Hello artcys,
On our first Edlab conferences we started early with a lecture about the ‘Grimm & Co’s Apothecary to the Magical’. A fascinating idea with lovely people behind it that managed to engage even the last person in the room. The Apothecary is a place disguised as a shop for magical being. Apart from that, there are magical shelves that open up to reveal a workshop area. In there, artists collaborate with children to create recipes for magical potions or stories. The purpose of the workshop is to motivate young people to write and as they say “change lives one story at a time”.
The day continued with a meeting with the people who chose poetry as well. There there were discussions about where we can find poetry, what is the point of it and what does it mean to us. An enjoyable experience as we then got to present our ideas back to the lecture theater.
The second conference was another fun day that included group games in the morning. In the afternoon we got to be together with the people from the ‘clay’ group and participate in a workshop that involved both poetry and clay. At the workshop, we were introduced to a paper human body and we were encouraged to add small poems, words and whatever we felt like around it. This was a fun experience of how by using such a simple thing as paper and pencil we all got so creative even though we were a bit hesitant at first. We were also given templates to create poems as well as ready-made poems that we got to cut and add or even rearrange.
See you in the next one,
Antio!
