Tag Archives: participatory art

Crochet for Wellbeing Workshop

Celebrate August Craft Month NI with us! Welcome to the Crochet for Wellbeing Workshop. Join us on Sat, Aug 10th, 2024 at 10:30am at Midtown Makers, Ballymena, NI for a relaxing and creative session. Learn the art of crochet and how it can benefit your mental health and wellbeing. No experience necessary, just bring yourself and a positive attitude. Connect withContinue reading “Crochet for Wellbeing Workshop”

Craftivism

Merseyside Etsy Team: Paper House Hunting From the Archives – 2016: “On Saturday 18th June the Merseyside Etsy Team will be filling the city with craft and asking people to come #PaperHouseHunting with them in aid of the Whitechapel Centre. Using shared skills, team members will be creating papercut and origami houses bearing the hashtagsContinue reading “Craftivism”

Art in Liverpool: Re-View Textiles ‘Hospitality Reviewed’

From the Archives: Liverpool Independents Biennial 2012 ‘Hospitality Reviewed’ project and exhibition. Re-view Textiles is a group of artists who work with a variety of textiles and in diverse disciplines. meeting regularly to work together on exhibitions and events around Merseyside. The latest project is an exhibition at Liverpool’s Baltic Creative, based on the themeContinue reading “Art in Liverpool: Re-View Textiles ‘Hospitality Reviewed’”

Art in Liverpool: The Black-E: Creative and Co-operative Games

My time at The Black-E is one I will never forget. I first arrived at the Community Arts Charity to volunteer on their extensive archive – chronologising the paper archive and tabulating events in an Excel database and helping to create a taxonomy from the paper archive. At this time I was grateful for theContinue reading “Art in Liverpool: The Black-E: Creative and Co-operative Games”

Art in Liverpool: Re-View Textiles Bed-In

Liverpool re-views its dreams for peace with textiles  From the Archives: Post originally written by Amanda Jones for Beat City Images Blog in 2010 Beat City Images (Amanda Jones and Emma Gilmour) teamed up with Re-View Textiles last week for an interactive performance artwork at the Bluecoat Bed-In. There was a lot of fabrics, chats,Continue reading “Art in Liverpool: Re-View Textiles Bed-In”