Yesterday I attended a very cool workshop called "The Colouring Book Project." "The Colouring Book Project" is a new group which is meeting for 5 workshops, and is composed of young people of colour in their 20s and 30s. I'm not really comfortable calling myself a "person of colour", but there was a disclaimer stating that mixed people were invited to attend to. Plus, the info about the workshop said that the following matters would be discussed-
>What does it mean to grow up as a young person of colour in a social
environment that does not reflect your own ethnicity?
>How has this experience affected our identity development? How does it
continue to affect our sense of self and who we are socially?
>What are the discrepancies between the constructions of “race” and our own
understanding of our ethnicity? As you can imagine, I was intrigued. So yesterday I biked over to the Purple Thistle centre to take part in the workshop. We did some lifemapping, body movement, journalling, and drawing. It was all very fun and I felt creative and met a lot of cool people. Unfortunately, I won't be able to attend any more workshops since I have to work on Sundays.
At one point, we discussed our creative process. I said that I try to bring creativity into everything that I do. I need to make and do and create and learn, and this is what makes me the happiest. I still want to be writing more fiction and poetry, but for now, I'm trying to live my life in the most creative way.
I also realized that I feel really shy when I'm in a group of people I don't know.
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