The Belonging Action

Hey everyone,

This is about a community mural painting project I am currently working on . I am a youth facilitator, and I have already learned so much about creative facilitation! Above is an outline of what the mural may look like.

I am putting this here for two specific reasons:

1) I want to know if any of you would like to be a part of this process, by coming to one of the weekend workshops.

And EVEN MORE IMPORTANTLY:

2) Can you forward this information along to any youth that you know who might be interested or would benefit a lot from this process? The mural is about migration and belonging.

Due to a long process that involves a lot of the challenges we have discussed in class, this project was delayed twice and now we are really behind in recruiting youth to participate. All of your help would be so appreciated.

The mural will be put up on the big parking lot wall on Homer and Cordova (a few blocks from our class), so tell your youth that they will get to see their mural up in the downtown!

Here is the pamphlet info:

WE ARE MAKING A GIANT MURAL,

AND YOU ARE INVITED

TBA (The Belonging Action)

is a youth-led project inviting youth and adults

to produce a giant mural that speaks about

the migration of peoples and cultures to this land

Chrystal, Josh, Elaine, Rosa, and Matt, will facilitate free 2day workshops to groups of youth and adults. Through games, storytelling, sketching, and painting, we will together translate through visuals stories of belonging and migration. In this mural, we don’t want to soley represent times in history, but we want to trigger questioning of our histories and lost histories of peoples and cultures coming to this land since time immemorial.

24' X 32' mural will be installed on the exterior wall facing east of PARKADE @ 422 WEST CORDOVA

The painting process is happening inside the top floor of the parkade (P6) Stall 480+

Sign-Up for any of these three weekends

Workshop#1. Saturday, Oct. 8th, 2-6pm & Sunday, Oct. 9th, 4-8pm (Indigenous focus)

or

Workshop#2. Saturday, Oct. 15th, 2-6pm & Sunday, Oct. 16th, 4-8pm

or

Workshop#3. Saturday, Oct. 22nd, 2-6pm & Sunday, Oct. 23rd, 4-8pm (Migrant/Refugee focus).

* We provide snacks and bus tickets

* No Painting Experience Required!!!

* Bring your creative self and clothes that you can wreck with paint

* Come in the Parkade using door on Richards and Cordova. Use elevator to P5, then up the stairs one more floor, and find us on P6 stall 480+. Follow signs.

RSVP with Melanie at lolaschambach@gmail.com or 604.338.2927

Meet Facilitators at TheBelongingAction.com