We are delighted that Scandalmongers Theatre Company from Ramsgate will be taking workshops with Mustard Seed Drama Group in Canterbury to develop a performance in Ramsgate in June. Scandalmongers can be found on Facebook so take a look and see what they do.
The latest groups taking part in Mind the Gap 2009 include the Mustard Seed sewing group, Canterbury; Thanet Users Forum, Margate; Hereson Family and Community Centre, Ramsgate; Porchlight and Scrine Foundation, Canterbury.
Mustard Seed sewing group are making a tablecloth, Thanet Users will be making a tablecloth and a video, Hereson Family and Community Centre will make a tablecloth . Young people from Porchlight and Scrine Foundation are working with Simon Hannaford to make a video.
Tunbridge Wells Mental Health Resource are well on with their project, with the art , creative writing and cookery groups all contributing to a tablecloth which will be installed in Tunbridge Wells library in the summer.
Maidstone Mind are planning to install their tablecloths in the United Reformed Church in Maidstone, and will also include a ‘Little Sing’ performance in the same space. Details later.
Artist Patricia Smith has been taking workshops at R Place social centre at St Martins Hospital in Canterbury. See photos here
Artist Liz Daniels has completed a whole set of tableware using sticky back plastic which she hopes to show at the Blackthorn Trust in Maidstone. Later in the summer she will be taking workshops for Mind the Gap at the Trevor Gibbens Unit in Maidstone.
There will be an opportunity to meet the team, see some of the work and have a go yourself if you visit the following events:
Webbs Gardens Open Day: Saturday May 30th at St Martins Hospital, Littlebourne Road, Canterbury CT1 1TD
Friends for Mental Health (East Kent) Summer Fair: Saturday June 13 (see below)
Kent Show: Detling, Nr Maidstone 17 – 19 July
Put the dates in your diary now & tell your friends
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