READING WATER
Ferwa Ibrahim, UAE 2 Online Live Workshops These workshop explore poetic and psychological dimension of water and its interaction with the human imagination through structured drawing meditations. Water plays a central role in various cultures' mythologies and symbolisms, often representing the primal aspects of existence. Its fluidity and ability to evoke emotions and human thought has always inspired artistic expression. In this workshop we will listen to the sound of water to read into our own body, thoughts and emotions. We hope to ride the waves of our emotions / thoughts and flow to meet the ground horizontally. Water has an amazing power to heal, wash wounds, and eventually fill the deepest crevasses of our mind and soul. Materials Required: Quiet space, wireless headphones, several sheets of paper, any drawing materials you like working with / holding / touching. For further details: [email protected] |
photograph by Elizabeth Felicella
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Fallen Trees, Hidden Spiral
Pamela Lawton, artist, and The Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation, NYC In-person LIVE Streamed Workshop FRIDAY 29th SEPTEMBER 3pm NYC / 8pm UK For those planning to attend the in-person part of this event, please email [email protected] or call +1 212-529-4906. Please include "TTD Gross" in your email's subject line. Slots are limited, so please RSVP as soon as possible. |
PAPERGROUND: on fragile soil Dr. Anthi Kosma, GREECE In-person LIVE Streamed Workshop The crumpled surface of the paper is our ground. Our earth in miniature. On its surfaces we “walk” by drawing lines, contours, paths, dots and furrows with “streams”. Our land is a/our corpus precious and fragile. It is watered, peeled, dried but also blooms. It is a process of design reflection and contemplation, a graphic "gardening". In the sentimental topographies of a paper, above the “ground” and below it, in between its folds and carvings we unfold our stories, concerns and suggestions for our "ground", to take good care of it, to worship it. Online workshop with local community (University of Thessaly). https://www.anthikosma.com/ |
Hypothetical Flower: An Archive
Elizabeth Phelps, NEW YORK, US Online Workshop For years, I have drawn imaginary flowering plant forms. In this project, at this time of great socioecological destabilization and loss, I seek to mine this drawing habit for its meaning, and to expand my scope of imagination and understanding through collective involvement. The Archive of Hypothetical Flowers will hold a lexicon of imagined botanical forms existing in relation to an inventory of human hopes for various kinds of healing. I am performing "fieldwork" in the collective botanical imagination. I hope to have many participants who will submit their drawings to this Archive after going through a guided process of imagining and drawing a flowering/ fruiting plant with healing properties. HypotheticalFlower: An Archive www.elizabethwphelps.com |
Responding through drawing: sensing our space of land and sky Sarah Goudie, UK Online Presentation Sarah will present a spoken word/film, on the experience of delivering a two-day workshop ‘Sensing land through drawing’. This will be held at the end of August at the Rural Art Hub, Ellesmere. The presentation will be a personal response to guiding a small group across two days using experimental, intuitive, and compassionate touch drawing methods. We will sense our way and find relation with the land; we will refer to poets, writers, artists who have paved our way. Sarah will in turn respond gathering sound, materials, and collaborative drawings to interpret and articulate the workshop through film and word. www.sarahgoudie.com |
‘Bypass Wildlife’ & ‘Grave/Grebh/Graef’ Kathryn Poole, UK Online Presentation: Reflective Practice This artist presentation will discuss two of Poole’s recent projects: ‘Bypass Wildlife’ – a drawn archive of roadkill found on a bypass between towns, and ‘Grave/Grebh/Graef’ a study of graves and the unremarked life that can grow upon them. Both projects are rooted in active looking, repetition and remembrance. www.kathrynpoole.co.uk |
Infinite Choke - Plastic, guilt, and ecotopian dreaming through the comic medium
Online Presentation Dr. Louis Netter, UK This illustrated talk with explore, through the comic, how university students perceive their own buying habits in relation to plastic and the difficult balance between convenience culture and a responsibility to the planet. The comic form enables the thoughts, ideas, and perceptions of students to take shape in drawn images which use the vernacular of symbols, visual metaphor, and abstract, visual conceptualising to evocatively connect the personal and emotional with wider issues of global concern. [email protected] |
Light Shines Through Online Workshop Sarita Chouhan In darkness, in moments of suffering, we pray and we seek light to shine and remove all the shadows and heal. We walk and walk, feeling the earth beneath our feet, our connection with the earth, the light falling on the soil and the light entering our being. The earth is going through constant change, so are we. The fallen dry leaves were once green leaves on trees. The roads being built will have shiny surfaces, the layers beneath will have stories, and we will move on. |
Ephemeral Modalities of Drawing Aurora De Armendi & Andrea Frank, USA (New Paltz) Workshop, Live, In-person New Paltz NY Saturday Sept 23, 9am - 11:30am (in case of rain, Sept 24, same time) A live workshop, taking place outdoors before the symposium and recorded, with the recording of the workshop and reflections on it made available ahead of the symposium. During this workshop, De Armendi & Frank will formulate a collaborative drawing action, based on their research and explorations of ephemeral modalities of drawing in the environment. Drawing practices will involve water and rock as well as found tools and our bodies. |
Unlock Dreamings
Beatriz Acevedo When we spend almost half of our lives sleeping, dreams have a life on their own and they can be a potential source of wisdom. Alas, we rarely are able to unlock their power. This series of short workshops aims at connecting us with the power of dreams through drawings. Everyday from Monday to Thursday we will meet in the morning (switching between UK / NY morning time) to unlock our dreaming intelligence. Beatriz will guide us on how to make the best of dreams, with simple techniques for a better night sleeping and tips to remember those elusive streams of unconsciousness. Beatriz draws upon her own practice of dreaming, with some ideas from Jung’s approach to dreaming, and this is part of her ongoing purpose of encouraging people to live a beautiful life. |
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The Joy of Autobiographical Comics
Michelle Darlington Online workshop In this workshop I will talk about my own comic 'Desmond', the process behind it, and how it helps me digest and make sense of the world and things that happen in it. I will also show examples of comics which have been made by workshop participants, for the purpose of exploring social problems and enabling multi-stakeholder groups to find common ground in order to tackle them collaboratively. I will then walk you through a simple and easy group process I have devised, which allows people of any ability level to create a simple comic that can spark human connections. This will be a process you can use with groups of adults or children. This workshop builds on and updates the online workshop I delivered at TTD 2021, in which we saw Desmond's adventures in the Kalahari. |
Thought-Full Drawing
Dr Curie Scott Online Workshop Friday 29th September 3pm UK This drawing workshop introduces ‘simple’ diagrams drawings as powerful activation life tools. I use in them in coaching and learning for professional development. They can be applied widely such as developing resilience, how to set boundaries and improve confidence. This draw-and-tell workshop will help you gain clarity for your next steps, and you can share the insights you gain. I’d love to include some of your drawings within the ‘Graphic Facilitation’ book too! Some of the drawings will be accompanied by embodiment practices so come in comfortable clothes you can move in, be in a ‘zone’ that allows you to focus on some deep questions without interruption, and bring thick felt pens/ sharpies and paper. |
Kinesthetic/Cartographic Memoirs a fertile performative ground reflecting on our dis/re locations and environments Katherine Ricketts Online LIVE Workshop This virtual workshop combines movement, story and drawing to create a kinesthetic/cartographic memoir in relation to place and space. The performative exploration starts with the prompt I remember when I first arrived/departed. This will call upon participants to think of place and space geographically/emotionally in relation to dis or re location. In partners (breakout rooms), the story is told; one person speaking and the other drawing the salient points resembling a cartographic or topographical record. This is transferred to movement with chosen words, poeticized and spoken simultaneously. The partners reverse the roles and they end combining their two vocal, kinesthetic and visual stories, exemplifying this modality as a fertile ground to reflect upon our chosen and unchosen environments both transitory and fixed. |
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