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January 2022
Woven Stories – Create Well Mental Health programme
Create Well Mental Health programme Join our Artist Facilitators Brenda and Julie online for Woven Stories - perfect for anyone who would struggle to access a community-based course and/or who would prefer to engage with us from the comfort and safety of their own home! We can help you get set up and confident with using Zoom. Brenda and Julie will enable you to explore your own creativity through visual art making and creative writing. You will get to tell…
Find out more »Woven Stories – Living Well with Pain programme
Living Well with Chronic Pain programme Join our Artist Facilitators Brenda and Julie online for Woven Stories - perfect for anyone who would struggle to access a community-based course and/or who would prefer to engage with us from the comfort and safety of their own home! We can help you get set up and confident with using Zoom. Brenda and Julie will enable you to explore your own creativity through visual art making and creative writing. You will get to…
Find out more »Looking and Seeing – Create Well Mental Health Programme
Join our Artist Facilitator Nick Moore at the beautiful Overton House, HQ of the Barnwood Trust in Cheltenham. This informal course will focus on painting and drawing with the aim of encouraging you to find your own way to relax and enjoy the materials. You don’t have to be ‘an artist’ to take part in this flexible, supportive group. We will be using acrylic paint and watercolours with basic drawing materials such as pencils, crayons and graphite sticks to explore…
Find out more »From Object to Art – Create Well Mental Health Programme
Join our Artist Facilitator Susie Walker at The Club at Tuffley Park. Rekindle your creative self by having permission to play through taking a line for a walk to transforming everyday items into permanent or transient artworks. Nothing is off limits and exploring the materials in your own way to create exciting and beautiful things is what it's all about. No prior experience of arts or crafts is necessary and all materials are provided or are items we agree we’d…
Find out more »Word Play – Create Well Mental Health programme
Join our Artist Facilitators Brenda and Amy at The Ed Shed (2 Quay Street), behind the old Folk Museum in Gloucester. Discover the power of creativity through playing with words and heal the mind whilst making friends and building a community. In this course you will cut, paste, write poetry and prose, rearrange, make marks, paint, and have fun discovering yourself whilst pushing the boundaries of your imagination. You will use text, as in writing, to inspire an image and…
Find out more »Carnival Creations – Living well with Pain programme
Living Well with Pain course Join our Artist Facilitators Harriet and Annet at The City Works in Barton, Gloucester. This multi-arts course gives you plenty of choice as to how you might want to get involved. Get a lift from the joy of carnival as Harriet and Annet guide you through making costume elements, masks and/or props, which you can then animate and move with. Enjoy the music and carnival atmosphere as you get creative in this group. This 10-week…
Find out more »Flourish
Free online art sessions for adults registered with a doctor in Gloucestershire and living with or beyond cancer. Explore making, drawing & painting with trained, experienced artist, Susie Walker. No prior experience of art or craft is necessary. This is just a great opportunity for anyone in Gloucestershire coping with cancer to focus on something positive with others in the same boat. Share experiences, make friends, and build confidence in a safe, creative space. This 10-week online course runs from…
Find out more »Altered Books – Living well with Pain course
Living Well with Chronic Pain programme Join our Artlist Facilitator Amy at Artspace Cinderford. She will help you to tap into your creative side through the chance to explore different mediums and processes, like image transfer, leaf printing, Papier-mache modelling, simple printmaking, and Cyanotype photo processes. An altered book is a form of mixed media artwork that changes a book from its original form into a different form, altering its appearance and/or meaning. We’ll take an old, new or recycled…
Find out more »Altered Books – Create Well Mental Health programme
Join our Artlist Facilitator Amy at Artspace Cinderford. She will help you to tap into your creative side through the chance to explore different mediums and processes, like image transfer, leaf printing, Papier-mache modelling, simple printmaking and Cyanotype photo processes. An altered book is a form of mixed media artwork that changes a book from its original form into a different form, altering its appearance and/or meaning. We’ll take an old, new or recycled book (or multiple books) and modify…
Find out more »Theatrical Perspectives – Living Well with Pain course
Living Well with Pain course Join our Artist Facilitator Emma at the Springbank Community Resource Centre in Hesters Way, Cheltenham. This course has a little bit of something for everyone! You’ll get a chance to try your hand at crafting, painting, puppet making, writing, designing and game playing. We’ll be inspired by all the best bits of theatre & film without any of the scary acting. Look at the world through the eyes of a director or designer and see…
Find out more »Drawing on Photography – Create Well Mental Health Programme
Join our Artist Facilitator Jim Brook at the Museum in the Park in beautiful Stratford Park in Stroud. Do you have an inclination towards visual things? In this course you can gain from nurturing your creativity as you go about your weekly activity. You’ll be drawing on photography as a way of producing images as a source for other free ways of making and exploring things. You can use your camera or mobile phone; other arts materials (paint/brushes etc) will…
Find out more »Altered Books – Create Well Mental Health programme
Join our Artlist Facilitator Amy at New Brewery Arts in Cirencester. She will help you to tap into your creative side through the chance to explore different mediums and processes, like image transfer, leaf printing, Papier-mache modelling, simple printmaking and Cyanotype photo processes. An altered book is a form of mixed media artwork that changes a book from its original form into a different form, altering its appearance and/or meaning. We’ll take an old, new or recycled book (or multiple…
Find out more »February 2022
Flourish
Join our Artist Faciltiator Susie online for this course desined to support your wellbeing during and after cancer treatment with simple art and craft activities at your kitchen table. Supported by Macmillan Cancer Support and GLoW Gloucestershire Wellbeing this online course will help you focus on something positive alongside people who care and understand. The 10-week courses (including an additional session when you'll work on plans to retain the arts in your life) will run on: - Mondays from 1…
Find out more »May 2022
Flourish
Join our Artist Faciltiator Susie online for this course desined to support your wellbeing during and after cancer treatment with simple art and craft activities at your kitchen table. Supported by Macmillan Cancer Support and GLoW Gloucestershire Wellbeing this online course will help you focus on something positive alongside people who care and understand. The 10-week courses (including an additional session when you’ll work on plans to retain the arts in your life) will run on: – Mondays from 1…
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