I’m really big on are the ideas, habits, activities, and environments that NURTURE CREATIVITY…read on, lovies…
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I hope you’re all enjoying the beautiful big blue moon this weekend and basking in its light. It’s a 4th moon within a season rather than three, so we will have 13 full moons this year instead of 12. Ride this extra burst of energy for centering, envisioning, dreaming-up, and bringing-forth.
What are you planting, sowing, or harvesting in these dog days of summer?
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Join me online for a Breath and Voice Workshop & Creative Check-in Workshop Series.
Tuesdays & Saturdays
I like year-end look-backs. I like to take stock and count my blessings no matter how challenging a year it’s been. And it has been, to say the least. I’ve been lucky this year in so many, many ways. And I don’t need to repeat all the Terrible Year year-end posts. I’ll just take a moment to lead you through my artsy world and its goings-on over the past twelve months…
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Ned Rorem's 1947 setting of the Robert Frost poem published in 1923.
Misha Penton, soprano and Maimy Fong, piano.
A little musical holiday card….not my usual fare, but a wee gem from the mid 20th century.
Merry Solstice, Io Saturnalia, and Merry Christmas…
Join me this Saturday for an expressive voice & movement class (no experience needed!) and get ready for next week’s drop of the (micro)Requiem…
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micro)Requiem: a remembrance
A new series of miniature vocal films
by soprano and composer Misha Penton
Released daily: October 26 - November 1
Inspire is from the ‘Latin inspirare (‘to breathe or blow into’)’ with its root from the word spirare: ‘to breathe.’ Inspiration is connected with the etymology of spirit: from the Latin for ‘breath,’ spiritus, which is also from spirare’…
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Check out my summer recap and what’s coming from The Misha-verse this fall and into 2021.
Mask-up & stay safe out there. Read on!
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Summer News from Everything Misha: a new micro opera, a new music video, and online expressive voice workshops.
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After the Ball a new prose poem and voice-scape re-describing a futuristic Cinderella-esque world published here at Sword & Kettle / Corvid Queen.
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A Thousand Rockets, a new prose poem and voice-scape exploring possibilities for a new multi-verse published at About Place Journal — check it out here.
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Join me online for a Breath and Voice Workshop & Creative Check-in Workshop Series.
Wednesday & Saturdays
12pm-1pm CDT (US)
Hi, y’all!—
I'm sending out a lot of light and inspiration to all of you and spreading a little beauty and magic during this time. I hope this wee missive finds you well. I'd love to hear from you, so don't be shy and drop me a line. What inspires you? Scares you? Revs you up? What's new in your world? Here’s what’s new in mine: a new series of Micro Operas out now and a new music video, Visible Darkness, coming this spring. Read on… #stayinspired
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Clarity! — What is it? Here are some clues:
clarity (n.) c. 1300, clarte, clerte "brightness, radiance; glory, splendor," from Old French clerte, clartet (Modern French clarté) "clarity, brightness," from Latin claritas "brightness, splendor," also, of sounds, "clearness”…. I LOVE WORDS! (thanks etymonline.com!)
Isn’t that cool?
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At the turn of the year, I like to write a love note to the previous year and take a look ahead. this helps me to take stock of what has flowered in the past twelve months and to peek ahead at what I’m planting and planning in the coming year. It’s mostly for me, really— because I’m often like, ‘I’M NOT DOING ANYTHING!’— then I sift through the wonders of the past year and I’m like, ‘Oh, I did stuff. I did cool stuff. Cool.’ So take a little trip with me.
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I love this dark seasonal time leading to the longest night of the year— a juicy, gestational time of introspection, expectation, intent, and possibility.
I've tended to an altar in my studio space for many, many years. I've kept some kind of altar since I was nineteen. I like being open to the poetry of symbols— its not a matter of 'belief' but of possibility: what are the possibilities of meaning-making and intention-setting? An altar is a site to gather energy, focus work and life intentions, and honor what is right for you.
The Little Yakking Monster: “Yakkety-yak-yak-yak.” Shut it, monster.
Most of us have a rambling and babbling voice that chats and annoys and cajoles and sometimes even shouts: a little Yakking Monster who sits on your shoulder— invariably critical, judgmental, cynical, and snarky.
Nope! Nope! Nope!
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For many years my fitness practice and creative practice have been intertwined. My home studio is music studio, film editing suite, workout room, sometimes visual arts studio, and a cozy research space with a lovingly tended-to altar: a symbolic and poetic environment for setting intentions and focussing energy.
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