Expressive Arts Workshop: Mental Health Care
*The event has already taken place on this date: Sat, 09/17/2022
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In this guided intermodal expressive arts workshop, participants will explore the theme of self-care, community care, and wellness. Participants will get introduced to mark-making (a form of art centered around creating various patterns, lines, and textures), begin to name feelings and sensations, and practice building ways to invite creativity into daily life as a means to express those feelings and sensations. We will be utilizing visual arts + “mark-making”, creative writing, and mixed media collage as a guiding tool to generate personalized expressions of daily lived experience.
Expressive art is a combination of talking and making, exploring what image(s) come up, and going deeper into getting to know them by integrating multiple art forms into exploration.
Materials will be provided.
You do not need to have any experience with art to attend this workshop.
*Childminding can be provided upon request (email familyplace@gordonhouse.org to request)
About the Facilitator:
Heather Saluti (they/them) is an emerging multi-modal artist & writer, expressive arts therapist, grief worker, and reclaiming Tessitore Magico. They operate Fioritura Expressive Arts Therapy, which delivers community arts & text-based workshops that support people in establishing connection with their creativity, imagination, and community wellness. With their three cats Burt, Etta, and Babydoll, Heather lives and works on the unceded ancestral lands of the hən̓qəmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh speaking peoples in Burnaby, BC.
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