling stories and reflecting them with improvisational drama
• re-experiencing other familiar art forms as community invigoration
• sharing meals and a supportive fellowship

Led by:  The Jubilee Troupe - Chris Fitz, Christina Cruz, Holly White and Tabea Steinbeisser - with Arlene Kiely, Gloria Newton, Paul Grout, Barb Sayler, Chris Fitze and YOU!

Concurrent workshops will be an opportunity to explore other art forms on Saturday afternoon:

• Fun with Group Improv and Games - Chris Fitze. Have fun and learn some games to build groups through risk-taking improvisational theater. Chris Fitze is a professional theater technician and improv troupe member from Portland, ME.
• Scratching Out the New Paradigm - Paul Grout. What does art have to do with waking up in our numbed culture? Explore this waking up on paper. What does it look like so far? Paul Grout is an artist, former pastor at the Genesis Church of the Brethren and co-founder of A Place Apart in Putney, VT.
• Spirit of Song - Barb Sayler. Through melody and rhythm, we can pray and create simultaneously. Using a repeated phrase or mantra, we will play with musical prayer and opening ourselves to the Spirit's flow. We will take time to explore this kind of creating, with and without words, alone and together, expressing our inner thoughts and prayers. Barb Sayler is a singer and co-director of On Earth Peace, New Windsor, MD.

Organized by:  the Jubilee Troupe, an independent project sponsored by On Earth Peace.

On:  January 7-9, 2005

       Friday, 7:30 PM to Sunday, 1:30 PM

At:  Brethren Service Center in New Windsor, Maryland

Registration:  $35-65 includes simple accomodations and meals

Accomodations:  Standard accomodations are homestays. Private and shared dorm-style accomodations are also available at additional cost. See below.

Contact:  email us with this form.


The Retreat Weekend is part of a larger training of the Jubilee Troupe to lead performances, workshops and worship services across the United States in 2005. In addition to a meaningful weekend, it will prepare you to join the Troupe in those upcoming events passing by your community.

Contact us for more information about this past event.

Ongoing and Regional Participation in performances, worship or workshops of the Jubilee Troupe is a welcomed part of your involvement in the Retreat Weekend though not compulsory. Please indicate your interest in this type of participation above. We will discuss these aspects both during and after the Retreat Weekend and as events are scheduled in your region.

Payment and Method of Payment: The registration cost of $35-65 is a sliding scale fee based on your own ability to pay. This depends on an honest assessment of your own resources and ability to compensate the expenses of this Retreat Weekend. Dorm style accomodations cost an additional $30 for the weekend (shared) and $45 (single). Make your check payable to "On Earth Peace, Inc." and send it to the following address:

The Jubilee Troupe
On Earth Peace, Inc.
500 Main Street.
New Windsor, MD 21776

Or pay online through the Brethren Peace Fellowship, a sponsoring organization by clicking here, following the donation steps and specifying "Jubilee Weekend Retreat" in the "Designation" box.

We look forward to seeing you at this exciting weekend!

The Jubilee Troupe core group, Chris, Christina, Holly and Tabea.