Workshop with The Fandangoe Kid: Post pandemic & a new world shake up!

Thrive LDN is a citywide movement to improve the mental health and wellbeing of all Londoners. Thrive LDN is supported by the Mayor of London and led by the London Health Board.

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Join artist The Fandangoe Kid in exploring life post-covid, and develop your thoughts into a type driven artwork.

<h3>Post pandemic and a whole new world shake up!</h3>The world has changed forever. People have spoken about a return to normal but for most of us the pre-pandemic world wasn’t actually working. We don’t want a return to normal, we want a whole new future with some radical change! <ul><li>How can we maintain mental health and wellbeing when the future is so uncertain and so much has changed? </li></ul>We have all had to address our mental health and wellbeing during lockdown, whether we are actively conscious of that or not. <ul><li>Can we carry some of the new skills we have learned during lockdown into this new era? </li><li>How can we stay connected to the world and the rapidly changing news updates without damaging our mental health? </li><li>As we move into 2021, how can we navigate the uncertain present and future and still maintain some calm amidst it all?</li></ul>Join artist The Fandangoe Kid in exploring these questions and themes, and develop your thoughts into a type driven artwork.This is part of a series of workshops from Thrive LDN and led and facilitated by The Fandangoe Kid, looking at the issues facing young Londoners and what we can all do to help overcome them. The learning from the workshops will become part of a larger visual art project as part of London’s World Mental Health Day 2020 Festival, taking place on 10th October.For more information, visit <a href="https://thriveldn.co.uk/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.thriveldn.co.uk</a>About The Fandangoe KidThe Fandangoe Kid is a London based print artist who makes large-scale narrative driven pieces for the public realm. She seeks to smash taboos around complex subject matters such as loss, trauma release, mental health and gender constructs.She has created work for a wide range of purposes, most recently installing artwork on 14 metre pillar for University of the Arts London’s 120th year anniversary and a large-scale permanent piece of public art at the Southbank Centre for the charity CALM.For World Mental Health Day 2019, she installed an 80 metre floor narrative at City Hall for the Mayor of London and Thrive LDN (below), addressing the connection between movement and mental health. Additionally, she screened her film Into Your Light, directed with Tara Darby, at Tate Modern and on the Manhattan Bridge, looking at dancing as a tool for survival following great personal loss.Much of the artist’s work is driven by navigating her own story, following the loss of many individuals in her family back in 2011, her practice being largely underpinned by the will to create a platform for open dialogue around the still taboo subject of grief.She has worked with young people in Hackney and inner city London for over a decade, her remit being to encourage young people from all backgrounds to know themselves better through their creative practice.

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