The Healing Art of Film: The Hero's Journey and Other Mythic Themes in Popular Culture

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Film, with its ability to use character, plot, image and sound, is undoubtably a powerful medium through which to tell a story. In many ways, film serves as our contemporary means through which to understand ourselves, our culture and our world, fulfilling a similar function to the oral tradition of myth and storytelling in ancestral history. Sitting in a darkened theatre watching a film unfold before our eyes is not so removed from ancient forebears who sat around a fire or hearth as bards and elders spun teaching tales. In exploring the four main functions of traditional myth and the films which fall into each of the four categories, this workshop will help give the signposts to read a film as a guide to self-understanding and healing, presenting a road map of mythic themes through which to explore this medium.

Next offering TBD
Workshop cost: $20 + hst