Café Sensorial
As Autumn arrived in the forest and the days grew shorter, the Awen community collaborated with Theatre Director Iwan Brioc to create an immersive sensory labyrinth theatre piece set in the forest.
As Iwan explained, this approach engages the “...suppressed sensitivity of human sensory perception and the suppressed capacity of luminosity inherent in everyday experience. Individual audience members journey alone through a darkened three-dimensional labyrinth and along the way encounter moments and meetings that provoke subconscious sensory memories (sensory portals) into which they are gently invited to fall.”
At the Café Sensorial, guests were offered a menu of experiences from which to choose, each choice curated and facilitated by different groups of students. “In accepting this invitation, constructs such as time and space, me and you, the inner and the outer start to collapse.”
In devising this work, students explored ideas of human connection, conflict, and community, reflecting on their personal experiences within Awen and the relationship between students and families.