All workshops held at Bath Artists' Studios
Suggested donation £10/person.
We have a small fund set aside to allow those who might be financially constrained at this time to participate. Please get in contact with us confidentially at hello@throughthecracks.co.uk to book your slot.
These workshops offer an opportunity for CREATIVE COLLECTIVE ACTION, in which skills, memories and connections are taken home, but your creation is left on site, to become part of a future art installation. Everything material that is produced within these sessions will be collated into a bound album for display.
The purpose is to embody a more interconnected collective approach, as participants are working together to create this final piece. It is undeniably challenging to expend time, passion and creativity on a piece of work, only to hand it over... but you will be a part of co-creating something beautiful, whilst honing new skills and feeling the benefits of creative therapy.
As well as having the opportunity to learn new techniques and build community, it may be feasible for you to make a further piece to take away. This might incur an additional cost, to cover materials, which can be settled on the day. These factors will be dependent on the structure of your chosen workshop.
EMULSION LIFT PORTRAIT
Saturday 9ᵗʰ November
11:00 am - 1:30 pm
with Matthew Dennis
Learn the process of emulsion lifting with Polaroids.
Help us to create a record of shared humanity by producing emulsion lift portraits of one another, whilst exploring our connections to land(scape). These will be bound by Kate Holland, alongside the outcomes from the other workshops.
The option to create additional images to take home with you is available for an additional charge.
YOGA - AHIMSA
Sunday 10ᵗʰ November
9:30 am - 10.45 am
with Ana
Ahimsa, or non-violence, is a moral value in yoga philosophy, which teaches causing no harm in thought, speech, or action to any living being, including ourselves. It is believed that those who cause no harm emit 'harmonious vibrations', which in turn encourages others to live peacefully too. Through physical practice in this yoga session, we will look into our hearts, open them, and offer peace and kindness to our past.
Bring your own mat if you can but don't worry, there will be mats available to use.
CERAMIC CREATIVITY
Sunday 10ᵗʰ November
11:00 am - 1:30 pm
with Melissa Hurst
This workshop will provide a space to create a tile or tiled wall hanging in clay. Working with clay is hugely therapeutic - the healing power of touching clay and creating something that signifies your thoughts. Melissa will guide you through the process and also read some poetry from Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear by Mosab Abu Toha so that you can sit in the moment and see what is created.
VISIBLE MENDING
Tuesdsay 12ᵗʰ November
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
with Sue Appleby
As well as being a tangible metaphor for making visible the damage happening in Gaza and the necessity of repair, this workshop offers a 101 in the techniques needed to start using this skill at home: to create art with your own wardrobe and to practice recycling through the decorative repair of wear and tear.
YOGA - AHIMSA II
Wednesday 13ᵗʰ November
09:30 am - 10:45 am
with Ana
Ahimsa, or non-violence, is a moral value in yoga philosophy, which teaches causing no harm in thought, speech, or action to any living being, including ourselves. It is believed that those who cause no harm emit 'harmonious vibrations', which in turn encourages others to live peacefully too. Through physical practice in this yoga session, we will look into our hearts, open them, and offer peace and kindness to our past.
Bring your own mat if you can...but don't worry, there will be mats available to use.
BOOKBINDING
Thursday 14ᵗʰ November
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
with Kate Holland
Rediscover the joys of making with your hands and engage with the ultimate portable technology - the book.
In this workshop, Kate will guide you step-by-step in the traditional craft of bookbinding. You will come away with a hardback book that you have made from scratch and all the basic bookbinding skills that will enable you to continue and elaborate upon at home. Once you’ve been bitten by the bookbinding bug you’ll be back for more. All materials and tools will be provided. Some of those tools are sharp!
Suitable for all ages from 8yrs+ (children to be supervised).
TATREEZ EMBROIDERY
Saturday 16ᵗʰ November
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
with Joud Nassar
Joud would love to pass on the beautiful art of Tatreez embroidery, which people in Palestine have being practicing for thousands of years. This ancient embroidery skill provides both a meaningful way of connecting with Palestinian culture, whilst its meditative process also offers soothing to the mind and soul.
ACTIVISM & SELF-CARE
Saturday 16th November
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
with Joud Nassar
Joud will share personal stories to impart the reality of living under occuption in Palestine. Sharing wisdoms and lessons learned through storytelling, she will also offer guidance on how to harmonise activism and self-care, in order to implement change whilst protecting grieving hearts. The workshop will end with a singing element.
EMBODIMENT & EMPOWERMENT
Sunday 17ᵗʰ November
9:15 am - 10:30 am
with Nicks Corbett
A space to come together to re-centre, re-align and feel. Feeling is healing, but sometimes we just don't know how ... or the sensation seems too overwhelming. By moving, connecting to our breath and allowing the energy to flow, we encourage the feelings to do the same. We replace fear with love, anger with purpose and judgment with peace.
In this session, we might chat, we might move, we might breathe together, we might laugh, we might cry, we might meditate…. We might experience all of the above. Whatever the process, we will return to our bodies and connect together in peace, love and connection.
Find us at Bath Artists' Studios
Bath Artists' Studios
The Old Malthouse, Comfortable Place
Upper Bristol Road
BATH
BA1 3AJ
"The purpose of life is to discover your gift.
The work of life is to develop it.
The meaning of life is to give your gift away"
David S. Viscott
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