🄸 Journal-Making Workshop
Facilitated by Marian Parker
Winter 2025 Workshops from Jena Schwartz and Marian Parker
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These three workshops are designed to fit together but people are welcome to register for one, two, or all three!
A variety of art materials will be provided for all three workshops. The first 20 people to register will receive a free copy of The Place of All Possibility: Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom by Rabbi Adina Allen, co-founder of the Jewish Studio Project.
Participants will receive a FREE copy of "The Place of All Possibility: Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom" by Rabbi Adina Allen, founder of the Jewish Studio Project.
Shining Light on Your Purpose: A Hanukkah-Inspired Creative Exploration
Saturday, January 18, 2:00-3:30pm (JCA)
Facilitated by Jena Schwartz
The audience is people who feel overloaded/over-saturated and long for some quiet time to explore/remember what’s most important. Using the metaphors and themes of the Hanukkah oil, Or Haganuz, hidden light, and seasonal darkness/return of the light, we will explore what it is to explore our inner selves, what “lights” help us discover our purpose, and what this has to do with what the world needs.
Participants will explore these themes through the Jewish Studio Process, a combination of text study, intention-setting, individual creative process, and reflective writing. All welcome! No previous art-making or text study experience is required.
Journal-Making Workshop
Saturday, February 1, 2:00-3:30 (JCA)
Facilitated by Marian Parker
We will be making small-scale accordion books to record creative experience and decorate and embellish with words and images as you see fit.
For anyone who participated in the January 18th workshop this can be an opportunity to incorporate your Hanukkah-inspired creative exploration as a more formal record of your experience. Participants are also invited to use this journal at the February 15 workshop.
Loosening the Soil, Planting the Seeds: A Tu B’Shvat-Inspired Creative Exploration
Saturday, February 15, 2:00-3:30pm (JCA)
Facilitated by Jena Schwartz
This workshop will follow the Jewish Studio Project model and is open to all JCA members who wish to dig into the energy of Tu B’Shvat. We will read texts related to nature, our inner nature, tilling, curiosity, intentionality, getting our hands dirty, faith, hope, beginnings, patience, and process. Participants will explore the question: What am I growing and nurturing at this time?
Anyone who attended Marian’s Journal-Making Workshop is encouraged to use that journal for this creative exploration.
Participants will explore these themes through the Jewish Studio Process, a combination of text study, intention-setting, individual creative process, and reflective writing. All welcome! No previous art-making or text study experience is required.