Art Bias & San Mateo County Office of Arts & Culture: Creative Echoes: Art as a Path Through Grief

Join Art Bias and the San Mateo County Office of Arts & Culture for a free, hands-on workshop. In this workshop, multi-disciplinary artists will guide participants through the process of working through personal grief with the help of creativity. Through movement, visual art, sound, music, and theater/performance, participants will explore paths through grief. No artistic background is necessary to participate.

ARTISTS:

NATE PYZIK will facilitate a movement warm-up and experience using dance and movement to support participants in learning creative ways to cope and express their grief.

SUSAN PEREZ will use crystal singing bowls to create therapeutic sounds and vibrations to offer a soothing and comforting experience, helping individuals to release emotional pain, find inner peace, and navigate through the grieving process with greater ease. Disclaimer: those with a pacemaker or metal in their bodies should not participate in sound bowl healing.

DEB SHEA will walk participants through how developing a daily sketching practice can help the process of healing as part of a studio visit that focuses on rebirth and regeneration.

BORA "MAX" KOKNAR leads participants through an interactive, performative exploration of grief and healing through the lens of time, and memory followed by a brief discussion.

YELENA JOY & NEIL MURPHY will faciliate a group art exercise serving as a visual metaphor of how life can grow around grief and learning to incorporate grief into our new experience of living.

MARLENA SEGI will focus on the healing power of sitting with music by gently challenging participants to create a unique playlist of songs dedicated to the times where you're ready to face what's going on beneath the surface. *Participants will need to have their phones available for quick access to music streaming platforms.