The Present Page: WORKSHOP 2

Workshop 2: Drawing with mind and body – with Kate Temple

This workshop will consider how drawing can be a regular wellbeing practice that can be relaxing and meditative while also focused, creative and generative; a way to connect mind, body and imagination. Through a series of guided exercises, we'll take on the 'blank page', starting with our breath as a way in to creating lines, marks, shapes and patterns, repeating and expanding as we go. No drawing experience necessary.

Creative forms of journalling offer an accessible, personal and often genuinely illuminating reflective practice, with the potential to make a quiet but lasting difference to our wellbeing. But how do we make space for these kinds of activity in daily life, and how might we expand them beyond conventional, diary-like narratives?

Beginning with the core idea of journalling and the page, expanding outward to where journalling meetings drawing, movement, storytelling and sound, The Present Page offers a series of 6 practical workshops, each led by experienced artist-practitioners. In each session we will explore a new creative practice together in a friendly and no-pressure environment, also considering how each practice might be folded into busy daily routines.

Thanks to Create Berwick funding, we are delighted to be able to offer The Present Page free of charge to Berwick residents. All materials and refreshments are provided, and no previous experience is needed. Places are limited; please book early to reserve a place.

Other workshops in this series:

Workshop 1: From writing into drawing – with Anna Chapman Parker

Workshop 3: Storytelling and personal narrative – with Chris Adriaanse

Workshop 4: Journalling and the book – with Lucy Baxandall

Workshop 5: Letting your ears wander – with Martin Parker

Workshop 6: Writing and movement – with Chloë Sayers

Kate Temple is an artist based near Edinburgh. She is interested in cross-disciplinary and socially engaged practices and frequently works in collaboration with other artists and non-artists. She also works in art and community engagement, facilitating projects for a range of groups and individuals. cargocollective.com/katetemple