In 2022 the Anger Project facilitated 12 on-line sessions and 2 off-site activities. During our workshops we dance, sing, paint, scream, draw, write, play, smash things and engage in a series of embodiment activities designed to bring us into deeper relationship with ourselves. Currently by invitation only, safety, anonymity and privacy are paramount to this work.

Click on the slideshow below for more information about each image.

Creations

Public Events 2024

Short Films 2023

The Anger Project is currently working on a series of short films, each one highlighting someone's anger story through movement and conversation. To date there are two complete and one in process.

Workshops

During workshops we may dance, sing, paint, scream, draw, write, play and smash things. Sessions lean heavily on embodiment activities, such as movement improvisation and somatic practices, designed to bring us into deeper relationship with ourselves and one another. While 2024 sessions (8 in-person, 1 off-site) were open to the public, 2022 sessions (12 on-line & 2 off-site) were by invitation only. Safety, anonymity and privacy are paramount to this work.

Below are creations 2022 workshop participants were open to sharing. Some participants asked to be anonymous contributors, others shared privately during workshops. Click on the slideshow for more information about each image.

drawing of person walking with anger bubbles rising for the Haas Anger Project

Drawing of a couch and huge anger bubble growing for the Haas Anger Project

Drawing of liquid being poured into a test tube for the Haas Anger Project

Love Letter To My Anger

I want you to eat the house down,

break it between your fingers,

grind it through your teeth.

I keep waiting

for the day you'll

free me.

Make sure my dad is inside please.

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WRITING BY ANONYMOUS (SERIES 1)

Drawing of silos of anger for the Haas Anger Project

drawing of anger monster staring curiously at a floor for the Haas Anger Project

Drawing of an anger monster raging for the Haas Anger Project

Drawing of an anger monster staring into an eyeball curiously for the Haas Anger Project

Drawing of a collage of blue, orange, brown and black triangles by Helen Lee for the Haas Anger Project

Grief Workshop Freewrite Exercise

Facilitated by Maria Renée Johnson

Enough to take me away or down or to the edge of the ocean where I'd sit and scream if I could feel it or see the moon or hold a candle in my hand and wait wait wait to tell you all the things I tried when you closed your ears and mind and tried to eat me. To silence what was there. My face. And voice. And still. Enough. Be still. Don't cry. Don't talk. Don't tell. Pretend. Enough. Enough isn't enough. To push you off the edge of the earth. To bury my heart. To hide the things I saw and know. You. Told me to sit still. Stay quiet. Enjoy it. Forget. Enough. Of you and your sadness and the hole you dropped me in. Enough of the walls I've build inside me at your request. Enough. To say and eat and pray and feel and be. I am enough. I've had enough. Of you. Forever. I told you once that I saw it, both of us falling in your lies. And wondered what I would have without them.

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WRITING BY HAAS (SERIES 2)

Drawing of burst of wind by Grace Astrea for the Haas Anger Project

Drawing of palm fronds hovering over a house by Grace Astraea for the Haas Anger Project