The Arts House Trust and Squiggla have teamed up to bring you fun and educational art workshops this school holidays!
Squiggla x The Arts House Trust
Tues 1 October: 10am - 12pm
Suitable for ages 6 - 12
Buy tickets Tickets $20.00 per child (they must be accompanied by an adult/guardian)
Parents/guardians are encouraged to participate with their children/whānau and do not need to buy a separate ticket
If you love the idea of creative exercise, where you get to stretch your imagination and test the boundaries of your favourite materials, or even take a few creative risks, come and join our workshops. After all, Squiggla’s creative mark making programmes are more like gymnasiums than classrooms and are all about hands-on imaginative making - so we give you lots of fabulous materials and papers that are irresistible to use as you build up a composition of lines, dots and marks, shapes, colours and materials. You might notice how you see, feel and observe the world around you in new ways. With Squiggla, there are no mistakes, just experimentation and inventiveness.
The workshops, guided by Squiggla’s experienced teachers and artists, are packed with great ideas to get started, help you find your own creative groove and share ingenious mark making techniques. Squiggla throws out the rule book that says you have to draw ‘something representational’, so you are free to generate your own unique abstract compositions.You might even invent a new mark making tool that you can share with others. After all, in the making process, you will begin to trust and relax.
Squiggla is an all-ages programme, so you are invited to exercise and embrace your creative thinking with whānau and friends and together you can feel the freedom to be creative.
Presented by Squiggla, Aotearoa New Zealand as part of the Chartwell Charitable Trust.
“I enjoyed using Squiggla. I felt more creative while using it. I will do it again. I liked everything about it”
ABOUT SQUIGGLA
Developed in Aotearoa New Zealand, Squiggla is a hands-on creative visual thinking programme. We increasingly know the importance of creativity for well-being and no matter what age you are, you can exercise and train to think more creatively. After all, learning is what our brains and bodies do all the time. Squiggla mark making activities tap into the senses, our hands, eye, mind and heart. Squiggla does not seek meaning from familiar, recognisable images. So we encourage all to break from familiar habits, disrupt barriers to creating in the moment and relax into the process of playful exploration. Ask yourself the question: What if? Then there is no longer the need to reproduce something else 'out there in the world'. Using research about the creative process has helped Squiggla develop ways to bring these dimensions into the programme.
Presented by Squiggla, Aotearoa New Zealand as part of the Chartwell Charitable Trust.
