Creative practice workshop

Sponsored by Brown University’s Arts Institute

Creating a play, a sculpture, or a song is one thing, but creating a life based on those forms of creativity is another thing. In this free, application-based workshop open to community members and Brown University affiliated folks, facilitator Morgan Johnston will pull from her education as a board-certified music therapist and her lived experience as a local indie-folk singer-songwriter. Each weekly meeting on Wednesdays from 7-9pm in Granoff Center for the Arts will focus on a different topic of wellness through an introduction to the psychology behind it, an engaging arts activity, and a full group discussion. The topics will range from writer’s block, finding your people, collaboration, perfectionism, starting (and finishing) your work, optimizing work-life balance, goal setting and accountability, being a teaching artist, performance anxiety, grant writing, getting back to the joy of playing as a child, and whether you’re even allowed to call yourself an artist, musician, actor, or creative (hint: you are!). Group members will also get to know each other along the way in perhaps the best way they know how: through each other’s creative practices, as we support the creative work and the person behind it. Join us as we build the tools and foster the community that enables us to live our crafts in a sustainable, lifelong way.