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Seeking Mad Scientists

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6pm-8pm
June 25-July 30 (6 meetings)
$100
The Off Center, 16 W Beverley Street, Staunton

Creativity isn't a magical gift possessed ony by geniuses. It's a muscle that can be developed by anyone. Whatever your area of interest, strategies involving Obstacle Finding, Ideation, Evaluation, Fusion, and Elaboration can revolutionize your Creative Process. Concepts explored in this workshop are inspired by research-based practices developed by Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi and Keith Sawyer, as well as Julia Cameron and others. Sessions will be hands on individualized laboratories. Every week you will focus on a creative challenge within your own selected project and/or field of interest 

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"And if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy. Punch a higher floor." - Prince.

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Book a Performance

Bring the Off Center to your home or business for a bespoke performance of one of our works.

Wuthering Heights,
Really Abridged

March 17, 2024

Part of The Virginia Festival of the Book's reading of Rachel Cantor's Half-Life of a Stolen Sister.

Sarah Koerner (Nelly et al), Shae Rosa (Catherine, Cathy) (Heathcliff), Chelsea K Vance, and Diana Black (Lockwood et al), written, directed, designed by Davey Strattan White. Photo by Kate Simon.

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We're Off!

Get Together With Us

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Huge Gratitude to all who attended the first reading of Dad's Original Tangy BBQ Sauce! 

We had an amazing time getting to know some new friends, and some old ones too. 

Our Next step is to raise the funds to fully stage the play next October. Help us participate in the tidal wave of theatre that's about to soak Staunton with amazing theatre.

Call for Storytellers

Early December TBA

Call for Storyteller

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Thanks for submitting! We'll let you know if you win.

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The OFF Center

The Off Center is a Staunton, Virginia based organization that brings people of every background together to experience curious stories and experiences. We believe in the intrinsic value of gathering and exploring thoughts that we’ve never thought.  We encourage novelty and disruption. Discovery is a basic human need. We seek to fill it.

 

The work that we create and support is off center, inviting participants to see something askew, possibly something previously unconsidered, maybe something uncommon or even disquieting. An aslant view, we believe, brings us all together as community, welcoming our quirky and genuine selves.

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