Dodging Covid pings in creative flow
For sure, we’re not alone in adapting to this summer madness of Covid ping warnings going off left, right and centre!
Arts Lab has had their fair share of challenge, if you add into the mix facilitating hands-on creative freedom with large groups of young kids and teenagers. Plus, we’re all about collaboration – sharing ideas and making, passing pots of paint, adding to each other’s drawings, cutting up, re-arranging and re-assembling together. Enter sets galore of personalised containers, scissors, chairs, etc. and we more or less got away with having uninterrupted creative flow wherever we were.
It’s been a busy summer …..
- Outdoor workshops starting in May, culminating in a participatory finale extravaganza launching next week with Burn the Curtain.
- A local village Waste Not Want Not family afternoon upcycling cereal boxes.
- A Significant Seams ‘summer camp’ week working with vulnerable teenagers, during which – oh no, we nearly got through – Matt got pinged on the last morning. At this point, it didn’t take long to realise he was the most popular facilitator. Feedback question: ‘What was the best thing about your week?’ Answer: ‘Matt!’
All in all though, the creativity has been relatively uninterrupted and we’ve all had a good time.
To learn more about what we got up to, head to our Archive for The Imaginarium of Us and Art & EcoCreativity with Teenagers.
Image: Mixed media collage made by 15 year old participant on Art & Ecocreativity course.
