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Exercise, Group Building Activity
DADA Poetry Flying Cafe
art therapy tool enabling to break patterns of stereotypical interpretations of the reality
Aims of the tool
- boosting imagination and creativity
- encouraging deeper reflection
- breaking patterns and stereotypes
- boosting self-awareness and self-expression
Description of the tool
What is DADA?
It's an early 20th-century avant-garde art movement, including literature and poetry. It valued spontaneity, creativity, intuition, irrationality, challenging patterns and tradition. It expressed discontent with war, violence and nationalism.
Dada poems often use nonsense words, forcing readers to question the meaning of what's written, inviting them to get out of the beaten track, and encouraging deeper reflection.
SINGLE WORKSHOP
10 min - introduction, warm-up, getting grounded with our emotions and feelings, any game of associations, creativity warm-ups eg. enlisting all things fluffy and white, giving a definition of an object only using words starting with letter P, etc.
40 min - the main part, creating dada poetry: cutting letters, words, sentences, and pictures out of the visual materials and assembling them into a collage can be also with the topic proposed by the leader
30 min - presentation of the poems
10 min - summing up, reflection and sharing feeling
CYCLE OF DADA POETRY WORKSHOPS
1st session - individual dada poems-collages fromwords and pictures
2nd session - creating in-pairs poems out of associative cards (2 nonverbal and one with a notion). It is recommended to use COPE deck, metaphorical associative cards, and MoritzEgetmeyer OH-cards.
3rd session - creating interview-poems, working in groups of 3, where each person takes twice a role of a poet-reporter and once a role of a narrator who tells a true story with mediocre emotional tension, avoiding retraumatizing danger. Two poet-reporters while listening are noting quotes from the narrator's story, until they will create a poem out of them. Later the poems are presented and participants analyze and reflect on them, especially on how the interpretations of the story vary depending on the listener.
Dada Poetry Flying Cafe offers full scenarios of dada poetry workshops with step-by-step instructions on how to lead them. You will find details in the pdf.
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Tool overview
http://toolbox.salto-youth.net/3136
This tool is for
youth, youth workers, trainers, facilitators, trainers
and addresses
Personal Development, Peer education
Materials needed:
- paper, scissors, glue
- old magazines, newspapers, leaflets
- markers, pens, crayons,
- imagination
- mindfulness and focus on our own and other poet's narration
- optionally: metaphorical associative cards COPE deck and OH-cards
Duration:
1,5 h, 10 - 30 participants
10 introduction and warm-up
40 minutes poems creation
30 minutes presentation
10 minutes closure and feedback
Behind the tool
The tool was created by
Kasia Ioffe - Belarusian poet and activist, psychology graduate, certified art therapist, student of literary criticism, member of Belarusian PEN-Club and Kraków Flying Cafe educators group. Fundacja Edukacyjna Nausika's project leader.
in the context of
Part of ESC solidarity project Flying Cafe, a group of young educators.
The tool has been experimented in
various Flying Cafe workshops
The tool was published to the Toolbox by
Patrycja Paula Gas (on 11 February 2022)
and last modified
17 January 2022
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