One Thousand Birds 

z.Lab – One Thousand Birds is an online immersive training on arts for childhood that follows a vision of arts and education as an holistic process. It follows the assumption that we have to benefit from the aesthetic experience ourselves in order to transmit it to the little ones.

Taking birds’ world as the core theme in all the training process, it emphasizes the importance of listening, expanding it to all the senses. Birds’ universe is also an inspiration for singing, movement and interdisciplinary activities. Taking care of the environment and of people are key values.

z.lab is part of Thousand Birds’ constellation, in which all the community is invited to send orizurus for a collective installation. This has been inspired on a saying of Japanese traditional culture, that claims that a wish comes true when someone makes one thousand orizurus while thinking about it.

Participants on this online immersive training are invited to lead their own Kindergarten communities to create orizurus (see instructions to download the program here and to register here), sharing a common desire for peace and an harmonious world.