The Joy & Creativity Collective: March Gathering

Everything feels heavy. The news is a lot. It's hard to permit ourselves to be joyous and even more difficult to motivate ourselves to be creative. But joy and art aren't frivolous when the world is breaking. They're how we survive it.

The Joy & Creativity Collective is a monthly gathering for anyone feeling the weight of the current political moment and who refuses to let despair win. We believe that making something beautiful, meaningful, or weird with our own hands is itself an act of resistance against forces that want us isolated, paralyzed, and hopeless. This is for the doodlers, DJs, poets, comedians, and makers. For people who used to create and miss it, who want to reconnect with the part of themselves that imagines and dreams and plays.

This Month's Theme: LIGHT

Creating light is a practice of hope when darkness feels overwhelming. Make something that plays with light and darkness. This prompt is intentionally open for interpretation. You could work with photography (long exposures, shadows, silhouettes). You could build something (lampshades, lanterns, light boxes, string lights, projection pieces). Collage using reflective materials. Small installations. Shadow puppets. Window decorations. Write another poem. Paint or draw something that considers illumination and obscurity as the subject.

Bring what you've made (or started, or are still thinking about) and we'll share our work together.

Create Together

After the discussion, we'll have collage materials available to continue working on creative projects together, with snacks and drinks to fuel the making.

What to bring:

• Your creation inspired by the prompt (in whatever state it's in)
• Materials for you to create/play and build on your project or start a new one! (scissors, glue, art supplies, collage materials...)
• Your curious, creative self
• Friends who want to join!

New to the group? You're welcome here. You don't need to have attended previous events or completed the prompt to join us. Come make something with us.

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