CREATIVE WRITING FROM A COMMUNAL COLLAGE

✂️📝 COMMUNAL COLLAGE & CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP 🌿

Hosted by Hà Minh, visual artist & poet

What happens when many minds create one shared artwork together?
And what happens when we each respond differently to the exact same image?

This workshop is an invitation into collaborative creativity through mixed media collage, intuitive art-making, and interactive writing exercises.

Together, participants will build one large communal artwork using collage fragments, sketches, watercolor, notes, textures, drawings, words, and collected materials. Rather than creating individual finished pieces, each participant will contribute small fragments of themselves into a shared visual world.

Afterwards, we’ll use the communal artwork as inspiration for a guided creative writing exercise: responding freely through poetry, storytelling, reflections, fragments, observations, or experimental writing. We’ll then gather together to read, share, and reflect on our writings, exploring how one shared visual input can generate many completely different verbal and emotional outputs.

The workshop begins with introductions and a series of warm-up interactive exercises designed to loosen fear, ignite spontaneity, and awaken intuitive thinking.

🖊️ We’ll start with a rapid three-minute writing exercise using words, images, ideas, and fragments contributed collectively by all participants.

🎨 From there, we’ll move into collaborative mixed media art-making using collage materials, paint, sketches, textures, notes, and found imagery to create a large communal artwork together.

📖 Finally, participants will write in response to the shared piece before coming together for reflection, discussion, and creative exchange.

This workshop is not about technical perfection or creating polished work. It’s about collaboration, experimentation, surprise, connection through the relationship between visual and verbal imagery, and discovering how creativity can emerge naturally through interaction and play.

✨ What to expect:
✂️ Collaborative mixed media collage-making
🖊️ Interactive & intuitive writing exercises
🎨 Sketches, notes, fragments & collage experimentation
💬 Reflection, discussion & communal sharing
🧠 Creative thinking & idea generation
🤝 Teamwork, collaboration & creative connection
🌿 Stress-free, beginner-friendly atmosphere

All Madrones are provided. Participants are also welcome to bring small materials they’d like to contribute to the communal artwork, such as:
📚 Old magazines, books, comics
🍬 Candy wrappers, packaging, paper scraps
🌸 Decorative paper, receipts, notes, found textures
✍️ Old writings, sketches, photographs, or collected fragments

No prior art or writing experience is needed. Open to all levels, artists, writers, non-artists, overthinkers, curious minds, and anyone interested in creativity, collaboration, and self-expression.

Through both visual art and writing, the workshop encourages participants to reconnect with instinctive creativity, playful experimentation, teamwork, and idea generation skills that can later be applied to everyday life, whether for journaling, creative projects, brainstorming, mind-mapping, work, or personal reflection.

⏰ Time: 10am - 12pm, Sat 6 June
📍 Location: In The Forest Đà Lạt
👥 Participants: 8 maximum (Please pre-book to reserve your spot!)
💵 Participation Fee: 150k (Materials included)

📩 To register:
Message this page directly or email: Haminhsworld@gmail.com


About the facilitator:
Hà Minh is a visual artist and poet working across writing, drawing, painting, collage, soft sculpture, animation, and installation. Her practice explores childlike wonder, curiosity, experimentation, and the intersection between visual imagery and language.

She has exhibited extensively across major art venues in Vietnam, including the Vincom Center for Contemporary Art (VCCA), Temple of Literature, Work Room Four, Manzi Art Space, Mơ Art Space, Vin Gallery, Vietnam University of Architecture, Vinschool Central Park, and Van Lang University. She is also beginning to exhibit internationally, including at Galerie Biesenbach in Cologne, Germany. She has additionally given artist talks at the United Nations International School of Hanoi, among other institutions.

Her workshops focus not only on technical skills, but on reconnecting participants with instinctive creativity, playful experimentation, and discovery-driven art-making processes.