Postcards for Change | A Hands-on Workshop
Do good, make art, take action.
What does it look like to use your creativity to make a difference?
This hands-on workshop will explore how storytelling, art, and design can become tools for building a more regenerative world.
Lauren of Heartseed Creative will introduce practical storytelling and visual communication techniques that help ideas connect, then guide you through a creative brainstorming process to develop your own message. From there, you'll create a one-of-a-kind design for a postcard using plant-based pigments and materials.
These postcards are created as offerings. Something to share, mail, or display as an invitation to imagine what could be different.
Whether your heart is in healthy food systems, reducing textile waste, stronger communities, or another regenerative issue, you'll create a handmade piece of art and leave with a new way of thinking about your own creativity.*
No artistic experience is required. You don't need to consider yourself an activist, designer, or writer. If you've ever wondered how your creativity can contribute to positive change, this limited-space workshop is for you.
* After the workshop, Heartseed Creative and Gifting Grove will transform your artwork into a risograph-printed postcard, printed by Boneshaker Books. You can pick up your finished postcard when we have our next event to write and send-out made postcards.
What you’ll need: Just yourself. (We’ll provide all the art-making materials.)
What you’ll learn: How to harness storytelling, art, and effective communications to inspire action
What you’ll give: 2 hours of your time + your creativity
What we’ll make together: One-of-a-kind art postcards designed to inspire change in our communities.
A look into the session
10 mins - Connect with other attendees and settle into the space
25 mins - Storytelling for change: practical communication and creative techniques with Lauren of Heartseed Creative
80 mins - Brainstorming, creating, and making
10 mins - Come back together to learn about next steps, share what resonates as a group