How to Nurture & Sustain the Abundant Ecosystem of Your Creative Practice
When
Where
Workshop Dates
The same workshop is offered on three different Saturdays, each from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm:
- August 24, 2024
- September 7, 2024
- September 21, 2024
Sliding Scale* Prices
- Tier 1: $50
- Tier 2: $60
- Tier 3: $80
(+$5.00-8.00 per ticket fees)
To apply for a free ticket, please fill out this application form.
*The sliding scale relies on responsibility, accountability, and honesty for it to work. We will not ask you for proof of income—we trust you to be truthful and aware of your needs. Regardless, we want to remind you that there are a limited number of free tickets, and choosing to take them if you can afford the full price will prevent other people from accessing the workshop.
About
Your creative practice is an ecosystem that seeps into all aspects of your life, and vice versa: all aspects of your life are an ecosystem that seeps into your creative practice. Nothing exists in solitude in nature as everything is relationally connected to everything else and influences one another. As in nature, we are all constantly in flux and ever-changing, transforming and transmuting and growing and shedding and releasing in simultaneous multiple cycles and seasons that unfold within and outside of ourselves as well as with each other.
What if we were to see ourselves as gardeners of our own creative gardens, or responsible stewards of our own sacred inner wilderness? What if we were to all become stewards of not only our own inner nature, but each other's and the collective and we can all support one another, grow in abundance, and share resources freely?
In this workshop, we will dig deeper into the many ways that we can be conscious about growing, nurturing, maintaining, stewarding, sustaining, and harvesting the fruits of our creative ideas. What needs planting? What needs weeding out? What needs more attention and care? What old cycles are ending and what new ones are you calling in? What new elements will nourish your life as well as your creative work? If you feel that your own creative life has been feeling uninspired or stagnant, then this workshop is most definitely for you.
No matter what experience level or creative medium, workshop participants are invited to reflect on the current state of their own personal creative practice and through meditation, visualization, journal prompts, and somatic exercises, invite in all the different ways their own creative ecosystem can be nurtured and nourished with seeds of new ideas, new rituals, new paradigms, new relationships, new networks of support, and new ways of being. In the spirit of nature's inherent co-creative spirit, participants are also invited to share their own experiences, resources, and wisdom so that we may abundantly share our collective wisdom with one another. Let us all bloom and fruit our own ideas into existence together.
HOW TO NURTURE AND SUSTAIN THE ABUNDANT ECOSYSTEM OF YOUR CREATIVE PRACTICE is a collaborative creative meditation workshop between JACCC, Sustainable Little Tokyo's Little Tokyo Garden Club, and Yumi Sakugawa.
Things To Know
Please come prepared to the workshop with writing utensils and a reusable water bottle, and wear comfortable, loose clothing for potential somatic exercises.
Accessibility
Do you have any accessibility needs you want us to know? If so, please contact Emi Osaki, Sustainable Little Tokyo & Community Arts Project Manager, at eosaki@jaccc.org. We will do our best to accommodate your request.
Parking
Paid parking is available nearby at Joe's Auto Parks/Sho Tokyo on 350 East 2nd Street for $15 (rates may vary). Metered parking in Little Tokyo is also available and free after 8 pm.
About the Artist
Yumi Sakugawa (she/they) is a second-generation Japanese-Okinawan interdisciplinary artist based in Tongva land and the author of several published books including I THINK I AM IN FRIEND-LOVE WITH YOU, YOUR ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO BECOMING ONE WITH THE UNIVERSE, THE LITTLE BOOK OF LIFE HACKS, FASHION FORECASTS, YUMIVERSE MINDFUL COLORING BOOK, and THERE IS NO RIGHT WAY TO MEDITATE. Her multimedia installations have been exhibited at the Japanese American National Museum, the Smithsonian Arts & Industries Building, and the Peabody Essex Museum. Her first affirmation deck COSMIC COMFORT comes out in December 2024. @yumisakugawa