About
Workshops. The Gathering Project is a creative community programme which is running for three years from 2021 until 2023 across Hampshire. It is designed to promote community cohesion, resilience and positive health and wellbeing.
Participants will learn how to make healthier lifestyle choices and to reduce harmful behaviours, as well as learning how to access relevant local services and support.
How can I get involved?
We are currently looking for project partners who would like to bring this fully-funded 5 week project to their groups.
Please contact claire@fluidmotiontheatre.com if you would like to learn more.
What is happening now?
In 2022 the focus of The Gathering Project is 'Thrive' and the five workshop themes are Explore, Consider, Notice, Act and Self-Care. The project this year will encourage communities and participants to focus on what's next, understand what makes them happy and how to create positive environments for themselves and others.
What happens in a workshop?
Each of the five sessions runs for a maximum of three hours. Sessions always begin with warmup activities to help the group get comfortable. This is then followed by creative exercises based on the workshop theme (see above). Each workshop then ends with wrap up activities.
The Gathering Project is about the experience of using theatre and creative activities to talk about mental health (we don’t work towards a performance). Remember, our goal is to use theatre to make happy brains!
See last year’s project film here.
About Fluid Motion Theatre Company
‘We are Fluid Motion. We use theatre to create happy brains.’
We are facilitators of lightbulb moments, unforgettable experiences that nurture and support people’s mental health. We push the boundaries of how theatre can help make happier brains. We make performances and deliver projects for communities and with them, using their own lives as inspiration. We want as many people as possible to experience the power of theatre and to be wowed by its impact on their wellbeing.
Theatre challenges and comforts us in equal measure. It enables us to express unspoken emotions by shaping and holding in front of our eyes something we feel internally. It helps us make sense of the world, and it guides us to a better place.
Last updated: 05/10/2022