Workshop Festival

Collaborating Through Sonic Landscapes

Workshop designed and facilitated by Graham Barton.

This workshop offers a space to experiment with sound, and through the experience explore the concept of interdependency and collaboration. You will be invited to work in small groups to co-create a series of 5-minute sonic landscapes. We will reflect on how we might recognise and balance our independent, collective and interdependent creative practices.

The workshop is open to all and no previous experience of making music or using sound equipment is needed.

Processing on paper with Ilga Leimanis

Workshop designed and facilitated by Ilga Leimanis.

Enter a reflective space that will help you think through unresolved questions or work on a current challenge, using different ways of drawing as tools to increase flow, explore possibilities and gain clarity.

No drawing skills necessary!

Ilga Leimanis is an artist, educator and researcher. Her practice-led pedagogy and creative consultancy has brought her into contact with many diverse groups of students, both in the UK and internationally. For over a decade, she has facilitated workshops in sketching and idea generation, developing a functional method for creative practice.

Sketch(y) Book Making with Lucie Russell

Workshop designed and facilitated by Lucie Russell.

This workshop invites you to make a DIY (Do It Yourself) sketchbook that acknowledges the fear of a blank page. Choose from the materials provided or bring your own materials, to make your own unique version of a sketchbook. From research papers to magazines pages, shopping lists, existing drawings or found materials to create a bespoke sketchbook. Stick, sew, clip or fold pages. Whether the outcome is a sketchy bundle, an old school zine or a slick book it can be inspiring content.

Lucie Russell is a Peckham based artist, drawing facilitator and researcher. As Drawing People Together she designs and facilitates inclusive socially-engaged community art events. Creating an ongoing diverse range of workshops with people, using accessible and affordable mediums to explore art as (serious) fun. Inviting everybody, all ages and abilities, to quite literally draw together.

She also runs experimental life drawing focusing on more than looking good, catalysing experiences of embodiment(s) beyond (just) the observational drawing of bodies.

@drawing.people.together

@peckham.lifedrawing

Connecting with Values

Workshop designed and facilitated by Adam Ramejkis and Roxanne Peters.

‘Creative connection is the use of creativity to access and feel connection and get yourself and those with you in the moment into a more connected space’ — Kae Tempest, Writer and Activist

value is/values are…?

What we value and how we connect is different for each of us, but determined by our lived experiences – the way we think, behave and treat others. Within creative and cultural spaces, expressions of your ideas, motivations and values can be experienced individually and collectively.

Connecting with Values is a reflective interactive workshop exploring what value and values mean to you, and how they might be represented in your work, your communities and the ways you are inspired. It is a friendly space to express yourself and connect with others.

Untangling my Brain with Katreena Dee

Workshop designed and facilitated by Katreena Dee.

Do you ever have racing thoughts that keep you from focusing on the things that matter most to you?

This workshop helps you use your sketchbook to process overwhelming thoughts and clarify essential themes in your writing and design. Katreena shares her sketchbook process of gaining control of her wandering mind with writing, which inspires repetitive design elements to centre her thinking. This active meditation allows Katreena to develop clear steps in art practice.

Katreena Dee is currently completing her master’s degree in Art and Science at Central Saint Martins. Her focus is in trauma and mindfulness art practices. She has a background teaching art to students ages 3-18 in South Korea and the United States. She currently conducts mindfulness art activities for London School of Economics students to aid stress and promote human connection. Upon graduation, she plans to expand her art sessions to include professionals in the workplace.

Instagram: @katreena_dee

Website: katreenadee.com

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Papermaking Workshop with Gloria Xiao

Workshop designed and facilitated by Gloria Xiao.

Find out about hand paper making skill with this workshop! Have a try of paper making with handmade tools. Test with paper pulp made out of recycle paper and natural fibres. Learn about how to make new material with ingredients found in life. All made materials can be taken away as souvenir.

A 2-hour long workshop with 12 persons capacity, no age limit

Synesthesia on Paper with Feinong and Anqi

Workshop designed and facilitated by Feinong and Anqi.

The natural connection between our sensory systems is referred to as synesthesia. Strengthening the understanding of synesthesia can enhance creativity and the ability to understand art. This workshop introduces participants to connecting with their perceptual world through sound and painting, exercising the interaction between senses.

Sketch – Seeing the Self with Poojan Gupta

Workshop designed and facilitated by Poojan Gupta.

This workshop focuses on self-reflection through sketching and collaging a game ‘consequence’.

This aims to answer: How does your sketch reflect your perception?

Through making we will look at drawing as a tool for understanding your ways of thinking and interpreting information.

The freedom of art helped her to notice and appreciate things in nature that either we had learned to ignore or had not been introduced to see. This prompted her to take art as a serious pursuit. She says, ‘Just as a musician thinks in sounds and rhythms, I think in visual language. This is where ‘visuals’ comes to play a significant role for me. I am interested in getting into the minds of viewers through fresh and striking visuals’.

Insta : @created_poojangupta

Website : www.poojangupta.com