Imagination
is more important than knowledge / Knowledge is limited / Imagination
encircles the world /
ALBERTEINSTEIN
SIGN
UP NOW FOR THE NEXT CREATIVITY NETWORKING SESSION:
At
The
Silo
at Hunt Hill Farm - August 8, 2010 in New Milford, Connecticut - Event
is $10 ; all are welcome; registration is requested
(by email or 860.355.0300)
"I
am beginning to think that the mundane becomes vibrant and vital
with the addition of creativity."
– January 2009
Participant
Creativity
Networking Series
“The
creative force is present in all humans to some degree. Pressures to conform
within education and society often silence creative expression for many
students and citizens. The potential for its development remains, however.
... The right of an individual to create new ideas and to expect a
respectful, supportive climate for their expression is a human right too
often ignored. The human right to think and be heard at higher, more complex
and mutualistic levels is a necessary added freedom."
- Author and Educator Berenice Bleedorn
NEXT
UP - AUGUST 8, 2010:
CREATIVITY NETWORKING: The "Don’t Know" of Creativity Fran Patnaude, Artist and Educator; and Steven
Dahlberg, International Centre for Creativity and Imagination
We
have become a culture obsessed with measuring everything under the sun. Why
then wouldn't we need to find some standard or measurement to gauge the
creative process? We'll investigate and focus on the aspects that are beyond
measure and beyond formula that are critical to clarifying and cultivating
the natural accord of creativity. The workshop includes hands-on activities,
silence and meditation as tools to experience the important space of
stillness within a person's creative process.
Francis
T. Patnaude, Jr., is an artist, based in Bethlehem, Connecticut. He
also teaches art and is the art department chair at Rumsey Hall School in
Washington, Connecticut, and an adjunct professor of art at Western
Connecticut State University in Danbury, Connecticut. His art work has
appeared in numerous shows and his previous work includes welding and art
metal fabrication. He holds an M.F.A in sculpture and has also studied
photography and Zen arts with John Daido Loori, Roshi.
The
Silo @ Hunt Hill Farm 44 Upland Road
New Milford, Connecticut 06776
860.355.0300
This
monthly Creativity Networking Series provides a forum for exploring the many
facets of creativity and for discovering and networking with other people interested in
creativity.
Creativity
matters in all aspects of society. If you want to reconnect with your
inherent creativity and explore new ways of expressing it, don't miss this
series. It will cover topics about creativity in all forms (including, but
not limited to, arts), creative thinking, creative communities, creativity
and education, creativity in organizations, creative persons, the creative
process, creative aging and more. The series includes opportunities to learn
with others, to think in new ways, and to generate new ideas. The format of
the monthly Creativity Networking sessions will be informal and will usually
include about a presentation or experiential workshop (from a different
facilitator each month), dialogue about the topic, and networking with other
participants. Come and be inspired to apply your imagination and invent new
possibilities for yourself and your community.
Check out the 2008-2009
and 2010 Creativity Networking topics that were explored
"I
learned you're never too old to be creative."
– March 2010
Participant
"I
learned that shared experiences bring strangers together."
– March 2010
Participant
CREATIVITY
NETWORKING IS PRESENTED BY:
Steven Dahlberg
is head of the International Centre for Creativity and
Imagination, which is dedicated to applying creativity to improve the
well-being of individuals, organizations and communities. He is associate director/faculty of the
Public and Community Engagement group at the University of Connecticut, where
he teaches "Creativity + Social Change." He
has nearly 20 years of experience teaching and facilitating creative thinking and problem
solving, including helping two toy inventors launch a creativity
consulting business. His articles have appeared in Training magazine,
Knowledge Management News magazine, and Global Knowledge
Review. He edits the Applied
Imagination and ageing as exile? blogs, and wrote the
foreword to Education is Everybody's Business; A Wake-Up Call to Advocates
of Educational Change.
Custom cooking classes, shopping, tasting, museum
tours, slide shows, and gallery talks are among the offerings for groups and tours visiting
Hunt Hill Farm. Located in the Litchfield Hills of western
Connecticut, Hunt Hill Farm has been the location of the Silo since 1972 -- a combination cooking
school, art gallery, and gourmet kitchenware/food store. Now operating under the auspices of the Hunt
Hill Farm Trust as a nonprofit organization for preservation, the farm is also host to the Skitch
Henderson Museum and Hunt Hill Farm Land Preserve.
Francis
T. Patnaude, Jr., is an artist, based in Bethlehem, Connecticut. He
also teaches art and is the art department chair at Rumsey Hall School in
Washington, Connecticut, and an adjunct professor of art at Western
Connecticut State University in Danbury, Connecticut. His art work has
appeared in numerous shows and his previous work includes welding and art
metal fabrication. He holds an M.F.A in sculpture and has also studied
photography and Zen arts with John Daido Loori, Roshi.