A week for creativity and wellbeing ...
Callie Di Nello 
Sharing more about Creavity and Wellbeing Week (and National Drawing Day)
This week is my favourite week of the whole year - well, except for Christmas!
Because this week is Creativity and Wellbeing Week - a week which promotes the enormous health benefits of arts and cultural activities, sharing activites which everyone can access across the UK. This year's theme is "Getting Outdoors, Getting Creative".
As I'm physically housebound, I wondered what I could possibly offer that people might be interested in, something that we could do together online, that felt inclusive.
So here we have it, 'Creatively Tend to Your Inner Garden'!
Join us for a relaxing Thursday evening (19th May) where we’ll be creatively tending to our own Inner Garden, with a visualisation and time to create
Your evening of experiential creative play will include a soothing visualisation exercise, and then ample time to create. We will also have time to reflect on - and explore - any insights that have arisen in small groups: there is no expectation on you to share, this is completely optional.
Creatively tend to your Inner Garden is open to all levels - all you need is a willingness to play. Please bring with you simple tools such as paper, colouring pens or crayons, paints, colouring pencils - whatever you have to hand is perfect.
Taking part in creative arts is a gentle, fun way to help improve your wellbeing, gifting you a way to express yourself without needing to find the right words. Creative arts is also a wonderful way to help lift loneliness and feelings of isolation: this playshop is being offered via Zoom, online, to help those who may be housebound, or find it difficult or uncomfortable to attend in-person events.
I am offering this workshop/playshop for free, of as part of Creativity and Wellbeing Week 2022
Spaces are limited: 40 virtual seats only - book your ticket here
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And there is more!
Today is National Drawing Day - 16th May - so even more time for creative crafty loveliness! I thought I'd share with you my very quick watercolour pencil doodles (watecolour pencils were from The Works, £4 for a set) that I played with at lunchtime. I used 3 pencils in my current favourite colours: magenta, orange and yellow. Keeping them close together in one hand, I swished around the journal page, and emphasised some of the lines afterwards, colouring in other spaces, and adding dots and lines.
As you can see, Orinoco and Alderney helped me out! I live and work near Wimbledon Common, where these gorgeous furry eco-warriors known as the Wombles help to keep our environment clean and tidy.
The final step for this page of watercolour doodles was to lightly wash the page with a paintbrush and see how the colours soften and merged ... I wasn't expecting the yellow to be so bold, yet so soft once swished with a slightly damp paintbrush. A joyful experience of wonder. Can you see the difference?
So please do pop over to the Creativity and Wellbeing website this week and take a look at what is being offered in your area (UK only, sorry), or being shared online - and have a LOT of fun creating this week!
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gift yourself permission to play, heal & show your true colours in the CreaTEAvity Studio: a space to nurture, reconnect to, and rejuvenate your creative spirit - wherever you are in the world
Categories: : creative arts, creative play