elemental:summer

Xaverineis a multi-disciplinary artist & writer exploring themes of gender, mental health, consciousness and intersectional eco-feminism. She crosses mediums, embracingpoetry,photography, performance, installation, drawing and sculpture. She has collaborated with other artists on many occasions and loves the transformative process of collaboration: the fusion of ideas to create something altogether new.Clareis a collaborative site responsive maker, whose work aims to create an art that loosens boundaries between the disciplines, an art which can be a metaphor for opening up perception, experience, time and focus. She seeks to find ways to offer insight, feeling, and moments of timeless beauty, whether in performance, site-specific work, text, music, visual art and landscape. With a source in movement, dance and gesture, she responds, interprets and collaborates. As an artist she is always looking for ways to encourage, ignite and inspire creativity in others.

Xaverine MA Bates & Clare Whistler

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<H3 CLASS="MsoNormal">2 artists, 4 elements, 6 weeks, 8 women</H3>
<H3>An experiential exploration of the elements through movement, site-specific artworks and meditation. Create a visual memoir of your journey through earth, air, fire & water and what they mean to you.</H3>
<H4>6 site-specific workshops for women based around the 4 elements, which will be embodied, ephemeral & experiential. Artists Clare Whistler & Xaverine MA Bates return for this third set of seasonal workshops and bring their experience with a wish to explore in place earth, air, fire & water. Two bookend workshop meetings to unfold and fold up the experience will be held in The Music Room, 6 The Uplands, Lower Maze Hill, St Leonards TN38 0HL. The other four meetings will be in locations chosen as being most expressive of each element, so be prepared for weather i.e. the elements!</H4>
6th June - 11th July 2018 - consecutive Wednesdays 10am - 12pm
We welcome women who have an interest in exploring the elements experientially: by appealing to more than just sight, to include touch, smell, taste and sound. Drawing on the Greek Goddesses, the four humours, fairy tales, myth, archetype, poetry and much more, we will create and leave traces in the landscape through meditation, dance, talks, walks, art making, writing, assembling, sharing and imagining. Join us to explore the elements you most identify with and expand your awareness of the elemental around and within us all. Participants are invited to bring their own special journal to map this elemental journey.
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“The workshops were delivered with gentle kindness, humour and love and the group experience was very nourishing with like-minded people. The programmes were very well planned and organised with much thought and consideration. There was a sense of humour throughout but with a very serious undertone. Clare’s love of poems was beautifully shared and your free spirit is an inspiration.” (Participant from elemental: summer 2017)
elemental:summer overview
Week 1 - Introduction: Wednesday 6th June 10am - 12pm
The Music Room, 6 The Uplands, Lower Maze Hill, St Leonards TN38 0HL
Week 2 - Earth: Wednesday 13th June 10am - 12pm
<A HREF="http://heartofhastings.org.uk/ore-valley/" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="Heart of Hastings Ore Valley" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></A>Venue to be confirmed
Week 3 - Air: Wednesday 20th June 10am - 12pm
The East Hill furnicular
Week 4 - Fire: Wednesday 27th June 10am - 12pm
Forge Lodge, Ashburnham, Battle, East Sussex TN33 9PH
Week 5 - Water: Wednesday 4th July 10am 12pm
St Helen's Wood spring, meet at Shining Cliff, Hastings TN34 2GT
Week 6 - Finale: Wednesday 11th July 10am - 12pm
The Music Room, 6 The Uplands, Lower Maze Hill, St Leonards TN38 0HL
NB: A moderate level of fitness is required as some sessions involve walking on uneven ground. If however you have particular needs, we are happy to accommodate and adapt the sessions to ensure they are accessible.
***please note some locations may change***
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<H5 CLASS="MsoNormal">About the artists</H5>
<A HREF="http://www.clarewhistler.co.uk/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Clare</A> is a collaborative site responsive maker, whose work aims to create an art that loosens boundaries between the disciplines, an art which can be a metaphor for opening up perception, experience, time and focus. She seeks to find ways to offer insight, feeling, and moments of timeless beauty, whether in performance, site-specific work, text, music, visual art and landscape. With a source in movement, dance and gesture, she responds, interprets and collaborates. As an artist she is always looking for ways to encourage, ignite and inspire creativity in others.
<A HREF="https://xaverine.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Xaverine</A> is a multi-disciplinary artist & writer exploring themes of gender, mental health, consciousness shift and eco-spirituality. She crosses mediums, embracing photography, performance, poetry, installation, drawing and sculpture. She has collaborated with other artists on many occasions and loves the transformative process of collaboration: the fusion of ideas to create something altogether new. 
For details of previous projects, click <A HREF="https://elementalhastings.wordpress.com/projects/" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="elemental" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</A>.
<H4 CLASS="MsoNormal">Suggested donation on a sliding scale of £85 - £100 for full course of six sessions</H4>
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Suggested reading list
Active Hope, Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone
World As Lover, World As Self, Joanna Macy
Reclaiming the Wild Soul, Mary Reynolds Thompson
Burning Woman, Lucy Pearce
If Women Rose Rooted, Sharon Blackie
Open Spaces: A Visual Memoir for Daily Inspiration, Cathie Bleck
How to be an explorer of the world, Keri Smith
Ecopoetry Anthology, ed. Ann Fisher-Wirth & Laura Gray-Street

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