Celebrate Valentine's Day wit an Immersive Art Experience

Barbara Ann Michaels '93 shares love lessons & moderates the "Love Letter Lounge"

Enjoy an evening about lasting love and learn the core principles of love that apply to every relationship in our lives.

Performance artist and interfaith minister Barbara Ann Michaels (Jester of the Peace) reveals what she learned after officiating 560 weddings, including some of the first legal same sex marriages in New York. Michaels will explain "The 3 Paradoxes of Love Lasting Love and the 1 Golden Question" in an entertaining talk.

Then, you will feel seen, heard, celebrated, and connected at the Pop-Up Post Office's "Love Letter Lounge." Declutter your heart and invite positivity into your life by writing letters by hand. The "Love Letter Lounge" helps you let “go-go-gone” of what does not serve you any longer and makes space for new shoots of love and joy to sprout in the garden of your heart. Write to anyone: Friends/Family, Coworkers, past or present Romantic partners, Yourself, Your Conception of The Divine, or Lucky Strangers! Letters with addresses are mailed and unaddressed letters are ritually released.

Barbara Ann Michaels (Jester of the Peace) is a performance artist, interfaith minister, and corporate and academic trainer who uses humor for humanitarian purposes. She founded HumorVille, an immersive pop-up town for humor and wellness. An arts facilitator for over 30 years, Ms. Michaels uses humor, art, and love to bring out the best in people so they can bring out the best in each other. In this time of increased loneliness and uncertainty, her projects promote shared wellness, relief and reset, helping free people to move forward with inspiration and collaboration.

Clients include Newark Museum of Art, Chashama, Nantucket Island School of Design and the Arts, Brown University, The Hive at Claremont College, AirBnB, Global Play Brigade, Epic International Summit. Creative Problem Solving Institute and many more. Ms. Michaels is a graduate of Brown University, Massachusetts College of Art, and One Spirit Interfaith Seminary. She is an award-winning wedding officiant, performing over 560 weddings, including costume and helicopter weddings. Press includes The Learning Channel’s Four Weddings, The New York Times, Boston Globe, New York Daily News, New York Magazine, Huffington Post, and more. She is an Ambassador of the Global Play Brigade and a member of the World Experience Organization.

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Questions? Email: barbara@JesterOfThePeace.com or secretary@brownnyc.org