‘Making Waves’ – Friday March 10th 2017
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Waves by ahisgett, on Flickr

Compose a short poem/Haiku on the theme of ‘Making Waves‘

 

Credit:

Ainmníodh Gaillimh mar phríomhchathair chultúir na hEorpa 2020 agus tá dúshlán an lae inniu ag teacht chugat ó fhoireann Gaillimh2020. ‘Bruth faoi thír’ atá de choincheap faoin gclár agus ba mhaith le Gaillimh2020 go gcumfá dán gearr/Haiku leis an téama seo.

Galway has officially been designated the European Capital of Culture 2020 and today’s challenge comes from the Galway2020 team. Their vision is for Galway to ‘Make Waves’ in 2020; waves of creativity, digital waves, disruptive waves, energetic waves. Galway2020 believe at the heart of Galway 2020 is the next wave of artists, creators, makers and shakers. That means you!

Image credit: “Waves” (CC BY 2.0) by ahisgett

 

Need any help?

Tips on composing Haiku’s can be found here (http://www.creative-writing-now.com/how-to-write-a-haiku.html)

 

How to participate:

As with all our challenges, you can interpret as you wish. if you would rather do a drawing, digital mash-up, photography etc. please do.  Share your interpretation of Galway2020’s challenge with us, not forgetting to tag #campuscreate in your post:

 

 

 

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 3 ‘Teanga’- Lost in translation
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Galway by phalinn, on Flickr
“Galway” (CC BY 2.0) by  phalinn

 

TRANSLATING THE LIFE OUT OF IT
“Gleann na gCaorach
means something beautiful.
Glenageary means nothing at all.”
From ‘Half a Hug’ by Pat Ingoldsby, Willow Publications 1998. Gleann na gCaorach = glen/valley of the sheep

Your Challenge: Check out a place name in your locality and interpret your findings in a photo, six word poem, or in a drawing

 

Resources:

Check out http://www.logainm.ie/ga/ to find the origin of names in your locality

or search for a place names in Co. Galway here (Galway City Library), Co. Clare here (Clare County Library) or Co. Mayo here (Mayo County library)

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 2 ‘Time’ – Science Fiction Novel
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Aliens

We can now listen to the dark universe

In the last week US scientists have, after decades of effort succeeded in detecting gravitational waves from the violent merging of two black holes in deep space.

These waves are in the frequency range that humans can actually hear. We can now listen to the dark universe.

Listen here.

 

Your challenge: Write a Science-Fiction novel in 6 words

 

Resources:

What is a Six Word Novel? Find out here

See some examples of Six Word Stories

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

Prompt 4 ‘Passion’ – Love Letter
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Connemara National Park
Connemara National Park Image: Sally Mc Hugh

Write an anonymous love letter/poem to a building or place in Galway that you love.

 

How to participate
  • Publish a new post on your blog, or Facebook account, interpreting the theme.
  • 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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