Visual Board Manifestation
#182 Days to Toronto Fringe 2024: Colonial Circus
“We shall start with a visual board”, I said.
SS- “Yes we can, tell me more.”
“Ok, let’s collect all the imagery that you want your particular character to have, costume, makeup, hair etc. and then we go thrifting”, I say, borderline jumping by the end of it.
SS- “Yes, lets…”
Both are jumping by now.
Thank you Keith Johnstone for bringing this fun game in our lives. Conversations are much easier, always more productive, and the trash….well, it’s weeded off in the process.
Welcome to Two.2.Mango’s Days to Fringe — a thread where we journal our journey of becoming the artists who put up a show at Toronto Fringe in July 2024.
Today I want to discuss the learning style, as an artist.
The VAK learning model designed by Walter Burke Barbe and later developed by Neil Fleming, divides people into three categories of learner:
- Visual learners — absorb information by pictures and graphics, may doodle, remember faces
- Auditory learners — absorb information by sound, likes music, often hums or self talks
- Kinesthetic learners — absorb information by moving, uses hands to talk, tries new activities
Who am I?
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I am mash, a blob on the verge of showing cracks, who often looks at her recorded performances and thinks, “Ahh, those flailing hands..those hands!!”
I am a person, who walks out of conversations thinking, “Damn, I should have said this instead!
I ‘live’ music but I can’t remember song lyrics to save my life. So over the years, I started creating my own and now when I sing the on-spot cooked lyrics with all the gumption, people often wonder, “Hey is that an unreleased version of theirs, that we have never heard of?”
It’s a COVER!
A giant cover-up rather. And I enjoy it too.
So, coming to the discussion of learning styles, you choose your style. Because it evolves. If, as a kid, you were told to not shake your pencil and sit quietly and learn, I hope you are dancing away in all your glory.
If you talked to yourself or whispered while reading, you might be just wrapping up Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, playing all the 8 characters. Bravo!
And if you are making a visual board, because 2024 has just begun and you want to believe in all the manifestations that the world talks about, do I need to create a Pinterest board?
I am sure there is an easier way to begin…
Till then I shall doodle away.
A very Happy New Year to you too.
-Shreya
