About this Event
Creativity and Art as Primers for Conscientization and Social Change
This workshop is designed to explore generative thought around what it means to be creative, offering ideas and practical methods for engaging creative potential, nourishing self-expression and collectiveness.
By recognising the processes that elicit our creativity in daily life, it is possible to connect our ‘self’ with our surroundings and communities in meaningful ways that encourage conscientization and cooperation. The creative exercises offered will serve as prompts to rekindle with the joy of making-meaning, playfully and powerfully, and break through unhelpful ideas around what it means to make art, valuing small gestures and creative action as primers for social change.
As a way to make art with accessible and inexpensive materials, please bring with you any art materials you have. Some examples of materials you may bring with you: Paper, or sketch-book, or note-pad, small boxes (i.e. tea box, pasta box, soap box, cereal box, etc.), or a jar or any sort of vessel (clean and dry), card, newspapers/magazines, biro pens/pencils/crayons, paint and brushes, oil pastels, fine/thick markers, glue (PVA or stick), string, sellotape.
Dr Francesca Bernardi (CATA/ACAT, FRSA), is a creative coach, artist, writer and advocate. She trained in Art and Design Education and Arts Therapies and has worked as a teacher and artist-in-residence in schools, alternative provision and further education. She most consistently engages in multi-disciplinary research, dividing her time between England and Italy, setting up creative environments for critical participatory work with marginalised communities. Francesca has published international research on arts-informed methodologies, autism, childhood and children’s rights; she is founding chair of the Antonio Gramsci Society UK, member of the Disability Without Abuse Project (Los Angeles), Councillor and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) and Associate Member of CATA (Canadian Art Therapy Association). Francesca is a Visiting Lecturer in Childhood Studies and Montessori Education at the Carnegie School of Education (Leeds Beckett University) and Arts Therapies at the University of Roehampton, Francesca is also a translator (Queen’s University Belfast; Routledge).
Announcing a NEW WAY TO DONATE! We are releasing 2021's Cuisine of Different Cultures E-Cookbook to you for a $10 donation towards Atlantic Institute. When you make your donation, the cookbook will be emailed to you the day of the program you are participating in. This cookbook is packed with over 15 creative recipes that launched us into the online world of our cooking demonstrations during the time of Covid. This was a time that all of us were coming together to learn how to cook something different and interesting with limited resources on hand so this cookbook is full of interesting recipes you will want to have by your side.
If you aren't into cooking like we are, we are still accepting and are super appreciative of coffee!
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Online
USD 0.00 to USD 10.00
