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The Woven Ones
THE WOVEN ONES™
A Three-Day Dream Creation & Ethical Leadership Intensive
Inspired in part by the life and writing of the renowned Burkinabé author, teacher, and elder Malidoma Patrice Somé, whose work explored community, ancestry, ritual, and the relationship between the visible and unseen worlds.
Created and led by Hamp Fluker / Fable & Sow
In partnership with Wildheart Center
The Barn at Wildheart · Wallkill, New York
November 6–8, 2026 · 9 Hours
Limited to 10–12 participants
Friday, November 6 · 6:30–9:30 PM
Saturday, November 7 · 10:00 AM–1:00 PM
Sunday, November 8 · 10:00 AM–1:00 PM
The final 90 minutes on Sunday will be a free sharing for family, friends, and supporters.
THE INTENSIVE
The Woven Ones™ is a three-day devised theatre and ethical leadership intensive in which each participant creates a short theatrical work from a dream or vivid memory, performed by the other ensemble members.
Before we meet, you choose one dream from sleep or one vivid memory that has stayed with you. It can be recent or distant, fantastic or completely ordinary, detailed or fragmented. It does not need to be profound or deeply personal. It simply needs to contain something you are curious to explore and bring to life.
Over three days, Hamp guides the company through movement, improvisation, storytelling, sound, image, repetition, and performance composition. When it is your turn to create, the other participants become your company of actors and collaborators. Together, you explore the people, places, images, sounds, relationships, and impossible elements within what you remember and shape them into a short original theatrical work.
Then the room changes hands, and you become part of the company helping another participant create theirs.
This exchange is also where the ethical leadership practice lives. Each participant moves between creator, performer, leader, collaborator, and witness, practicing how to communicate a vision, listen deeply, share authority, contribute without overtaking, and remain open to discovery.
The Woven Ones™ uses the making of theatre as a practical study of beloved community, asking us to consider not only what we create together, but how we choose to create together.
BEFORE WE BEGIN
Participants arrive with one dream or one vivid memory they would like to explore theatrically.
If you already know what you want to bring, write down whatever you remember. If you don't, start keeping a dream journal at least one week before the intensive. When you wake, record whatever remains before the details disappear. An entire dream is welcome, but so is a person, place, sentence, sound, action, feeling, image, or fragment.
You may also choose a vivid memory from your waking life: a childhood room, a family gathering, an afternoon outdoors, a conversation, a strange encounter, or an ordinary moment that has simply remained with you.
You decide what you bring into the room. Our interest is not in interpreting why you dreamed or remember it, but in discovering what becomes possible when it is given theatrical form.
OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT
The Woven Ones™ is deeply influenced by Malidoma Patrice Somé’s Of Water and the Spirit and by Hamp Fluker’s memories of Somé, a family friend whose presence, wisdom, and relationship to mystery left an enduring impression on his imagination.
Somé’s memoir offers a world in which memory, ancestry, community, ritual, nature, and the fantastic can exist alongside one another. The Woven Ones™ does not seek to teach or reproduce Dagara spiritual traditions. Instead, the book offers an artistic question at the heart of the intensive: what becomes possible when we allow the fantastic to exist without immediately asking it to explain itself?
Dreams already give us this freedom. Time collapses, people transform, the dead return, places disappear and reappear, and the impossible can exist comfortably beside the ordinary. Rather than interpreting these experiences, we use theatre to give them bodies, voices, movement, sound, and space.
Of Water and the Spirit is suggested reading but is not required for participation.
THE THREE DAYS
FRIDAY · THE OFFERING
We begin by becoming an ensemble. Through movement, improvisation, storytelling, image, and composition, we establish a shared theatrical vocabulary and introduce the dreams and memories we have brought with us. Participants begin identifying what feels most alive within their material and exploring how something remembered can begin to exist onstage.
SATURDAY · THE WEAVING
Each participant works with the company to develop their dream or memory into a short theatrical piece. As you create your work, the other participants become your actors and collaborators. When someone else takes the room, you become part of theirs.
Leadership continually changes hands as we practice proposing, listening, adjusting, contributing, making space, and recognizing when the work asks us to lead or follow. The individual pieces remain distinct. The weaving happens among the people making them, as one ensemble becomes responsible for helping each participant’s world come to life.
SUNDAY · THE WITNESSING
We return to what we have made, make final choices, and prepare to welcome others into the room. Each participant’s dream or memory remains its own short theatrical creation, performed by ensemble members.
During the final 90 minutes, family, friends, and supporters are invited into The Barn at Wildheart for a free sharing. Rather than a polished production, the sharing is an opportunity to witness what has emerged from three days of collective creation and to experience these individual theatrical worlds together.
FABLE & SOW × WILDHEART
Fable & Sow sees Wildheart Center as a sister organization in the Hudson Valley. While our organizations have distinct identities, we share a commitment to rigorous, inclusive spaces for artists, storytellers, and thought leaders, and to considering not only what we create, but how we create it and how we care for the people creating alongside us.
ABOUT HAMP FLUKER
Hamp Fluker is an award-winning professional actor, director, educator, ethical leadership practitioner, and co-founder and Artistic Director of Fable & Sow.
His artistic and teaching practice brings professional actor training into conversation with ethical leadership, ensemble practice, and community building. His approach to ethical leadership has been shaped through his training and work with Walter Earl Fluker & Associates, grounding his practice in a larger tradition concerned with character, community, responsibility, and how people learn to live and lead together.
The Woven Ones™ grows from that intersection, using theatrical creation to explore imagination, leadership, collaboration, and the practice of beloved community.
PARTICIPATION
The Woven Ones™ is open to actors, dancers, movers, vocal artists, directors, writers, storytellers, educators, facilitators, visual artists, and curious people interested in collaborative creation. No previous acting or devised theatre experience is required.
Participants should come prepared to move, improvise, create, listen, collaborate, and play. Because everyone will create their own work and perform in others' work, participation in all three sessions is essential.
TUITION & COMMUNITY RATES
Standard Tuition · $350
Fable & Sow Founding Member / Wildheart Community Rate · $250
BIPOC Artist Rate · $175
Fable & Sow Founding Members and members of the Wildheart Community receive a $100 community discount.
The BIPOC Artist Rate is 50% of Standard Tuition and does not require an application or demonstration of financial need. This intentionally subsidized rate is offered as part of Fable & Sow’s continuing commitment to widening access to rigorous artistic training.
Participants paying Standard Tuition may register directly through this page. For the Founding Member / Wildheart Community Rate or BIPOC Artist Rate, please contact info@fableandsow.com. Fable & Sow will invoice you directly and confirm your registration upon payment.
If tuition remains beyond what feels possible, please reach out. When space and the sustainability of the offering allow, we are happy to explore additional tuition support.
THE WOVEN ONES™
A Three-Day Dream Creation & Ethical Leadership Intensive
Inspired in part by the life and writing of the renowned Burkinabé author, teacher, and elder Malidoma Patrice Somé, whose work explored community, ancestry, ritual, and the relationship between the visible and unseen worlds.
Created and led by Hamp Fluker / Fable & Sow
In partnership with Wildheart Center
The Barn at Wildheart · Wallkill, New York
November 6–8, 2026 · 9 Hours
Limited to 10–12 participants
Friday, November 6 · 6:30–9:30 PM
Saturday, November 7 · 10:00 AM–1:00 PM
Sunday, November 8 · 10:00 AM–1:00 PM
The final 90 minutes on Sunday will be a free sharing for family, friends, and supporters.
THE INTENSIVE
The Woven Ones™ is a three-day devised theatre and ethical leadership intensive in which each participant creates a short theatrical work from a dream or vivid memory, performed by the other ensemble members.
Before we meet, you choose one dream from sleep or one vivid memory that has stayed with you. It can be recent or distant, fantastic or completely ordinary, detailed or fragmented. It does not need to be profound or deeply personal. It simply needs to contain something you are curious to explore and bring to life.
Over three days, Hamp guides the company through movement, improvisation, storytelling, sound, image, repetition, and performance composition. When it is your turn to create, the other participants become your company of actors and collaborators. Together, you explore the people, places, images, sounds, relationships, and impossible elements within what you remember and shape them into a short original theatrical work.
Then the room changes hands, and you become part of the company helping another participant create theirs.
This exchange is also where the ethical leadership practice lives. Each participant moves between creator, performer, leader, collaborator, and witness, practicing how to communicate a vision, listen deeply, share authority, contribute without overtaking, and remain open to discovery.
The Woven Ones™ uses the making of theatre as a practical study of beloved community, asking us to consider not only what we create together, but how we choose to create together.
BEFORE WE BEGIN
Participants arrive with one dream or one vivid memory they would like to explore theatrically.
If you already know what you want to bring, write down whatever you remember. If you don't, start keeping a dream journal at least one week before the intensive. When you wake, record whatever remains before the details disappear. An entire dream is welcome, but so is a person, place, sentence, sound, action, feeling, image, or fragment.
You may also choose a vivid memory from your waking life: a childhood room, a family gathering, an afternoon outdoors, a conversation, a strange encounter, or an ordinary moment that has simply remained with you.
You decide what you bring into the room. Our interest is not in interpreting why you dreamed or remember it, but in discovering what becomes possible when it is given theatrical form.
OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT
The Woven Ones™ is deeply influenced by Malidoma Patrice Somé’s Of Water and the Spirit and by Hamp Fluker’s memories of Somé, a family friend whose presence, wisdom, and relationship to mystery left an enduring impression on his imagination.
Somé’s memoir offers a world in which memory, ancestry, community, ritual, nature, and the fantastic can exist alongside one another. The Woven Ones™ does not seek to teach or reproduce Dagara spiritual traditions. Instead, the book offers an artistic question at the heart of the intensive: what becomes possible when we allow the fantastic to exist without immediately asking it to explain itself?
Dreams already give us this freedom. Time collapses, people transform, the dead return, places disappear and reappear, and the impossible can exist comfortably beside the ordinary. Rather than interpreting these experiences, we use theatre to give them bodies, voices, movement, sound, and space.
Of Water and the Spirit is suggested reading but is not required for participation.
THE THREE DAYS
FRIDAY · THE OFFERING
We begin by becoming an ensemble. Through movement, improvisation, storytelling, image, and composition, we establish a shared theatrical vocabulary and introduce the dreams and memories we have brought with us. Participants begin identifying what feels most alive within their material and exploring how something remembered can begin to exist onstage.
SATURDAY · THE WEAVING
Each participant works with the company to develop their dream or memory into a short theatrical piece. As you create your work, the other participants become your actors and collaborators. When someone else takes the room, you become part of theirs.
Leadership continually changes hands as we practice proposing, listening, adjusting, contributing, making space, and recognizing when the work asks us to lead or follow. The individual pieces remain distinct. The weaving happens among the people making them, as one ensemble becomes responsible for helping each participant’s world come to life.
SUNDAY · THE WITNESSING
We return to what we have made, make final choices, and prepare to welcome others into the room. Each participant’s dream or memory remains its own short theatrical creation, performed by ensemble members.
During the final 90 minutes, family, friends, and supporters are invited into The Barn at Wildheart for a free sharing. Rather than a polished production, the sharing is an opportunity to witness what has emerged from three days of collective creation and to experience these individual theatrical worlds together.
FABLE & SOW × WILDHEART
Fable & Sow sees Wildheart Center as a sister organization in the Hudson Valley. While our organizations have distinct identities, we share a commitment to rigorous, inclusive spaces for artists, storytellers, and thought leaders, and to considering not only what we create, but how we create it and how we care for the people creating alongside us.
ABOUT HAMP FLUKER
Hamp Fluker is an award-winning professional actor, director, educator, ethical leadership practitioner, and co-founder and Artistic Director of Fable & Sow.
His artistic and teaching practice brings professional actor training into conversation with ethical leadership, ensemble practice, and community building. His approach to ethical leadership has been shaped through his training and work with Walter Earl Fluker & Associates, grounding his practice in a larger tradition concerned with character, community, responsibility, and how people learn to live and lead together.
The Woven Ones™ grows from that intersection, using theatrical creation to explore imagination, leadership, collaboration, and the practice of beloved community.
PARTICIPATION
The Woven Ones™ is open to actors, dancers, movers, vocal artists, directors, writers, storytellers, educators, facilitators, visual artists, and curious people interested in collaborative creation. No previous acting or devised theatre experience is required.
Participants should come prepared to move, improvise, create, listen, collaborate, and play. Because everyone will create their own work and perform in others' work, participation in all three sessions is essential.
TUITION & COMMUNITY RATES
Standard Tuition · $350
Fable & Sow Founding Member / Wildheart Community Rate · $250
BIPOC Artist Rate · $175
Fable & Sow Founding Members and members of the Wildheart Community receive a $100 community discount.
The BIPOC Artist Rate is 50% of Standard Tuition and does not require an application or demonstration of financial need. This intentionally subsidized rate is offered as part of Fable & Sow’s continuing commitment to widening access to rigorous artistic training.
Participants paying Standard Tuition may register directly through this page. For the Founding Member / Wildheart Community Rate or BIPOC Artist Rate, please contact info@fableandsow.com. Fable & Sow will invoice you directly and confirm your registration upon payment.
If tuition remains beyond what feels possible, please reach out. When space and the sustainability of the offering allow, we are happy to explore additional tuition support.