An UPLIFTING Year!

ART STATION - April 2014

SACHA FERRIER: WORKSHOP WITH THE ARTIST - April 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                     

As we look towards a new year we reflect on 2014 and all the colourful, creative, fabulous fun we had. Enjoy a year of UPLIFT in pictures!



BLOOM! - April 2014

 

ALTERNATIVE NITE AT THE MUSEUM - May 2014

STREET PIANO - May 2014

CURI-HISTORIES - May 2014

 



MAYORS PARADE - June 2014

OO LA LA - June 2014

 

 

 

 





UPLIFT SHINDIG - June 2014



WORSBROUGH MILL 'BUG OFF' CAMP - June 2014

WETLANDS WOLLOW - July 2014

 

FEAST - October 2014

ALTERNATIVE NITE AT EXPERIENCE BARNSLEY -October 2014





LIVE ARTS CAFE BONFIRE SPECIAL - November 2014

100 FOR 100 - October 2014

 

O CHOCOLAT! - November 2014

CREATIVE RECOVERY CHARITY LAUNCH - November 2014



LIVE ARTS CAFE 80'S NIGHT - December 2014

FESTIVE TREE DRESSING - December 2014

 

 

 

 



THE GATHERING - December 2014

Creative Recovery Charity Launch

 

It was truly an UPLIFTING 2014 made all the more special with the launch of Creative Recovery as a registered charity. As we closed the year we marked this with a presentation of the work we have achieved so far. Here’s a few snapshots from our day at the Town Hall Council Chambers.

We hear from participants what Creative Recovery has done for them and their families.

Courageous and honest. Participants speak about their own experiences with their mental health and wellbeing.

A big thanks to everyone who attended and supported the day. We leave you with the Creative Recovery Manifesto poem created and recorded by participants which opened the event.

 

We are Creative Recovery

We are the starting of lives, the opening of doors, the enveloping of wings and the soaring high

We are the letting down of guards, the acceptance of a family, a safe place to explore me

 

We are Creative Recovery

We are the lost and found

We are the knowing that there’s not just one way to be, that I matter

 

We are Creative Recovery

We are fresh ideas

We are colour and sound

We are the completion of projects and the realisation that it’s possible in your own life too

We are the building of confidence, the opening up, never feeling more alive

 

We are Creative Recovery

We are the expression of thought, and understanding the chaos inside

We are NOT dwelling on our illnesses

We are learning how to live again

 

We are Creative Recovery

We are trail blazing, filling the gap

We are the cultural shift, reimagining the future and rewriting the script

We are new perspectives, challenging the same old

We are changing the way YOU think

 

We are Creative Recovery

We are the reason to get going and keep going

The joyful charge into tomorrow,

We are anti-sorrow, lighting up the town.

We are the knowing.  The dreaming.  The belief that it’s all possible. 

Winter Warmers!

Christmas saw our current UPLIFT calendar draw to a close, and boy did the UPLIFTS come thick and fast! Here’s a roundup of all the events and activities that’s brightened up our winter.

 

The Live arts Cafe went retro with an all 80’s inspired evening! It was neon galore with fluorescent doodling and live visuals created by Creative Recovery artists. Never ones to shy away from fancy dress, the leg warmers came out and participants danced the night away to 80’s classics, playing video games and enjoying a sausage, cheese and pineapple cocktail stick!

As we approached the festive period, UPLIFTERS got together in preparation for our Christmas event, the Gathering. The Resound gang provided a sing-along soundtrack as participants made lanterns which would light up the Town and beautifully decorate our magical venue.  Then on the notoriously named ‘Mad Friday’ we had our alternative nite out as we gathered together for a soul warming, reflective, creative sharing UPLIFT style. Our flash mob of lantern holders made their way through the town centre to gather around the street piano where we joyfully sang our hearts out to Christmas carols! The parade made its way to St. Mary’s Church where we continued our festive celebrations with music from Resound, open mic session, poetry readings, pizza and dancing!

 

The festivities culminated in a weekend of festive tree dressing and camp cardboard! It was festive fun for all the family as Mums, Dads, Grandparents and children got to work with Creative Recovery artists to create something beautiful for the Christmas trees on site at Barnsley favourites, Cannon Hall, Elsecar Heritage Centre and Worsbrough Mill, followed by carols around the tree.  Camp cardboard offered a slightly different take with a cardboard takeover in the Cannon Hall ballroom! Den building on a huge scale with a festive twist and buckets of imagination! With tunnels, grotto and lights a plenty!