Smokebrush Foundation for the Arts

Build Your Own Ceramic Whistling Vessel Workshop

with Sandra Elena Ten Zijthoff
huacoarte.com
nuestratierra.community

📆 Wednesday, November 20th
⏰ 1 pm – 5 pm
🎟️ Suggested Donation: $50—75 Sliding scale

Join us for this donation-based workshop, led by Sandra, a Peruvian-Dutch ceramist, offering a unique opportunity to learn the art of creating precolumbian whistling vessels while supporting the Ecuador-based nonprofit, Nuestra Tierra Aldea Creativa (Our Earth, Creative Village).

Nuestra Tierra works to conserve the Andean Chocó forest, advocate for women’s environmental empowerment, preserve ancestral traditions, and promote healing through art and nature.

What you will learn:
•  Intro to Pre-Columbian Whistling Vessels:
 Overview of their history, cultural significance, and potential uses.
 Creating the Whistling Mechanism:
•  Step-by-step guidance on crafting the internal system that produces sound with water and/or by blowing air.
•  Building a Two-Chambered Whistling Vessel:
 Instruction on handbuilding the vessel.
•  Finishing Tips: Guidance on completing and refining the vessel after the workshop.

Beginners are welcome, but it helps to have some experience with clay:)

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Rockledge at Smokebrush Farm
328 El Paso Boulevard, Manitou Springs, CO 80829

Honoring Grief Through Art & Movement

with Rachael Deegan MA LPCC & Ryan Hildebrandt 500 hr YT

📆 Saturday, November 23rd
⏰ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
🎟️ $50 per guest

This workshop includes a grief focused 45 minute yoga flows guided by Ryan followed by 2 hour multimedia therapeutic artmaking experiential honoring your grief guided by Rachael. Grief is often perceived as displaced love with seemingly nowhere to go. This workshop is aimed at helping you cultivate meaning and healing in your grieving process through movement and creative expression. We will help you move your grief through you and honor the powerful experience of grieving. Together we will tap into our grief through intentional movement and create multimedia pieces to honor our grief, our loved one(s), and the beautiful, cyclical nature of being human. 

Therapeutic Artmaking is the process of utilizing the tools of art as a source of healing, focusing on the process, rather than the product; the journey rather than the destination.

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Rockledge at Smokebrush Farm
328 El Paso Boulevard, Manitou Springs, CO 80829

A Grateful Landscape; Body Movement Celebration and Exploration

with Becca Loevy

📆 Sunday, November 24th
⏰ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
🎟️ $30 per guest

Dip into the basics of dance improvisation in this two hour workshop with embodiment practitioner Becca Loevy.

Learn movement tools and techniques to acknowledge, give thanks, and recognize the magic of the body and its landscape. Through the pathways of the elements, participants will find the rivers, mountains, forests, etc. that pulse through each of us and connect us to this planet we call home.

Becca Loevy Dancer, Massage Therapist
Becca Loevy has been teaching and performing dance professionally for over a decade. After traveling around the world learning about various cultural dances and ceremonies, Becca began to cultivate a somatic improvisational language to help people of all ages feel comfortable moving, feeling silly, and making space for their fullest expressions to shine. Since joining Smokebrush as an artist 3 years ago, she has helped put together classes, farm-to-tables, and gatherings to help people connect to their bodies and to the land. She’s inspired to continue to create containers that help foster this land/body connection via her experience as a dancer, mindfulness practitioner, massage therapist, and farmer. This blend of pathways, alongside the inspiration of Smokebrush and all the people involved in this special organization, has been the seed that has brought about the birthing and creating of this movement retreat.

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Rockledge at Smokebrush Farm
328 El Paso Boulevard, Manitou Springs, CO 80829

Imagine Peace Concert — A musical tribute to John Lennon

📆 Friday, December 6th
⏰ 6:00 — 9:00 pm
🎟️ $25 per guest

Come together as we celebrate the life and legacy of John Lennon on the anniversary of his passing. Local musicians and performers will bring John’s and the Beatles’ music to life in an intimate, heartfelt tribute taking place at the historic Rockledge House in Manitou Springs.

It’s a night to honor John’s incredible influence and his message of peace, unity, and love through the songs that shaped a generation. Join us for an evening filled with timeless music, memories, and community—an experience you won’t want to miss.

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Rockledge at Smokebrush Farm
328 El Paso Boulevard, Manitou Springs, CO 80829

Smokebrush Winter Holiday Bazaar

📆 Sunday, December 8th
⏰ 11:00 am — 5:00 pm
🎟️ Free Admission

Don’t miss our once-a-year pop-up market! From cozy, crafted goods to thoughtful, one-of-a-kind treasures, Smokebrush Foundation’s annual holiday bazaar offers the best of local artisanship in a festive, welcoming atmosphere.

Make holiday shopping meaningful this year by supporting local artists and finding gifts that truly stand out!

Rockledge at Smokebrush Farm
328 El Paso Boulevard, Manitou Springs, CO 80829