An afternoon of spontaneous creativity
Saturday July 21st from 10 am to 1 pm
$50 per person including materials fee
All sessions begin with guided meditation, which helps us to shake off the dust of our practical, day-to-day mind and clear a space for deeper, free-flowing expressions to emerge. There is no “right” or “wrong” way to make art or move or sing. At Creative to the Core, we are interested in authentic expression. What lies beneath all those layers of conditioning and judgment and logic? Something wondrous.
Once we’ve cleared a space, we begin with an exercise called “grow a drawing”. Using pastels we slowly begin by creating a “seed” of colour. We take a moment to ponder our “seed” and ask inside (we use a process called Focusing), what the seed wants to become. We let our hands, our bodies lead the way. With our minds and hearts, we nurture the images that emerge and grow it to fruition. Once the drawing is complete we expand on it with written words, movement, sounding or more drawing.
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Charles Hackbarth is a Toronto based artist, writer, sound sculptor and expressive arts facilitator. Charles has been creating art and exhibiting professionally since 1985. Charles has worked with individuals with an intellectual disability and their families for more than 30 years and has facilitated an art program for artists with an intellectual disability for more than 20 years. In the mid-nineties, Charles attended Lifespace Institute for Transformational Psychotherapy where he studied psychotherapy and expressive arts. Charles believes that we are all Creative to the Core.
For the past fifteen years, Charles has been developing workshops that empower participants to bravely go deep into that inner space of free flowing creativity.
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