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The autumn and winter season is the time of the darker days. Longer evenings, less daylight, and events such as Halloween, All Souls’ Day, or later St. Andrew’s Eve all provide a perfect opportunity to talk about darkness. It’s also the best time to create an artwork on this theme using dark paper and chalk markers.

We’ll begin by reading a short story Laszlo Is Afraid of the Dark. This fascinating picture book on the fear of darkness will help us approach the topic with respect and understanding and inspire an activity with a subtle art-therapy element. Children will create drawings with light-coloured crayons or chalk markers on dark paper, on any theme, both book-inspired or uniquely theirs.Using tracing paper, they will then transfer a selected part of their drawing onto a lighter piece of paper, creating a bright element that, like a beam of light, will reveal the shapes and colours hidden in the darkness of their artwork, like a flashlight.

Optionally, we can also try another version: cutting and assembling a house or building shape from dark paper, cutting out openable windows, and placing it on a colourful background. After gluing it together, children can draw scenes from the lives of the “inhabitants” in the windows or hide their own fears inside them.

Organized school groups, grades 1–3 of primary school, are welcome with their teachers or guardians.

1st group 9 am - 10.30 am

2nd group 11 am - 12.30 pm

moderator: Natalia Adamczyk

registration: joanna.tekla@arsenal.art.pl