UPCOMING Creative Offerings
UPCOMING COMMUNITY EVENINGS & WAYS OF LOOKING
Book Clubs
Read slowly. Think together. Leave with more questions than you arrived with.
CLS Book Clubs are small, welcoming gatherings for readers who want thoughtful conversation without having to perform intelligence or arrive with the “right” interpretation. Depending on the session, we may gather around a novel, poetry collection, essay, or short text shared in advance.
You are welcome to speak, listen, bring notes, arrive unfinished, or pass on any question. The host offers gentle prompts and keeps the conversation spacious; no one is tested, corrected, or required to disclose something personal.
Slow Looking in the Gallery
Spend longer with one artwork than the internet usually allows.
Slow Looking is a quiet, guided gathering around one or a few works in the gallery. We begin with time to look before reaching for explanation. The host may invite you to notice color, texture, scale, mood, memory, or what changes when you stay a little longer.
No art-history knowledge is required. You may speak, write, sketch, sit quietly, change position, or simply observe. There is no compulsory interpretation, critique, sharing, or agreement—and the artist’s intention is never treated as a quiz.
Planned experience — featured works, access arrangements, capacity, dates, and final pricing will be announced before booking opens.
Acoustic Music Nights
Small-scale live music, close enough to hear the breath between notes.
Acoustic Music Nights bring local singers and musicians into an intimate listening space for an unhurried evening of songs, stories, and shared attention. The format is intentionally gentler than a loud venue: seated listening, a modest audience, and room to step outside or take a quieter seat when needed.
Some evenings may include a short artist conversation or optional audience reflection. No audience performance, singing along, or personal sharing is required. Performer line-ups, sound format, access information, and refreshments will always be confirmed for each event.
Planned experience — artist agreements, venue capacity, weather fallback, dates, and final pricing will be announced before booking opens.
Open Mic Nights
A small stage for works in progress, first tries, and voices still finding their shape.
Open Mic Nights are intimate, hosted gatherings for songs, poems, stories, short readings, monologues, and other live experiments. Performers sign up for brief slots so the stage stays shared; you are equally welcome to come only to listen.
Performing, speaking, and personal disclosure are never required. The host may pause material that targets or harasses another person or group. Photography and recording happen only with each performer’s clear permission.
Planned experience — performance format, sign-up process, access arrangements, capacity, dates, and final pricing will be announced before booking opens.
Bad Art Night
Come make something awkward, unfinished, ridiculous—or unexpectedly wonderful.
Bad Art Night is a playful studio gathering for anyone tired of waiting to feel talented enough. The host offers strange little prompts, deliberately imperfect materials, and permission to make the lopsided thing, the muddy thing, the thing that makes no sense.
The name is playful: no person or artwork is judged, ranked, mocked, or declared “bad.” You may follow a prompt, ignore it, work privately, start again, keep your piece, recycle it, or leave it unfinished. There is no critique and no pressure to explain what you made.
Planned experience — materials, capacity, dates, and final pricing will be announced before booking opens.
Choose from Open Play sessions, and ‘Funshops‘ and Retreats such as:
Paint and Sip
Draw and Don’t Talk
Beginner Watercolor with local artist
Beginner Clay Molding with resident artist
Collage Your Next Chapter
Voice by the Sea with local singer
Liberation Dance
Poetry + Sunset
Kundiman and Cry
Paint Fling with Your Darling
Burnout Recovery Retreat
Half-Day Creative Reset Retreat
open play: what happens?
What happens during an ‘Open Play’ session?
We begin with a short arrival and introduction to the materials. In a guided session, our host offers a theme and several possible starting points—you can follow one, combine them or ignore them entirely.
Most of the session is spacious, independent making time. The host is available for practical support and gentle help when you feel stuck, but there is no step-by-step project everyone must complete.
We close with time to notice what emerged. Sharing is always optional.
Choose your play
PAINT FLING WITH YOUR DARLING
Messy, collaborative play for two.
Paint Fling is a playful two-hour experience where you and your darling build one shared artwork through color, movement, soft sponge throws, and delightfully unpredictable marks.
And “darling” doesn’t have to mean a romantic partner. Bring your partner, best friend, sibling, parent, or another favorite person.
Inside a splash-contained creative space, you’ll take turns flinging non-toxic washable paint onto a large shared fabric or canvas target. Gentle prompts are available if you want them, but there is no picture to copy, no artistic skill required, and no pressure to make something polished—or explain what it means.
Your experience includes:
✓ A two-hour guided creative session
✓ A large shared painting surface
✓ Non-toxic washable paint and soft reusable sponge balls
✓ Protective aprons or coveralls and eye protection
✓ Optional creative prompts and gentler mark-making alternatives
✓ All basic materials and studio cleanup
Participants may throw, dab, press, pause, observe, or adapt the activity. Paint is always aimed at the prepared artwork—never at another person. Sharing and photography are optional, and consent can be changed at any time.
Please wear comfortable clothes you don’t mind getting a little colorful and closed-toe, non-slip shoes.
Paint Fling with Your Darling is currently in development at Creative Liberation Sanctuary in Dauis, Bohol. Pilot dates, final pricing, and reservation details will be announced as the sanctuary takes root.
**OPENING DETAILS TO COME **
Private half-day Retreat
₱1,800 per person
Small private group (3–5 adults): ₱1,400 per person
A morning to yourself — creative, quiet, and completely yours.
Step away from your to-do list and into a space that asks nothing of you but curiosity. Your Half Day Retreat is a four-hour sanctuary experience by the ocean in Dauis, Bohol — crafted around what you actually feel like doing.
Includes:
- A 4-hour customized creative sanctuary experience by the ocean
- Private 1:1 guided Yoga Art session (20 mins)
- Free unstructured creative time — paint, write, draw, or just breathe (90 mins)
- Guided Poetry-Writing Workshop (90 mins)
- Lunch from ART Gallery and Restaurant
- Have a specific creative craving? Just ask — we love to tailor.
Upon Reservation: 9 am – 1 pm
No experience needed. No performance expected. Each retreat flexes to fit you —
Upon Reservation: 9 am – 1 pm
PLEASE NOTE: Each day is flexible and can cater to the desires/interests of the client. Email us for questions– we are happy to accomodate!
✓ Small-groups
✓ Tea and Juice
✓ Materials Provided
✓ Lunch by the Ocean
✓ Choose Your Creative Medium
**OPENING DETAILS TO COME **
Creative Lounge Open Play
There are two types of sessions you can book: unguided and guided
Unguided Open Play
During Open Play Hours**
For people who already know what they want to explore—or simply want somewhere peaceful to begin.
– Self-directed creative time
– Shared basic materials
– A studio steward for practical help
– No lesson or group activity
– Two-hour, four-hour and extended passes
-Access to free tea and coffee
Rates:
Unguided Open Play: ₱450 per person for up to 3 hours of unguided creative play with materials included
Unguided Group Fee: ₱350 per person for up to 3-hours of unguided play (minimum 3 adults)
Guided Open Play (By Reservation):
₱750
A little structure. Plenty of freedom.
Arrive to a prepared creative space, receive a gentle theme and a few optional prompts, then follow your own curiosity. Paint, draw, write, collage or combine materials—without needing experience, a plan or a finished product.
No forced sharing. No artistic performance. Shared basic materials included.
No experience, finished product or group sharing required
Guided Group Fee: ₱650 per person for up to 3-hours of unguided play (minimum 3 adults)
**Open Play Hours are TBD**
✓ Art
✓ Music
✓ Writing
✓ Mindfulness
OPEN PLAY FAq
Do I need art experience?
Not at all. Guided Open Play is designed for beginners, returning creatives and anyone who feels curious but uncertain where to start.
Do we all make the same thing?
No. The theme offers a doorway, not an assignment. Everyone may use different materials and follow a different direction.
Do I have to speak or share my work?
No. Quiet participation is completely welcome, and sharing is always optional.
Are materials included?
Shared basic materials are included. Premium surfaces and unusually consumptive materials may be available for an additional charge.
Is this a workshop?
No. Workshops teach a particular technique or structured project. Guided Open Play offers lighter facilitation and more self-directed making time.
Is this therapy?
No. It is a recreational creative experience. You are welcome to make from your feelings, but no one will interpret, diagnose or require you to discuss them.
