Eastbourne Art & Meditation Youth Workshops
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Next one is 29th August!
Workshops in a relaxing, creative space, explore wellbeing through new Art techniques, and relaxation exercises through your creativity and agency.
For you to collaborate in creating 3 Meditation Pods/Interactive Art Installations during Eastbourne Alive Celebrating the Turner Prize coming to Eastbourne, one pod will be all about the 'Environment'!!!! Another 'Education and Learning'!!!!! and the last but not least 'Money, Jobs, Homes and Opportunities'!!!! especially in this cost of living crises, co-created with you the young people of Eastbourne giving you a voice about your future🪸🌳🦖
To be exhibited across Libraries in East Sussex, All about giving you the workshop space for creativity, agency and voice and as well which is key supporting your mental health and wellbeing 🌜💙
What we are providing
Facilitating 6 free Art and Meditation Youth Workshops. To help you explore what keeps you well and introduce you to new techniques like art, mood/inspiration boards and meditation for young people aged 16-24 with myself, a local artist with youth work experience, and Josie Slater Occupational Therapist. Venue Leaf Hall Community Arts Centre.
Interested? Either turn up at a session or download Participation Application Form at the top of the page, send it to me on s.wrightartist@outlook.com as well to get a a focused info sheet. Or contact Southdown, I-Rock, Victoria Medical Practice and Seaside Medical Practice to be referred or social prescribed onto the workshops.
Support your mental health and wellbeing
Giving you a voice about your future
A space to develop your creativity and agency
Meet new like minded people
Our Official Poster
A programme empowering young people to discover their creativity and agency in Eastbourne. The project is in response to ‘Creating Healthier Lives – Arts in Public Health’ plan ESCC, East Sussex Council's partnership art grant 'Is it Art' and 'Make your Mark' East Sussex's poll, Youth Parliaments 2022 results. Associated with Towner Gallery and Eastbourne Alive, funded by Art Council England and ESCC, a programme partnership that will be the catalyst for lasting change
How to join the workshops
Drop into the workshops !!!!!!!!!!!
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Or Contact Sophie or one of the Referral Organisations
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Download form from top of website page or get sent one and fill out the Participants Application Form and get your e-invite
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Join us at the next workshop day at Leaf Hall Community Arts Centre Seaside BN22 7NB
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Enjoy having a wonderful summer with us....
What is social prescribing?
Social prescribing is a key component of Universal Personalised Care. It is an approach that connects people to activities, groups, and services in their community to meet the practical, social and emotional needs that affect their health and wellbeing.
In social prescribing, local agencies such as local charities, social care and health services refer people to a social prescribing link worker. Social prescribing link workers give people time, focusing on ‘what matters to me?’ to coproduce a simple personalised care and support plan, and support people to take control of their health and wellbeing.
Social prescribing link workers also support existing community groups to be accessible and sustainable, and help people to start new groups, working collaboratively with all local partners.
https://www.england.nhs.uk/personalisedcare/social-prescribing/
What you will be doing in the workshops
- Creating two mood boards; an arrangement of images, materials, pieces of text, etc. intended to evoke or project a particular style or concept using paint, words, collage, pens, oil pastels lots of different art materials.
- 4th July 5:30pm-7pm Week 1: Introduction, exploring what might keep you feeling good
- 11th July 5:30pm-7pm Week 2: Exploring one of the ‘Make your Mark’ themes which are 1.Jobs, Money, Homes and Opportunities, 2. Environment 3.Education and Learning.
- 18th July 5:30pm-7pmWeek 3: Making maquette with clay and other 3D materials, little models of the Pods/art-installation, 1/10th of the size for pod design or using templates to design the pods.
- 25th July 5:30pm-7pm Week 4: Creating meditations either by writing/painting/drawing/assembling - personal meditations for yourselves and ones relating to the Make your Mark theme.
- 1st August 5pm-7pmWeek 5: To record the meditations voiced by you or someone of your choosing or creating soundscapes.
- Two week gap.
- 29th August 5:30pm-7pm Week 6: Feedback and reflect on the Occupational Therapists processes, share meditations, make any changes you want for the soundscapes.
Structure of each Session
- The sessions will be 90 minutes long/ an hour and a half
- Each session will start with a 2 minute gentle stretch
- This is optional a 5 minute relaxation taster exercise ie body scan/ breath work/affirmations.
- Then with the rest of the time do the main activity for that week
- a 10-20 min tea and biscuit break in the middle of the session
- Then will end the session with a 5 minute relaxation taster exercise ie body scan/ breath work/affirmations which is optional
- If you are able to only come for part of the session, or need to leave early that is ok.
Meditation pictures created from our taster Meditation session
An into to the project as a whole we had your people and members of the community joined us. To meditate and create picture and art work from what they had experienced from there meditation. with lots of tea of course.
Social Prescribers and Referral Organisations with external links
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