elizaBeth Benson
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | poet, space holder, performance artist |
| Location | Berkeley, California, United States |
| Introduction | Transformative artists make themselves in the hallways and studios of John F. Kennedy University's Arts and Consciousness program. Here, I record musings on my life lived out loud as a self-declared transformative artist who teaches this stuff by showing up and being who i've become... I am lucky enough to have a collaborator, Raven Reyes, who shares an enterprise we call THE BLACK HUT. Our antics often inform what gets written here. We teach transformative art and irreverence, personal authority and interpersonal awareness, respect for self, legacy and lineage through a comedy/variety show that seems to come alive whenever we're anywhere together. at the moment, i co-habitate and co-create a live/work space called THE POET TREE HOUSE with neurobiology ninja, Catherine Baumgartner. She, too, informs what happens here in the words and work we do together to create the halfway house and encouraging environment that moves what we've learned in the hallway, out, into the wider jingletown world of our edge of Oakland. our studio is located in FORD STREET STUDIOS where we hostess a variety of story generating events.... |
| Interests | art,music,peace,poetry,beauty,kindness,creativity,dedication,enthusiasm,fearlessness,generosity,songwriting, art therapy, arts and consciousness, zen, buddhism, self-expression, hedonism,intelligence,joy,love,marriage,monogamy,nature and nurture,opulence,opportunity,possibility,quest,research,reading,stillness,simplicity,truth,universality,vagina monologues and dialogues,womanhood,xentricity,yearning,zoey,aj,albie |
| Favorite movies | thelma and louise same time next year the natural when harry met sally deliverance steel magnolias whale rider shine farenheit 911 zenith my dinner with andre do the right thing when stella got her groove back beloved mr. smith goes to washington it's a wonderful life the thin red line big |
| Favorite music | wannabered, dixie chicks, bonnie raitt, 256, james taylor, kiss, indigo girls, melissa ethridge, tim mcgraw, martina mcbride, etc. |
| Favorite books | for the time being, annie dillard the artist's way, julia cameron SARK anything, spilling open, sabrina ward harrison living, loving & learning, leo buscaglia making a literary life, carolyn see |