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Enter an immersive world created by Montreal-based artist Karine Giboulo, brought to life by over 500 miniature polymer clay figures that tell stories about our most urgent social issues, from the pandemic to the climate crisis. It will delight visitors of all ages!
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Suzanne Thomson is a ceramic artist, registered psychotherapist, and art therapist with 30 years of experience integrating these practices to facilitate healing, community building, and social transformation work. As a practitioner of Zen Buddhism with training in contemplative arts, sensorimotor psychotherapy, narrative therapy, and trauma-informed approaches, she offers psychotherapy, clinical supervision, and teaches at the Toronto Art Therapy Institute and the University of Toronto. Transformation by Fire: Women Overcoming Violence Through Clay, a 10-year retrospective at the Gardiner Museum facilitated by Suzanne, won the 2013 OMA Award of Excellence in Exhibitions. It is a direct reflection of her deep commitment to working collaboratively to address social justice issues through the arts.
In this two-hour workshop, participants will tap into a spirit of play and wonder, and engage in a series of clay exercises designed to harness the power of breath and activate the present moment.
In this two-hour workshop, participants will tap into a spirit of play and wonder, and engage in a series of clay exercises designed to harness the power of breath and activate the present moment....
Instructor: Suzanne Thomson
Participants explore a series of hand-building exercises rooted in the connection between clay and breath.
Participants explore a series of hand-building exercises rooted in the connection between clay and breath....
In this two-hour workshop, participants will explore simple physical practices with clay, using our sense of touch and breath exercises to bring us into the present moment while simultaneously deepening and expanding our awareness that we are all related.
In this two-hour workshop, participants will explore simple physical practices with clay, using our sense of touch and breath exercises to bring us into the present moment while simultaneously deepening and expanding our awareness that we are all related....
In this two-hour workshop, participants will engage is clay exercises designed to call attention to habits of believe, judgments, and the stories we tell ourselves. With self-compassion, we will create possibilities to loosen their hold on us by working with the malleability of clay.
In this two-hour workshop, participants will engage is clay exercises designed to call attention to habits of believe, judgments, and the stories we tell ourselves. With self-compassion, we will create possibilities to loosen their hold on us by working with...