suicide and creativity: shona hammond boys address to national suicide prevention conference
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Shona Hammond BoysTuramarama ki te Ora - National Suicide Prevention Conference
25 May 2015
Suicide and Being Creative
Briefly
• The death of creativity• Humans as the creative species• The erosion of creative talents • The NZ Children’s Art House Foundation• Challenging education’s squeeze on creative youngsters• Creative children ensuring creative and healthy communities
A book and short film
Ōku Moe Moea –The dream which is bigger than I am
Short film trailer
The following is a trailer for the short filmOku Moe Moea – The dream which is bigger than I am
This film was produced on behalf of the New Zealand Children’s Art Houses Foundation Trust.
Actors and crew were drawn from the community of Opotiki.
Creativity sustaining the young
• Explore• Discover• Invent
Silencing Creativity
• The Cinderella Effect• Shutting down• Sweeping the floors
Children Overcoming Experience
• How can children ensure their • gifts, • promises and • hopes
Survive• As Cat Stevens asked in his song “Where do the children play?”
Children’s Art Houses
• A community-based answer• Developing individual artistic experiences• Remaining motivated• Finding unique talents• Become creative contributing citizens
What are Children’s Art Houses?
• Providing mentors and advocates• Co-operative organisation to support young people• Permanent, standalone • Warm, safe and validating
Opotiki Children’s Art House
Providing mentors and advocates
Cooperative support for young people
Permanent, standalone
Warm, safe and validating
Fit to be creative
• Playing fields are funded • Art Houses for children are not funded• What are we getting children fit for?
Authenticity the first casualty of education
Curious not Furious
• Seeing other children’s perspectives• Becoming curious not furious • The imagination is new territory• Efforts and dreams are celebrated
Children taking flight
• A stabilising factor for young creators• Developing future community creators• The launching pad for the arts of all kinds• AND for harnessing their creativity in other areas
Talk to me
Contacts
Shona Hammond BoysNZ Children’s Art Houses Foundation
Or Michael R. SmithBusiness Media Services Ltd
Where do the children play?
This video posted on YouTube highlights the lyrics of the song by Cat Stevens.
SongwritersCAT STEVENS
Published byLyrics © BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC