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‘Connections’ Private View
Free Space Projects hosts a private view celebrating the opening of ‘Connections’, our collaboration Camden Carer’s Collective, and National Carer’s Week.
CHC Food Bank
Emergency food packs are now available every Wednesday from the James Wigg Practice.
These are available to all James Wigg and Queens Crescent patients.
Connections
Free Space Project is delighted and honoured to announce their new exhibition ‘Connections’ presenting the works of The Creative Carers Collective. The Exhibition falls on National Carers Week, with the theme this year being 'Make caring visible, valued and supported'. The Creative Carers Collective is an Art group for Carers based at Camden Carers Service. The group has been running since 2014 and provides a weekly space for Carers to embrace their creativity and experience some much-needed respite.
Artist Talk: Iko-Ojo Mercy Haruna and Lucy Levene
Free Space Project hosts an artist talk with their current exhibiting artists Iko-Ojo Mercy Haruna and Lucy Levene
Past: Moments in Time
Free Space Project is delighted to announce their exhibition ‘Moments in Time’ bringing together artists Iko-Ojo Mercy Haruna and Lucy Levene. Conceived as a two-person exhibition, it features powerful, dynamic images capturing fleeting moments in parenthood, highlighted in the chosen title. Despite varying in composition and scale, the photographs foreground the shared aspects of the artist’s practices: the visualisation of often private moments in parenthood.
Advance Care Planning
Our 1-2-1 advance care planning appointments are run with the aim of helping people with terminal illnesses to create a Living Will.
Living Wills are beneficial because they allow the person choice & control at the end of their life.
Breathing for Wellbeing
Breathing for Wellbeing is a weekly project bringing you simple and accessible breathing sessions.
Runs every Thursday, 12pm - 1pm
Anapana Meditation Session
Vipassana Meditation (as taught by SN Goenka) is a practical method that enables individuals to dissolve mental tensions, and as a result deal with day to-day challenges in more positive ways. Vipassana Meditation is open to all and is not connected to any religious organisation. All Vipassana courses are offered free of charge, running solely on donations.
Artist Talk: Louise Camrass
Free Space Project hosts an artist talk with their current exhibiting artist Louise Camrass, discussing ideas behind her works.
‘You, Me and the Sky’
Louise Camrass is a multi-disciplinary artist living in London. The exhibition sees a juxtaposition between her figurative and abstract works. Inspired by editing films or writing poetry, the works highlight where narrative and abstract forms can coexist and work together to create a new sense of something.
Drawn Together Exhibition
Drawn Together was a creative community for the over 50s using arts practices to support connection, explore ways of seeing, sensing and experiencing ourselves and one another, and deepening curiosity. This exhibition is a selection of the work created throughout the 8 week project.
Growing Communities
Join the Free Space Project for our Growing Communities Celebration! When: 14th September 3.00 - 5.30 Where: Kentish Town Health Centre Garden
Sing for Joy
Sing for Joy Kentish Town is a self-managed community choir of around 25 people with conditions such as Parkinson’s Disease and Multiple Sclerosis, including active helpers and carers. We also welcome others with long term health issues.
Bibs and Burps
Bibs and Burps is an online group chat from 11.30am to 12.30pm the last Tuesday of each month. Although it is mainly for the expectant and new parents, we would like to welcome parents of children at any age.
Stitched Drawings
Georgie Meadows: Stitched Drawings brings together 24 textile artworks which explore personal experiences of ageing and dementia. Meadows crafts uniquely affecting and compassionate portraits, translating line drawings of people she knows or has cared for into stitched works.
Seeing Sound
Seeing Sound brings together a partnership between The British Library, the Free Space Project (London) and The Brain Charity (Liverpool) to explore language through natural sounds taken from The British Library’s extensive sound archive. The work created during workshops with people living with Aphasia is now on show in our exhibition space at Kentish Town Health Centre
Creative Wellbeing Project
Creative Wellbeing was an online project delivered through the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, supported by the City Bridge Trust. This new strand of opportunities enabled us to deliver some projects differently using digital tools and online, whilst our building was inaccessible.
Freedom to Be
Freedom to Be was a creative project funded by the National Lottery Community Fund. During the pandemic we were able to redirect funding to deliver a creative project for patients from the James Wigg Practice and Queens Crescent Practice who were shielding over the summer of 2020. The work is on show at Queens Crescent practice and Kentish Town Health Centre
Spring has sprung!
Whilst we continue to wait until it’s safe to welcome back our community groups into Kentish Town Health Centre, we’re seeing signs of spring and change in our very own wellbeing garden.
Drawn Together
Drawn Together is is a weekly visual arts group for adults.
Runs every Monday, 11am-1pm