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Listening and Speaking: The Dialogue of Children with the Natural World
New York, New York
May 22, 2010
Listening and Speaking:
The Dialogue of Children with the Natural World
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010
Queens Botanic Garden
43-50 Main Street
Flushing, NY 11355
718-886-3800
http://www.queensbotanical.org
Listening and Speaking:
The Dialogue of Children with the Natural World
10 AM – 12:30 PM
A workshop, presented by Richard Lewis, founder and director of The Touchstone Center, for anyone interested in bringing the natural world into the lives of children—through the arts and the imaginative process. Examples of the work of the Center in New York City public schools will be shared, particularly in the use of elemental images as a catalyst for children to enter into their own, often poetic conversation, with the nature of nature itself. Participants will be invited to fashion their own dialogue with the natural world as a means of understanding how this use of the imagination can be integrated into our learning—as well as within the everyday lives of children.
In Our Backyard
A Tree Lives
2 – 3:30 PM
A family workshop, with Richard Lewis, assisted by Karen Fitzgerald, for children and their caregivers exploring how a tree lives —and the unique knowledge a tree gathers as it experiences the many seasons of its own life. After reading Richard’s poem, A Tree Lives, each of us will find a special tree in the garden we can reflect upon, and through drawing and writing, create our own hand-made books, about all that a tree knows—and sees and hears and feels. Recommended for children 5 and up.
REGISTRATION FORM
There is no charge for these workshops but there is an Admission Fee for the Queens Botanical Garden: $4 for adults; $3 for seniors; $2 for children ages 3-12 and students with ID
This series of workshops is part of the Outreach Programming of the of The Touchstone Center and was made possible be a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts.
Contact: http://www.touchstonecenter.net
Cost: Free
More Info: http://www.touchstonecenter.net
Registration Required
Posted by: Richard Lewis
Issues: Animals & Wildlife, Arts & Culture, Education, Wilderness & Ecosystems, Youth