Creating a Sense of Belonging Through the Arts. The visual and performing arts are the learning space within which we can explore and make meaning of our world in practical, theoretical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual ways. They have the potential to touch aspects of our personal identity, cultural identity and our perceptions and relationships with others. Performers, teachers and students, musicians, dancers, actors, performers, come join this interactive workshop to explore how the Arts can be the common language of compassion, to nurture belonging.