Code Vert - Plant Wisdom

Climate Blues: Shaping Hope and Action through Poetry and Flag Making

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Saturday, September 23rd at 3 PM @ LPV

Led by Dr. Lori Kent, Director of Visual Arts Education Hunter College & Founder of Code Vert Arts. A participatory workshop in basic cyanotype that “may experiment with sun sensitive fabric dyes on a simple muslin base.” Dr. Kent invites participants to share her pedagogical goal “to demonstrate that words have power and can serve as prompts to shift fear to action, despair to hope. I try to stay current on the research rather than personal beliefs (and fears). Working with the prompts of blue(s), climate, change, action, and hope, etc., we write about current hopes and anxieties about climate in NYC/globe. The group is then given supplies to make a flag in the tradition of Tibetan Prayer Flags or Haitian flags to point out aesthetics and the messaging of flags.” Pending on the outcome of the workshop the flags may be displayed in the garden.