SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - Geaux BUILD Louisiana visits KSLA’s studio to speak with ArkLaTex Artistry’s Brittney Hazelton.
Geaux BUILD Louisiana’s owner, Cade, reached out to Brittney Hazelton, wanting to speak about how his business encourages creativity and promotes fun.
Cade is a high-achieving young man. He is the owner of a physician’s domestic operation agency. Additionally, he is an early education professional and works with many behavioral therapist who specializes in play therapy with his organization’s LEGOs.
“I work with a lot of different therapists and organizations with our LEGO mediums to bring a more holistic play experience to kiddos. And, it kinda’ just snowballed into Geaux BUILD Louisiana,” explains Cade.
Geaux BUILD Louisiana is a company that specializes in STEAM and social events, which specializes in curated birthday parties, cocktail parties, family nights out, and education days. The organization also works with STEAM camps, museums, daycares, schools, libraries, and more.
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“We go everywhere that kids and families go. We bring our more than 10,000 separated color and size LEGO elements and build to a theme. So, if your school is learning about fresh water in the month of June. We are going to bring every blue brick, and every green brick, and every brick you would need to build a pond, a frog, or a duck,” says Cade.
Cade always had a love for LEGO, like many do. The brand and toys have been a staple since 1932, and have encouraged creativity for generations.
HOW DO LEGO AND ART CORRELATE?
“We know LEGO started being used as an educational application in the late 19th century. LEGO has been around since a decade after Lincoln Logs. LEGO is an American brand company. They have been around since our lexicon began,” explains Cade. “The cool thing is, I am working with right now with the art therapist at Brentwood and we are actually exploring the applications of LEGO play therapy in expressive art therapy,” says Cade.
Cade also explains he has artists who grew up playing with LEGO coming to use his organization’s LEGOs as a medium as well.
“Christy Dee is a creative in town that is actually coming in to use our LEGO as a medium, just pure medium. Just as the colors, just to separate them and make unique art out of what is already presented. It’s a medium that any artist who is familiar with color work can come in, look at the separated colors, and make something out of them,” says Cade.
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THERAPY APPLICATION
Not only are Brentwood therapists working with Cade, but he says therapists in memory care and quality of life care are in talks with him, including organizations like Holy Angels.
“These people with memory issues are touching LEGOs for the first time in 50 to 60 years, and it’s a powerful application for their memory care,” says Cade.
Cade believes that using LEGO with elderly people who also played with them as children can help bring back memories.
“It goes back to your childhood artistry and the fine motor skills it promotes. You know the mental strength that it takes and the dexterity it takes,” says Cade. “Which is great for your creative juices and muscles. Which is great for your memory muscles, its great for everything.”
Opens in new windowCade also mentions how a local teacher, Miss Patty, from Young Years, has partnered with him to build a LEGO reading curriculum where she takes the base LEGO instructions and uses them to help teach how to treat books and how to go through instruction manuals to build the sets.
“You know, LEGO is reading and math, science, technology, art and engineering,” says Cade.
ADULTS & LEGO
Shreveport has had LEGO as an application for education in the past for kids, but Cade wants it to go beyond, and it isn’t only focused on children. Cade began a Facebook group called Geaux Build La Krewe, where parents and adult LEGO lovers can join in the fun.
“A family social club that doesn’t exist anymore. The BoysGirls Club and girls club of America, the Elks Club,” expresses Cade. “Going out, a place to have cocktails, daycare workers in an arcade, pizza in the middle, you know? America is losing that. We don’t have a place for families to gather, and kids to build LEGOS, and for parents to fellowship. and, just get together, ” says Cade.
WHY LEGO?
About to be just 25, Cade has done a lot since he was 17. From his experience in life as someone who has worked in education, libraries, daycares, and has been involved with behavioral therapy, this is what he has found the most joy in.
“I landed on this because it’s the perfect complex mix of everything that I love. You know, I go home after a long day and I play with LEGO. I watch Star Wars movies and I relax to things that are probably considered, cause of what I do, as a little more immature, but is a bit more about me personally,” says Cade. “I can’t lie, this is my escape. My nine-to-five, this is not my nine-to-five. I own Shreveport’s Premier Physicians’ Domestic Operations Agency, so I do the domestic operations for more than six full-time practicing physicians. That’s hiring and firing, house staff, walking dogs, and making sure PTA obligations are met. Children are succeeding in school. Doctor’s appointments are made. Bills are paid. Pantries are full of food. This is my escape.”
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Additionally, Geaux BUILD Louisiana has a fully realized licensed resale store for mint condition LEGO.
UPCOMING EVENT
On August 1, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., Geaux BUILD Louisiana is inviting families and caregivers to build, play, and connect with others over LEGOs and lattes.
All builders must be accompanied by a parent or guardian, and a liability waiver must be signed to participate.
For information about what party packages and other services Geaux BUILD Louisiana provides, visit their LinkTree at linktr.ee/GeauxBuildLa.
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