Join Creative Play for a beginner-friendly night of mindful engagement with ink painting practices!

Welcome to all levels, no prior experience with ink needed.

✨The Intention:

This is a night of embodied painting and mindful engagement with creative practices. You will be introduced to ink painting techniques and create your own floral ink painting!

✨The Deeper Practice:

We will begin our time with a grounding exercise to help drop into our bodies and be present, and then engage in a short discussion circle about our experiences around creative engagement, perfectionism, and how we may engage in play as an entry point for deeper connection with our creative, curious selves.

Perfectionism and creativity are so often intertwined. The pursuit of perfection can be a driver to hone your craft, but can also cause paralysis before you even get started. If this has ever been your experience, this session is an opportunity to mindfully practice play (over production), and engage with creative curiosity over fear.

✨The Agreements:

It’s important to acknowledge the intrinsic vulnerability of creativity. As such, participation in this space is an agreement to hold space for one another in that vulnerability.

💕 We agree to offer feedback kindly and share encouragement often.

💕 We agree to offer that same kindness to ourselves and our inner critic.

💕 We agree to approach our creativity as one big experiment with no right or wrong way to do it.

All art materials provided.

Seats available on a sliding scale, depending on what feels accessible to you at this moment.

✨ABOUT YOUR FACILITATOR

Kendra Schellenberg (she/her) is an award-winning local artist and feminist weirdo who has spent over a decade working in the Fraser Valley arts industry as a painter, sculptor, designer, and maker. An art-nerd to the core, she believes that creativity is a foundational part of what makes us human and an essential part of feeling truly alive.