The activity at our Girl’s Club last week was to decorate a Dignity bag each, refill with goodies and top off with a hand decorated cupcake as presents for their Mums or Grandmas. The girls had a fantastic time and the results looked amazing. L is 7 and said she had had a lovely time […]
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As we know, art of all kinds can be wonderfully therapeutic, unburdening us for a time of the many stresses and strains of everyday life. Watch out for our next series of ‘Mindfulness With Mehndi’ sessions! You may be surprised and learn innovative Mehndi art application, whilst relaxing and having fun! Over the next four weeks
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We have very interesting and innovative Mehndi art sessions planned for June. In the first of many sessions, we learnt how to use Mehndi Art to decorate Cookies. It was fascinating to see intricate henna patterns come alive on cookies! Bonus? You could eat them too! We started by learning how to prepare the Cookie
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Want to learn the art of brush pen calligraphy ? But don’t know where to begin? Come join our facebook live where we will be holding sessions for English Brush Pen calligraphy with Hiba. We have 12 Virtual sessions (two calligraphy modules of 6 sessions each) organised via ZOOM, and the Community Film, Art and
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We are delighted to share our latest CREATE project, funded by Comic Relief and GM BAME Network via the Greater Manchester Centre for Voluntary Organisation (GMCVO) and the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities (AGMA). Engaging in the arts is growing in popularity as a way to improve wellbeing and it has been shown that participating in
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UNIQUE FREE COURSES SUPPORTED BY THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUND The Art course offers exciting and rewarding activities to develop skills in multiple forms of expressive arts. The aptly named ‘Chutney’ course provides opportunities to develop food knowledge, cultural understanding and cooking skills. ‘Be A Leader’ is for people who want to develop the skills and
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Community Film Art and Media has started our #Mindfulnesswith Mehndi online sessions via our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/CommunityFilmArtMedia These will include: Pen Sketching & Water Colour sessions with Maryam.Dance with VarshaHenna with Hema Upcoming online sessions for your diary: Mindfulness With Mehndi: Dance for Fun, Fitness & Wellbeing: Sunday 18th AprilMindfulness With Mehndi: Let’s Sketch & Paint: Thursday 22nd April and
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Mehndi Reimagined, an adult colouring book by Gulnaz Brennan, is the culmination of that series of sketching and drawing organised online by CFAM CIC. A colouring book may appear to be a fairly simplistic idea but, perhaps surprisingly, the benefits of colouring really are important and can go beyond being merely a fun distraction to
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We have sourced bags and facemasks which can be re-used. Community groups and vulnerable women and girls have been earmarked for distribution of 250 bags and 250 packs of facemasks. An already important issue that the Covid-9 pandemic had further highlighted is the issue of period poverty. The cultural and historical taboo surrounding the subject
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One consequence of the Covid-19 lockdown has been increased pressure on vulnerable groups in our community and, in particular, BAME communities have been disproportionately impacted. Levels of stress are higher than they have ever been, and lockdown has been particularly tough for women living in highly patriarchal households. Many of these women endure living in
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