TeAda Productions is hosting its second ever seasonal CreAtive Healing Lab (CHL) in Los Angeles, which will take place between the months of October 2025 - June 2026. As part of this series, guest teaching artists will facilitate workshops that combine the arts, social justice, and collective healing. The intention of CHL is to co-create a sanctuary-third place for community to gather, process current events and futures, build, and heal through sharing space, and creating art.
All workshops will be IN-PERSON (unless moved virtually for safety reasons) in West Los Angeles, spanning October 2025 through June 2026.
As part of CHL, we are co-hosting workshops on:
October 18, 2025 (10am - 12pm PST)
October 25, 2025 (10am - 12pm PST)
November 1, 2025 (10am - 12pm PST)
November 8, 2025 (10am - 12pm PST)
November 15, 2025 (10am - 12pm PST)
Spring 2026 workshops to be announced!
***Each workshop will fall on select Saturdays between October-June from 10am - 12pm. We ask that you note ALL of your availability when answering "Which CreAtive Healing Lab Workshop(s) would you like to attend?" on the form.
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To read more about the workshops, click the link below or visit this page.
Through dynamic and low-stakes exercises, we'll share and perform stories related to themes of collective witnessing, our shared political moment, hope, and dreams. Workshop participants can expect to engage and sharpen their skills in deep listening, improvisation, and reflection.
Saturday, March 7th, 2026 @ 10am PST | West Los Angeles, CA
A 2-hour offering that blends the healing power of sound with restorative circle practices in honor of collective healing. Designed to support emotional understanding, nervous system care, and deeper listening, this experience creates space for both personal grounding and community connection.
Saturday, March 14th, 2026 @ 10am PST | West Los Angeles, CA
Combining theater, movement, voice, poetry, healing — including the frame of “Aloha” & “Mahalo” from the TeAda Methodology — we will explore, embody, connect to self, hopes, dreams and our collective humanity more deeply.
Saturday, March 21st, 2026 @ 10am PST | West Los Angeles, CA
Together, we will move through a writing workshop and writing prompts rooted in identity, memory, and freedom, before transforming our words into embodied expressions through movement or spoken word.
Saturday, April 11th, 2026 @ 10am PST | West Los Angeles, CA
We will explore musical connections to home and how we can express our feelings about home through music. Share your experiences about your relationship with where you live and the place you call home through meditative and energizing musical activities. No musical experience required!
Saturday, April 18th, 2026 @ 10am PST | West Los Angeles, CA
Participants will experience being part of a ritual through exposure to songs, vibrations and sound. They will participate by exploring vocal toning practices and harmony singing that soothe their nervous system, ease vocal tension, and quiet anxious thoughts, while boosting oxytocin and restoring inner balance.
Saturday, May 2nd, 2026 @ 10am PST | West Los Angeles, CA
We will explore how ancestral palm weaving traditions from the Philippines are being transformed by climate change, migration, and material insecurity. Blending storytelling, cultural history, and hands-on creative practice, participants will learn to repurpose discarded food packaging into weaving material and craft their own small woven object.
Saturday, May 30th, 2026 @ 10am PST | West Los Angeles, CA
This hands-on workshop navigates the Hawaiian canoe plant, kī. Propagation to then exploring the creative and cultural uses of the plant. Through story telling and practice, the workshop highlights plants as connectors of culture, creativity, and community.
Saturday, June 6th, 2026 @ 10am PST | West Los Angeles, CA
TeAda Productions is a nomadic theater of color rooted in the stories of immigrants and refugees. Through theater workshops and performances, TeAda is committed to healing and honoring the lives of the displaced, exploited and overlooked. Our artistic process starts and ends with conscious listening, community building, and creative courage. TeAda began in 1996 as a means of providing opportunities for people of color to develop their artistry and bring marginalized voices into the public dialogue. TeAda’s plays are developed through community-based story gathering and a devised ensemble theater process. Current touring plays developed through this process include Refugee Nation, (the 1st nationally touring play about Laotian Refugees in the U.S.) and Global Taxi Driver (a play based on the stories of Taxi Drivers and the effects of technology on this gateway profession). TeAda’s Creative Self Care workshop series is entering it’s 3rd year at the UCLA Labor Center in downtown L.A.
