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Placemaking & Creative Interventions
Date: Starts May 19, 2021
Cost: $80
Location: Online
This five-week (two hours a week) workshop gives participants a personal laboratory to bring about meaningful change to the spaces in one’s community.
Bringing together elements of placemaking and artistic interventions, participants will walk away with a stronger connection to their immediate community, tools for ideating and organizing, and a better understanding of historical placemaking and public art interventions in the social, cultural, and political context.
Participants will be led through a five-week process that takes them from mapping, observing, ideating, organizing, and implementing placemaking or public space creative intervention in their immediate community.
What do you get with this course?
- Ten hours of class instruction with Kevin Jesuino (live via Zoom).
- Online library of countless placemaking and creative intervention resources.
- Access to a community of current and past participants of this course via a private Facebook group.
- Development of your own personal placemaking and creative intervention project.
- Email communication with Kevin Jesuino on an ongoing basis regarding future project mentorship.
Upon completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Understand what placemaking and public interventions are.
- Understand the elements that make a place or site and how the players interact with this place or site.
- Implement their own placemaking and public intervention in their immediate community.
- Define a process that is simple vs. complex.
- Understand the power that creative public interventions can have on a site.
Refund Policy
Participants have until 24 hours prior to the start of the first class to cancel and issued a 100% refund. No refund can be issued after the start of the first class.
Facilitator
Kevin Jesuino is a Portuguese-Canadian queer multidisciplinary artist, facilitator, teacher, arts producer and community organizer working in performance and socially engaged art. He is based in Mohkinsis of Treaty 7 territory, also known as Calgary, Canada. His work is oftentimes collaborative, site-specific, participatory, and process-oriented. His practice explores the intersection of the body, society and place. His recent research explores the queer body, ecology, fragility, and modes of being together. His community-embedded projects engage participants in performative actions, discussions, creative interventions, activations, and other forms of organizing—positioning art and culture as a vehicle for meaningful social change.
For more information and to register please, visit kevinjesuino.com.
