Creative workshop exploring green & blue spaces

Creative workshop exploring green & blue spaces

Join Artists Cherry Styles and Michaela Lesayova for a creative workshop exploring the role that green and blue spaces play in our wellbeing and overall health. Green and blue spaces refer to natural environments such as parks, forests, lakes, rivers and oceans. We would love to hear about your experiences in these spaces and what role they hold in your personal lives, in your experiences of healing and recovery, in your relationship to creativity etc. We welcome insights, lived experiences, ideas and suggestions from you in this workshop. Together, we will create visual responses to them which will become part of a creative publication for the residency exploring the green and blue spaces and their role in creative health. The Green & Blue residency has been organised by the University of Huddersfield in collaboration with Everybody Arts Halifax.

This in-person event will be held at Sovereign Design House and Toast House Cafe.

Michaela Lesayova is an interdisciplinary Artist who operates at the intersection of ecology, wellbeing and neurodiversity. Her art practice focuses on examining closely and deeply her hyper-local environments and our creative connection with the land and plant world. She primarily works with natural colour and textiles, but often explores and experiments with natural resources as her primary mediums.

Cherry Styles: Cherry's practice spans art projects and educational activities in community settings. Her interest in the social impact of local growing spaces has underpinned her work as part of this residency, and the collaborations that have shaped it. Cherry is a project worker with Support To Recovery and runs the weekly gardening group at Birkby & Fartown library. All welcome, 11-12:45 every Tuesday.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Sovereign Design House and toast House cafe, Queen Saint South Annexe, Huddersfield, United Kingdom