Drawing From Birth

Sharing experiences of birth with ourselves and our communities is a powerful way to process birth and “re-story” dominant and collective narratives about these experiences. But where do we go when these experiences feel beyond or outside of words? Process-based image making can be a powerful way to engage in this work outside of language and narrative. Within the world of collage, symbols, and open-ended mark-making we can explore representation and communication of experience that embraces paradox, multiplicity, ambiguity, non-linearity and lack of resolution.

This workshop is for everyone - especially those who don’t regularly draw or make images! Surrounded by scissors, glue sticks, paper, and markers, we hope to capture the experience many of us left in childhood of creating unselfconsciously. We will begin with grounding, move into a playful exercise in collective image-making, and then engage in a guided experience of individual, process-based collage work. There is no expectation to produce or share a finished image - we will engage with the joy and depth that creating for creating’s sake can bring.

Our creative flow will be supported and held by collaborating musician Shaw Pong Liu!