Presence at Play NYC

30/06/2020

Hi everyone - wanted to share this resource for anyone looking to get into some online improv and connect with like minded people during this time of Quarantine. Ypsi Improv is run by friends of the group and they host online jams multiple times a week. If you're looking for opportunities to do more improv and connect with a great community, check them out!

This group is open to anyone who would like to participate in or learn more about improvisation. No experience is necessary.This group is dedicated to helping people of all experience levels learn abo

29/06/2020

Hi everyone,

We wanted to let you know that after some internal discussion, we at Presence @ Play have made the decision to put our mindfulness and improv workshop on indefinite hiatus. The 3 of us have been had an amazing year teaching and organizing this group, and it just feels like the right thing at this time to go on pause and make room in our lives for some of the new growth experiences that await us and to process the changes we’ve all been going through, not just during the pandemic, but over the long period of time that we’ve all been together.
It would be difficult to overstate the level of gratitude that we feel toward this community for joining us and helping us to create a space that has felt so kind, so joyful, and so welcoming to so many people from such diverse backgrounds. We know that it can be difficult to ‘find your people’ in a city as vast and fast-paced as New York, but we always felt at home among the members of this group and we hope that we have been able to provide a space that has given you the same feeling.
We also hope that you feel a sense of pride in the bravery that you have displayed in coming into a room full of strangers and being vulnerable and silly and a little crazy during our workshops. Not everyone has the courage to do that, and you should be proud of yourselves for entering into that world.
We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your role creating this community. It has truly been a group effort and we are grateful to have had the opportunity to connect with all of you and to share this positive experience.
Moving forward we’d like to keep the page active, and will be looking to share other opportunities for members of the group to deepen their improv and/or mindfulness practice. And we invite you to contribute resources that you’d like to share if you have any. We also are not ruling out the possibility of resuming our workshops at such a time as feels appropriate.
Finally, we’d like to let you know that we do have some surplus funds from when we were meeting in person and accepting donations to pay for the studio space. We’re going to be donating to The Food Bank for New York City in order to help the many needy people in our community put food on the table during the current economic crisis.
Please do not hesitate to reach out to us by facebook message or email if you have any questions or comments.
With Love and Gratitude,
Andrew, Kat, and Kunal

21/04/2020

Hi all! We hope that everyone is doing well:) We wanted everyone to know that Presence @ Play is continuing to bring you a mix of much needed mindfulness and improv remotely while we social distance.

We're going to be continuing to meet on Zoom every Thursday from 6-7:30PM, and we'd love to see you! Please join us as we reaffirm our sense of community and stay connected during this difficult time. Oh, and btw it's also fun:)

If you're interested in joining us, send us an email at [email protected] for details. Hope to see you soon:)

09/03/2020

Hi friends,
After some internal discussion we've decided to put the event on pause for the next three weeks due to the Coronavirus.

We're not worried, and we don't think you should be either. All of the information so far points to this being AT WORST a bad cold or flu for most people. However we are concerned with the possibility of someone in the group getting/spreading it, feeling fine, and accidentally giving it to a colleague/relative who is older and/or has underlying health issues.

Since there is so much uncertainty about the virus currently, we felt that we should do our part to not add to it's spreading. This is especially true due to the nature of our workshop - a lot of people getting on the subway and meeting in a small, poorly ventilated room for 2 hours (for those of you who haven't been in a while - we promise it's funner than it sounds:)). We feel that in a few weeks, there will be more information available to reevaluate this decision. At that point we'll know whether there's more to worry about than we initially realized and/or the city will have a plan in place based on what the experts suggest.

One way or the other, we'll send out a message in three weeks at the latest with an update.

Much love to you all and we look forward seeing you soon!
- The Presence @ Play team