Pandora Park Fieldhouse

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From September to November 2016, a weekly group of young children and their adults met to play together and be creative. Facilitated by Mirae Rosner, the group explored expression through movement, sound, drama and sensory play with materials and props.  The group wasn’t a class, more like a creative exploration lab.  Each week was slightly different, yet followed a predictable routine.  Over the weeks, a friendly group formed in which we connected by watching, listening, copying, and also acknowledging that we are all different in how we engage with the world. Over and over, we explored the basic idea that there is no right or wrong way to play with something or be creative.  As much a social space as a creative one, everyone who came contributed to a sense of warmth and welcoming in the room. In October, our group participated in the Between A and B project, showing a group drawing as part of the final exhibit aboard the SiteFactory school bus gallery. Thank you to everyone who attended Creative Playground! Thank you to Leah Weinstein (SiteFactory), Emiko Morita and prOphecy sun (Dance Troupe Practice, and Peggy Leung for assisting with the class each week. Photos by Carla Mugleston and Reese Muntean.

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Thanks to everyone who danced, drew, photographed and mapped during Between A and B (Vancouver Big Draw, Oct 1-22, 2016).  This selection of photos from The Photo Club, Creative Playground, and Sonic Playground workshops, plus SiteFactory closing exhibition. Courtesy of photographers Reese Muntean, Carl Mugleston and Emiko Morita. Hosted by artists Emiko Morita, prOphecy Sun, Mirae Rosner and Juli Reese.  In collaboration with Leah Weinstein and SiteFactory.  Supported by the Vancouver Parks Board.  

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Join us starting on Oct 1 at Pandora Park, for Between A and B at the Vancouver Big Draw.

Between A and B
Vancouver Big Draw Free Community Workshops
Oct 1 - 22, Pandora Park Fieldhouse (2325 Franklin St)

How do you get from A to B? What happens along the way? Join Dance Troupe Practice and SiteFactory for free, all ages workshops exploring mapping, photography, sound, and drawing. Learn, share, and interact with Fieldhouse artists and with each other, and make art works to display at a final exhibition in the SiteFactory school bus. With Artists Mirae Rosner, Emiko Morita, prOphecy sun, and Leah Weinstein. For more info about the Big Draw Festival: http://www.drawvancouver.com/

Sound Mapping Tours & Collective Drawing, Vancouver Big Draw opening event
Sat October 1, 10AM-4PM, Pandora Park Fieldhouse
Mapping Connections through Photography, with Emiko Morita and the Photo Club Project
Mon Oct 3, 2-3:30PM, Pandora Park Fieldhouse
Sonic Playground, Sound Workshop with prOphecy sun
Sat October 8, 12-3PM, Pandora Park Fieldhouse
Creative Playground, Creative playgroup for kids (0-4) and parent or caregiver, with Mirae Rosner
Weds Oct 5, 12, 19, 10:30-11:30AM, Templeton Pool Activity Room (700 Templeton Drive)
Closing Exhibit aboard SiteFactory, Community art show inside a school bus gallery
Sat Oct 22 , 11AM-1 PM, Pandora Park Fieldhouse

All events are free, drop-in and do not require prior experience. For workshop details, please visit http://dancetroupepractice-fieldhouse.tumblr.com/events 

(mini) DTP

On Mondays, a group of us children and adults have been meeting to creatively play together. It’s not a class and there is no expectation that we produce a final artwork.  Rather, we simply come together to see what will happen each week.  Usually, our time follows a predictable pattern - arrival, activity, and grounding. We say hello to each other and the whole room, take turns leading and following each other, play with some objects or props, build a house, make a drawing and then most importantly, share a snack.  

At each stage, the goal is to find ways to be together following the rhythms of our play, welcoming joyful satisfaction and honoring the ways we relate to each other.  Often our relationships become the very substance of our activities as we play with seeing and being seen, running away and towards each other, in other words - variations on peekaboo and hide and seek.  We also ride on mats, build a fort with them, climb on the bench, make funny faces in the mirror, knock on all the doors, wear hats, become animals, run in circles, sing songs, and practice pretty much all of our dance moves.  

Each week, I bring in different prompts and props, looking for things that will stimulate our emergent creative expression - in other words, things that we can play with in an open-ended way, and activities that we can make up as we go along.  I find myself echoing one of my teachers often “Let’s see what happens” - and we do!  Everything becomes part of the improvisation of our meeting.  

And if you’re wondering if this is an exhausting chaos and screaming thunderstorm - the wonderful thing is, that once we really follow the energetic and exciting part, the group finds a way to settle.  And from the beginning the social is emphasized, as I invite the group to greet each other, investigate the room, and mirror each other, bringing in attunement, mirroring, and empathy. With this social tendency invoked, it seems that a basis is provided for the group to regulate itself, more or less.  Sometimes this needs a little help.

It’s an exercise in adjusting expectations. I need to find a way to introduce only just enough, not too much or too little. In this way, we play together and it’s both simple and complex.   As I was working on a way to end this little post, one of the toddlers in question decided to join me at the keyboard, so I’ll let her sum things up:

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- Mirae

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