The Great I Am is a magical, sensual art camp. This is our honest starting point.
We work with the generative current at the root of existence — the boundless flowing forth that animates all life. We treat this force as magical and our inheritance. We do not turn away from it. We meet it with clear attention and creative intent.
We bring the childlike freedom to step into our creative selves and our full power. We are becoming individuals who can change what is real around us, playfully, with the boundary-making powers of an adult. The body is the portal. Embodiment is our method of manifestation.
These principles guide how we gather, create, and transform together.
Movement, costume, dance, portraiture and performance are how we channel. Embodiment is our method of manifestation. When we dress, move, paint and are painted, we tune ourselves and make things real.
We recognise the erotic as the life-force at the base of existence and the universe. We work with it consciously and creatively as our birthright.
We bring the childlike freedom to step into our creative selves — into our full power and magic. We change what is real around us, playfully, with the boundary-making powers of an adult.
We live in the now and in the flow state. We use improv and intuitive movement. We allow the moment to be there rather than imposing on it. The present is always generative.
We embrace comedy as essential — a way of not taking ourselves too seriously — while truly believing we are becoming gods. These two things live together in us without contradiction.
We make costumes. We tune ourselves to become magic and to channel. We make up stories and become characters. Becoming is real.
Beauty matters. The paintings on the walls, the costumes, the quality of what we make — this is not decoration. It is the environment in which transformation becomes possible.
We collapse the distance between performer and audience. There are no spectators in GIA. If you are in the room, you are in it.
The combination is what makes us distinct. We are magical and we mean it. We honour the sensual and vital currents that move through us and we name them. We are comedic and we use it as a portal. We are artists.
Every tool is available — performance, painting, costume, incantation, improv, ceremony, gathering.
Recent performances, rituals, costumes and moments from the circle.
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We distribute responsibility and power as widely as possible. Everyone here is a potential leader — the one who initiates.
We care for each other with genuine loyalty and show up when it counts.
We create an atmosphere that is safe enough for vulnerability, with room for wildness to emerge as we drop in.