WHAT DO YOU SEE WHEN YOU LOOK AT ME? Workshop

Saturday 14th Oct, 1 to 3 pm

Sir Duncan Rice Library, Craig Suite, 7th Floor

title: When you look at me, what do you see?

Eldin&Love multidisciplinary and multigenerational workshop; clay, spoken word, Aberdeen’s slavery connections. 

Children are welcome to come with their parents.

Playing with clay and writing thoughts are therapeutic, inclusive and approachable. Our joint Eldin&Love workshop aimed to soothe and uplift through partaking in art: joy as resistance.

Inspired by the Mother House Studios, London, ‘a unique model of artists’ studios with integrated childcare, where children are welcome in the workspace’, we opened up our recent workshop at Aberdeen University Library to include children.

Craft and Writing Workshop

* A presentation on the Powis Gate project; ‘Quasheba’, about an enslaved woman from 1800s Jamaica with connections to Aberdeen. The film can be seen as part of the current Legacies of Slavery exhibition. It centres on Noon’s poem ‘The Violence of Identity’ which references classical African playwright, Terentius Publius Afer and Indian philosopher, Amartya Sen.

* Also presenting on our more recent performance and exhibition, ‘Loved Seeds’, about Quasheba’s family tree, her nine children and more on Aberdeen’s colonial connections. About children.

* Spoken word performance of a newer work by Noon.

* Discussion and Q and A on our art and the issues awoken. Costumes and ceramics to look at.

* Try your hand at clay press moulding to make anti-slavery tokens (referencing Wedgewood but with a modern twist) with Helen. Glazed and fired tokens to take home.

* Writing therapy exercise with Noon.