Workshops
Everything Spills Studio hosts monthly interdisciplinary workshops and a quarterly, four-session online intensive. Spill Space members receive registration discounts, and unlimited access to our course library where you can complete the curriculum at your own pace once live sessions have concluded. Browse some of our past and future offerings below and join our mailing list to stay in the know about upcoming events.
"Cassandra" oil on canvas by Evelyn de Morgan (1898)
Truth and Madness: Interpreting (In)Sanity
April 2025
This curriculum invites participants to consider the relationship between truth and madness. We’ll examine how a culture’s values inform its assertions of truth, and how this understanding determines which behaviors and beliefs are defined as deviant (and are often then punished or forcibly disappeared from the public eye as a result).
We’ll explore culturally and neurologically diverse interpretations of and responses to "madness" across time and culture. We will use our minds, our bodies and our voices to create text and/or performance pieces which imagine a mad and free future.
Participants are invited to present their work to the public on the evening of May 1st in New York City.
Email katya@everythingspills.studio to enroll
How to Write a Love Letter
February 2025
If a Hallmark holiday card can’t possibly contain the depths of your devotion, tap into the magic of crafting a love letter. If you feel called to express the magnitude of your adoration towards a dear friend, a romantic partner, a family member- this workshop provides a heartfelt framework to craft a letter which is both powerfully written and materially enchanted.
A true handmade keepsake and a tangible expression of love’s earnest messages. We looked to love letters written by historic literary figures for inspiration before being led step-by-step through Katya’s letter-crafting methods, developed through years of sacred devotion and a deep desire to bless the love in their life.
Tango and Transformation
February 2025
Who are you on the dance floor? What does this liminal space allow us to embody or cast off? How can we move through the tension between who we are, who we once were, and who we long to be? And what does it look like to do this together, in relationship with the other moving members of this ecosystem?
Together, we’ll engage with standard tango choreography and learn about the varied musical and cultural influences which shape the dance’s origins and evolution. We’ll better understand how the desire to assert power and pursue passion in the face of loss and othering has motivated ballroom styles across cultures, using this context to explore how we might break from or expand upon tango’s traditions with reverence and intention. Through movement, we’ll consider the hotbed of tensions which defined tango’s birth in the newly industrialized, late 19th century Buenos Aires, and explore the pursuit of glamor which colored the instructor’s study of ballroom dance as a first generation American of Russian descent.
Visioning Language: Text as Image & Painted Poems
December 2024
Hosted at The Cambridge Foundry in collaboration with Dani Nordenberg of The Valve Boston
This course invites writers, visual artists and newcomers to explore text and poetry through a visual lens, offering students a framework to create their own “painted poem”. We explored the intersections of text and visual arts across centuries and continents, including works of Japanese haiga, illuminated manuscripts from the Mughal Empire, calligrams by Guillaume Apollinaire, Dimitri Prigov and E.E. Cummings, and contemporary work by artists like Adam Pendleton, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Genesis Breyer P.Orridge
Waltzing with the Waves
September 2024
Waltzing with the Waves is a guided meditation and water ritual. We’ll learn the fundamentals of a basic waltz box step before being led through some breath work and optional intention setting or prayer. Then we ask the ocean to dance with us, the water becomes our partner, we’ll be waltzing with the waves 🌊