Creativity takes Courage

creative courage for ecological futures

This research and workshops in creativity series was initiated by Violeta Lópiz and Sabina Enéa Téari in 2015 as part of Watermelon Birds. Evolving from the questions like what creativity is and can be when not separated from the lived everyday life? what is creative courage and what is it for? how do we wake the capacity to widen our lives any moment? can creative courage help to resist opinions, vulgarity and boredom?

In this series we explore creativity as an ability to see and to think differently, to stretch the habitual comfort zone and to find ways in unknown situations. Creativity is available to everyone anytime: it’s the way we can choose to look at the world, to stay curious and available for any experience that comes our way, and to tell and support each other in telling our stories in personal and meaningful ways. With courage to be real, to experiment, to express, to see and be seen.

Modes of working include experimentation, embodied inquiry, exploration and exercises for creative thinking, storytelling and making things with your hands. Media of expression range between illustration, drawing, painting, film- or food- making, animation, theatre, sculpture, writing, installation, voice, embroidery, photography, sound, land art, movement, and cross-pollination between various.

Creativity takes Courage is a kind of a mobile creativity lab, a nomadic device, traveling from place to place, aiming to enable or encourage creative processes even in the most remote places or as a pop-up in unexpected locations.