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Location: The Bus Stop Theatre
Date/time: Tuesday, April 25th @ 6:30pm
Instructor: Leena Alawaid
Workshop Activities
1) Blind-Folded Painting
The idea is to play music and have the participants paint blindly. This will help in reducing anxiety and de-stressing the participant. The activity will allow the artist to paint without an expectation or worry.
2) Emotion Wheel
This activity is very common in art therapy practice and most instructors approach it differently. I like to approach this by having everyone trace an outline of their bodies. The concept is to mix colour you feel express a part of what you are feeling recently in life. The closer to the core, the more you feel it and the farther away from the core, the less it is affecting you. The hope is that eventually the artist will stop over thinking the situation and begin to paint purely from emotion.
About the Instructor
Leena Alawaid was born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia and got to pursue her artistic studies and explorations at NSCAD University. After graduation in 2014, her main focus was to try and bring forth the concept of Creative Arts Therapy and draw attention to the process in her community. Leena is currently working together with several organizations in the community, including Ronald McDonald House and the IWK, where she offers art sessions to the children as a form of healing. Growing up in Halifax she got to experience first hand how much of a tight knit community the city has and she is thrilled to join the team here as Associate Producer at StART Fest Halifax.
Note: This calendar is not a reflection of our current availability for rentals. For our rental calendar, please see the calendar at the bottom of this page.
