‘Open Circles’ 2020 is a HEARTHSTONE Ways project involving a course of online invitations. The project is funded by SS&L and offers high quality Creative Development and Wellbeing through Meditation, Mindfulness, Vision Journeys, Creative Writing and Sound based activities. Designed and Led by HEARTHSTONE Ways’ Creative Director Luminara Florescu, the project encourages public engagement and …
Somerset Reacquainted was a project created by Somerset Art Works in 2020 aimed to engage and support artists across the county in response to the unprecedented challenges they faced during lockdown. ‘Somerset Reacquainted’ arose from conversations between the artist Sara Dudman and Zoe Li, Artist Development Manager at Somerset Art Works. It encouraged artists to …
NatureSpeaks is a commissioned work by Somerset Art Works to create a podcast for SAW 2020 Digital Open Studios Family Education. The podcast is a sensory, guided journey to experience and connect with nature to promote a feeling of wellbeing. The NatureSpeaks podcast invites you to listen deeply, to use your imagination and whole senses to …
“Cosmic council announces the PORTAL. Part audio story, part vision quest that we will release with each solstice. The first edition includes some exciting and powerful contributions from exchanges with @luminarastar_artist and @catherinestrogers…as they honour ancient and primordial modes of communication; voices from other realms and visions.Our intention for the PORTAL is to connect with spirit, …
Somerset Art Works’ Artist Development Programme supports artists both financially, and through mentoring to develop new ways of working in their practice. Through this programme, I developed the ‘Freedom Learning Project’. Freedom Learning has many other names:- Unschooling, Free Range Learning, Autonomous Learning, but all adhere to the educational philosophy that human beings learn best from …
Curated by Luminara Contributing artists and creatives: James Aldridge, Victoria Bone, Georgie Florence, Luminara Star Florescu, Carrie Grainger, Angel Greenham, Lucy Large, Olive Leaff, Alyson Minkley, Tim Neath, James Thornton, Peter Ward, Dave Webb, Theo Wood “Individually and collectively, we are on a journey from a story of Separation to a new yet ancient story of Reunion: ecology, interdependency, interbeing.” – Charles Eisenstein In a world where people …
