The third in our series of workshops. Join us for a morning of community and collaboration through collective creativity. Explore how making together can bind us together.

This Spring workshop invites you to slow down, create freely, and celebrate the season in community. Guided by the spirit of Erato, the Greek muse of love and poetry, we’ll spend the morning making art that weaves the personal and the collective together.

We will paint, draw, mark and write in response to prompts inspired by love, longing, and the turning of the year. These individual pieces will be bound together to create a scroll of community poetry. A lyre of many voices.

With these words in our hearts, minds and at the centre, we will create a mandala together as a collaborative, collective art. We will use foraged items and anything that feels meaningful to you. We will close with a quiet fire ritual of gratitude and release.

No artistic experience is needed. Just come as you are, ready to be present. If you would like to bring along an item or two to include in the group mandala, please do. You will be able to take them away with you if you wish.

There is something quietly powerful about making art together. Research shows that when we create collectively, we don’t just make something beautiful, we build identity, belonging, and a sense of shared responsibility.

Art historian Grant Kester describes this as a shift from art as something placed before a viewer to a process of reciprocal creative labour. It becomes something we do together, not for each other.

When we see our own contribution woven into something larger, we recognise the value of our own voice. Your piece is yours. But it only exists because we made it together.