Support InterPlay Pittsburgh as the Wing & A Prayer Pittsburgh players re-emerge from the isolations of treacherous winter weather not seen in many years. We’re back with in-person events such as our recent Reunion Tea by the river. Plans are to meet monthly on Sunday afternoons, reaching out to familiar and first time InterPlayers.

We are presenting two Art of Grieving InterPlay Expressive Art and Artmaking Retreats in 2026. The first is in the Laurel Highlands of PA, in collaboration with Touchstone Center for Craft and the Ruins Project (Sager Mosaics) Thursday May 28 - Sunday noon May 31st. 

The second retreat is Thursday October 22 to Sunday noon Oct 25th at Synergia Ranch Retreat Center near Santa Fe, NM. Your donations will enable us to offer scholarships to young and emerging InterPlay leaders to participate in these unique immersive experiences.    

Toni McClendon will be launching a BIPOC Life Practice Program in 2026! 

In collaboration with other InterPlay leaders, we have offered and continue to offer:

Friday morning Online InterPlay class - 10 am to 11 am Eastern time. Taught by Sheila K Collins and guest InterPlayer leaders. Participants use interPlay performance forms to play with what’s up with them in their present lives, and explore what their own body’s wisdom has to say about it. The class is attended by folks as close as Pittsburgh and as far away as CA. IL. IA. NC. and Israel.  

Tuesday Online Weekly Radical Self-Care While Caring for Others meets weekly 11:30 am – 12:30 pm ET. Led by Christine Gautreaux and Sheila K Collins. With regular members and occasional new players, the group has been meeting for 6 years.  
          

Leader Toni McClendon presents the tools and forms of InterPlay to community-based organizations such as Leect, Ujamaa Collective, and Pittsburgh Brown Mamas. Recently, Toni became a “Creative in Residency” for the Black Transformation Artist Network (BTAN), taking InterPlay and creative movement to Special Needs Students and English as a Second Language students at one of the high schools in  Pittsburgh, a hub for international/immigrant/refugee students.  Furthermore, she is doing InterPlay with Senior Citizens at a local Senior Center, who have stated that InterPlay provides a great way to get us moving and thinking. She is looking forward to leading more in-person sessions at local libraries, community events and celebrations, and looks forward to leading more in-person sessions in more communities. This year she launching Secrets of Leading/Life practice program for BIPOC people in the Pittsburgh/Allegheny County regions.
In collaboration with InterPlayers from around the country, the Wing and a Prayer Pittsburgh Players have performed in 5 online courses offered this spring on the Reimagine platform on the theme of The Art of Grieving. 

Funding ask:

InterPlay Pittsburgh wishes to expand our capacity for scholarships for folks to attend the upcoming Art of Grieving Retreats & the BIPOC Life practice.  
We ask for funding to support this effort.

This spring, in addition to online offerings, InterPlay Pittsburgh will be returning to sponsoring in-person collaborations and events with people and organizations we have partnered with in the past. We ask for donations to be used for room rental fees, event promotion expenses, and InterPlay artists’ and leaders’ stipends. 
Our international organization, Body Wisdom has a quite liberal policy in providing payment plans as well as some scholarships for trainings. As travel is becoming feasible and events and training are beginning to be held in person, we ask for money to assist Pittsburgh leaders in making it to training and other events outside of our region.  

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