Leaf Light
Highlights
- Create tactile sculptural forms from crafted leaves, fostering creativity and connection with nature for children and their adults.
- Join drop-in workshops at the Blank Cultural Platform, where collaborative art brings the community together in a vibrant setting.
- Experience the wonder of plant life as you co-create a collective artwork that evolves over six days of the festival.
- Engage in a unique art installation inspired by green ants, promoting teamwork and environmental awareness among participants.
Leaf Light is a participatory art installation and drop-in workshop, where children and their adults are invited to co-create a wonderland of tactile sculptural forms made of crafted leaves, inspired by the wonder and delicate intricacy of plant life.
Leaf Light is presented by experimental arts organisation You Are Here Canberra, working in collaboration with YAH alumni visual artist Julie Monro-Allison. Participants are invited to come along to the drop-in workshops at the site of the new Blank Cultural Platform, a creative community space run collaboratively by arts event company Blank Corporation and You Are Here.
Kids and their caregivers will work with the materials provided to create their own unique leaves to add to the collective artwork, and watch it grow over the six days of the festival. They will have a fun and valuable experience of creative corporation, which deepens their engagement with the systems of the natural world.
This work is particularly inspired by the aerial nests woven by green ants. In Leaf Light, they invite children and adults to work with them– collaboratively, like green ants do – a collective working together towards a wonderful goal.
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Dates & times
- Next occurrence: reoccurring
Disabled access available, contact operator for details.
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