Inspiring Women – Thursday March 9th 2017
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Phenomenal woman

Write, make a short video, draw or take a picture of an inspiring woman in your world.

Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.

by Maya Angelou (read | listen)

Credit:

Today’s challenge is from Sharon Flynn, from the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) at NUI Galway. Sharon is organising an open event on Thursday the 9th of March to add overlooked women and women’s work to Wikipedia.

Follow on @sharonlflynn on Twitter

Image Credit: Jeff Devdet

 

How to participate:

Share your interpretation of Sharon’s challenge with us, not forgetting to tag #campuscreate in your post. You can contribute the images to Wikimedia Commons. If you drop into the NUI Galway editathon on Thursday, 9th March, 2017, Sharon and colleagues can help you to do this.

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Prompt 1-5 ‘I’ ‘Express your ‘self”
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My eye by orangeacid, on Flickr
“My eye” Image: Flickr (CC BY 2.0) by orangeacid

This week it’s all about Me, Myself, I.

We have a list of ideas for you below to help express your ‘self’. If you can, challenge yourself to try 3 of these throughout the week.

Share your inspiration with us during our final week of CampusCreate.

It’s been great getting to know you all, we hope you enjoyed participating and that you found inspiration in each other’s creativity.

So…..what are you waiting for?….Challenge yourself……..Go Create! 

 

Challenge:  Over the course of the week, take 3 of these ideas. Express your ‘self’

 

 

  Make a portrait of yourself in twenty years. Or in fifty years. Or both
  Write an autobiographical poem or write the chapter titles in your autobiography. Or illustrate your book cover
 Draw something you keep putting off, or something that causes you to procrastinate
  Explore what your space says about you
 Express yourself in art – Use a journal to record your stream of consciousness.  Record your thoughts, draw images that come to your mind
 Bullet your day – (Describe what you do exactly). Can you make art or write a poem from your objective descriptions?
 Take an engaging self portrait of yourself (Not exactly a selfie, show who you are without including yourself, or include only part of your face or body)
 Happy Memories. Can you turn them into something artistic, what were the colours, smells, can you create a colour palette inspired by where you were?
 Lose yourself in your imagination. If your favourite artist, musician, author, film maker, or photographer, commissioned you to create something based on their work, what would you make?
 Have fun with your personal style
 Take a photograph that captures an emotion at the moment of pressing the shutter button, what do you see that connects with that emotion?

 

How to share:
  • Use Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @campuscreate to post your response. Don’t forget to use the hashtag #ispark
  • If you are not on social media, find out how to participate

Prompt 3 ‘Place’ Oh the places you’ll go!
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What’s your favourite line from Dr. Seuss’s book, “Oh, The Places You’ll Go”?

Draw some inspiration, and share it with us

Resources:

Watch the vimeo video above or see an animated version of Dr. Seuss’s book on YouTube here

 

How to share:
  • Use Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @campuscreate to post your response. Don’t forget to use the hashtag #placespark
  • If you are not on social media, find out how to participate

Prompt 4 ‘Shapes’ – The shape of your self
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The Lighthouse at Black Basalt Beach by Tripp Nitely, on Flickr
“The Lighthouse at Black Basalt Beach” (CC BY 2.0) by Tripp Nitely

“All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

What’s the shape of your self?

 

 

How to participate
  • Writing – Publish a new post on your blog, or Facebook account, interpreting the theme.
  • Photos/Art/Digital Art Use Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @campuscreate your response. Don’t forget to use the hashtag #shapespark
  • If you are not on social media, find out how to participate

 

Prompt 3 ‘Passion’ – Sporting Passion
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“Football is not a matter of life or death… it’s more important than that” –  Bill Shankly

Have you a sporting passion?

 

How to participate
  • Use Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @campuscreate your response. Don’t forget to use the hashtag #passionspark
  • If you are not on social media, find out how to participate
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