This Postcard to Myself activity is designed to allow a release of difficult feelings and emotions in a gentle non-threatening way. This activity helps to express bottled up emotions. And allows one to feel and reflect on their current and past thoughts and situations. Online Open Studio was created to bring our work to everyone […]
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My Internal Weather Forecast – Online Open Studio
In this Online Open Studio activity, My Internal Weather Forecast, we will use the metaphor of weather to describe, define, and identify our feelings and internal experiences. Online Open Studio was created to bring our work to everyone who can’t attend our Open Studio in person. Activity by Community Art Counsellor, Gugu Manana. What you […]
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Emoticons – #wellnesswednesday
Our #WellnessWednesday activities are fun, quick art-making activities for all ages. Emoji’s or emoticons are the theme for this activity. Activity and artwork by Community Art Counseller, Alisa Ray. Can you identify the feeling words that match the emoticons that you see on phone’s? Did you know that it is very good to be able […]
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Noticing your Doodle Art – #wellnesswednesday
Our #WellnessWednesday activities are fun, quick art-making activities for all ages. This activity invites you to look at your doodles. Activity and artwork by Community Art Counsellor, Alisa Ray. This activity is about noticing the art that you do after you have created it. Maybe you were listening to your teacher and doodling with your […]
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Keys to my life series (4 of 4) – #wellnesswednesday
Our #WellnessWednesday activities are fun, quick art-making activities for all ages. The last of our Keys to my life series. Activity and artwork by Community Art Counsellor, Gugu Manana. We invite you to consider the questions and respond through art-making: The Pause key is used to temporarily halt or momentarily stop while one takes a […]
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Keys to my life series (3 of 4) – #wellnesswednesday
Our #WellnessWednesday activities are fun, quick art-making activities for all ages. This is number three out of four in the Keys to my life series. Activity and artwork by Community Art Counsellor, Gugu Manana. We invite you to consider the questions and respond through art-making: The Esc key or escape allows the user to cancel […]
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Keys to my life series (2 of 4) – #wellnesswednesday
Our #WellnessWednesday activities are fun, quick art-making activities for all ages. We continue with the Keys to my life series here. Activity and artwork by Community Art Counsellor, Gugu Manana. We invite you to consider the questions and respond through art-making: The Backspace key is a key that deletes any character. Are there things you […]
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My colourful heART – #wellnesswednesday
Make your own colourful heART. Our #WellnessWednesday activities are fun, quick art-making activities for all ages. Put your hand on your heart, close your eyes and feel your heartbeat. In silence, count 20 heartbeats. Write down five feelings that your heart is feeling right now, give each feeling a colour and texture. Draw a heart […]
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67 minutes of art-making
On Saturday, 18 July 2020, Rozanne Myburgh and Kamal Naran, facilitated an online workshop called 67 minutes of art-making, celebrating communities and the strength we find in them. We share some of the artworks that was created in this session. “Community is immunity”, writes Dr Kelly Brogan in a recent newsletter. And as we, the […]
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This is what happened in Open studio’s term 3
Friday Junior Art Group Term continued with the notion of celebrating all cultures in South Africa, whether they originated within or without our borders. The 11 official languages were used as a guide but also including the San and Khoi cultures. The word “feast” implies that all the people of South Africa have something positive […]
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