Squiggla is a hands-on mark-making activity for young and old alike. Visitors will get the chance to create their own Squigglaworks, and learn a new technique for unleashing their imaginations. Squiggla celebrates the joy of mark making in all its forms. By discovering the possibilities of mark making and leaving behind the pressure to make art or to represent something you see in the world, you uncover fresh ways of looking, feeling, sensing, thinking and observing.

Squiggla is developed as the outreach programme of The Chartwell Project.
Chartwell is a funder of research into creative thinking and the value of the arts for wellbeing for everyone through Centre for Arts and Social Transformation (CAST), at the Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Auckland, led by CAST Director Professor Peter O’Connor. He and Professor Cathy Stinear, a neuroscientist, have contributed their knowledge of the creative process and the creative brain to the Squiggla Project. 

Squiggla Educators Workshop:

Bringing creative thinking and making into the classroom. You are invited to attend a creative Professional Development Workshop with Squiggla. The workshop is designed for participants with any level of creative experience and introduces Squiggla through active discussion along with the chance to experiment with materials, break familiar habits and explore new creative ideas. It is delivered by experienced Squiggla educators. Squiggla is the outreach project of the Chartwell Charitable Trust, investing in visual art education since 1974.

All materials supplied and no experience needed!

Tuesday 7 May, 6 – 8pm $30, drinks and nibbles provided.

Bookings are essential.

Phone | +64 9 817 8087 x 204 Email | education@teuru.org.nz

Mark-making to music:

Squiggla with Hermione Johnson Saturday 13 April, 11am – 12pm

Experience the joy of creating to music. Listen to live music by Hermione Johnson and be inspired to experiment with marks dots, lines and shapes. Johnson is a pianist and composer based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Her prime focus is free improvisation, and with this she has been a significant force in Aotearoa’s experimental music scene.

Learn more at www.squiggla.org and www.teuru.org.nz