An Explorer's Guide to Creating Community Connections:
This page provides a wide range of suggestions to embrace a cross-curricular approach, responding creatively to community engagement.
During the pandemic so many of us felt the value in collaboration and connection. During this time, there was also a recognition of the value of space we were being given. Space to think: to ask and answer questions, to observe, reflect, understand, create and share. Time to think about the absence, or threatened absence of things, and what is truly important to us. We reflected on how to encourage constructive curiosity and suggest a variety of ways of communicating.
A knowledge that we had the opportunity to create a sense of personal responsibility with regard to protecting and cherishing our natural world through the creative opportunities that are open to young people. Questions arose around how to connect to the wider community....
Creative Communities happen when a community of any discipline or type reaches across boundaries to tell their stories. They use music, poetry, dance, songs, tales, painting, agriculture, sport, science, to build a language of creative interchange. When one story leans on another, no matter how it is told, a Creative Community happens- either within or between communities. These resilient communities, be they a school class, a town, a group of friends, an apartment building, an orchestra, or a gardening club, build a flowing interchange with another group so both can withstand hardship. Creative communities by definition include people of all ages, ethnic origin, and abilities.
We invite you and your community to be part of our Creative Communities project. Tell us what you are doing to share your survival stories - you may use our 13 questions ( developed by Humphrey Public School Grade 6 and 8 class, 2021) or create a list all your own.
Just let us know who you are engaging with creatively, and we will link to your site. Once you have told us about your project, we will at your request email you an official Creative Communities Happens Here plaque or bumper sticker template. We can even add your community's name for you if you like!
To inspire each other, and build hope and creative action, we are sharing resources!
This is an exploration of how some youth found that connection. All projects are rooted in an awareness of the local environment and bonding individuals within communities.
The overwhelming and widespread response from youth offers a heartening opportunity for use to reflect on our own ways of building connections.
General Ideas:
Discuss what you think is currently endangered – it may be something personal to your life that is not obvious to others, e.g. a tradition, habit or custom.
Create a journal to record your own ideas in response to the art and music and the environment around you.
Create mood board, an arrangement of images, materials, pieces of text, to evoke or project the essence of the words, music and art.
Add wonder words to your journal: build up a treasure-chest of words for nature, weather, plants, animals, colour.
Create a mind-map or time line of your natural area.
This page provides a wide range of suggestions to embrace a cross-curricular approach, responding creatively to community engagement.
During the pandemic so many of us felt the value in collaboration and connection. During this time, there was also a recognition of the value of space we were being given. Space to think: to ask and answer questions, to observe, reflect, understand, create and share. Time to think about the absence, or threatened absence of things, and what is truly important to us. We reflected on how to encourage constructive curiosity and suggest a variety of ways of communicating.
A knowledge that we had the opportunity to create a sense of personal responsibility with regard to protecting and cherishing our natural world through the creative opportunities that are open to young people. Questions arose around how to connect to the wider community....
Creative Communities happen when a community of any discipline or type reaches across boundaries to tell their stories. They use music, poetry, dance, songs, tales, painting, agriculture, sport, science, to build a language of creative interchange. When one story leans on another, no matter how it is told, a Creative Community happens- either within or between communities. These resilient communities, be they a school class, a town, a group of friends, an apartment building, an orchestra, or a gardening club, build a flowing interchange with another group so both can withstand hardship. Creative communities by definition include people of all ages, ethnic origin, and abilities.
We invite you and your community to be part of our Creative Communities project. Tell us what you are doing to share your survival stories - you may use our 13 questions ( developed by Humphrey Public School Grade 6 and 8 class, 2021) or create a list all your own.
Just let us know who you are engaging with creatively, and we will link to your site. Once you have told us about your project, we will at your request email you an official Creative Communities Happens Here plaque or bumper sticker template. We can even add your community's name for you if you like!
To inspire each other, and build hope and creative action, we are sharing resources!
This is an exploration of how some youth found that connection. All projects are rooted in an awareness of the local environment and bonding individuals within communities.
The overwhelming and widespread response from youth offers a heartening opportunity for use to reflect on our own ways of building connections.
General Ideas:
Discuss what you think is currently endangered – it may be something personal to your life that is not obvious to others, e.g. a tradition, habit or custom.
Create a journal to record your own ideas in response to the art and music and the environment around you.
Create mood board, an arrangement of images, materials, pieces of text, to evoke or project the essence of the words, music and art.
Add wonder words to your journal: build up a treasure-chest of words for nature, weather, plants, animals, colour.
Create a mind-map or time line of your natural area.