Saturday, 2 May 2009
Arts and crafts stall at the Strawberry fair
Look out for us at the Strawberry fair where we will be selling arts, crafts, prints and things hand made by the members of Lifecraft.
Tuesday, 5 August 2008
Rohan tree by Vicky McWilliams
Rohan tree a collection of poetry from Vicky McWilliams
This poetry is not afraid to confront our horrors and our nightmares. More importantly it dares to look beyond, to imagine a better world. It knows that we have to look out for one another, the old adage is true: "united we stand, divided we are lumbered".
£ 5.50
Available from the online Lifecraft book shop www.lulu.com/lifecraft
Or directly www.lulu.com/content/2692460
Saturday, 10 May 2008
Coast Exhibition
COAST: Cambridge Outsider Arts Team is looking to provide a platform for artists who have been affected in anyway by mental health issues and who also have connections to the Cambridge area.
Would you like to exhibit your work?
Call for submissions to an exhibition of art & craft born out of inner necessity, possibly exploring the themes of spirituality, madness & creativity.
At the
Michaelhouse Centre, Trinity Street
August 31st - 28th September 2008
£250 prize voted for by the public at the exhibition
We want to include as many forms of creative expression as possible including: painting, drawing, illustration, photography, sculpture, carving, crafts, needlework, creative writing, ceramics, computer design and music on CD/DVD.
Free entry
All entry forms to be submitted by:
7th July 2008
Please contact us by email at
coast@live.co.uk
For more details and an entry form.
We hope this exhibition will become part of a rolling programme of events, and are currently booking Art & Craft market stalls from May 2008. Please contact us as soon as possible if you are interested in being involved and/or having your work for sale on a stall.
We want to showcase the maximum amount of work possible, however due to space limitations we may not be able to show all entries so priority will be given to early entries. Work may be included in a catalogue, posters, postcards, on the web site and in local magazines and newspapers.
Would you like to exhibit your work?
Call for submissions to an exhibition of art & craft born out of inner necessity, possibly exploring the themes of spirituality, madness & creativity.
At the
Michaelhouse Centre, Trinity Street
August 31st - 28th September 2008
£250 prize voted for by the public at the exhibition
We want to include as many forms of creative expression as possible including: painting, drawing, illustration, photography, sculpture, carving, crafts, needlework, creative writing, ceramics, computer design and music on CD/DVD.
Free entry
All entry forms to be submitted by:
7th July 2008
Please contact us by email at
coast@live.co.uk
For more details and an entry form.
We hope this exhibition will become part of a rolling programme of events, and are currently booking Art & Craft market stalls from May 2008. Please contact us as soon as possible if you are interested in being involved and/or having your work for sale on a stall.
We want to showcase the maximum amount of work possible, however due to space limitations we may not be able to show all entries so priority will be given to early entries. Work may be included in a catalogue, posters, postcards, on the web site and in local magazines and newspapers.
Wednesday, 19 March 2008
Life songs CD
We like to sing songs from different vocal traditions which are rich in harmonies and rhythms and are sung by ordinary people throughout the world - work songs, play songs, dance and party songs, songs of peace, love songs and protest songs all of which celebrate the joy of giving voice - and sharing our voices.
Avaliable from Lifecraft
For £3.00
£2.50 for members.
Thursday, 28 February 2008
Lifecraft Launch new CD and Poetry Anthology
Lifecraft Launch new CD and Poetry Anthology
The Old School House, St Barnabas Church,Mill Road, CB1 2BD
Doors open 6.30pm for 7pm startLive poetry and music performancesEntrance free all Lifecraft members and supporters very welcome
The Old School House, St Barnabas Church,Mill Road, CB1 2BD
Doors open 6.30pm for 7pm startLive poetry and music performancesEntrance free all Lifecraft members and supporters very welcome
Tuesday, 8 January 2008
The Craft Of Life
At the end of 2007 we launched our first poetry anthology The Craft Of Life.
The great thing about this collection is that it proves yet again that the worst that this world can do to us can be overcome once we know that it can. Only then can we stop destroying ourselves and start to build, to build on the solid foundation of our centre. One of our contributors in his first collection reminded us that the pathway into the darkness is the same as the pathway out. All we have to do is to change direction.Creativity connects us to the Cosmos, to ourselves and to each other. The famous line of Seamus Heaney: "we must rhyme to see (ourselves), to set the darkness echoing" speaks for us all.Writing begins with self discovery, commanding us to know ourselves, to commit to growth and development from whatever starting point we occupy, knowing with Bob Dylan "he who ain't busy bein' born is busy dyin". Everyone in creative writing at Lifecraft can also affirm with Kathleen Raine that "the work of the artist is to heal the soul".Writing in this group and others like it is no mere hobby but a matter of life and death very often, a strategy for survival and possible transformation, all the more remarkable when one considers what so many have come through already in terms of trauma, abuse, invasion and abandonment. Miraculously their writing allows them to laugh at themselves and their often tragic-comic life situations, listening to and supporting one another through crisis, bereavement, loss or tragedy.These writers know life as few people can, breaking through trials and tribulations, celebrating awareness and triumph in the midst of all. Long may they continue.
Foreword by Tom Sheerin
The great thing about this collection is that it proves yet again that the worst that this world can do to us can be overcome once we know that it can. Only then can we stop destroying ourselves and start to build, to build on the solid foundation of our centre. One of our contributors in his first collection reminded us that the pathway into the darkness is the same as the pathway out. All we have to do is to change direction.Creativity connects us to the Cosmos, to ourselves and to each other. The famous line of Seamus Heaney: "we must rhyme to see (ourselves), to set the darkness echoing" speaks for us all.Writing begins with self discovery, commanding us to know ourselves, to commit to growth and development from whatever starting point we occupy, knowing with Bob Dylan "he who ain't busy bein' born is busy dyin". Everyone in creative writing at Lifecraft can also affirm with Kathleen Raine that "the work of the artist is to heal the soul".Writing in this group and others like it is no mere hobby but a matter of life and death very often, a strategy for survival and possible transformation, all the more remarkable when one considers what so many have come through already in terms of trauma, abuse, invasion and abandonment. Miraculously their writing allows them to laugh at themselves and their often tragic-comic life situations, listening to and supporting one another through crisis, bereavement, loss or tragedy.These writers know life as few people can, breaking through trials and tribulations, celebrating awareness and triumph in the midst of all. Long may they continue.
Foreword by Tom Sheerin
Available from Lifecraft
For£5.50
£5.00 for members.
The Craft Of Life is also available direct from our online book shop http://stores.lulu.com/lifecraft
Or at many of the events that we are planning for the current year.
For£5.50
£5.00 for members.
The Craft Of Life is also available direct from our online book shop http://stores.lulu.com/lifecraft
Or at many of the events that we are planning for the current year.
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