A collective “picnic” was held outdoors on Thursday, September 16, 2021. This social event incorporates performance, ritual, and gift exchange. There will be no actual food; although all the senses (except taste) will be explored. The meal will provide delectable intellectual, sensual, social, aesthetic and spiritual (non-sectarian) nourishment to the others. The students will consider how to provoke delight, joy, conversation, conviviality, contemplation (“silence”), revery and revelation using props, speech, sound, poetry, and the arts of architecture, the visual & literary arts, and theatre.
