Event Description
This three-hour expressive arts workshop focuses on tending to eco-anxiety with respect and creativity. Through expressive arts and nature-oriented practices, we will take good care of our eco-anxiety, and explore opportunities to transform this anxiety. With a focus on vocal expression, the workshop will centre on sonic vision-boarding, culminating with a group choral collage, uniting breath with resonance, expressing hope, and manifesting a collective dream for our precious planet earth.
Participants will engage in drawing, movement, meditation, journaling, nature time, deep listening, and exploring singing and harmony to co-create a choral collage. Instead of avoiding the painful emotions associated with the climate crisis, we will hold space for eco-anxiety and transform it through creative practice, using the arts to help bridge the gap between what is and what we long for in our relationship with the rest of nature.
No prior experience or training in any of these art forms is needed. The goal is expression, connection, and creativity, not attaining perfection or being "good." You cannot do it wrong.
There will be a short break about half way through the workshop. The workshop will take place in the HCP classroom, and in the HCP gardens. There is a café next door to the classroom (Charlotte and the Quail).
This event is part of Culture Days, a national celebration of free, hands-on arts, culture, and heritage experiences happening across BC from September 19 to October 12, 2025. Learn more at culturedays.ca/bc.
Sat. October 11th
Horticulture Centre of the Pacific Victoria BC
Free
In-Person Event
11:00am - 2:00pm
