painting in circles

First of all, Happy Thanksgiving! I will have a Thanksgiving post, but I'll do that one tomorrow and instead tell you about my morning in this post.

I went to an event to raise awareness about violence against women and girls. It was a circle painting event. These happen all over the place as a venue to get the word out about domestic violence and the like. I heard about this event because the other day in class, we had some women from the NGO CSAGA come and speak about domestic violence in Vietnam, and they invited us. The concept of a circle painting is basically that there is one large canvas in the middle of a circle of people. Everyone contributes a little to their section, and then you rotate and add some details to another part of the canvas. There was another area where people were painting conical hats. It was a similar system where you would paint on one hat and then rotate the circle and paint on another one. Before painting each time, we collectively recited a mantra:

Art for all

All for art

Love for all 

All for love

Happiness for all

All for happiness

This mantra was in Vietnamese, so mainly I just tried to repeat sounds that I heard in an organized fashion. Someone eventually explained what it was, though. 

The hosting artist in the middle under the even banner.

Instructions being given for the circle painting.

Painting of conical hats.

I painted in this corner. The funky, red, sqiggly thing in the upper left is definitely mine.

I didn't paint this one, but I thought it particularly beautiful

There were lots of people around and so many beautiful colors!