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Healing Arts Birmingham: Urban Nature Workshop Discover Birmingham's overlooked urban nature in this creative workshop

If you're free at 2.30 at fancy exploring a community garden, meeting some new people and trying your hand at some creative activities around the natural and the manmade... we'd love to see you this afternoon. At Allens Cross Community Centre.

Healing Arts Birmingham: Urban Nature Workshop Discover Birmingham's overlooked urban nature in this creative workshop

And we're here! Home for the day is the School Room at the Lickey Hills Country Park visitor centre on Warren Lane. As part of the 8Hills Artway project, we'll be doing a little memoir writing this morning, and then Giovanni Spoz Esposito will be here from 12.30, getting all poetry in that incomparable Spoz style.
You're welcome to come and join us, do a little writing or just come in and say hello!

We're heading to the Lickeys on Saturday for the second of our 8 Hills Artways project sessions. We'll be at the visitor centre on Warren Lane from 10am.
The morning session will be centred on memory writing, and then from 1pm, Spoz will be hosting a poetry writing group. All in the shadow of the beautiful Cofton Hill.
We hope you can join us.
The visitor centre is completely accessible, has all facilities on site including a cafe. And if you're feeling energetic after all that creativity, there are walking routes suitable for all.
We will be including any work created in the sessions in a book to be printed later this year.
You can book a space here: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/8-hills-artways-memory-writing-and-poetry-4850486

There are still spaces tomorrow, if people would like to know more about Waseley Hills Country Park... we'll be taking a short walk, talking about local folklore, sharing memories of the area and writing some poems.

Memory writing session at 10am
Poetry session at 1pm
Feel free to stay for both (and perhaps enjoy a lovely lunch at The Windmill Cafe in between).

We'll be creating a book of the writings produced.

Sessions will take place in the Meeting Room (next to the café).

Come and get creative with 8 Hills ArtWays!

Join us for a series of FREE, friendly workshops exploring the beautiful landscapes, stories and memories of the greenbelt surrounding Southern Birmingham through creative writing, photography and conversation.

No experience needed—just bring your curiosity! Everyone is welcome, whether you have never visited the area before or know the hills well. Sessions will include the chance to take a short stroll if you'd like to.

See the poster for dates, locations and booking details. We'd love to see you there! 💚

Come and write and reflect with us at... Waseley Hills Country Park Lickey Hills Country Park and St Chad's Rubery

With memory writing and reflection at 10.00-12.00 with Gerard Winter-Hughes
and poetry from 1pm-3pm with Giovanni Spoz Esposito
Feel free to come to as many sessions as you like. Each session will have a different focus.

This project has been generously funded by BISCA at University of Birmingham and is run in partnership with UoB's Centre for Urban Wellbeing.

Reserve your free space on the sessions you'd like to attend:

https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/8-hills-artways-memory-writing-and-poetry-4850486?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=creatorshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=odclsxcollection&utm-source=cp&aff=escb

Come and get creative with 8 Hills ArtWays!

Join us for a series of FREE, friendly workshops exploring the beautiful landscapes, stories and memories of the greenbelt surrounding Southern Birmingham through creative writing, photography and conversation.

No experience needed—just bring your curiosity! Everyone is welcome, whether you have never visited the area before or know the hills well. Sessions will include the chance to take a short stroll if you'd like to.

See the poster for dates, locations and booking details. We'd love to see you there! 💚

Come and write and reflect with us at... Waseley Hills Country Park Lickey Hills Country Park and St Chad's Rubery

With memory writing and reflection at 10.00-12.00 with Gerard Winter-Hughes
and poetry from 1pm-3pm with Giovanni Spoz Esposito
Feel free to come to as many sessions as you like. Each session will have a different focus.

This project has been generously funded by BISCA at University of Birmingham and is run in partnership with UoB's Centre for Urban Wellbeing.

Reserve your free space on the sessions you'd like to attend:

https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/8-hills-artways-memory-writing-and-poetry-4850486?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=creatorshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=odclsxcollection&utm-source=cp&aff=escb

Happy Birthday to the brilliant Giovanni Spoz Esposito!

A genuine local legend! A huge-hearted, slightly chaotic, immensely lovable, consistently inappropriate, community activist... thanks for the humour, the energy and the compassion...

Don't forget to book your free space to join us tomorrow...

We're delighted to be part of Healing Arts Brum this year! Come along to our workshop (run in partnership with University of Birmingham) for an afternoon of urban nature exploration, a visit to a beautiful community garden and some gentle guided writing and arts activities. All happening at the wonderful Allens Cross Community Centre

Tickets are free (funded by BISCA) but need to be booked in advance:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/healing-arts-birmingham-urban-nature-workshop-tickets-1990076946719?aff=oddtdtcreator

Date, Time, Location: Tuesday 23 June, 14:30-17:00, Allens Cross Community Association, 24 Tinkers Farm Rd, Birmingham B31 1RH

We often move through cities and towns without noticing the nature that surrounds us. This workshop explores overlooked forms of urban nature with creative activities for health and wellbeing. Learn from practitioners who work on healing, community, and green spaces, enjoy a self-guided nature walk, and join a multimedia workshop creating stories and art from urban nature found in Birmingham. This event is free to attend, but spaces are limited - please register in advance.

The event is fully accessible.
Teas, coffees and biscuits included.
Free parking available on site or on street.

See Healthy Brum for the rest of this year's programme!

Thanks to Gerard Winter-Hughes for the excellent graphic - based on a photo he took at Allens Cross Community Gardens!

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