Creativity Can Create Community...

Kia ora!

"Creativity Can Create Community..."

Aotearoa (NZ) is officially going into lockdown at midnight on Wed 25th March.

Schools are closing and families are being urged to stay at home

and to isolate for the next four weeks.

It is a scary time for us all.

And as a children's entertainer and art teacher, I thought:

"What can I do to help?"

I had planned on running some cartooning classes in the

upcoming April School Holidays.

So, here's what I am planning on doing while

I am in lockdown for the next four weeks.

Starting from this coming Thursday 26th March

(at approximately 7pm NZTime), on this Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/drawingonthelightside/

I will be sharing (every day) some cartoon lessons

& fun activities for tamariki (children).

I will also be encouraging children (through their parents, online)

to share around (on Social Media) with each other

the results of these online lessons.

And because this page is Public, anyone on Facebook can take part.

Teachers and educators will be encouraged to participate, too.

Be sure to "Like" the page and share it around.

If you have friends (and their families) who would benefit

from this (but are not on Facebook), every couple of days

I will put some of these lessons up HERE on this blog, too. 

Next year, I am celebrating 30years as an art educator!

I ran my first ever class (with adults, in Wellington) in July 1991.

I am very proud of this. And look forward to celebrating this big year with you all,

in a more public setting, sometime in July 2021!!

I hope you enjoy the content I share on here.

By all means, keep in touch during these next four weeks.

If you like, you can take some photos of the cartoons that you create

and send them to me, via F/B or email... (contact details below)

In these uncertain times, I truely believe that:

"Creativity Can Create Community".

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drawingonthelightside/

Email: cartoonbrent@gmail.com

In the meantime...

Take good care of one another!

Be kind!!

And keep using your intuition and initiative.

If you see someone struggling or needing help,

reach out & do what you can. 

It is the little things we do for one another that have

a big ripple affect & can change the world.

Never forget that!!

Arohanui, Kia Kaha!!

From Brent Harpur, the 'Kiwi Cartoonist'.

"What we need in this world are more people

who specialise in the impossible."

Theodore Roethke