I'm Lesley Holdcroft, renegade cultural journalist, lover of men, mother and infinitely curious mind. I am sourcing from interviews with dozens of Capitol Hill men to create a workshop this Solar Eclipse Sunday in Volunteer Park at 7:30 in the evening. We're meeting by the circle art sculpture across the street from the Asian Art Museum.
For five months, I interviewed women at depth to create Envision Women. The event at the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center became a healing workshop around manifestation. What do women want and what blocks them from receiving it? As the Universe is infinitely generous, why are we struggling down here?
Now, I'm going to men and I chose my old neighborhood Capitol Hill, where I lived in the Roycroft Apartments on Harvard Ave. with a lot of Cornish art school students in a couple of apartments in the late 1990s. Capitol Hill buzzes with intellectual and convivial stimulation and I wanted to source this vibe for my project.
Everything I'm learning helps me source my great northwest novel The Hour of Blue. We're going deep into history there, with characters including Chief Seattle, Frances Farmer, Kurt Cobain and Jimi Hendrix. I'm taking on our American history and viewing it through the stories we tell about major northwest personalities. I learned long ago as a journalist to stop looking for anyone elses' truth but my own.
MenVision gives men a place to open up and to source from that deep and wild center of themselves, to drink from their own nectar, to replenish their deepest knowing of themselves.
I work as a healer as well through movement, mind yoga, art, yoga, dance, myth, humor and storytelling. My workshops are living things which respond to the people in attendance. My intention is to help people realize their dreams and to access more deeply their deepest knowing of themselves.
Thank you, men of Capitol Hill.
