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Creativity Matters
July 1 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
This summer, Creativity Matters invites us to explore the season through creative practice. Summer opens the door to looseness and spontaneity – longer days, shifting routines, and the joyful unpredictability of adventures big and small. In the midst of that playful chaos, we’re invited to slow down and reconnect with ourselves, with others, and with the world around us. Creativity becomes a way to delight in the messiness, to notice unexpected beauty, and to celebrate how connection often shows up in surprising, imperfect, and wonderfully human ways.
Chaos
July’s Creativity Matters theme is “Chaos and Order.” Together, we’ll explore how creativity lives at the intersection of these forces, how chaos can spark new ideas, and how order can give them form. Creativity often begins with a messy swirl of thoughts, feelings, or inspiration, and through intention and structure, we shape that into something meaningful.
Project Options
We will have supplies for the following projects*, or you are welcome to bring your own:
- Blind Date with Collage: Let the chaos inspire you as you create a collage by choosing images, materials, and words from your pre-selected collage kit, no planning needed!
- Controlled Chaos Painting: Lean into the creative freedom of chaos by covering a canvas with spontaneous brushstrokes, drips, splatters, and layered textures. For contrast, mask off a section and add lines or other structured shapes to highlight the tension between chaos and order.
- Order to Chaos Poetry: Start with a poem or another written work. Take it apart, rearrange it, tear it, scribble on it, paint over it, or add bold colors and images. Remake it in your own chaotic vision.
*During the summer months, we will not have Creativity Matters packets, but you can sign up to be part of the mailing list to start receiving them in the fall.
What is Creativity Matters?
Our Creativity Matters group helps community members engage in monthly themes and explore spiritual growth through creative expression.
It’s all about allowing our intuition and imagination to guide us, not just our logic and reflective minds. Think of it as making room for your right brain to dance with your left brain.
Creativity Matters is a high school and adult group designed for everyone — no experience or artistic skill is required! Just bring a playful spirit and adventurous attitude.
