Join artists Helen Garbett and Bill Laybourne for a course in taking the time to notice, attend to and benefit from a small body of water.
We are organising a series of short pondering courses during June, July and August 2024, where small groups can join artists Helen Garbett and Bill Laybourne to spend time away from the everyday, slow down, pay attention to and notice the natural world amongst our busy urban landscape.
Creative activities include focused conversation, deep listening, guided visualisation, drawing, photography and film making. We will show our collective work at the end of the project in October 2024.
The benefits of attending a course include an increased appreciation of water and ponds within the natural world locally, shared learning, developed artists skills, engagement with natural heritage and an improved sense of wellbeing.
Courses are free and based at Riverside House in Stourbridge
Water - Curiosity - Wonder - Wellbeing
HOW YOU CAN JOIN IN
Course 1 takes place on the following 4 dates at Riverside House, Stourbridge:
Wednesday 12 June, 10.30am-12.30pm
Wednesday 19 June, 10.30am-12.30pm
Wednesday 26 June, 10.30am-12.30pm
Wednesday 10 July, 10.30am-12.30pm
Places are limited, sign up on Eventbrite
ABOUT GETTING INTO HOT WATER
Getting Into Hot Water is an art-based inquiry into water and climate change locally.
Water, in our part of the world is largely taken for granted and under appreciated, that is until there is not enough of it, too much of it or the management of it goes wrong. Getting into Hot Water explores our relationship with water and the natural world around us, bring our attention to water, questioning the habitual ways by which we know water, stimulating dialogue regarding human water relations and in the process engendering a process of curiosity, wonder and care. As part of the Dudley People's School for Climate Justice, through Getting into Hot Water, Workshop 24 invite you to join them in a series of conversations, Water Walks, Field Trips, Water Courses and ponderings…
Website: www.gettingintohotwater.org
Upcoming activities: see the Getting into Hot Water collection on Eventbrite