September 24, 2023 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Sunday September 24, 2023
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Presented in partnership with Mending the Museum
Ages 8 – 18
Participants under 12 must be accompanied by a non-participating parent or guardian
Countering the ethos of traditional board games, this workshop encourages participants to create games with the prompt “Giving.” While many games require players to take as much land or loot from each other, in teams we will come up with games that prioritize giving. This prompt can be interpreted in any way, either conceptually or reflected in the game mechanics or objective. We will brainstorm and discuss existing cooperative and competitive games that approach the theme, then break off into our groups to come up with our own. Teams will present their game protoypes and show how a round is played at the end of the workshop.
In this workshop participants will:
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Team up to create boardgames that prioritize “giving”
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Sculpt pieces for their games
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Share their creations with each other
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
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General : Free Registration
About the Instructor
Habiba El-Sayed
Inspired by Islamic architecture and human vulnerability, Toronto-based artist Habiba El-Sayed combines clay with a variety of materials, performative and temporal techniques to illustrate her concepts. Habiba holds an Advanced Diploma from Sheridan College in Ceramics (2014) and a BFA in Ceramics from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (2016). El-Sayed’s work has been shown in galleries and museums across North America and has been featured in publications such as Craft is Political, BlackFlash Magazine, Fusion Magazine and Studio Potter. El-Sayed was the recipient of the Chalmers Professional Development Projects grant (2022), and due to the generous support of the Ontario Arts Council, is currently studying VR/AR development as she begins to integrate new technologies into her practice.
About Mending the Museum
Mending the Museum is a community research project organized by Mending the Museum (duo of the same name), Karina Román Justo and Camila Salcedo, that pairs ten artists with “fragments” of textiles and ceramics from the Textile Museum of Canada and the Gardiner Museum’s collections. The artists that engaged with the Gardiner’s collection are: Kendra Yee, Habiba El Sayed, Chiedza Pasipanodya, and Juan Pablo Hernandez Gutierrez. The project was divided into two phases: the first, working with the invited artists on research of the collection objects and development of digital artworks, and the second, guiding artists in the delivery of workshops targeting youth and children on their creative processes and histories of making.
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