Empower Your Dreams
Affirmative Art is a powerful tool that helps us identify our true purpose.
With Affirmative Art you draw your dreams - what you truly want in life - and create action steps to empower your dreams.
Participate in an Affirmative Art session to share your dreams with other people, and together encourage each other to achieve your goals.
Continue to empower your dreams by joining the community - share, encourage and empower.
Empower Your Dreams
USA TOUR #02
In July 2017, Affirmative Art heads on a follow-up tour to the people met and places visited on the Coast-To-Coast Tour in May 2016. The focus will be on alignment and action steps, testimonial collection across the US.
Denver, CO
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07.03 - Taos, NM
St James Episcopal Church (11am - 2pm)
208 Camino De Santiago, Taos, NM 87571
07.05 - Denver, CO
Seed2Seed (12:30pm - 2pm)
4751 York Street, Denver, CO 80216
07.06 - Denver, CO
The Redline (11am - 2pm)
2350 Arapahoe Street, Denver, CO 80205
07.07 / 07.08 - Minneapolis, MI
The Indigenous Roots Cultural arts (3pm - 5pm)
788 East 7th Street. St. Paul, MN 55106
07.10 - Madison, WI
Goodman South Madison Library
2222 S. Park Street, Madison, WI 53713
07.10 - Madison, WI
Goodman Community Center (1pm - 2:30pm)
149 Waubesa Street, Madison, WI 53704
07.11 - Flint, MI
Doyle-Ryder Elementary School (3pm - 5pm)
1040 Saginaw Street, Flint, MI 48503
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07.13 - Detroit, MI
Matrix Center (9:30am - 1:30pm)
13560 McNichols E, Detroit, MI 48205
07.14 - Cleveland, OH
Africa House International (11:30am - 2pm)
1695 East 81st Street, Cleveland, OH 44103
07.16 - Washington, DC
John Kennedy Center (4pm - 6pm)
2700 F Street NW, Washington DC 20566
07.18 - Philadelphia, PA
Sunshine Arts (11am - 2pm)
41 Sunshine Road, Upper Darby, PA 19082
07.20 - Princeton, NJ
Arts Council of Princeton (11am - 2pm)
10 Hulfish Street, Princeton, NJ 08542
07.21 - New York, NY
Dyckman Farmhouse Museum (11am - 3pm)
4881 Broadway, Ny, NY 10034
07.22 / 07.23 - Boston, MA
AAMARP Gallery (Saturday/Sunday 11am - 2pm)
+ Tour Celebration (Sunday 5pm)
AAMARP, 4th floor, 76 Atherton Street, MA 02130
Tour Facilitators
Eirik
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Sika
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Vlad
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Bucky
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Claudia
How does it work?
1. Join a workshop
Register with the local Affirmative Art workshop host
2. Draw your dreams
The workshop is led by the Affirmative Art Team
3. Share your dreams
Meet people encouraging your dreams and take action
4. Join the community
Join the local community for more Affirmative Art workshops
The story
Affirmative Art team in Uganda
Affirmative Art began in Africa. In 2012 we realized art could be a powerful tool for identifying goals and visions in life.
If we visually define our purpose in life, we bring it closer and make it more real.
Eirik Jarl Trondsen was living in Africa at the time, and saw that Affirmative Art could be a powerful tool for development, as art is a universal language, which does not require literacy, and is cheap and available to all.
The initial process of identifying one's vision or purpose is an eye opener, as many people have not had the opportunity to think about what they want to get out of life.
Later we realized that Affirmative Art needed to be supported by concrete actions. There needs to be a correlation between the vision, as defined through Affirmative Art, and taking action.
Co-Creators
Eirik Jarl Trondsen
Uganda - Kenya - Norway - worldwide
Eirik founded Affirmative Art in Africa where he has been living and working with non-government organizations and development for 15 years. He is an artist, entrepreneur, and SPURS fellow at MIT 2015/16.
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Kiffe Yoweri
Uganda
Logistics for the 2016 African Tour.
Kiffe is a fine art tutor at Nagenda International Academy of Art and Design, and a excellent driver, and Art and Design and a Affirmative Art facilitator from Uganda.
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Khalid Njowa
Kenya
Affirmative Art East Africa Facilitator covering Kenya and Uganda.
He co-created the 2016 African Tour.
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khalidnjowa@affirmativeart.org
Claudia Paraschiv
Boston, MA, USA
Claudia is an architect, urbanist, and community-artist with experience in participatory art-making and design.
She co-created the USA16 Tour.
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Kitto Derrick
Uganda
Communications for the 2016 African Tour. Kitto is graphic designer, a wonderful head of department at Nagenda Academy of Art and Design and a Affirmative Art facilitator from Uganda.
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kittoderrick@affirmativeart.org
Sika Foyer
New York, NY, USA
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Sika is an abstractionist who uses poetry, painting and photography to engage her audience in insightful discourses about who and what we are about.
An innate artist born and raised in Togo, West Africa, she came to the US, after her Scientific Baccalaureat to further her studies where she obtained her Bachelor Degree in Economics and her Masters in Urban Policy. After several years in the corporate world and having worked as an economic development finance professional, she now focuses on using Affirmative Art tools as an economic development blueprint for individual and community building.
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TOURS
Coast-to-Coast USA
May 2016
African Tour
Uganda - Kenya
December 2016
USA Tour #02
USA
July 2017
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