April and May were a busy couple of months in Bridge House Charity Arts Centre, Brierley Hill. Clients from Cheshire Care Services attended an array of workshops in the building where they really got their creative juices flowing. LwA Tutor Angel Caval and her team led the group through workshops in ceramics, printing, arts and […]
CONTINUE READINGKaz Trinder, LifewithArt tutor in Frimley, graduated in 2014 with a BA (Hons) in creative arts from Bath Spa University. Kaz has a passion for bringing art to the local community. She runs Tinker box, for little artists, Out of the Box after school arts club and has recently started a new venture running a community […]
CONTINUE READINGLifewithArt is very pleased to again be working with clients from Dreamcatcher PSP after so long. We were sad to say good-bye to the group when our North-Shields Charity Arts Centre closed in December 2012. It was nice to see some familiar faces when the group, from Bishop Aukland, took part in a series of […]
CONTINUE READINGHalton stroke survivors have been getting creative during Make May Purple, with a range of purple flower sculptures, to celebrate the Stroke Association’s national awareness month. The Stroke Association is calling on everyone to ‘go purple’ this May to help raise vital funds and to show support for people who have been affected by stroke. On Monday 15th May […]
CONTINUE READINGClients from Ripon Community Link, a charity which supports people with disabilities to achieve their life goals, have been attending LifewithArt workshops at Athelstan Court over the past few years. The group have recently been working hard to produce an amazing piece of artwork to be displayed in the Ripon Walled Garden as part of the charity’s […]
CONTINUE READINGLifewithArt was pleased to attend another amazing FYSOT event this November – our 4th to date. After a day of conferences the young people were invited to chill out at our arts workshops. Tutor Shanti Jackman was rushed off her feet as usual in her very popular jewellery workshop whilst Angel got the young people […]
CONTINUE READINGWhat is imagination? What do we use it for? These are just some of the questions Heeley City Farm service users had the chance to explore during their LifewithArt drama workshops in Sheffield. Everyone offered ideas and took turns performing with instruction from LwA tutors Marie and Eliie who helped the group focus on artistic […]
CONTINUE READINGLifewithArt is delighted with our new buildings in Stretford, Bristol and Londonderry. We have really had room to stretch our legs in these old B&Q properties coming up with inventive ways to use the amazing space at our disposal. In Londonderry a local group from the Rainbow Project are gearing up for the Foyle Pride […]
CONTINUE READINGLifewithArt is off to a great start in 2016 opening 4 new charity art centres spanning the length of the UK. In south-east England children from local special schools- Cliffdale Primary and Mary Rose Academy- have had a blast being messily creative in Wingfield House, Portsmouth. It was really wonderful to see ‘N’ using paint. She is […]
CONTINUE READINGIt really doesn’t seem like a year since my last article for the newsletter. Time really does fly past! 2015 has been yet another incredibly successful year for us with another 500 plus workshops being run for local groups all over the UK with fantastic results from the attendees throughout the spectrum of the Arts, […]
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