New Year - Nw You Kintsugi Workshop

Name: New Year - Nw You Kintsugi Workshop
Start: 2025-01-26T13:00:00-05:00
Location: 143 West Street, Ste U, New Milford, CT, United States, Connecticut 06776

Schedule

Sun, 26 Jan, 2025 at 01:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

143 West Street, Ste U, New Milford, CT, United States, Connecticut 06776 | New Milford, CT

Start 2025 with renewed purpose, gratitude for your journey, and a deeper appreciation for the power of embracing your authentic self.
Join us for a unique workshop led by art therapist Tara DeLuca, based on emulating the ancient Japanese practice of Kintsugi.
This unique workshop invites you to reflect on the lessons of the past, let go of what no longer serves you, and embrace the beauty in your imperfections. By breaking a ceramic bowl we will symbolically release what no longer serves us.
Practicing the art of kintsugi we will then decorate and repair the piece. Highlighting the cracks with gold, the piece becomes stronger, more beautiful, and takes on a new purpose.
During the workshop, you will connect with your bowl, break it, confront the damage, and take ownership of the pieces that remain by gluing them back together.
The bowl will be changed forever, just as each person is through their personal experiences.
What was once broken does not always stay that way...
Broken, repaired, and new
The concept expresses how the passage of time can further increase the beauty in the imperfect.
“Instead of masking the flaws, a Japanese way of seeing things is that by highlighting the cracks, the piece becomes stronger, more beautiful, and easier to use.”
Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery. If a bowl is broken, rather than discarding the pieces, the fragments are put back and the cracks are adorned with gold. There are no attempts to hide the damage, instead, it is highlighted. The practice has come to represent the idea that beauty can be found in imperfection. The breakage is an opportunity to create something new, and stronger. Applying this kind of thinking to instances of challenge or “failure” in our own lives can be helpful in our own rebuild.