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VELO CULT: Sleep, School & Surrealism
March 1, 2018 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
WHAT: Sleep, School & Surrealism @ Velo Cult with Emily Weiss, Psychology, Portland State University and Jamaali Roberts, PNCA
WHERE: Velo Cult, 1969 NE 42nd Ave, Portland, OR 97213
WHEN: Thursday, March 1, 6 – 8pm
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Black Art, School & Dreams: Exquisite corpses @ Velo
How critical is sleep for young brains? Little kids transitioning to school need to manage their thoughts, feelings, and actions, and theory suggests that sufficient sleep is essential. How does a lack of sleep affect kindergarteners and young children, and impact their development of self-regulation skills? How do racial/ethnic and socioeconomic inequities relate to how well, and how long kids sleep?
Emily focuses on applied research, taking science out of the lab into real classrooms and home environments that children navigate every day. Learn about current research on sleep, self-regulation, and classroom contexts among low-income, African-American kindergarteners.
Detail of “Created on their likeness,” mixed media on canvas by Jamaali Roberts
Jamaali is a multi-faceted painter using different mediums to rethink how Black culture is represented in American society. Jamaali will lead an art and storytelling time. After a brief introduction to African American collage artists, he will guide the audience to create two craft projects around the idea of “sleep” and “rest.” While they create, he will use his African drums and percussion to tell stories from his own surreal dream adventures and enlightening sleep meditations. Participants will leave with a better understanding of what sleep can mean for them and how, conjoined with art, it can benefits our lives.
NW Noggin Velo Cult events are always free, open to the public, child friendly, and feature access to amazing beer (scroll here for current tap list), wine, coffee, tea, sodas and sandwiches…
George Carlin on the compelling nature of sleep…
“People say, ‘I’m going to sleep now,’ as if it were nothing. But it’s really a bizarre activity. ‘For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I’m going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life.’
If you didn’t know what sleep was, and you had only seen it in a science fiction movie, you would think it was weird and tell all your friends about the movie you’d seen.
They had these people, you know? And they would walk around all day and be OK? And then, once a day, usually after dark, they would lie down on these special platforms and become unconscious. They would stop functioning almost completely, except deep in their minds they would have adventures and experiences that were completely impossible in real life. As they lay there, completely vulnerable to their enemies, their only movements were to occasionally shift from one position to another; or, if one of the ‘mind adventures’ got too real, they would sit up and scream and be glad they weren’t unconscious anymore. Then they would drink a lot of coffee.’
So, next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you’re in a science fiction movie. And whisper, ‘The creature is regenerating itself.”
