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We just received our fab sticker pack from @i.am.sprite featuring the fab bunnies she designed for our charity fundraiser for @grassrootssp - check out her post below and the wonderful artwork on her site 💜 Posted @withregram • @i.am.sprite SPRITE STICKER PACKS NOW AVAILABLE! Featuring 12 stickers including 3 special hand cut hand painted stencil stickers. Plus my Positivity bunny stickers are printed on premium HERMA polypropylene vinyl and are waterproof, tear-resistant and UV-resistant. Finished with a silky matt lamination which makes stickers more durable for extra resistance against scratching and abrasion. Head over to my website linked in my bio to purchase :) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAPkptdgI57/?igshid=vw6dk0hi0ljs

Really amazed by what has been achieved from our arts fundraiser for @grassrootssp, in particular with these amazing little bunnies popping up around cities in the UK after artist @i.am.sprite got involved with entering the project. A perfect reminder ahead of World Suicide Awareness Day on the 10th, these wonderful little bunnies are acting as a reminder to check in on yourself, that it’s okay to not feel okay and not to give up, and that there’s support out there from those that want to help. We’ve been genuinely so overwhelmed by how the project has enabled others to open up and create awareness for mental health on a wider scale through art and creativity. New ones of these have popped up around Brighton and Bristol so keep an eye out. Suicide is something that affects many in one form or another, it’s so important to not feel afraid to talk about it. Always remember you can call Samaritans on 116 123 24/7 or Papyrus HOPELINE for young people on 0800 068 4141 9am-10pm weekdays 2pm-10pm weekends and bank holidays 🐰 https://www.instagram.com/p/B2KKmdogLAL/?igshid=12sb5euypmm1q

We’ve still got spaces for our Alternative Embroidery and Collaging workshop at Hector’s Shed, Shoreham on Wednesday 4th September from 7-9pm. Come and create your own mini patches and designs out of recycled fabrics, threads and wool. You can start afresh or continue with your creations from previous sessions. If collaging is more your thing, then there’ll be plenty of magazines, cut outs, cards and paper to create your own wordy designs. (Please bear in mind this is basic collage, not a decoupage workshop) Free drinks (wine, tea, coffee and soft drinks) Hector’s cake is available at an additional price. Tickets are £6. Please message or comment to book a place as limited number of spaces. You can pay on the night, change of £10 or correct change is appreciated. All workshops have a 48 hour cancellation policy, if cancelled after this time you may incur a charge. https://www.instagram.com/p/B16vdhIAUO1/?igshid=r2hopufg4h8y

And finally, our 1st place winner in our @grassrootssp charity art competition is Amy Hunter! @aimlesscarless An iconic piece of artwork, that we felt truly represented both our competition theme and Grassroots as a charity. It’s bold colours and striking design stood out immediately for us in the competition. Amy’s entry spoke up about suicide awareness, greatly fitting in with Grassroot’s #RealTalk campaign. Speaking on the subject herself Amy stated: “Talking about suicide and recognising if somebody is needing to talk about it is the best way we can make a difference. It’s a really difficult subject and sometimes a picture can say things that words can’t. It can be a way in to a tricky conversation.” Her thoughts and original artwork sum up exactly what we wanted to achieve by running the competition. To get people talking and to provide new support and resources to those personally struggling or have family members affected by suicide. We ran the competition in memory of someone we knew locally to Brighton who sadly took their own life, we wanted to prevent others from feeling like they couldn’t seek help and find a fitting way to celebrate her life and the support she offered us. We feel Amy’s piece is perfect in honouring this and are very thankful for her entry. Congratulations Amy! 💗 https://www.instagram.com/p/B163TjHg0Dp/?igshid=1mhwcn7vjcj8u

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Our 2nd prize winner for our @grassrootssp charity arts competition is the amazing Amy Beckwith @i.am.sprite Possibly our cutest entry, Amy’s graffiti project offers an important message to Brighton folk in support of their mental wellbeing. Having had her own experiences with mental health, Amy says the competition gave her the idea of creating a small stencil that she can leave around town in prominent places like commuter routes to give people a boost and help them remember that things are ok, life is good and hopefully help cheer them up and brighten their day. She says: “Graffiti has so many negative connotations and often feels aggressive and hostile. I want to try and flip the tables and make graffiti that makes people smile and feel good. My art helps me through my mental health problems and now I hope my art can contribute to helping others too.” A huge congratulations to Amy for her inspiring work and for helping to support others who may need a few words of comfort. 💗🧚🏻‍♀️🐰 https://www.instagram.com/p/B160yc5gj81/?igshid=g9uitvmgqs

It’s FINALLY time to announce our competition winners from our charity arts fundraiser for @grassrootssp. Thank you all for your patience and an even bigger thank you for all your entries that we’ve truly been overwhelmed by. Our 3rd prize winner is Paula Sousa @paula_de_sousa_art. Paula’s fantastic painting is called 'The Crow on My Shoulder' created in acrylic and oil pastels. The crow is symbolic of both darkness and bad luck but also insight, transformation and fearlessness. Paula says her painting symbolises the journey of emotions as what can seem difficult and dark can evolve into insight and transformation. We loved the amazing colour schemes, textures and important themes within her piece and are very happy to congratulate her as one of our winners! 🎉 https://www.instagram.com/p/B16yfxjAKmr/?igshid=h0cfthd43cio

A huge, huge thank you to everyone who got involved, helped out and entered our @wreckthisartcollective Arts Competition Fundraiser for @grassrootssp We were really overwhelmed by the support and all your personal stories in relation to mental health, suicide awareness and helping to spread the message of kindness and support to those in need. The images below are our shortlisted entrants. Our 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize winners will be announced from the below in the next 24-48 hours! So please do keep an eye on our posts for all updates. Unfortunately there were no entries for our 13-17 category for the competition. Due to this we have chosen to donate all art supplies that were donated to the competition from @cassart1984 and @clarkes_of_sussex to @art_in_mind_brighton , a community group for young people that aims to raise awareness of mental health issues by running art workshops to promote better mental health. We will also be collaborating with the young people at Art in Mind and Grassroots Suicide Prevention to create a showcase of artwork relating to mental health, that all artists who have entered the competition can exhibit their artwork too if they would like to get involved. Again, thank you all so much for entering and being involved. Mental health awareness is such an important cause to us personally and as a community group, and the £330 raised through the competition fundraiser will go directly to the charity to provide resources and help those in need of support. 💗 https://www.instagram.com/p/B1j48SmAySL/?igshid=lk2do05xievr

*NEW WORKSHOP DATES* • We’ve got 2 workshops running in September, our Alternative Embroidery and Collage Workshop on Weds 4th 7-9pm (£6) and our Macrame Workshop, Weds 25th September 7-9pm (£8) both at Hector’s Shed Shoreham. On the 4th you can come and create your own mini upcycled alternative embroidery patches or construct your own cut and stick collage from our retro magazine scraps and multicoloured card. (Please bear in mind this is not a decoupage workshop). On the 25th you can come and create your own macrame plant holder with our different coloured yarns and beads in a led workshop. There is a slight increase in our prices since our last sessions, and this is due to us now being charged to hire out the space at Hector’s. We hope that this does not cause anyone any issues, and please always feel free to message us in regards to prices as we aim to be inclusive to all and keep our prices down as best we can and are always happy to consider individual circumstances. We’re looking forward to putting on our next events and hope to see some of your lovely faces soon 😊 x https://www.instagram.com/p/B1jsfRCAjMY/?igshid=jcjl1hr5utzo

Happy to announce that our Alternative Embroidery workshop will return to Hector’s Shed, Shoreham on Wednesday 17th July from 7-9pm. Come and create your own mini patches and designs out of recycled fabrics, threads and wool. You can start afresh or continue with your creations from previous sessions. Free drinks (wine, tea, coffee and soft drinks) and nibbles included. Hector’s cake is available at an additional price. Tickets are £5 with a proportion being directly donated to Grassroots Suicide Prevention Charity. Please message or comment to book a place as limited number of spaces. You can pay on the night, change of £10 or under is appreciated. X https://www.instagram.com/p/BzgVnQTA3UE/?igshid=1dtgd6e9c9a6l

*New Event* Creative writing and poetry workshop with Wreck This Art Collective. Write your own flash fiction or have a helping hand in getting started on creating a plot and characters for your own story. If you’re more of a poetry fan, there will be poetry books for you to read from to look for inspiration, you can jot down your own rhymes or simply get creative in exploring how to begin writing poetry. There’ll be a variety of notepads, paper, card and pens for you to get writing with, or if you fancy a more creative take, you can turn your writing into your own collage with recycled magazine and newspaper cut outs. This is a relaxed workshop for all abilities and beginners, looking to do something creative and social. There will be free wine, tea or juice and snacks available, with Hector’s homemade cake at an additional price. Tickets are £4 per person, please message or leave a comment in the event to book spaces. Pay on the night and please bring change/notes under £20. A proportion of costs donated will be going to Grassroots Suicide Prevention Charity. Event takes place Tuesday 9th July, 7-9pm at Hector’s Shed Shoreham-by-Sea. https://www.instagram.com/p/By8dW-IAoPU/?igshid=194qdo2uxxke2

Love this little pebble from Shoreham Rocks that we found whilst down at REClaim festival 🥰 really incorporated the feel of the festival and a great little message to pass on to others. 🌈 https://www.instagram.com/p/ByYCYOnF2az/?igshid=1cmhit0mugl2f

Finally have a chance to post a few snaps from REclaim Community Recycling Festival! The wonderful women at @weareoverthemoon have worked tirelessly for many months putting together a community arts festival that celebrates recycling and up-cycling and protecting the environment, a cause very close to our heart and work too. These pics show some of the amazing, handmade and recycled clothes created and modelled in the REFashion show, some of the fab art and writing workshops, and stalls celebrating arts and recycling from all over the world. We even got to make some of the fab decorations you can see in the back out of recycled bottle tops, caps and lids. It was a fantastic festival and everyone involved worked so hard to pull it off, a big congratulations to all! 🥰 https://www.instagram.com/p/ByX_wp1AtOy/?igshid=kj9dx7xkvxjg

REClaim was FANTASTIC over the weekend! So happy to be able to help out 😊 • Posted @withrepost • @weareoverthemoon Phew! And we are done! We hope you all had a great time REwriting, REcrafting, REprinting, REmaking, REconstructing, REfashioning, REpairing, REplaying, REconnecting and REthinking! All our thanks to everyone involved - we couldn’t have done it without you! In particular we’d like to thank Sussex Garden Rooms for building our brilliant stage, Wreck This Art Collective for helping make the decorations and doing fab tidying up, Art and the People, Candy Medusa, artist / exxhibition, art against plastic pollution and Peon Boyle Printmaker for running great workshops, Shoreham Wordfest for passing on their wisdom about putting on an event on Coronation Green, Adur Repair Cafe repairers for helping people fix their stuff, Skyway Gallery for putting on a great REclaim Exhibition (which is on until Sunday so you’ve still got time to go if you haven’t yet been!), our friends and family who we roped into helping (you know who you are!), our committed stallholders, Emmaus Brighton and ReRun Clothing for great REfashioning collaboration, together with everyone who made and modelled clothes, Nick Stucke for making our films, Salvage Sounds for guiding our junk instrument makers. We’re now going to go and sleep for a very very long time..... Love Emily and Gill xx #reclaimweekend #reclaim @rerun.clothing @emmausbrighton @candymedusa @wreckthisartcollective @salvagesounds @artandthepeople @peonboyle.printmaker @skywaygallery #timeforarest https://www.instagram.com/p/ByBBrR6gsRG/?igshid=5tdx4dr7os1b

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Alternative Embroidery workshop with Wreck This Arts Collective at Hector’s Shed, Shoreham on Wednesday 12th June from 7-pm. Come and create your own mini patches and designs out of recycled fabrics, threads and wool. Free drinks (wine, tea, coffee and soft drinks) and nibbles included. Hector’s cake is available at an additional price. Tickets are £4 and money will be being donated currently to funding a medical treatment and a donation to Grassroots Suicide Prevention. Please message or comment to book a place as limited number of spaces. You can book online or pop into Hector’s Shed to pay in advance and book. #altbroidery #wreckthisartcollective #arts #artsworkshops #crafts #craftworkshops #embroidery #alternativeembroidery #design #fabric #upcycle #upcycledclothing #recycle #recycledfabric #sustainablearts #collectivearts #artists #artistsoninstagram #crafters #craftersofinstagram #shorehambysea #events #shorehambysealife #hectorsshed https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxux8z4govx/?igshid=kgst1ns2pmnj

We’ve got some new events and workshops coming up in the next few weeks! On Wednesday 29th May we’ve got a ‘Draw and Drink’ event at Hector’s Shed in Shoreham from 7-9pm where you can come down to do some freestyle, still life or mixed media drawing. There will be free drinks and nibbles, tickets are only £3 and is part of a current fundraising project we are donating to. Details on how to book will be available shortly, but drop us a message or comment in the meantime if you’re interested or want to find out more! In June we will be having an ‘Alt-broidery’ workshop, alternative broidery where you can make your own little positive self affirmations or mini artwork out of recycled fabrics and stitching. More details of this event will be available soon. We hope to see you there! https://www.instagram.com/p/BxYCJAkAsEV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7eeuv12wrzqf

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We had an amazing time at @sussexpinkweek and @popupbrighton’s immersive arty club night last week ‘Glitter Nips’ at @patternsbtn raising money for breast cancer awareness! Great music, performers and artists with some awesome arty things to get stuck into including femigami, plaster nipple moulding, life drawing and hand-made nipple tassels. Such a cool and creative night and for such a good cause! Thanks for having us guys! https://www.instagram.com/p/BxX87LmAhu9/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ifq03hvbh44v

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