Brava Presents
Cultivating Creative Rituals for Resilience
with artist-in-residence, Vidhu Singh, PhD (2 Sessions)
Sunday, May 14, & 21, 2023
2p - 5p in Brava’s Cabaret
Cultivate your unique creative expression through poetry and expressive writing, visual journaling and collage, theater and mindfulness to deepen self-discovery and personal growth.
This is a golden opportunity for creative exploration!
You don’t have to be ‘good’ at art.
Let go of the critic.
Art is for everyone!
Art is for wellness.
Social Emotional Arts/Expressive Arts center process over product.
All are welcome, no experience necessary.
Location: Brava Theater, where Vidhu Singh is an Artist-in-Residence.
Sessions
Each session highlights ONE artistic mode, while LAYERING multiple modes to offer varied options for expression.
Session 1: Poetry/Expressive Writing – exploring words
Session 2: Visual Journaling – exploring words and images
Suggested Materials:
A notebook and pen, watercolor/sketchbook/journal to draw on (such as an A4 size), coloring pencils/markers/watercolors (Posca pens are great, Zebra pens are affordable!), some magazines/cut out images you love such as images of nature, animals, art, mythology, a printed photo of your child self and present self.
*Please bring whatever is easily accessible. We can offer some additional materials for participants.
*Bring ONE symbol, image or object that represents strength or resilience for you.
Guidelines
Our guidelines include fostering a safe environment to be able to be free in our creative expression and to share and witness each other’s work.
Important Note
Vidhu Singh is trained to facilitate Expressive Arts sessions. She is not a licensed therapist and each participant is responsible for their mental health and well-being. If you are dealing with issues beyond the scope of the session, please reach out to her privately in advance.
Suggested contribution:
$50/2 sessions | $25/session
The sessions will build on each other.
No one turned away, but please contact us in advance due to limited capacity.
Limited Capacity: 8 - 14 participants
About Vidhu Singh
Vidhu is an Expressive Arts Consultant/Educator (currently training at Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute, Seattle) and a Social Emotional Arts Facilitator (trained through UCLArts & Healing, Los Angeles). A lifelong learner, she cherishes the benefits of layering multi-modal expressive arts for creative expression and wellness.
Vidhu holds a Masters degree in Dramatic Art from UC Santa Barbara and a doctorate in Asian Theatre from UH Manoa. A graduate of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors’ Lab, Vidhu is a core member of Theatre without Borders; a founding member of World Wide Lab; the founder of RasaNova Theater; an Advisor with Bauman Wellness; an ensemble member at Aviva Arts, and a resident artist at Brava Theater.
As a theater artist, Vidhu’s fluency in a variety of cultural and aesthetic forms, her dramaturgy, her scholarship and her advocacy for South Asian theater have made her contribution to the American theater truly unique. Cal Shakes recognized this uniqueness by honoring Vidhu with the 2020 Luminary Award in dramaturgy. Recent dramaturgy highlights include Burning Wild with Aviva Arts at 3GT Innovators Residency 2022 and Berkeley Rep’s 2021 Ground Floor Summer Residency Lab, Third Eye Moonwalk by Jon Bernson with Playwrights Foundation in 2021 and House of Joy by Madhuri Shekar with Cal Shakes in 2019 and Bay Area Playwrights Festival in 2018.
Covid Health & Safety Policy
Please follow covid health and safety guidelines and do not attend if you are experiencing any symptoms. Consider doing a covid antigen test prior to the session.