Diane MorningStar Ault
Welcome to my new website! Just a simple one pager here, nothing fancy.

Please see me on FaceBook for more connection and up to date information about current happenings in our community or contact me at:
dianamorningstar@gmail.com
615-594-4410

MorningStar Community Arts is a mutual support network of community artists dedicated to social transformation-- creating cultures of peace one story, one dance, one song at a time.

Hello, friends! I'm now offering space in my home for retreats, vacations, and visitors to the Nashville area. I've always loved hosting people here with house concerts, potluck gatherings, expressive arts circles and in December I listed my 4 bedrooms, 3 bath home on the AIRBNB service. I offer special rates for artists, writers, musicians on retreat, and provide a nurturing, colorful, peaceful, spacious environment for your creative process.  See my listings at www.airbnb.com.

http://www.airbnb.com/rooms/258817

http://www.airbnb.com/rooms/289242

CALENDAR of OPPORTUNITIES

Coming up this year, we'll be offering some new opportunities for community, collaboration and creative connection, but for the time being this winter is a time of more quietness, and i'm focused on writing poetry, journaling, and making various kinds of art. 

Thandiwe and I will be hosting a Fourth Friday Coffee House at the Glendale UMC from 6-9 monthly starting in January. It's a sweet, free open mike format for all kinds of music, poetry, stories Email me for details.

Also, in January on the FOURTH THURSDAY, Jan 26, I'll be the featured poet at Poet's Corner at Scarritt-Bennett Center, 7-9pm and offer a wide selection of poems I've written on themes that have spanned a quarter century of my life on the planet. Please be there to enjoy the ride!  *smile*  I'm working on publishing a collection of poems, working with about 150 poems I've written across that time.  A tentative title is RADICAL HOSPITALITY: Grief, Grace and Grits.  It's been interesting, to say the least, to delve into all these aspects of my transformational journey. 

The idea for WisdomPlay gatherings is still percolating as I enter my 56th year, traditionally a time of introspection, a portal through midlife-- when the time feels right I want to work with a committed group of people at that portal and share this time of discovery, celebration, release and support. Here's the description from last year:

WisdomPlay

A 9 month program with a group of people at midlife to share in a Cross-Cultural Collage of Stories, Songs, Movement, Art-making, Ancestral Inspirations and mutual support for living widely and well in the second half of life!

I'm waiting for the right time to present itself, so stay tuned!
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Diane MorningStar Ault is a longtime community organizer, activist and artist whose purpose is building a mutual support network of community artists as a soulforce for a better world. She was born in Lawrenceburg, TN into a web of close farm family with relationships to grandparents, great-grandparents, spent many years working with national and international grassroots women's groups filled with high-spirited sages, and has been mentored by many a wise woman. She regularly communes with the ancestors through dreams and visions and has been facilitating rites of passages for folks since way before it was cool. After 8 years of leadership in the forms of InterPlay, she is currently designing MorningStar Community Arts, linking arts and social transformation, writing, performing and producing dozens of community gatherings, house concerts, and sacred circles in her home- The PlayRoom. After traveling the world for many years in following the synchronicities and connections, she is now hosting a BNB in her home and welcoming the world into her hospitable, creative, musical space.  She is a devoted grandmother of Ben & Sam, 7, and Kinza, 4, who live next door and remind her daily what is REALLY important.   
615-594-4410  www.MorningStarArts.net    dianamorningstar@gmail.com