Workshop Leader: Emma Porteus

Concept development: Becky Hilton

Participants: Grade 5 and 6 students confirmed from Northern Tasmanian schools.

Development: 2^nd and 3^rd term 2010 in schools

Event: End of 3^rd term 2010 in Launceston at the Stompin Studio

The Kindness is a participatory art project designed specifically for upper primary level students. It involves Tasmanian primary schools, local and regional. The Kindness project is led by Stompin alumni, teacher and community artist, Emma Porteus. The participants will collect and collate written, recorded, filmed, drawn, photographed and performed moments of kindness they have witnessed, heard about, read about, experienced or generated. Each child will create his or her own kindness collection. At the culmination of the project, Stompin will exhibit this giant kindness library in our home space with a multi media art party for all the participants. We see The Kindness as a way to introduce the values and aesthetics of Stompin to 10 to 12 year olds:  a simple, fun process with a social conscience and a celebratory outcome.