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Saturday 17th May 2024 | 9:30 am - 7 pm | South Square FREE/ Pay as You Feel – Everyone is
Event Details
Saturday 17th May 2024 | 9:30 am – 7 pm | South Square
FREE/ Pay as You Feel – Everyone is welcome.
Join South Square for Mindful May, to celebrate Mental Health Awareness week. We have planned a whole bunch of relaxing, creative, mindful events for you to join in with throughout the day. There’s something for everyone, including craft workshops, yoga sessions, and music, all aimed to help lift your spirits, brighten your day, and to help make you feel calm and creative!
During the day, Plenty at the Square will be giving out FREE healthy drink shots, plus, they’ll be offering a Mindful May inspired menu.
Mindfulness is the practice of being present and fully engaged in the current moment without distraction. It involves learning to pay attention to thoughts, emotions, and sensations in a non-reactive way which can help reduce stress and improve focus.
Art and creative events are perfect ways to help you feel more calm, as they take you away from your normal, every-day activities, they are an a fun way to engage in something new, learn a new skill, and take time out for yourself and with your loved ones.
Our highly anticipated annual event will be filled with relaxing workshops, taster sessions, music and more. Read on to find out what we have scheduled, and book your tickets now before they all go!
TASTER SESSIONS / WORKSHOPS
Nidra Meditation // 9:30 – 10.15 // Limited Spaces // Click here to book
Nidra Meditation, also known as Yogic Sleep, is practiced lying down. You will be guided by our resident yoga instructor Nicola, through 45 minutes of pure relaxation to calm a busy mind, soothe the nervous system and reduce stress, leaving you feeling grounded and energised, ready to face the rest of your day.
No experience of Yoga or Meditation required, just bring a mat, an open mind and an open heart.
Chair Yoga // 10:30 – 11.15 // Limited Spaces // Click here to book
Chair yoga is a gentle form of yoga that is practised whilst sitting in a chair. It’s a good way to start exercising if you have limited mobility or have trouble standing for long periods. Chair yoga helps to improves flexibility, posture, and balance, as well as helping tone muscles, relieving stress and helping with sleep.
No experience of Yoga required, just bring yourselves!
EFT (Tapping) Taster Session // 11:30 – 12.15 // Limited Spaces // Click here to book
Come and join this introduction session to EFT session. EFT stands for Emotional Freedom Technique, a self-help method that involves tapping on specific points of the body to manage emotions. Hosted by Natasha, a professional EFT practitioner, she will teach you to tap, and using this method to focus of helping you take time out for some self care, and helping stabilise your emotions. This is open to anyone new to tapping or interested in tapping, and those who have done it before and want a refresher.
No experience required, no equipment required.
Sound Bath Experience // 12:30 – 1:15pm // Limited Spaces // Click here to book
This session allows for deep relaxation, whilst being guided on a meditation journey, giving you time to focus on the various instruments with their different frequencies. Judy from Rural Relaxation, will use a variety of percussion instruments including Tibetan singing bowls, tongue drum, ocean drum and ting-sha bells to ease you into a feeling of rejuvenation and deepened relaxation.
You will be sat on the floor for this workshop. Feel free to bring a cushion. Chairs can also be provided for those that prefer to sit.
Suitable for beginners.
Death Cafe // 1:30pm – 3pm // Click here to book
A Death Cafe is a safe space to talk about death, grief and all things related. Nicola Murray from Kynd, will facilitate this session as an extension of her work with Bradford Death Cafe. Come along to this event to feel free to speak in an open, inclusive space, to share your grief, thoughts on death, and share your experiences. Coffee and cake included.
It’s important to note that this is a therapeutic space, but does not replace therapy. We find that talking about death can help us appreciate life. Everyone Welcome.
DROP IN WORKSHOPS
Paper art – making crepe paper flowers // 11am – 2pm // Garden
In this drop-in workshop, you will learn the art of making crepe paper flowers. In Eastern Europe, they adorned homes during holidays, decorated altars in churches, and embellished pictures of saints in households. In Ukraine, paper flowers were used in wreaths – traditional girls’ headdresses and ritual attributes.
Everyone is welcome to come and make, all materials included, drop in any time.
Badge Making // 11am – 3pm // Courtyard
Come and make your very own badge to take away there and then. This could be a Mindful May inspired badge, or you can make your own name, draw your favourite character, or any picture you wish! We will have paper, felt tips, pencils, collage elements and more for you to use to design your badge, and staff will be on hand to press and secure this, ready for you to keep.
Everyone is welcome to come and make, all materials included, drop in any time.
MUSIC
Sound Garden / Bring Your Own Vinyl Afternoon // 3 – 7pm / Open decks 3-5pm // Garden
DJ Dom Sheard from ‘No Hands’ will help you play your vinyl alfresco in the South Square Garden. Dust off your revered LP collection and listen to your playlist outside in the glorious setting under the sun (hopefully). Bring your mellow tempos and laid-back funk for a mindful vibe.
If you want to bring your own vinyls and have a go at DJ-ing, or just bring your own vinyls for the DJ to play – let us know to add you to the list. Email [email protected]
EXHIBITIONS
Touch Points // Main Gallery
Running till Sunday 1st June
‘Touch Points’ is a group exhibition of digital interruptions, centred around the human body and how our experiences are shaped by technology. The artists in this exhibition use technology to offer an alternative perspective of our living experiences.
Craig Delaney // Plenty at the Square
Running till Sunday 1st June
Craig says: ‘My work explores the intersections of consumerism, capitalism, and the pharmaceutical industry, using the blister pack as a central motif. This everyday object symbolizes both care and control, reflecting how our lives are commodified under late capitalism. Through painting, I examine the rituals of consumption and health, highlighting our reliance on pharmaceuticals while critiquing the profit-driven systems behind them.’
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Time
May 17, 2025 9:30 am - 7:00 pm(GMT+01:00)
Location
South Square Centre
Organizer
june
Event Details
Join us for this Fused Glass Workshop where you can create your own hanging wreath. You will be provided with a clear glass wreath plus frit (crushed glass) and shaped glass
Event Details
Join us for this Fused Glass Workshop where you can create your own hanging wreath.
You will be provided with a clear glass wreath plus frit (crushed glass) and shaped glass pieces in the shape of flowers, fruit and leaves. You can then arrange these glass items and glue them down to make a beautiful 9cm wreath.
Once finished, the completed wreaths will be taken away to be fired and fused in a kiln and returned to South Square for collection about a week later.
This event will be run by Claire Myers of Cherry Tree Glass Studio who is an experienced fused glass artist and will guide you through the process.
Ticket price includes all materials and equipment usage.
£44 including Eventbrite fees or, you can pop into South Square Centre to pay £40 via cash or card.
Over 18’s only.
The workshop is 1.5 hours long, although please note, depending on your design, some students may finish earlier.
Accessibility:
The session will be in the community room, this is on the first floor. If anyone needs step free access we have a stair lift that can be used. Chairs will also be provided for anyone that would prefer to be seated during the session.
Location and access:
The session will be held in the upstairs community room at South Square Centre, Thornton Road, BD13 3LS.
A chairlift is accessible to the Community Room.
The centre can be accessed easily via public transport. There is free on street parking around the centre. There is an on-site vegetarian café, Plenty, where refreshments and lunch can be purchased.
Contact
Any questions please call South Square on 01274 834737 or email us at [email protected] , we will be happy to help you!
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Organizer
august
Event Details
Following the success and popularity of the first workshop in April, we have decided to run another! Come along to this marquetry workshop to create your own unique piece to take
Event Details
Following the success and popularity of the first workshop in April, we have decided to run another!
Come along to this marquetry workshop to create your own unique piece to take home.
In this four-hour workshop (with a 30min break) you will select a wooden base shape (pre cut), and use the materials provided to design a graphic pattern for the front.
Ran by Emily Parkin, she will assist you to use a steel ruler and a craft knife, where you will carefully cut out the sections of the design from a range of coloured wooden veneers, and apply them to the front of your base.
You can make this base into what you wish, as you can decide if this will be a picture holder, or a vase etc. Once decided what you would like your holder to hold, you can drill the correct size holes into the top before applying a wax finish and buffing the whole piece to bring out all the colours and wood grain.
£45 per person – includes all materials and equipment usage.
You can book via Eventbrite, link below, or by popping into the South Square Gallery.
Note – you are welcome to bring your own lunch for the break, but feel free to grab food and drink from the cafe onsite – Plenty at the Square
CLICK HERE to book on Eventbrite.
Accessibility:
The session will be in the community room, this is on the first floor. If anyone needs step free access we have a stair lift that can be used. Chairs will also be provided for anyone that would prefer to be seated during the session.
Location and access:
The session will be held in the upstairs community room at South Square Centre, Thornton Road, BD13 3LS.
A chairlift is accessible to the Community Room.
The centre can be accessed easily via public transport. There is free on street parking around the centre. There is an on-site vegetarian café, Plenty, where refreshments and lunch can be purchased.
Contact
Any questions please call South Square on 01274 834737 or email us at [email protected] , we will be happy to help you!
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