#children's workshop

Wish to Encourage Yourself A Children's Workshop by Kanade Yagi

Kanade's research in the Philippines focuses on Filipino traditional spiritual practices. Based on this research, she will introduce in this workshop a unique method, used by healers, which could help you make difficult decisions about your own future. She found this method, often referred to as "tigi", being done by healers to diagnose or predict a patient's condition.

It is a simple way to get an answer to a yes/no question. When you learn, with the help of the answers, which direction to take, you will get a small happiness.

Children from 6-15 years old are encouraged to attend the workshop. Admission is free.

https://www.facebook.com/events/699650400243919Here is our Friday, October 6th Children's Craft Activity! Children ages 3-12 can decorate a Trick-Or-Treat Canvas Tote Bag and then go Rock Hounding in the Bulk Rock to fill it full! (Up To $50 value) for just $5 per child. I have 35 spots available and children can do this anytime from Noon to 7:00 pm (or until dark) on Friday, October 6th!

***HURRY THIS ACTIVITY WILL FILL UP***

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I am asked if I can lead drawing and painting workshops with children on September besides the regular workshops so I started doing some research and looking at examples. 

This is a video by Toya Walker who runs a children’s workshop in House of Illustration. 

‘Food Illustrated’

A House of Illustration project with students from The College of North West London by Toya Walker. 

My workshop is more focused on painting and drawing but I think it could be interesting if students choose the photos of the foods from the world and draw and paint. Afterwards, they could guess where the foods are from. For example, falafels -- Morocco. 

Clay modeling- a hand shaped spatial abstraction.

Forming solid shapes as part of concept development workshops for the new school in Sanjuanerita.

The last of the series of design development workshops with the children of San Juan La Laguna Tribe LAB brought in real clay!

Clay is a crucial ingredient in local earthen construction around Lake Atitlán. Our builders work with it on a daily basis, and are currently commissioned into a number of private natural building projects in various communities around the lake Atitlan. We love it for construction, but more importantly we see it as a great, easy and fun working tool for anyone who wants to try their hand at forming simple easy shapes.

It acts like play dough, only messier and more authentic!

The children in rural Guatemala know clay really well. The majority of them live in adobe houses, and some of them seem to know the basic principles of earthen construction quite well.

Since the progress of our workshops brought us into an understanding that most probably the best architectural solution for the new school building will be to combine two very different styles, namely of a some chunky and some light structures.

We decided to commit a day only to clay modelling. We expected the outcome of this workshop to bring us to into a better understanding of our solid formations.

Our expectations were exceeded.

The children loved this workshop the most. It was really hard to loose their attention. They kept experimenting with the material in various ways, often coming up with very intricate shapes. Some used more water for their modelling, some less, which eventually resulted in either more sandy or finer texture to models. As for the shapes, they varied from traditional square housing shapes, to mountain like formations. Some children started off by drawing a plan on a piece of a wooden board that we provided. It showed a great level of forward thinking and planning. One boy started off by forming singular bricks of clay and than used them to construct his tiny house. He spent the most time on his model and the result was really impressive in respect to the level of detail and the sophistication of the engineering. 

It intrigued us as to how a 10-ten year old could follow such appropriate indigenous technique of earthen construction. He told us that he learned by simply observing the elders build an adobe house next to his one.

Amongst the models were some square formations stuck on top of each other, in a pyramidal kind of way. A group of girls worked on a scale of the whole school terrain, modeling trees and various programmes in relation to each other.

The workshop was really inspirational and has helped us decide on the design theme we will apply with the new school building. Over the weekend, following the workshop we hosted a design brainstorming session with our partner Charlie Rendall from Return to the Forest.

Over the next couple of days we will work from the office developing the best possible design response to the concepts, which we gained from our participatory workshops with the children.

Tuesday afternoon we have a yet another community meeting involving the teachers, parents and some elders from Sanjuanerita interested in the development of the new school design.