Sketchbooking for Metal Health w/ Pono
Monday, October 28th | 6-8 pm | FREE
Join Pono for a 2 hour workshop where ze will share suggestions and inspiration for starting a personal sketchbook. Pono will share a bit of their sketchbooking practice to illustrate how they have used sketchbooks for processing and expressing grief, connecting with loved ones regardless of distance & time, and regulating their nervous system in times of under/overstimulation as a brown, queer, trans person with autism and ADHD.
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In the workshop, Pono will also invite participants to reflect on their relationship with their creativity. In reflecting on our relationships to our own creativity, we can begin to understand how to tend to the moments in our lives when other voices have discouraged or dismissed our creativity, and how those voices might have become our own. Sketchbooking offers a safe and expansive way to discover and re-discover the things that “scratch our brain:” the POP of our favorite colors next to each other, the feeling of scribbling with no destination in mind, the surprising catharsis that comes from ripping up some paper you’d made marks on just a few moments before.
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You are encouraged to dig up whatever markmaking tools (sharpies, pencils, highlighters, ballpoint pens, your kiddos’ crayons) you may have around. You are also encouraged to bring a sketchbook, notebook, pad of paper, binder–anything that offers several bound sheets of paper. If you don’t already have these things, don’t worry! While supplies are limited, there will be extras at the studio that you can borrow.
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If in doubt, please sign up! You do NOT have to consider yourself “artistic” or “creative,” you do NOT need to feel capable of drawing a single line, and you do NOT have to come without hesitation or fear! Pono’s mission is to support ALL individuals in re/connecting with their creativity, playfulness, and modes of experimentation and expression–no prerequisites required.”