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We recently had a fun remote event: a painting class. A local company shipped supplies to each person (canvas, brushes, paints) and held a video session with a
by jscud 6y ago
We recently had a fun remote event: a painting class.
A local company shipped supplies to each person (canvas, brushes, paints) and held a video session with a teacher who walked us through how to paint a particular picture step by step. Accessible for beginners, many of us had never painted before.
- cjohnson318 6y agoThat's great! It's really hard to create a safe space for people to do art.
- tj-teej 6y agoWhat was the company?
- jscud 6y agoIt was with https://www.createmixandmingle.com/ https://www.createmixandmingle.com/
- phemartin 6y agoLoved the idea of having a remote manual activity to spark joy.
- tharkun__ 6y agoThis is the kind of thing that really depends on the team you have. If you tried this with me on the team... well good luck. I might hate you for the rest of my life. They actually tried this at a previous job with a "pottery class". Of course your marketing team might really love this. Or the guy on one of the other teams here that actually was on part-time so he could do all his paintings and prepare for his exhibition.
- herval 6y agoWhy would you hate someone for sending you some painting materials? This sounds like a fun idea with a low barrier of entry - if you just don't want to do it, you can always... not attend? Just watch?
- tharkun__ 6y agoI apologize for not making it more clear. I had been reading all the threads and one common concept was "forced fun". This comes in various forms as you can read there from very openly forced to very subtly. So if you force me to go go karting I may not complain personally though some others might. But if you force me to do painting or pottery class that changes quite rapidly.