Creative Play

Creative arts are done independently and through a partnerships with various nonprofit organizations.  Presently W.H.O.A. partnerships include InterPlay, Atlanta Circle Sings, and Playmaking for Girls, an outreach program of Synchronicity Performance Company.

INTERPLAY is an active creative way to unlock the wisdom of the body.  This dynamic system will transform lives and communities.  Learn how to balance the body, spirit, mind and heart.

As a certified InterPlay Leader Carolyn Renée serves as a co-liaison to InterPlay Leaders of Color.  In this role her efforts are to engage People of Color in InterPlay through the USA.  One of the ways she has created to to do this is through her PoP Up initiative.  Through this initiative she creates community circles (portals) with diverse groups of youth, senior citizens, refugees, and communities of color and share the transformative power of InterPlay.  In addition to initiating intergenerational playgroups, the PoP Up initiative allows participants to take part in an annual spring community-wide performance.

Those who take part in PoP Ups are invited to move, sing, share stories, and connect. Life has become so fragmented, and InterPlay helps to pull everything back together so each individual participant gets more of what they want. InterPlay is devoted to fun. It teaches the language and ethic of play in a deep and powerful way. There is plenty of research that backs up the power that play offers the mind, body and spirit. Community participants will not have to dive in the deep end of InterPlay to learn and benefit from it.  As a trained InterPlay Leader, Carolyn Renée designs PoP Ups based on a specific theme. These themes are gathered popcorn style from those present in the portal, and one of themes gets chosen to become the central focus for the group’s interaction. 

Another creative partnership that is for all those who can talk; because if you can talk you can sing.  So this is for you!  Every other month Atlanta Circle Sings host ATL Public Singing circles throughout the city of Atlanta.  This is free, Improvised Community Sings. The song leaders are  a core group of improvisational singers (Elise Witt, Gayanne Geurin, Sara Moylan and Jessica Lily) who are enthusiastic about sharing music as a means of sacred connection with each other and our world.  Monthly singing event are open to everyone – singers of all styles and experiences. Not really a performance, this is more about listening while voices  sing together – feeling what it sounds like to be a connected and tuned in to a group of singers.  Join our group for updates @ATL Circle Sings . #ATLCircleSings

In a decade long working relationship with Synchronicity Theatre’s “Playmaking For Girls” program, Carolyn Renée has been able to embody the spirit of W.H.O.A.   In this program she works in partnership with other teaching artist and through Playmaking for Girls, these artist are able to bring playmaking to an underserved population of girls.  This is an outreach program of Synchronicity Performance Company.  The program empowers girls from refugees, and foster care communities to write their stories through play-writing, theatre games, and performance.