Book launch for Drawn Together Through Visual Practice: Vancouver

November 3, 2016Interviews

Drawn Together Through Visual Practice graphic recording book launch Vancouver

Live graphic recording created in tandem by Avril Orloff and Corrina Keeling

Book launch: Drawn Together through Visual Practice

On October 29th we celebrated the release of our new book, Drawn Together through Visual Practice! We had a great turnout for the book launch event, which took place at Gallery Gachet in Vancouver, bringing together local facilitators, visual practitioners, friends, curious creatives, and even our moms.

Presentations and readings

Local authors gave short presentations on their work, and facilitators in attendance shared some practices, including a live graphic recording, and fielded questions from the audience.

stina brown set up a visual spectrum about how are you feeling, using faces and illustrations on the wall

The event was hosted by Stina Brown, MC extraordinaire. Stina’s book chapter explores how to connect the self to the planet using facilitation. In these times of great uncertainty, finding ways to lead groups into taking action is empowering. Stina also shared an activity with the audience, which is often used by graphic facilitators: a spectrogram that can be easily set up to ask a group questions.

Dr Aftab Erfan, presenting at the DTVP book launch about her work in deep democracy

Local author and graphic facilitator Aftab Erfan gave a short presentation on her chapter about Deep Democracy, which uses visuals to help explain what’s under the surface. Aftab works with groups to help unearth what is in the unconscious in the room, and the audience definitely learned more about itself that day.

aaron johannes, co-author presenting at book launch

We were also treated to a presentation by author Aaron Johannes-Rosenberg on his chapter about PATH: a visual process to help people with disabilities dream of a full life and a plan to make it happen.

Cultural safety and humility

I spoke about my chapter about using cultural safety and cultural humility. Originally, it was my Master’s project – but after writing about anti-racism and graphic recording, I realized it came down to this basic question. are we drawing whiteness? And my answer was yes. So now you don’t have to read the thesis. I decided to answer a more interesting question instead: How can visual practitioners work with cultural safety and cultural humility? For more on my chapter, check out my chapter here on using cultural safety and cultural humility as graphic recorders.

Sam Bradd, co-editor of the Drawnn Together Through Visual Practice book launch is standing and presenting, while corrina keeling and avril orloff are tandem graphic recording

Here’s me talking while Avril and Corrina work on their amazing graphic recording for the book launch. Vancouver is lucky to have such a strong visual practitioner community.

Thanks to everyone who came out, and for making the book launch a great success!

Missed the book launch but want a copy of the book? Drawn Together through Visual Practice is available for purchase on Amazon, and now on Kindle too.