May's Wonder-Adventure Plan

During your wonder-walks this week, select a few ways to experience the portals, doorways and gateways around you.
Look out for protective elements, guards or ushers. Pay attention to the suggested walks and adventures.

How To Adventure with Your Guardians:

• Curious Rabbits:  Follow the portals that attract your attention, have fun going down rabbit holes.
• Wonder-Walkers: Challenge yourself to experience portals in all your five senses, get to know your physical places, document and record them.
• Magic-Makers: Bring along a camera, a sketchbook or a travel paint set to express the portals you encounter
• Truth-Finders: Make meaning of your portal encounters, where are they leading you? What does it mean? Which is for you? Why?
• Secret Gardeners: Study the portals you encounter in more depth - where does it come up in literature, film or mythology?
• Myth-Weavers & Enchanted Explorers: Connect what you see with the projects and ideas in your Work.

It's here, your first Magic-Making (Creative) Project!
Remember, you can work in any medium, from paintings, to poetry to music to hand-crafted objects and assemblages, within the Creative Guidelines.
It can also be as simple or as complex as you'd like it to be.

What to do next?

1. Watch the Magic-Making Video for your first creative assignment.
2. Go on a portal Memory-Walk to set your words and intention.
3. Choose an art medium to work with, dive in and play! (Don't forget to share progress in our Community).

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Magic-Making With Your Guardians:

• Curious Rabbits & Wonder-Walkers: Let your creative expression follow your curiosity. Projects can be as simple as a field sketch of a portal or a photograph of your favorite portal walk.
• Magic-Makers: Remember to be playful and experimental!
• Truth-Finders & Myth-Weavers: Dig deeper, connect the dots with your magic-making, what does it symbolize for you?
• Secret Gardeners: What creative or artistic skill do you want to strengthen in order to express your portal vision?
• Enchanted Explorers: Work on your portal creation every day. Don't wait for inspiration. How can you challenge your interpretation of portals?

“It was much pleasanter at home," thought poor Alice, "when one wasn't always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down the rabbit-hole--and yet--and yet--...”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Have fun revisiting your favorite portal stories. Notice how portals is a huge storytelling motif, that there are so many iterations you've never noticed before! With this increased awareness, observe how portals influence your wonder-walks and magic-making. What are some of your favorite portals in literature and film/tv that I haven't included? 

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Inspiration-hunting With Your Guardians:

How can you be more intentional with your inspiration? With such a wealth of ideas (as you will see below) it can get overwhelming fast!

• Magic-Makers, Myth-Weavers and Enchanted Explorers: pay attention to the inspirations that can serve your creative projects.
• Truth-Finders: Which portal stories do you connect with most? Start there.
• Wonder-Walkers: Which portal inspirations will enrich your physical world exploring?
• Curious Rabbits and Secret Gardeners: Have fun, dig in, delight in the portal stories that attract you the most. Give yourself permission to go down the rabbit hole.

We've had a wonderful discussion about portal inspirations over at our FB Explorer Community. Lisa Faulkner, one of our explorers, has kindly pulled together this incredible list of portal stories from everyone for you to explore. Thank you so much Lisa!!

Books:

Movies:

More movies/tv: