This Website is a Work in Progress

Empowering Creatives:

Bringing Their Visions to Life

Greetings and Welcome!

My name is Barbara Lawrence. Producer. Facilitator. Creative Being. Owner of Soul Sifter Creations. I’m embarking on a new adventure as a multi-passionate creative solopreneur and invite you to join me on my journey!

Thank you for your patience as I learn web design. Due to my steep learning curve, I opted for pre-installed Stax templates to get me started. I’ll slowly replace their content with my own.

I encourage you to join my email list for updates to this site at: info@soulsifter.org unti I transition the contact form to my business email address.

In the boxes below, I present my vision for how I hope to support and promote the arts in my local community of Enfield, CT and beyond. My dream is to collaborate with members of my community to create a fully-equipped arts center with performance stages, studios, gallery, workshop spaces, artisan and makers gift shop, and more.

This website will be in a constant state of evolution as I become more familiar and comfortable with web design, plugins, and video editing. While its main purpose is to promote the arts in my community, it also serves as a canvas for excerpts and musings from my own journey as a creative and student of life.

I am re-evaluating how I want to allocate my time and fluctuating energy levels. For transparency, I’m challenged with chronic pain from dysautonomia, recently diagnosed ADHD at age 62, and Complex PTSD.

I realized I need to remain flexible and fluid when it comes to balancing my desire to support and promote the arts in my community with honoring my need to embrace my own creative and professional projects, deepen my study of nervous system dysregulation, be present for friends and family, and at times unplug from the world to recharge to maintain a sense of well-being.

Thank you again for your patience and understanding and for joining me on this adventure!

I look forward to getting to know you and being of service to my creative community!

Many blessings,
Barbara

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Celebrations

Celebrating local creativity and beyond with an array of performances, festivals, art and craft fairs, exhibits, community events, challenges, pop-up shops / galleries, and more!

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Networking

Bringing creatives, venues, suppliers, and supporters of the arts together.

Business directory, events calendar, and assistance with resources.

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Workshops

  • Empowerment
  • Creative Tutorials
  • Webinars / Interviews
  • Panel Discussions
  • Nervous System Regulation
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My Vision and Purpose

Employing my arts education, training, and performance experience with marketing and event planning skills, my vision is to enrich the artistic landscape of Enfield, CT and beyond by promoting and supporting local creatives in their endeavors and expanding the availability of free artistic events to the general public.

My goal with this website is to create a safe place where folks can allow their best selves to shine; a supportive community where we can feel free to challenge ourselves, take risks, explore our creative voices, and expand our comfort zones.

Website Guidelines

My guidelines for this community are simple and absolute: Respect. Kindness. Compassion. Understanding. Choose to inspire and elevate rather than discourage and diminish. This is a community of inclusion. Let’s celebrate our differences.

Posts that invite genuine, constructive conversation from a place of love and a desire to enrich the human condition are welcome. Trolling, disparaging, derogatory, inciteful, and/or exploitive posts are NOT welcome. Folks who choose to engage in such activity will have their posts deleted and will be barred from this site.

DISCLAIMER

By continuing to remain on this website and explore its contents it is understood by all concerned that you have read, understand, acknowledge, and agree to the following:

  • to adhere to these guidelines as outlined above and accept being barred from this site if in violation of these guidelines
  • that there could be certain posts and/or comments that might offend and/or trigger you or others
  • that you accept full responsibility for personal reactions to such posts and/or comments and do not hold the owner of Soul Sifter Creations, this website, or any affiliates liable for any distress these posts and/or comments might cause you or others
  • that if visitors to this website are under the age of 18, it is the responsibility of their parents or guardians to monitor their use of this site and as such do not hold the owner of Soul Sifter Creations, this website, or any affiliates liable for any distress these posts and/or comments might cause them or others

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Portfolio Block

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Our New Office Downtown

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How To Sell Services As Products Online

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Refreshing Our Brand

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