Week of April 7

Mariya and Chen - Minimum
-very visual workshop
-started with blind contour drawings, then moved onto non-blind contour drawings, then they passed out contour drawings done previously by other women in SPACE
-they discussed what it means to portray a person with different lines
-they passed out magazines, and the prompt was to find a picture to re-draw with the materials available (charcoal, pastels, etc.)
-went well, small group

Ariel and Becky - Medium
-another largely attended workshop (24 women), so in the interest of minimizing discipline issues and creating an atmosphere conducive to free, uninterrupted creative expression, we created a prompt that forces each person to work independently and create a piece of introspective work.
-prompt: write a stream-of-consciousness piece on any of the following prompts, never lifting your pen: describe a time when you felt aware of a higher power, describe an out-of-body experience, what do you feel like when you're naked, when do you feel most powerful, do you live up to your parents' expectations, and how do you see the world?
-some women started talking after a bit, but everyone wrote, and most women shared. The workshop went really well, especially compared to past weeks of disrespectful atmospheres (1. monologues expressing something you're passionate about and 2. creating and discussing our ideal government)