ELIZABETHTOWN — The Elizabethtown Social Center presents “Becoming a Flower,” a pair of imaginative collage workshops July 12 for children and teens led by designers Jean Brennan and Gracia Echeverria.
These free workshops invite young people to explore how visual patterns in nature can inspire creative expression, community connection and personal storytelling.
Through creative, hands-on art-making with everyday materials — collage, stamping, hand-drawing and photocopying — participants will create “flower flyers,” handmade posters that carry messages, just as real flowers use shape, color and pattern to communicate with the world around them. Drawing inspiration from flower biology and pollination, the workshops explore how art and ecology can intersect in playful, meaningful ways.
The children’s workshop will take place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. July 12.
Families are invited to drop in at any time during this informal, hands-on session. Children will use collage and markers to design their own flower-inspired flyers in an open, welcoming environment. Registration is not required.
The teen workshop, “Posters as Pollination,” will be held from 12-3:30 p.m. July 12 and is free with pre-registration. This 90-minute workshop includes a guided exploration of flower forms as communication systems, a short reading or reflection and a collaborative flyer-making activity. Teens will consider how their own messages might “pollinate” ideas and inspire action in their communities.
The result will be a personal message in the shape of a flower ready to be shared.
The Elizabethtown Social Center is located at 7626 U.S. 9 in Elizabethtown.
This program is free and all materials are provided.
For more information and to register for the teen workshop, visit https://www.elizabethtownsocialcenter.org/event-details-registration/becoming-a-flower-children-teens-workshop.
For more information, call 518-873-6408 or email news@elizabethtownsocialcenter.org with any questions.