Drums and Poems, Grasses and Clay: Using Communal Art-making to help Children Develop Relational Skills April 8, 2010

This informal talk will focus on building relational skills and resilience in at-risk children through art-making. In one program, urban girls make communal art pieces out of clay, sheets and paint, learning about cooperation and connection. In another, Drums and Poems, children build poems as a group based on rhythms they bang out on found objects. This programs brings the neuropsychological research on rhythm as a calming factor together with the fun of playing with words: children learn relationship-building and literacy at the same time.

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