Explore the Natural World with Your Child
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Join us this weekend for two educational and entertaining workshops with poet Richard Lewis!
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Listening and Speaking: The Dialogue of Children
with the Natural World
Saturday, May 22, 2010, 10am to 12:30pm
Fee:
Free with admission
This workshop, presented by Richard Lewis, centers
on the role that artists and parents can play in bringing the natural
world into the lives of children - through the arts and the imaginative
process. After a viewing of the documentary film, The Journey Within -
showing Richard Lewis working with 6th grade students at IS 227 -and a
reading of his poem, Each Sky Has Its Words - participants will be
invited to find a tree or a flower - a sound or a movement - within the
garden outside from which they too might begin to fashion a dialogue
between themselves - and the natural world. Using visual art, language,
movement and music, each participant will then translate the beginnings
of their dialogue into a form that can be shared with others. A
concluding discussion will focus on how teachers and parents can
integrate this kind of imaginative process in their classrooms - as well
as within the everyday lives of children.
Space is limited and pre-registration is suggested;
please contact Richard Lewis via email or at 212-831-7717 to register.
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In Our Backyard a Tree Lives
Saturday, May 22, 2010, 2pm to 3:30pm
Fee:
Free with admission
A family workshop, with Richard Lewis, for children and their caregivers
exploring not only how a tree lives - but also the knowing and
knowledge a tree has, particularly as it lives through its many days and
nights - and seasons of all kinds. After talking with and listening to
Richard read his poem, A Tree Lives, we will go into the Garden and find
a special tree we can reflect upon together and, through drawing and
writing, create a small book, a book of what a tree knows - and sees and
hears and feels. In conclusion we will share our individual hand-made
books and, in a farewell gesture of acknowledgement, take some of what
the tree has shared with us - home.
Space is limited and pre-registration is suggested;
please contact Richard Lewis via email or at 212-831-7717 to register.
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