EVENTS & HAPPENINGS
UPCOMING for 2025 — CONSIDERING TIME & SPACE
The Power of Not Now: Lunar Calendars, Divination, and Defying Patriarchal Time
with K Prevallet
March 22, 10:00 AM — 5:30 PM, Ultra Offices, Tivoli NY
How have writers, artists and thinkers throughout the ages conceptualized time differently than the ticking clock running towards annihilation? What kind of time does the historical moment we are living in – one in which the patriarchal logic of technocratic progress, white supremacy, and fascism are attempting to dominate – seem to be calling for? What can each of us do to resist systems of brutality surveillance even as so many others are suffering and unable to escape?
Over the course of one day, we will spend the morning exploring this line of thinking through writing and close reading a convergence of philosophical and poetic texts; we will spend the afternoon enacting sequence of somatic time rituals which include an attunement of your own calendrical system using divination and energy medicine to help you gain perspective, build your resistance, and stand your ground.
The wake of the Spring Equinox gives a surge to this gathering, as we come together with all that is happening in each of our worlds and the collective world we are resourcing.
Sliding Scale $40—$100. For full details and to sign up: https://bit.ly/time
Nonviolent Leadership
with Caroline Crumpacker & Anees Hasnain
April 26, 11:00 AM —4:00 PM, Ultra Offices in Tivoli and Zoom
In the overwhelm of a busy nonprofit, during a crisis, it is so easy to forget the importance of a supportive, generative workplace culture. Whether decision-making is shared or top-down, whether the staff is large or small, a commitment to a generative, inclusive culture with open communication defines how an organization functions, and resilient, trauma-informed leadership allows a staff and board to stand shoulder to shoulder in bad times — such as these.
We will discuss how to support one another while our organizations, values, labor, and artistry are being surveilled and targeted. With an emphasis on mutual support, judiciously shared decision-making, collaborative structures, and developing tools and techniques for handling conflict and disruption. Our work together will include hands-on work, breakout groups, discussion, and lots of Q&A.
Sliding Scale $25—$75. For full details and to sign up: https://bit.ly/UltraLeader
Developing an Organizational Commitment to Land Justice
with Heather Bruegl May 14, 4:00— 6:30 PM, Ultra Offices, Tivoli NY
A land acknowledgement statement can be an anchor for a much larger program of reckoning with the history of the land on and with which we work and live. For public-facing organizations, this process can involve educating communities and thinking, internally and collectively, about reparations. In this workshop, we offer a structured approach to developing an organization-wide recognition of the history of land-theft and subsequent exploitation/extraction, while also articulating meaningful actions that your staff and board can take toward land justice and reparations.
This hands-on session is open to any organization looking to develop a meaningful program of land acknowledgment and related actions of reparation.
Pre-Class Readings, Full Class, and Followup Edits. Sliding scale $70—$140. For full details and to sign up: https://bit.ly/landjusticewkshp
We are Working with callie mackenzie on a New Series — Stay Tuned.
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PAST EVENTS:
Your Own One-on-One Annual Appeal Letter Workshop
With the the Ultra Staff Winter Mondays 10:00 —11:30 AM, Ultra Offices, Tivoli NY (Virtual Option also available) through December 9.
Develop the perfect hook but do it with sincerity. Express the need for funding, but don’t sound too needy. Boast but don’t brag. Writing a compelling letter to potential donors at the end of each year is a tour de force of fundraising restraint and bravado. Have a one-on-one workshop with Caroline as you develop your appeal.
Poetry As Coexistence: A Workshop
With Cole Heinowitz October 26 & 27 10:00—5:00 PM, Ultra Offices, Tivoli NY
ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP
What kind of writing emerges if we accept that no stable boundary separates the human from the nonhuman: that our existence is a coexistence? What kind of writing does this dynamic equilibrium with the world of animals, fungi, plants, and all other self-organized systems call for? How does one write in a way that acknowledges that the free-living aerobic bacteria that long ago became our mitochondria are inextricable from the present speaking self? Over the course of this workshop, we will explore these questions through a sequence of somatic attunements, observational field work, and language experiments. We will also engage with brief selections from Paracelsus, Goethe, Emerson, Jack Spicer, James Hillman, and Timothy Morton.
Developing an Organizational Commitment to Land Justice: A Workshop
With Heather Bruegl October 17 4:00 — 6:30 PM, Ultra Offices, Tivoli NY
This hands-on session is open to any organization looking to develop a meaningful program of land acknowledgment and related actions of reparation.
Keeping the Commons: A Panel Discussion on Solidarity Practices for Nonprofits in a For-Profit World
July 26 6:00 —7:30 PM, Opus 40 Sculpture Park
How can we protect the commons in our increasingly stressful nonprofit sector? Join us for a riveting discussion with four experts. Panel Discussion and Q & A with Jule Hall, Alissa Quart, Rithika Ramamurthy & Amarah Sedreddine
Co-Sponsored by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, Opus 40 & Ultra Advising.
Saugerties Arts Commission Summer Meet & Greet
July 23 6:00 —8:30 PM, Waterside Spa at Diamond Mills
Ultra Advising will have a table at this event in Saugerties. We’ll be offering free (brief-ish) consultations to any artist or arts administrator who stops by. For Saugertiseans!
Open House
June 28 4:00 — 6:00 PM at the Ultra Offices
Join us at our Tivoli offices for an open house and launch. We’ll have wine, snacks, and lots of info, conversation, and community — all in our inviting Hudson Valley space.