“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.”
Mary Louise Cook
Streams and Projects
The Creative Programme
Arc is currently running an exciting and diverse programme of activities in our studios which are for absolute beginners as well as experienced creators. These currently include:
• Creative Crochet and Embroidery - with Sue Diskin
• Samba - a music project with Andy Smith
• Other People's Lives - a writing and social history project with Dr Eric Northey
• An Introduction to Digital Design - with Annette Naor
• Inspiration from World Art - an exploratory painting group with Michael Anderson
• Adventures in Watercolour - with Paul Brotherton
For more information please see the calendar of forthcoming projects.
The Pathways Stream
The Pathways Stream is for members in their first year of attendance. The Pathways Stream happens on Tuesday mornings. Lots of support is available to help people progress. Basic projects in a wide range of creative activities encourage participants to explore their true potential.
If you are interested in joining Pathways or referring someone to the scheme please contact us on: 0161 474 2462.
New Pathways to Recovery
In addition we are offering New Pathways to Recovery, run by Jacqui Wood and Annette Naor. This is a more advanced year-long project open to members and non-members alike. It is for those who want to gain skills and experience that will be useful in helping them retun to work.
This is strongly linked to Arc's social enterprise - which includes the Arc Community Gallery, Arcmedia (our design commission service) and Arc Outreach. So learning opportunities are very vaied, such as putting on exhibitions, undertaking professional design commissions, helping to run craft stalls, and helping to facilitate projects in the community.
Things to come
Much is happening on the wider front that will lead to new and exciting opportunities for people to become involved in Arc and the creative work on offer. In future non-members will have the option to use personalisied budgets to literally buy our services. So from April Arc will be offering a varied programme of short projects that will introduce some new art forms as well as "hardy perennials". This is all still very much in the planning stage so keep checking back to this page for more info in the near future!