Artists and workshops

A workshop designed to connect people on a deeper level through an artistic lens. Turning answers from questions into art that symbolises and reflects an experience. Cheza assists with curated prompts that probe introspection, exploration and awareness of oneself. Using conversation to inspire a symbolic portrait drawn on mini canvases using an intentional choice of pens, paints, pencils. This workshop offers a gentle space for experimentation, creativity and connection with no artistic experience required. Take home a piece of art that reflects your soul's expression.

Built from individual words which describe the ways you nourish and dream of the future, this session will collectively create large-scale poems. Through this process, inspired by Caribbean surrealist poets like Suzanne Cesiare and Eduourdo Glissant, we will let poetry be a spell to name and activate our shared desires. There is no preparation or previous experience required for this session.

Join for a cosy, sensory afternoon of herbs, mindfulness, art and ritual. We'll explore a few teas through blind tasting, make some art inspired by what we taste and feel, share stories and associations, learn about the properties of common tea plants, and create our own herbal tea bags to take home. A gentle space to chat, make, taste and connect, with a misery medicine: plant magic zine included for scribbling in along the way.

A technique we've borrowed and developed that uses household items to create DIY printing presses, to explore the stories and narratives communities want to tell about their "ends"/neighbourhood. We've used this in a number of scenarios, most recently working with SPACE 4 SWANA on a series of DIY posters for expressions for Palestinian Liberation.

A hands-on workshop exploring weaving as a way of connecting, making and learning together. Participants will build looms collectively before experimenting with weaving, either on large frames or small backstrap looms tied around the waist. Through the rhythm and repetition of making, the workshop invites participants to explore the relationship between body, material and one another, creating a shared textile through collective action. No previous weaving experience is required.

This workshop will use collage as a way of imagining more socially just and liberated futures for us all! Using images, colour and patterns, we'll explore what that future could look and feel like - maybe through a surreal dreamscape, abstract shapes and patterns or scenes from nature and more-than-human kin. There is no right answer or expectation of an outcome - the workshop is an open space for imagination and intuitive making. If desired, the session can be a gentle opportunity to reflect on how your project might create social change or the liberated futures that you dream it could lead to.

Practically, the session involves cutting/tearing and pasting using paper, magazines, images, scissors and glue. After a short introduction, you'll be given a range of images to choose from, cut up and stick onto paper or card. There will also be creative materials to draw or write with. The space will be low-pressure, relaxed and mindful - we will have some calm background music, you can chat with others or work quietly, as you prefer. Towards the end, there will be an optional chance to share your piece with the group. You're also welcome to take your piece home afterwards.

Join The Tatreez Collective for a hands-on introduction to Palestinian embroidery, known as Tatreez. The workshop begins with a short presentation exploring the history, cultural significance and traditional motifs of Palestinian embroidery, followed by a practical session where participants learn the basics of Tatreez and use traditional patterns to personalise an item of clothing or a fabric accessory.

No previous embroidery experience is needed, and all materials will be provided.

Through playing and making with textiles, you are invited to explore how we visualise our bodies, memories and emotions.

Experiment with gluing, stitching and binding yarn, scraps of cloth and other materials to create a piece of work that expresses your relationship with a part of your body or an emotional experience.

Share your story through the piece you create.

It is up to you what you do with your piece. You can take it away with you or you can attach it to a large mannequin in the room as part of a growing collective display.

This is a workshop to allow us to reimagine parts of ourselves. Parts we love, parts we don't, or others we might not give enough thought to. An opportunity to play with different materials and create a collective work of art.

With Javie Huxley (@javhux), participants will have the opportunity to create their own zines on what speaks to their hearts, while contributing to a collective Manifesto of Solidarity. It'll be a shared space to imagine the kinds of communities and solidarities we want to build together. Rooted in riot grrrl punk and DIY traditions.

In this workshop we use imagination, playful prompts and speculative writing to explore the people, worlds and possibilities we might encounter in a solarpunk future. Through a series of creative exercises, we'll experiment with different characters, perspectives and ways of imagining ourselves and our projects in the future. We'll then turn some of these ideas into a personal message, character, postcard or artefact from an imagined future. We'll share some of what we've created and bring our different visions together, before sending them through the Intergalactic Postbox, connecting our futures to the present.