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.