Workshop around the theme UWU

Art workshop with the practitioner Sara

Had in total 5 workshops with three schools

Initially had two more poetry workshops but got canceled

Workshop – presentation, introduction, four corners, looking at the exhibition and select favourite piece, collage and stencil

My task: introduce myself, about NSI and the exhibition plus safety rules

The target demographic were primary schools Year 5 and 6

How I felt before – nervous to interact with children and the teachers

Got used to it but it drained a lot of energy

It was interesting to see what their response and the outcome

More open conversations

Lack of time to present was a shame, would have been nice to share the works with everyone

Energy consuming, draining to deal with and interact a lot of young people

Improvement/something to think about= how I should encourage them to think and to be more on theme as many of them went on do irrelevant topic

When told this to my superior, they told be likely because of the choices of the magazines, if they are relating to gardening or kids less likely to find a topic around war.

However it’s hard to find the balance as they recently receive a formal complaint that during the workshop, the newspaper that was used had smoking advertisement in it. So, the person found it inappropriate for primary school students.