Being a carer is a demanding and selfless role that often leaves little time for self-care and personal growth. However, recognizing the importance of nurturing one’s creative spirit and building a supportive community, the Creative Connections programme is here to offer a unique opportunity for carers to explore new skills, forge meaningful connections, and take a moment for themselves. The Creative Connections Programme Free Weekly Creative Sessions: Starting from January and continuing through March 2024, these eight weekly sessions promise a rejuvenating experience for carers. Whether you care for a family member, a friend, or work professionally as a carer, these sessions are designed with you in mind. Music with Holly Robinson – Thurs Feb 1st & Thurs Feb 8th – 10am – 12.30pm Come and join experienced music therapist Holly Robinson for workshop sessions exploring music for wellbeing. Sessions will include activities such as listening to music, playing instruments, and creating playlists. No need to have had any previous experience, but great if you do. Textiles with Menna Buss – Thurs Feb 22nd & Thurs Feb 29th – 10am – 12.30pm Try out different techniques and discover creative possibilities with textiles in this relaxed and supportive environment. All levels
Are you an experienced creative workshop facilitator? Are you experienced in working with carers, young carers, or both? SPAN Arts is looking for arts workshop facilitators working in different mediums, from music to printmaking, movement to photography, to run sessions as part of our Creative Connections programme running creative sessions for carers in Narberth, Pembrokeshire, across February and March 2024. Please send a cover letter up to 1 side of A4 (400 words) describing your experience of this type of work along with a copy of your CV to info@span-arts-dev.co.uk by 5pm Friday 8th December. Alternatively, you can send a 5-minute audio or video recording that covers the same information if that is more accessible. All applicants will need to have up to date DBS checks. We aim to contact all applicants of decisions by Monday 18th December. Please don’t hesitate to contact us at the above email address or on 01834 869323 with any questions.
Lou Luddington is a photographer and writer, Their work is very much inspired by the natural marine biology, as an observer and scientist knowing the life and stories of the species and environment, they’re surrounded by helps them create visually compelling art work. They have been writing and providing photos for columns and featured in magazines for many years, also publishing their first book in 2019 , Wonderous British Marine Life: A Handbook For Coastal Explorers.
Cân Sing is a bi-monthly singing group for all abilities which celebrates the uplifting benefits of singing. The group has been meeting for many years, with new additions along the way. It’s perfect if you are looking to sing regularly in a pressure-free environment, or whether you fancy dropping in for a sing every so often. The pace of the teaching is easily accessible to all, with no time restraints. Vocal practitioner Molara guides the group through an exploratory celebration of singing, focusing on strengthening the voice, overcoming some of the physical and emotional barriers to singing openly and freely, and above all, singing for enjoyment. The repertoire is varied with songs from Georgia, Ghana, Zimbabwe, and Hawaii with a few shanties and some pop thrown in for good measure. The project has provided vital support and connection and helped to improve people’s wellbeing at this most difficult time. Singers have found the experience “Stimulating, connecting and heart-warming” with “with just the right mix of warm-up, chat and song.” Date: Every 1st and 3rd Monday of the month, except Bank Holidays, with a break over August Time: 7pm – 9pm Location: The SPAN Arts building, Town Moor, Narberth, SA67 7AG
Emily Laurens is a multi-disciplinary socially engaged artist based in Wales. Central to her practice is collaboration and work with communities. Most of her work is about the relationship between ecological crisis and social justice and uses metaphor to better understand the world and how radical imagination can be used to envision new futures. Emily works at the intersections between mediums: using visual theatre, live art, comedy and clown as a performer/writer/director; puppetry, the body and costume as a designer/maker/film-maker; and as a community artist working with a range of artistic disciplines. Emily is an exemplary facilitator and her work is rooted in intuitive and creative research methods and a non-extractive ethos. Emily co-directs Feral Theatre and is co-founder of Remembrance Day for Lost Species. She works part time as Play Officer for the National Trust at Dinefwr and is studying on a three year Masters programme in Art Psychotherapy at the University of South Wales.
We Move is a youth-led project for Black children and young people across West Wales to come together, connect, and make a positive change in the world through social action. Events and Activities We Move Surf Day Saturday 22nd July Poppet Sands A day of surf lessons and fun led by Kwame Salam. Script and storytelling with Phil Okwedy and Rose Thorn. Tuesday 22nd August The Barn, Iet Goch, SA34 0YP Join us for a day of storytelling, drama, improvisation and script writing with Phil Okwedy and Rose Thorn. 10am to 12pm 4 to 10 years old 1.30pm to 6pm 11 to 18 years old Black History 365 national launch at St. Fagans Museum Saturday 30th September St Fagans National History Museum, Michaelston Road, Cardiff CF5 6XB Join us on a trip to Black History 365 national launch at St. Fagans Museum, Cardiff (details TBC) West Wales Black History 365 launch party 2 – 9pm, Saturday 7th October Small World Theatre, Bath House Road, Cardigan SA43 1JY 2pm: Official launch of Atinuke’s book Black British History: Q&A with author and illustrator, performances by the We Move group, face painting, book signing. 4pm: Launch of Llwy Gariad Too, the next cookery
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