Aligning Ourselves with our Own Personal Values Through Creativity

What stories do we tell ourselves about our values and are our values something we deeply understand?

In this workshop, you’ll join producer Briana Pegedo to explore our values in playful ways to help us better understand the stories we tell ourselves about what is important to us. Working closely with Rhys Hollis, lead artist on OMOS, we will explore how understanding our values can help us tell better stories. OMOS pays homage to Scotland’s untold Black history, and celebrates Black performance in Scotland. The values compass exercise will allow you to unearth your values to enable you to make decisions about your life, work, and creative life.

Please expect to bring something to write with, whether analog or digital. You will walk away with a physical (or virtual) compass that outlines your values as they stand, some actions on how to embed those values deeper into your day-to-day life. You should feel refreshed, inspired, and motivated after this workshop. You should also feel like you have some deeper insights into what is important to you.

Open to all ages 16+. No experience required.

About the workshop series
This workshop is part of OMOS, an exhibition at Dunoon Burgh Hall (25 March – 24 April 2022). OMOS pays homage to Scotland’s untold Black history, and celebrates Black performance in Scotland. Created collaboratively by a group of award-winning performers, OMOS is filmed in Puck’s Glen and Stirling Castle. Cabaret performer Rhys Hollis (also known as Rhys’s Pieces) leads an outstanding group of collaborators including opera singer Andrea Baker, dancer Divine Tasinda and pole artist Kheanna Walker to create this powerful film, filmed in Puck’s Glen and Stirling Castle..

Other OMOS workshops:

Friday 25th March

Gospel Workshop with Andrea Baker:  Gospel Workshop with Andrea Barker – Dunoon Burgh Hall

Saturday 26th March

Drag & Lipsync workshop with Rhys’s Pieces: Drag & Lipsync workshop with Rhys’s Pieces – Dunoon Burgh Hall

The series of workshops are an opportunity to meet the artists, and discover how histories and stories can be told, interpreted and reimagined through creative skills.

Biography 

Briana Pegado FRSA is the Community Engagement Producer for OMOS and Co-Director of We Are Here Scotland CIC, a community interest company that supports Black and POC creatives in Scotland. Her work in the third sector and in the creative sector has been grounded in supporting people to fulfill their creative potential. As founder of the award winning Edinburgh Student Arts Festival (ESAF) and co-founder of Povo, a ‘conductancy’ that supported clients to use play to better understand their creative process, her belief that creativity is for everyone has driven her creative practice. Outside of the arts, she has worked in healing spaces to support people through complex trauma and is an experienced facilitator in using healing modalities to support people to live more fulfilling lives.

Rhys Hollis (also known as Rhys’s Pieces) is a cabaret performer and will be the lead artist directing the project, as well as being one of the performers in the film. Rhys Hollis is described as a one-person cabaret troupe; they are a performance artist dancer, rapper, lipsyncer, cabaret host, genderbending drag artist and burlesque act. They were crowned 2018’s LipSync 1000 Champion beating out over 100 other cabaret drag artists to take the prize. In 2019 they were awarded the title of best Variety Act by QX magazine. They are a member of the legendary LipSinkers group, and host cabaret nights across the UK. Instagram: @rhysspieces

Image credits left to right: Briana Pegado by Matt Beech, Rhys Hollis by Washington Gwande

OMOS is produced by Pollyanna and funded by The National Lottery through Creative Scotland and National Lottery Heritage Fund. It is also funded by People’s Postcode Trust. Partners include Historic Environment Scotland, Forestry and Land Scotland, Dunoon Burgh Hall, Royal Scottish Academy, Cultural Heritage and Arts Assembly Argyll & Isles (CHARTS), Argyll & Bute Council, the Fruitmarket, Scene Stirling and Transmission.