Jazz + Journaling

Jazz & Journaling is a free daytime gathering that invites participants to slow down, reflect, and connect with Philadelphia’s jazz legacy through creative practice.

During this guided session, participants will explore a gentle journaling process using paper-based art, prompts, and reflection exercises designed to encourage mindfulness and creative expression. As participants create, they will listen to a curated journey through Philadelphia’s jazz lineage, highlighting influential artists and recordings across generations.

This program is an ideal daytime reset for those looking to step away from their screens, recalibrate, and take a creative break in the middle of the day while being in community with others.

All materials will be provided, and no prior art or journaling experience is required.
Light snacks will be made available, and participants are welcome to bring lunch.

About the Facilitator: Joy is a Therapeutic Art Facilitator with an educational background in Behavioral Health, Sociology, Public Health and therapeutic art facilitation. She believes that art is a creative expression, fueled by our own stories, thoughts, emotions which blooms from our hearts into amazing art pieces. She is the owner and creative facilitator of Revive Art Journaling, an organization that partners with various schools churches and organization to create a fun and colorful environment for students to use recycled materials (old holiday cards, dried flowers, stickers, etc.), paint, draw to create mixed media collages and personalized art journals. Her background in SEL (social and emotional learning) allows her to use the art journals as tools to help students explore their sense of self, learn the concept of color theory (color's connection to influencing our emotions), meditative mindfulness, develop their emotional intelligence, unpack the wonders of gratitude, and discover the captivation of their creative identity, and gain confidence in their artistic, self-expression. Her goal is for participants to upcycle the recycled materials into mixed media colleges to reinforce the concept of reviving their art and themselves in their art journaling, bringing "old, dead things" back to life, while creatively sharing their story!She has lead therapeutic art workshops in 10 Philadelphia school programs, including might writers. She has also worked with college students at Eastern University to help them destress as they pursue their careers, helping them prepare for sustain a mental wellness and healthy work life balance. You can learn more about her work with Revive Art Journaling here.

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