Colliers Moss artworks and stories

Join in with a creative project all about Colliers Moss Common, 130 hectares of habitats on the site of the old Bold Colliery and Bold Power Station.

Working together with collaborative art duo Juneau Projects, you’ll help create a guide and activity book that will be available free to local residents. The book will contain information and illustrations about local wildlife, history and things to do on the Moss.

You can take part by making illustrations (no art experience needed!) and by chatting about your experiences and observations on ‘the Moss’.

Colliers Moss artworks and stories

Wednesday 30th August, 11am – 1pm and 2pm – 4pm, Derbyshire Hill Family Centre

A creative workshop where you’ll make wildlife and landscape illustrations using paint, paper-cutting and more. You’ll also have the chance to share stories and memories of the Moss.

Suitable for families.

Part of A Sense of Green.

Colliers Moss illustrations

Join in with a creative project all about Colliers Moss Common, 130 hectares of habitats on the site of the old Bold Colliery and Bold Power Station.

Working together with collaborative art duo Juneau Projects, you’ll help create a guide and activity book that will be available free to local residents. The book will contain information and illustrations about local wildlife, history and things to do on the Moss.

You can take part by making illustrations (no art experience needed!) and by chatting about your experiences and observations on ‘the Moss’.

Develop illustrations inspired by the Moss visit from the previous session on Tuesday 15th August.

Tuesday 29th August, 11am – 1pm and 2.30pm – 4.30pm, Derbyshire Hill Family Centre

Colliers Moss artworks and stories

Join in with a creative project all about Colliers Moss Common, 130 hectares of habitats on the site of the old Bold Colliery and Bold Power Station.

Working together with collaborative art duo Juneau Projects, you’ll help create a guide and activity book that will be available free to local residents. The book will contain information and illustrations about local wildlife, history and things to do on the Moss.

You can take part by making illustrations (no art experience needed!) and by chatting about your experiences and observations on ‘the Moss’.

A creative workshop where you’ll make wildlife and landscape illustrations using paint, paper-cutting and more. You’ll also have the chance to share stories and memories of the Moss.

Thursday 17th August, 11am – 1pm and 2pm – 4pm, Derbyshire Hill Family Centre

Colliers Moss Common Family Workshops

Work with collaborative art duo Juneau Projects to make wildlife and landscape illustrations using paint, paper-cutting and more and share your stories and memories of the Moss.

Join in with a creative project all about Colliers Moss Common, 130 hectares of habitats on the site of the old Bold Colliery and Bold Power Station. Working together with collaborative art duo Juneau Projects, you’ll help create a guide and activity book that will be available free to local residents. The book will contain information and illustrations about local wildlife, history and things to do on the Moss.

You can take part by making illustrations (no art experience needed!) and by chatting about your experiences and observations on ‘the Moss’.

Explore the Moss

Tuesday 15th August, 11am – 1pm and 2.30pm – 4.30pm, Colliers Moss Common

Walk with the Moss’ ranger to look at the wildlife of the moss. Activities will include photography and drawing. We’ll supply the magnifying glasses and clip-on phone lenses, as well as clipboards and drawing materials.

If it’s too wet for a walk, we’ll meet inside instead for a wildlife talk from the Moss’ ranger, with a painting and drawing activity.

(Meeting point will be shared with attendees ahead of the event)

Birds Can Fly Family Workshop

Join Paul Harfleet as he shares his artistic practice and create perfectly beautiful drawings inspired by nature.

‘Accidental activist’ and award-winning interdisciplinary artist Paul Harfleet, uses art, illustration and design to educate and inspire bird lovers and promote creativity, kindness and acceptance.

Join Paul as he shares his artistic practice, including the story behind his gentle references. You’ll hear him read his debut book Pansy Boy, and take part in some drawing workshops, where – whatever your skill level – you’ll create perfectly beautiful drawings inspired by nature. Paul will be on hand to offer guidance, so get your questions ready!

Anyone who takes part is invited to join them on Saturday 16th September for an Avian Amble through Court Hey Park, to share your ‘gently referenced’ bird-inspired creations.

Families welcome, suitable for ages 6+.

Part of A Sense of Green.

Birds Can Fly Family Workshop

Join Paul Harfleet as he shares his artistic practice and create perfectly beautiful drawings inspired by nature.

‘Accidental activist’ and award-winning interdisciplinary artist Paul Harfleet, uses art, illustration and design to educate and inspire bird lovers and promote creativity, kindness and acceptance.

Join Paul as he shares his artistic practice, including the story behind his gentle references. You’ll hear him read his debut book Pansy Boy, and take part in some drawing workshops, where – whatever your skill level – you’ll create perfectly beautiful drawings inspired by nature. Paul will be on hand to offer guidance, so get your questions ready!

Anyone who takes part is invited to join them on Saturday 16th September for an Avian Amble through Court Hey Park, to share your ‘gently referenced’ bird-inspired creations.

Families welcome, suitable for ages 6+.

Part of A Sense of Green.

Creative Writing with Bernadette McBri...

Join writer and social advocate Bernadette McBride for this creative writing workshop exploring our relationship with local and global green spaces.

The session will focus on the environment, our relationship with local and global green spaces and the role waterways play in connecting us. Get creative with pen and paper to make your own poem as part of the workshop.

Work created during this session will be shared at an event at Incredible Edible Knowsley on Saturday 16th September.

Bernadette won the Biggest Impact on the City of Liverpool award in 2019 for her creative practitioner work bringing together people, words and the natural environment.

In partnership with Cultural Hubs.

Part of a Sense of Green.

Summer Sound Bath for Recalibration

August is the fruition of summer, of growth, fertility and life force. It is a time of celebration, reaping what you have sown, enjoying the good things in life, and basking in the gifts and glow of summer.

With all this brightness, this sun, shining on us and our lives, some things can be brought to the light that we may have kept in the dark, some things that make it feel harder to bask in the glow of summer. Maybe the sun is whispering to us out of our office window making us relive daydreams of dream jobs, maybe the warm days are beckoning us to the beach, to water, to nature because we feel disconnected, maybe we miss friends/loved ones and long to gather with them in the glow of a slowly setting summer sun..

Whatever all of this extra light is illuminating for you, this Sound Bath for Recalibration is here to help you feel more connected to the warmth within you, to tap into those dark spots and massage out and knots, to tap into that firey energy of summer and reconnect with your own light and purpose.

This Sound bath will be designed to help you reconnect with your self and your vision for the rest of the summer season, to help you step towards centredness and to ease any emotional/physical tensions to reignite your passion and purpose,

Think of it as a massage for your soul!

I’ll be working with Venus Gong, Himalayan Singing Bowls, Crystal Bowls, Therapeutic Percussion and Voice to help you drop into an Altered State of Consciousness allowing you to relax, re-centre and reset.

I’ll be using a beautiful, heart opening Gong tuned to the frequency of Venus. It’s gentle tones evoke positive emotions such as joy, love, harmony, beauty and compassion and it allows us to spiritually surrender with grace, to explore our creativity and imagination and find things which bring us comfort and balance.

At a time when many are worried about security, Venusian energy reminds us of the wealth and abundance of the Universe that is all around us, of the magic of a great personal relationships and even more- the bliss of a great relationship with yourself . The sounds of the Venus gong are heart-opening and blissful, and sooth away concerns and worries, bringing balance, strength and renewal.

The session will begin with the sharing of some wonderful sustainably sourced Mugwort Tea to deepen your experience, tap into your creative energy, open your heart and activate your bliss. When used together the therapeutic sound and the mugwort tea work as one to ✨maximise the therapeutic effect and enhance your experience✨

What to know/bring:

🏹 Wear loose comfortable clothing

🏹 We’ll be lay down so bring a yoga/sleeping mat, blanket, cushion and anything else you might want to make yourself comfortable.

🏹 A bottle of water as the experience can make you a little thirsty

And to enhance your experience you may want to:

🏹 Avoid eating a heavy meal in the hour before

🏹 Apply a few drops of your chosen aromatherapy oil to your pulse points

🏹 Bring a journal to note down any thoughts that come to the surface at the end of your experience

🏹 Bring a friend!

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More on Sound Therapy….

Sound Therapy is an ancient tradition that has history in cultures throughout the world. Sonic healing helps us to experience altered states of consciousness by shifting our brainwave state to lower frequencies that can impact the body, helping to promote deep relaxation; induce total relaxation, release emotional trauma, manage pain, sleep better and relieve stress and anxiety.

Experiencing therapeutic sound allows us to deeply listen to ourselves and receive the true healing that we need on a mind body and spirit level.

A.MAL Projects presents: ARD | أرض ...

A.MAL Projects bring you a day of workshops, performances and talks exploring ARD – an Arabic word which encompasses earth, ground, soil and territory – led by artists based in the UK, Morocco and Egypt.

A.MAL is an art and research initiative exploring ecology, migration and globalisation, that casts a critical eye on past and present global issues while seeking to harness human connection and creativity to imagine better, more hopeful futures.

They create opportunities for collaboration and experimentation through paid artist residencies, workshops and talks, and touring exhibitions across Europe/North Africa. A.MAL bring emerging and mid-career artists/creatives from Europe, North Africa and the diaspora, to engage in reciprocal learning and experience sharing.

Big Creative Summer

Looking for something creative to do this Summer?

Paperwork Theatre are running FREE Youth Theatre projects this August for 11-14s and 15-18s at Liverpool Central Library.

Develop acting skills by working with professional theatre makers, create an original performance from your ideas and perform for a live audience.

Sign up here

Places are funded and they’re able to offer travel expenses and refreshments.

Big Creative Summer is delivered in partnership with Liverpool Libraries and Information Services & supported by The National Lottery Community Fund