ARTISTS OF THE BLOOMING - LONDON
CATCHING FIRE
Artists of the Blooming - Catching Fire, is a day long event in London that supports artists to creatively meet and respond to being alive wild metamorphic times.
KEY THEMES AND PIECES WE WILL EXPLORE TOGETHER
CREATING FROM THE HEART OF CRISIS
Each of us carries a unique connection and relationship to the times we are living through. We’ll explore the landscape of the heart of crisis and how we can create from this place. The heart-crack is a place where our own personal grief and longing for the world connects in with and speaks to the whole. We’ll explore how we creatively respond from this place, being curious about the unique heart-cracks we hold inform the landscape for our art.
THE ROLE OF ART AND CREATIVITY IN OUR TIMES
We believe that art and creativity plays a specific and key role during the times we are living through, in reimagining our world, in supporting us to touch the depth of our humanity, in revving revolution, in rousing the possibility of hope among the rubble of our world. We’ll explore this together as a group, working with key creative archetypes.
WORKING WITH THE TORCH-BEARERS
For thousands of years, artists have held a flame alive for the soul of humanity, for the possibility of beauty, grace, humanity, art, connection in our world. It is powerful to connect in with the torchbearers that have gone before and how our own artist flames connect with theirs.
We explore here on a level of soul and spirit what it means to connect with artists with the torchbearers and how this imbues and enlivens our own creative flames.
CRAFT AND CREATIVE AMBITION
We’ll explore how craft and creative ambition are important in creating art that can move, touch, and inspire, exploring artists who have both mastered their craft and have dared to have creative ambition with what their art form can do.
ARE YOU AN ARTIST OF THE BLOOMING?
Artists of the Blooming are artists who are interested in creating art that speaks to and inspires the beauty and the possibility of what can come through the cracks of what is falling apart at this time.
Artists of the blooming are interested in creating art that can hold the tension of the horror and the hope, the despair and the possibility, the heart-break and reverence.
Artists of the blooming are interested in creating art that moves beyond and cuts through worn rhetoric and soundbite and instead aims to touch our common humanity, stirs our souls, rouses renaissance and revs creative revolution.
COST AND TIMES
TIMINGS
SATURDAY 18TH JUNE 10AM-6PM
ECONOMICS
We will be working with Radical Economics during this session.
Radical economics is an economic model where the donation is split 50/50 between the person who is holding the session and a person who you deem is creating art that inspires you.
We hope working in this way supports the mycelium of Artists of the Blooming to spread and for people to have an opportunity to tune in to how they wish to move their money towards transition and change.
We recommend a donation of between £22-£44 for this space.
£22 - Low Income
£33 - Medium Income
£44 - High Income
We also welcome artists who are on a low income and cannot pay for the space. Please get in touch if you can’t donate right now and we can discuss your attendance without cost.
Register below and we will direct you to a payment link.
Register for Artists of the Blooming London - Catching Fire
