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LISTEN HEAR LOOK SEE
A series of workshops, in Butetown, at home or in your group, about Carer invisibility.
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Listen to Carers , listen to Gwanwyn.
Do you hear me?
People Listen but don’t hear, and they look and don’t see.
Carers’ lives are busy in the business of looking after other people, and putting other’s needs before their own. It is hard, when seeing to the physical or emotional needs of a loved one on a daily basis, to find any time for our own tender loving care.
Often, there is no option but to put aside our needs for creativity. Sometimes, there are only 24hrs in the day.
And the care needs are strenuous, demanding, and they come first.
The intention of ''Listen, hear, look and see'' is to bring together groups of people of varying ages who want to use art and words to express something about their life.
Activities based, crucially, on personal and local experiences. workshops, projects and seminars teach a range of techniques to foster a more confident and coherent approach to image making.'
The groups will all work separately, then the work will be transformed into one large scale artwork for each person. This will be in the form of 54in by 24in BANNERS.
To do this we will all have journals where we write down thoughts, feelings, likes dislikes. We will stick in images from magazines, poetry, drawings, snatches of songs. In fact any thing that talks about our lives
The journals can take several days, weeks or even months to complete and they will form part of the finished exhibition that will be exhibited at the BHAC in 2009 and available for each group to tour.
Butetown wants to give an opportunity for carers’ to be seen and heard.
Workshops facilitated by Valleys born Welsh artist Sol Jorgensen, who ran the Arts In The Community Workshop at the Chapter Arts Centre for 10 years in the 80’s and has re-emerged after the death of her father, she is still Carer to her 17 year old 6 foot disabled son. Sol’s exhibition at the BHAC, which was featured in the Cardiff Echo in June, has led to BHAC funding an exciting major year long project. Sol will work with 10 – 20 different community groups throughout S.Wales (already 5 have signed up). We have already been offered several exhibition spaces to display the final artwork.
The BHAC has funded Sol’s work at the Centre as artist in residence.
The workshop group will fund any additional traveling or materials costs.
At the end of this project, each participant will have a small printed journal/book of their own.
Please call the BHAC for more information about dates, we plan to start this August.
Butetown History & Arts Centre
5 Dock Chambers
Bute Street
Cardiff Bay
Cardiff
(2 minutes walk from the Waterfront)
Tues to Fri 10am – 5pm
Sat and Sun and Bank Holidays 11am –
4.30pm
029 20 256 757
E-mail: info@bhac.org
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