Brava Presents
Creative Rituals for Our Times with Vidhu Singh, PhD
Sunday, November 19, 2 - 4 pm
*Registration at the door starts 1 pm
Cultivate your unique creative expression through poetry and expressive writing, visual journaling and collage, and mindfulness to deepen self-discovery and personal growth.
Sessions
Each session highlights ONE artistic mode, while LAYERING multiple modes to offer varied options for expression.
November 19, 2023: Visual Journaling – exploring words and images
Guidelines
Guidelines: Cultivating a safe environment to be able to be free in our creative expression and to share and witness each other’s work.
This is a golden opportunity for creative exploration!
All are welcome, no experience necessary.
Suggested Materials:
a notebook and pen, watercolor/sketchbook/journal to draw on (such as an A4 size), watercolors/coloring pencils/markers (Posca pens are great, Zebra pens are affordable!), some magazines/cut out images you love such as images of nature, animals, art, mythology, a printed photocopy of your child/present self.
*Please bring whatever is easily accessible. Some materials can be offered to participants.
Important Note
Vidhu Singh is trained to facilitate Expressive Arts sessions. She is not a licensed therapist and each participant is responsible for their mental health and well-being. If you are dealing with issues beyond the scope of the session, please reach out to her privately in advance.
Health & Safety Policy
Please follow covid health and safety guidelines and do not attend if you are experiencing any symptoms. We suggest doing a covid antigen test prior to the session if you can, and wearing a mask if needed.
Suggested contribution:
$25/session
Registration at the door starts 1 pm.
*No one turned away, but please contact us in advance due to limited capacity.
Limited Capacity: 8 - 14 participants
*Sessions are 2 hours long, with 15 additional minutes of grace time.
Stay tuned for future sessions...
About Vidhu Singh
Vidhu is an Expressive Arts Facilitator trained at Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute and a Social Emotional Arts Facilitator trained through UCLA’s Arts & Healing Initiative. A lifelong learner, she is passionate about offering accessible multi-modal expressive arts sessions for creative expression and wellness.
Vidhu holds a Masters degree in Dramatic Art from UC Santa Barbara and a doctorate in Asian Theatre from UH Manoa. A graduate of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors’ Lab, Vidhu is a core member of Theatre without Borders; a founding member of World Wide Lab; the founder of RasaNova Theater; a wellness facilitator with Bauman Wellness; an ensemble member at Aviva Arts, and a resident artist at Brava Theater.
As a theater artist, Vidhu’s fluency in a variety of cultural and aesthetic forms, her dramaturgy, her scholarship and her advocacy for South Asian theater have made her contribution to the American theater unique. Cal Shakes recognized this uniqueness by honoring Vidhu with the 2020 Luminary Award in dramaturgy. Dramaturgy highlights include ReOrient 2023 Festival with Golden Thread Productions, Burning Wild with Aviva Arts at 3GT Innovators Residency 2022 and Berkeley Rep’s 2021 Ground Floor Summer Residency Lab, Third Eye Moonwalk by Jon Bernson with Playwrights Foundation in 2021 and House of Joy by Madhuri Shekar with Cal Shakes in 2019 and Bay Area Playwrights Festival in 2018.