In Contact with Trees (Workshop I)

Workshop Date and Time:

• October 11th 10.30am - 3.30pm

Workshop Outline:

This eco-art workshop focuses on relationship between deforestation and climate change, addressing the importance of preserving and maintaining trees (particularly ancient and deciduous).

Activities:

• Reflective walk around the grounds of the eco-park interacting with the trees. This walk will include:

• grounding mediation to support wellbeing in the face of climate grief, anxiety and rage

• foraging and gathering materials to print with later in the workshop

• practices of more-than-human storytelling as a means of perspective taking and empathy building

• Discussion as a group around our feelings about climate change, and how we build strategies for wellbeing, adaptation, resilience and agency.

• Printing with beautiful home-made, plant-based inks on rice and rag papers, and an introduction to my own contact printing method.

• Collaborative printmaking exercise

You can find out more about previous iterations of the workshops here: https://slhavens.co.uk/echoes-of-the-forest-an-eco-art-workshop/

Venue:

The Sun Room at Mount Pleasant Eco Park

Chapel Hill
Porthtowan
Cornwall
TR4 8HLhttps://www.mpecopark.co.uk/eco-venue/corporate-events/the-green-room/

Accessibility:

There is parking available on site. The room is ground floor with large doors. Sessions will involve a small amount of ambling around the site. Please contact me directly with any accessibility needs.

Refreshments:

• Break-times will be built in to the schedule, including a lunch break.

• Lunch is NOTprovided. Please bring your own lunch or there is a canteen on site. https://www.mpecopark.co.uk/canteen/

• Tea and coffee making facilities are provided. A vegan/vegetarian snack will be available at break times.

Materials:

• All materials are provided (though you are welcome to bring your own foraged materials).

• Please bring a clean jar to take home any inks you wish to take home.