Spice of Life Series event
Pash Galbavy's Masks
Wednesday, September 29, 7:00 PM
$6 advance, $8 at the door, $6 Seniors
A Conversation with Masks
On Wednesday, September 29th, at 7:00 PM, at the Old Town Center for the Arts you are invited to have a rare glimpse into the life, work and philosophy of master mask maker, and expressive artist Pash Galbavy. For this special event, Pash will give a live demonstration of the mask making process she invented. She will bring a display of many of her masks and introduce you to many of the masks that have had a significant impact on her life by telling stories, wearing the masks and embodying masked characters.
A Conversation with Masks is a special presentation in OTCA’s Spice of Life series. The series is dedicated to engaging evenings with a wide range of topics, people and organizations. Beyond performance and art this series will provide an open forum, including a look into individuals whose life, work, and ideas offer rich opportunities for learning, inspiration, and interest.
The emcee for this event will be host David Keeber, local community advocate, artist and writer. Audience participants will be invited to experience wearing the masks and to discuss any aspects of mask making/embodying experience. People who have made masks with Pash are invited to bring their masks to share and participate in the conversation as well.
An on again off again resident of Sedona since the late seventies, Pash was raised in Malibu, California and attended high school at Verde Valley School in Sedona. She received an MA in Communication Studies. She has lived and studied throughout the Southwest and spent a decade in Australia. She and her husband Marty Landa were the recipient of a year-long mask making grant from the Australian Government to develop the first of its kind mask-making kit, the UnMasKit! www.unmaskit.com
She also received a 2008 City of Sedona emerging artist grant to create masks with and for the larger Sedona and Verde Valley community. Masks from that project were displayed at the Sedona Public Library in 2009, and have been part of numerous public performances. She gives mask making workshops, two of which included ten-day project periods offered to students at Verde Valley School.
Pash initiated the Peace Prayers Project, where 6 participants made life-sized masks representing their visions of peace in honor of 9/11, which were exhibited at Goldenstein Gallery in 2003. She also started Face Up to Peace, a project to raise awareness for the development of worldwide Departments of Peace. www.faceuptopeace.com
She has performed with her masks at public and private events in the US and Australia. Several of her masks were part of the original local MENding Project performances. Her one-woman show The Body Reclamation Project debuted this year at the Flagstaff Performance Arts Fringe Festival and incorporated up to 16 masks. Three of her masks will be featured in the upcoming international Artist's Against Torture Project.
For Pash, masks are tools of transformation that provide insight into one's self and the world. Through masks, she has explored aspects of the many archetypal figures written about by psychologists Carl Jung, Hal and Sidra Stone, and mystic Caroline Myss among others. She is much more concerned with the meaning of the masks and how they come to life physically, than how they look. Investigating the deeper meaning behind characters that emerge in the mask making process is one of Pash's abiding passions.
Come experience a taste of this creative process as part of the Old Town Center for the Arts Spice of Life Series. Here is your chance to engage with masks up close and personal. There will be time for questions from participants.
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