Workshop - Uncover Liverpool

Democracy, Civic Agency and Participat...

This event will open with provocations from guest speakers based on their experiences of delivering participatory projects which activate communities, influence democratic structures, and play with concepts of civic life.

Following the provocations and Q&A, attendees will be invited to reflect on these themes and what these ideas mean for their communities, arts practice and the participatory art sector more widely.

Open Spaces are participant-led events where the agenda and discussion are driven by the participants. At the beginning of the event guest speakers will be introduce the key ideas, principles and practices. Participants will then be able to propose sessions they’d like to lead or go to, and will be able to move freely between Zoom rooms to follow the topics they feel passionate about pursuing.

International Women’s Day: Arts ...

To celebrate International Women’s Day, Collective Encounters is hosting a special edition of our Arts for Social Change Showcase celebrating arts projects that are working with women to achieve social change.

The event will include 5 quick-fire presentations by artists passionate about using the arts for social change, and all presentations will explore creative work engaging women or addressing women’s issues.

There will also be a short work-in-progress performance from our Women in Action group, sharing this group’s approach to using theatre for social change.

There will be opportunities to ask questions of the contributors throughout.

Art Skills Workshops – Still Lif...

Looking to sharpen your art skills? Maybe you’ve never tried to draw before? Never heard of illustration?

PLACED are holding free workshops for young people aged 13-18 years old, with BA Illustration and Animation students Catherine, Reilley and Freya. Catherine and her friends will teach you some brilliant art skills at the sessions, suitable for beginners.

The workshop will focus on drawing still life. Catherine will arrange some interesting and contrasting objects for you to study before creating illustrations from your viewpoint.

All materials are provided, just show up and give it a go!

Refreshments included.

Please note

These sessions are suitable for ages 13 – 18 years
Please fill out the permission form before the session (you will be emailed this)
Photos may be taken at the event

Art Skills Workshops – Sketchboo...

Looking to sharpen your art skills? Maybe you’ve never tried to draw before? Never heard of illustration? Ever created a sketchbook? Binded a book?

PLACED are holding free workshops for young people aged between 13-18 years old, with BA Illustration and Animation students Catherine, Reilley and Freya. Catherine and her friends will teach you some brilliant art skills.

This workshop will focus on the art of book binding and creating your own sketchbook. The team will teach you how to create a hard cover sewn sketchbook which you can then customise. It’s then yours to keep.

All materials are provided, just show up and give it a go!

Refreshments included.

Please note

These sessions are suitable for ages 13 – 18 years
Photos may be taken at the event
Please ensure you fill out the permission form before the session (you will be emailed this)

Power Up!

Power Up! is a new strand from 20 Stories High, exploring how we can all do better together, and how we can be more inclusive practitioners in the arts in terms of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Activism.

Their very first session is with Nickie Miles-Wildin on Creative Access.

When? 6th March, 2.30 – 5.30pm

Where? LIPA Sixth Form College, Upper Duke St, Hope St, Liverpool L1 9DZ

This event is priced on a sliding scale:

– Pay What You Can for Freelancers and non-regularly funded arts organisations

– £25 per person for larger organisations

Convenience Gallery: Life Drawing

Convenience Gallery CIC host a monthly life drawing session.

They absolutely love life drawing, and have been running classes in Wirral now for 3 years. It brings together a brilliant community of people together to draw and create.

This is a session for people of all levels. It is untaught so that means bringing along whatever materials you want to work with and have fun with it. There will be a mixture of poses; both short and long. There will be a 20 minute break at the halfway point to.

They will have some materials available if you forget yours, but please bring along whatever you wish to work with. Whether thats pens, pencils, paint, canvas, carcoal, paper, or something completely different bring it along.

They use Life Drawing to help fundraise to continue to do their work with the community. As a not for profit, your support at events like this helps them massively.

About Convenience Gallery:

Convenience is a not for profit, creative arts platform based in Merseyside. Since 2019 they have been on a mission to create accessible ways for communities to engage and be enriched through the arts. With over 5000 people participating with their projects and having created 108 paid freelance opportunities to date.

CRAFTBAR programme launch

CRAFTBAR is a new innovative programme of free access to creative workshops and labs focusing on sustainable and circular skills, thinking, practices, making and design.

The labs will take place at venues across the town of Birkenhead including: Pink sands studio, Birkenhead Park, Pilgrim Street Arts Centre and Open Door Charity.

CRAFTBAR is open for everyone to attend and take part in a range of fun and inspiring creative activities including: Ecology and foraging, herbalism, fermentation and sustainable cooking, creative activism, puppetry making, weaving, writing, sculpture and building from waste materials.

CRAFTBAR programme launch will take place on the 24th March at partner venue Pilgrim Street Art Centre. (1 Pilgrim St, Birkenhead CH41 5EH). The night will host drop in creative sessions by two amazing local creative practitioners:

Allsion Bailey Smith: will be leading a brooch and pin in the workshop. Usings found, waste and scrap material.

Jackie Pease: will be leading a collaborative sculptural build using waste soft plastic materials.

Head along and get involved on the 24th with the great workshops, chat to the gallery team and find out about the other sessions and workshops happening throughout the CRAFTBAR programme.

Date: Friday 24th March

Location: Pilgrim Street Art Centre. (1 Pilgrim St, Birkenhead CH41 5EH).

Timing: 6:00-9:30pm

(open to all ages and children must be accompanied by and adult)

Working Class History Night (Uncoverin...

Join Convenience Gallery at the Stork Hotel for a history night alongside local artists creatively telling Birkenhead’s working class history

You don’t need to bring anything however if you have and would like to bring any personal archives, or work about Birkenhead and/or Working Class themes please do.

For this project they are looking for the local community to contribute their stories to uncover the working class history of the area. Throughout the project there will be input sessions, workshops, community co-building and a final community event to celebrate and showcase our local working class history.

The funding is from Historic England. It is part of Historic England’s Everyday Heritage Grants: Celebrating Working Class Histories. The new grant scheme was launched by Historic England earlier this year to support community-led projects and further the nation’s collective understanding of the past.

Attending the evening will also be some local artists who are going to work with Convenience Gallery to create artworks based on the collective working class history of the area.

Turning stories into songs

Free workshop focused on uncovering history and sharing stories through music and creative writing.

Biography: Daniel Astles is a musician, songwriter and performer who also specialises in community music workshops.

As a performing artist Astles has been described as ‘gorgeous, lilting indie’ by the NME. As well as having been supported by the PRS Foundation Momentum funding, and recently signing a Publishing Deal with Sentric Music and Starwood Management (Michael Kiwanuka and The Kooks) as well as being signed to London Label 7476 (Matt Maltese, Mathilda Mann). He has also performed with artists such as Bill Ryder Jonea and The Mysterines.

Workshop Details

The Session will last around 2 Hours with a small break in the middle. It will cover the things below.

– Open Discussion about Birkenhead’s Working Class history, see if anyone has any stories they have to add to ones already gathered.

– Discussion about songwriting – what is in a good song, what makes a song special. What is everyone’s favourite song?

– Songs about places – how do they effect how people view the places? How do they add to the story of the place? Eg Penny Lane, Empire State of Mind etc.

– Using cut out fragments of previous stories gathered as well as their own words, start individually writing poems and verses about Birkenhead’s working class history.

Dan will aim to combine bits of everyone’s stories and songs, whilst starting to write song and encouraging people to sing.

Crafting the song into something with a structure, verses and chorus etc. Getting everyone involved in this songwriting process.

BREAK

Finish song together, practice it a few times and aim to have a phone recording of it by the end.

Final discussion – if someone heard this song and hadn’t been to Birkenhead, what would they think of the place?

This a Convenience Gallery Project. It is part of Historic England’s Everyday Heritage Grants: Celebrating Working Class Histories. The new grant scheme was launched by Historic England earlier this year to support community-led projects and further the nation’s collective understanding of the past.

Immersive Sound Bath with Cacao, Singi...

This special immersive Sound Healing event is the perfect opportunity for you step back into yourself and return to balance, setting your intentions for the year ahead.

Think of it as a massage for your soul!

In this Sound Bath for Relaxation I’ll be using the sounds of Himalayan Bowls, Crystal Bowls, Therapeutic Percussion to create deep relaxation with the aim of increasing clarity, calm & contentedness. I’ll also be weaving in voice to personalise the experience and will be working with Gong to take the healing to another level!

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. A time when many are worried about their security, Venusian energy reminds us of the wealth and abundance of the Universe which is all around us and doesn’t rely on finances alone. The sounds of the Venus gong are heart-opening and blissful, and soothes away concerns and worries, bringing balance, strength and renewal.

The session will begin with the sharing of some wonderful sustainably sourced Ecuadorian ceremonial cacao to deepen your experience, open your heart even more and activate your inner bliss. When used together the therapeutic sound and the ceremonial cacao 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 blanket, cushion and anything else you might want to make yourself comfortable. This event will be held in the beautiful Eleven:Eleven yoga studio so all mats will be provided but you can bring an extra if you’d like!

? 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!

If money is a barrier to you for any reason then please contact me as making sound healing accessible is super important to me

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Event type: Workshop