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Exploring Memoir Through Creative Writing and Dance

We invite you to join us for Roxy Menzies’ course ‘Exploring Memoir Through Creative Writing and Dance’! This is an UrbanArts + Workman Arts Satellite Program! 

Registration is open.

Dates: Tuesdays, June 18 – August 6, 2024

Time: 2 hour Sessions, 5:00PM-7:00PM

Venue: 5 Bartonville Ave E – York South Weston

This 9-week journey of Exploring Memoir through Creative Writing and Dance will not only enhance your creative writing skills, it will guide you in unraveling, accepting, and nurturing your artistry.

Each class will build upon the previous one leading us to a final project that weaves our stories in a dialogue between the written word and our own innate movement. Elements from healing modalities act as a means of self-care to delve deeper into the mind-body connection that allows us to tap into our creative selves.

Writing prompts and readings fuel us in our storytelling while improvisation and basic foundations of choreography are stepping stones for movers at any level to play, have fun, and storytell in a holistic manner that involves all of the senses.

Participants will have a visual, physical, and written interpretation of one aspect of their memoir as well as a journal of short stories and excerpts.

Questions? Contact Shakoi Hibbert at shakkoi@urbanartstoronto.org.

Introduction to Needle Felting

We invite you to join us for Kat Singer’s course ‘Introduction to Needle Felting’! This is an UrbanArts + Workman Arts Satellite Program!

Registration will close on July 1, 2024.

Dates: Wednesdays, July 24 through August 28, 2024
Time: 2-hour Sessions, 6:00-8:00PM
Location: 5 Bartonville Ave E, Toronto

Discover the joys of needle felting with Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist and textile enthusiast Kat Singer! Dry (needle) felting involves using a barbed needle to compact (typically natural wool) fibres in order to create two or three-dimensional designs. Another way to describe felting is “soft sculpture”.

All you need to get started on your felting journey is patience, stamina for small, repetitive hand movements, and a little bit of practice to master basic skills. Felting encourages focus, planning, and creative problem solving. It can also be blended with other mediums and materials. Felting is not just a means of creative expression, it can also be wellness practice. In this class, learners will be invited to connect to the materials they are using as well as each other, listen to their bodies, and approach creative challenges with curiosity and compassion.

This program has limited capacity!

Successful candidates will be notified by July 8.

Questions? Contact Shakkoi Hibbert at shakkoi@urbanartstoronto.org.