During December 2023 we continue delivering the Nature Spaces project to promote green wellbeing.
We ran workshops to create, willow stars, winter wreaths, festive crackers and foil decorations.
everyone enjoyed it a great deal and we will continue these sessions in March 2023.
Contact Spiral Arts if you would like to join the sessions.
Here are some images of our December artwork.
Over the last few months we have been busy working on our Artis-Tree project working with 4 different groups to create 4 fabulous textile trees. They will be exhibited in the Orangery in Derby Arboretum in January. The groups who created the artwork were the Young Carers, SEWA Dementia, Upbeat Communities and young people from Derby College.
We used textile techniques such as Japanese Shibori Tie-dye, wrapping branches and block printing leaves.
The project was funded by Living Well Derby City.
Here are some of the images taken in the workshop sessions.
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Nature Spaces was a green social prescribing project we delivered during November and December 2022 as part of a pilot project funded by Greenspring.
We invited the local social prescribing link workers to refer people who would benefit from some arts and crafts activity in the surroundings of the beautiful Derby Arboretum Park.
We also opened it up to other organisations to advertise it to their wellbeing groups such as Quad, Derby Women's Centre, Derbyshire Carers, Staywell and Derbyshire Mind as well as contacting people who had come to previous wellbeing sessions with Spiral Arts.
We had a good group of people attending each session and we had some laughs, chatter and creativity in the winter months.
We are pleased to say that we have received another grant to continue the sessions during 2023.
Here are some of the activities we created in November. Clay Mandalas, Papermaking, Nature Books and Leaf Printing.
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