Gatherings | Sheila Collins

The Anatomy of Ecstasy

by Sheila Collins | Mar 23, 2014 | Gatherings, Health and Wellness, Personal Stories, Self-Care for Caregivers, Spirtuality, Story-telling, the Big Body, Uncategorized

When my then five-year old nephew, Adam, who was an only child discovered that he had four cousins he said, “I feel so big. I’m bigger than a Giant!” Preparing to return from Atlanta after spending time with a group of amazing women and meeting many others in the...

The Family Carries On

by Sheila Collins | Jan 5, 2014 | Gatherings, Grieving, Personal Stories, Story-telling

As our plane finally lifts from the ground in Palm Springs CA. we’re offered a panoramic view of the mountains and red tile rooftops on the valley floor. “Goodbye palm trees. Goodbye warm swimming pools and even warmer hot tubs. Goodbye dear family, till the next time...

Dancing on the Fringe

by Sheila Collins | Sep 4, 2013 | Art & Life, Dances, Gatherings, Improvisation, Personal Stories, Story-telling

The streets of Edinburgh Scotland were filled, as they are every August, with performing artists and the tourists and locals who had come to see them. Rich and I, along with 22 other InterPlayers from around the world were among them. Pushing our way through the...

Rituals That Heal

by Sheila Collins | Jul 2, 2013 | Dances, Gatherings, Rituals

There was dancing in the streets in Pittsburgh, and many other cities around the country last week when the Supreme Court struck down Section 3 of the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act. Marriage for same sex partners will not soon be available throughout the US,...

Occupying Pittsburgh’s Market Square

by Sheila Collins | Feb 17, 2013 | Dances, Gatherings

Last Thursday’s One Billion Rising Pittsburgh event attracted over 400 people and was organized by New Voices Pittsburgh: Women of Color for Reproductive Justice, an organization that InterPlayer, Toni McClendon helped to start. These young, mostly African-American...

We The People Won!

by Sheila Collins | Nov 8, 2012 | Gatherings, Personal Stories

In the last few days of the campaign, I sat for hours with eight other women in the garden room of another woman’s house. Other people moved in and out of the living and dining rooms, all holding lists of likely voters and cell phones, calling to get out the vote for...

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The Anatomy of Ecstasy

The Family Carries On

Dancing on the Fringe

Rituals That Heal

Occupying Pittsburgh’s Market Square

We The People Won!

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