Creative Care for Eco-Anxiety: A Choral Collage Workshop

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This three-hour expressive arts workshop focuses on tending to eco-anxiety with respect and creativity. Through expressive arts and nature-oriented practices, we will take good care of our eco-anxiety, and explore opportunities to transform this anxiety. With a focus on vocal expression, the workshop will centre on sonic vision-boarding, culminating with a group choral collage, uniting breath with resonance, expressing hope, and manifesting a collective dream for our precious planet earth.

Participants will engage in drawing, movement, meditation, journaling, nature time, deep listening, and exploring singing and harmony to co-create a choral collage. Instead of avoiding the painful emotions associated with the climate crisis, we will hold space for eco-anxiety and transform it through creative practice, using the arts to help bridge the gap between what is and what we long for in our relationship with the rest of nature.

No prior experience or training in any of these art forms is needed. The goal is expression, connection, and creativity, not attaining perfection or being "good." You cannot do it wrong.

There will be a short break about half way through the workshop. The workshop will take place in the HCP classroom, and in the HCP gardens. There is a café next door to the classroom (Charlotte and the Quail).

Accessibility:

-There is parking available beside the classroom, a bike lock rack, and public transit access nearby.

-There are no steps to the classroom, there is a ramp on the wooden deck into the classroom.

-The nearest washroom for the classroom is down four steps near the entrance to the cafe. There is an accessible washroom in the gardens not much farther. The washrooms are not gendered.

-Please give us at least 48hrs notice if you'd like us to reserve an accessible parking spot beside the classroom

-Masks are welcome. Windows will be open and there will be an air purifier running. Please do not attend if you are feeling unwell or have been in contact with someone who could be contagious. Anna, the facilitator will likely not be masking for ease of presentation, but regularly masks elsewhere, and some KN95s will be available.

This event is "Pay What You May" and donations will be directed to the Gorge Waterway Action Society.

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Organisateur

Anna Bigland-Pritchard - BC Culture Days Ambassador

Anna (she/they) is a multi-genre singer, songwriter, music director, voice teacher, and eco/arts communicator whose creative practice resides at the intersection of creativity, connection, and care for the earth. She has a BMus and a Post-Bacc Diploma in vocal performance, and performs opera, musical theatre, indie-folk, and ecologically-guided vocal improvisation. She is currently completing a certificate through the Winnipeg Holistic Expressive Arts Therapy Institute. Anna is co-creator of Gay4Nature Collective, an eco-indie opera+ collective based in lək̓ʷəŋən territory (Victoria BC), with whom she co-created award-winning short film, "Green." Anna also performs under her indie-folk name, Rose House, often with contemporary dancer Veronique Emmett.

Anna regularly leads creative mindfulness workshops and singing/choral classes, including a monthly live music and restorative yoga class called Rest&Resonate. You can find out about their upcoming events and performances at abpcreative.ca

Partenaires

Horticulture Centre of the Pacific hcp.ca Hey Shauna Art Therapy heyshauna.com