Arts Hub Forums

Arts Hub Forums

Free Public Talks for anyone involved in the Arts.

Hutt Valley Community Arts and Creative Communities Hutt City are teaming up to provide a series of Arts Hub Forums. The forums provide the platform for a spectrum of talented speakers covering topics such as funding, marketing, film-making, designing your website and photographing your creative industry.

Networking is a big part of the forum as well, with opporutnities to meet other artists, and take part in discussions, share resources, and team up to share resources, ideas, and energy.

Hutt Valley Community Arts’ Arts Manager, Rachel Nankivell, says “we hope the forums will be the spring-board for a plethora of new arts activity in Lower Hutt. We see them as being supportive for the individual arts practitioner, but also a great opportunity for new community art initiatives to grow out of”.

Writers, visual artists, musicians, performers – artists from all over the Hutt and all artforms are encouraged to attend the forums. Lively discussion, resource sharing, making connections, and learning more are the key elements of these daytime and evening meetings at the Petone Library’s meeting room.

Brain Gym for Artists

Our first talk "Brain Gym for Artists" is by registered educational kinesiologist Barbara Wards. Barbara will teach artists how to use the movements, exercises and activities of the Brain Gym movement to help focus your arts practice.

Barbara's time as a secondary teacher engendered an interest in the children who struggle in the classroom. It was during SPELD tutor training in 1980 that she first became aware of the need for good "physical skills for learning" underlying classroom achievements. Barbara began her journey with Brain Gym in 1984, becoming an Edu-K Instructor, and Edu-K Faculty for New Zealand in 1992. She is a Touch for Health Instructor and integrates this with Edu-K work. She teaches Vision Circles and OBO, and has a passion for the vast scope of the Creative Vision work since first taking it in 1989.

Brain Gym® International is the nonprofit organisation committed to the principle that intentional movement is the door to optimal living and learning. Its mission is to support self-awareness and ease of living and learning through safe, simple, and effective movement. The organisation was founded in 1987 under the name of the Educational Kinesiology Foundation and in 2000 began doing business as Brain Gym® International. The Brain Gym® work is being used in over 87 countries and has been translated into more than 40 languages.

We welcome arts practitioners at all levels of professionalism in
every discipline.

Parking is available in the Peel Street Carpark off Britannia Street, and the Arts Hub is wheelchair accessible.

What: “Brain Gym for Artists”

The first of the Arts Hub Forums

Where: Petone Community Library meeting room

Doreen Doolan Mall

193 Jackson Street

Petone

When: Tuesday 8 September 11am till 1pm
(and every following two weeks)

How Much: Free!

Contact: Hutt Valley Community Arts

Email: benedict@hvca.org.nz

Phone: 568-3488

Web: www.hvca.org.nz

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