Small Joys, Long Visual Stories — A Moving Panorama Workshop
Join a hands-on workshop to create a hand-cranked scroll story! Explore life’s small joys through an early art form.
Small Joys, Long Visual Stories — A Moving Panorama Workshop
On the United Nations International Day of Happiness, the Brussels Creativity Lab invites you to slow down and take a closer look at joy.
In this workshop we’ll explore happiness not as a grand finale, but as something quietly unfolding over time. Together, we’ll work with the moving panorama — an early storytelling art form and ancestor of cinema — to tell stories that stretch small moments into long visual journeys.
A moving panorama is a hand-cranked storytelling device: a long illustrated scroll wound onto two spools and viewed through a small window as it slowly unrolls. In this workshop, you’ll be guided to create a short story, visualise it on a long piece of paper, and construct a simple cardboard viewing box to bring it to life.
Our focus will be on small joys, long stories: Stories built from tiny pleasures: a shared laugh, light through a window, a familiar route through the city. By drawing these moments out across the length of the scroll, the panorama becomes a way to slow happiness down so it can be noticed.
Expect a hands-on, playful session where experimentation is encouraged and artistic skill is not a prerequisite. You’ll meet others, exchange ideas, and discover how storytelling, rhythm, and movement can reveal joy hiding in plain sight.
Come curious, leave with a story — and maybe a new way of noticing happiness as it gently unfolds.
All materials will be provided.
::::Agenda::::
- 18:00 Arrival & Welcome
- 18:30 Start of session
- 20:00 Closing followed with networking
::: Location:::
Unity Bookshop, Chau. de Wavre 331, 1040 Etterbeek
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Brussels Creativity Lab - This group is for anyone interested in exploring, questioning and discovering their creativity. If you're willing to experiment, take risks, play, meet others and have fun, this meetup is for you. We started this group because like any skill, creativity needs practice too. www.meetup.com/BrusselsCreativityLab
Join a hands-on workshop to create a hand-cranked scroll story! Explore life’s small joys through an early art form.
Small Joys, Long Visual Stories — A Moving Panorama Workshop
On the United Nations International Day of Happiness, the Brussels Creativity Lab invites you to slow down and take a closer look at joy.
In this workshop we’ll explore happiness not as a grand finale, but as something quietly unfolding over time. Together, we’ll work with the moving panorama — an early storytelling art form and ancestor of cinema — to tell stories that stretch small moments into long visual journeys.
A moving panorama is a hand-cranked storytelling device: a long illustrated scroll wound onto two spools and viewed through a small window as it slowly unrolls. In this workshop, you’ll be guided to create a short story, visualise it on a long piece of paper, and construct a simple cardboard viewing box to bring it to life.
Our focus will be on small joys, long stories: Stories built from tiny pleasures: a shared laugh, light through a window, a familiar route through the city. By drawing these moments out across the length of the scroll, the panorama becomes a way to slow happiness down so it can be noticed.
Expect a hands-on, playful session where experimentation is encouraged and artistic skill is not a prerequisite. You’ll meet others, exchange ideas, and discover how storytelling, rhythm, and movement can reveal joy hiding in plain sight.
Come curious, leave with a story — and maybe a new way of noticing happiness as it gently unfolds.
All materials will be provided.
::::Agenda::::
- 18:00 Arrival & Welcome
- 18:30 Start of session
- 20:00 Closing followed with networking
::: Location:::
Unity Bookshop, Chau. de Wavre 331, 1040 Etterbeek
-
Brussels Creativity Lab - This group is for anyone interested in exploring, questioning and discovering their creativity. If you're willing to experiment, take risks, play, meet others and have fun, this meetup is for you. We started this group because like any skill, creativity needs practice too. www.meetup.com/BrusselsCreativityLab
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Highlights
- 2 hours
- In person
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Location
Chau. de Wavre 331
331 Chaussée de Wavre
1040 Etterbeek
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