DIY SHIVITI Making + SHABasics
September 9, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm EDT
Septemer 9, 2022 // 6:00 – 7:30 pm ET
ON ZOOM
A creative hands-on art workshop to explore SHIVITI imagery for this year’s High Holy Days of Awe theme.
Join Associate Clergy Ben Freeman, the ritual team and Lab/Shul community for a deep dive into the transformative power of collage.
Ben will share a teaching on the art form of visual meditation called SHIVITI (see more info below!) and then guide us in creating our own.
All you need is what you have!
Materials can include:
- Scissors (or you can rip by hand)
- Tape or glue
- Paper, cardstock, or another surface to assemble your collage on
- Magazines, newspapers, craft paper, anything that might provide images, textures, and colors to work with and that you feel comfortable cutting up.
- Personal ephemera like letters, postcards, old journals, photos, etc. if you feel comfortable cutting those materials up.
- Click here to print a few classic SHIVITI images from around the world to be used for cutting up into your collage
- An open heart and a playful mind!
With our new SHIVITI imagery to guide, we’ll close our time together with the season’s first SHABasics: songs and blessings to lead into Shabbat.
Our theme this year is SHIVITI, a Hebrew concept that is simultaneously our oldest contemplative meditation technique, a visual iconography of the sacred, and an expression of ‘concrete poetry’–a unique genre in which words meet imagery as a way to inspire our sensory awareness. SHIVITI is an invitation to better balance, towards us setting intention and paying attention to what matters most.
Let’s reimagine SHIVITI. As we explore this concept and what it means to be in the presence of the infinite, we invite you to co-create this series of offerings with us.
We’ll use this workshop to explore making our own SHIVITI imagery using the art of collage, using what you have at home to make something new. We’ll close our time together with the familiar songs and blessings that lead us into Shabbat, and prep for the High Holy Days, Lab/Shul style.
