Rag Rug Workshop
2025-06-22 10:00 - 16:00 UTC | The Cricket Club, Lanercost Sports Club, Brampton, Cumbria, CA8 2HL
Join us for a day of rag rug making.
All materials are included but please do bring anything you would like to use. Fine knitted jumpers and fleece fabric are best.
We will provide the hessian for you to take home so you can carry on rag rugging at home.
Hooks are available to use and buy. Try and think about a design beforehand – curves and circles work well.
Hooky rug making; a traditional skill revived as an art form in the Lanercost and Banks area in the mid 1960s, and passed down through the generations.
Learn how to make your own rug, as taught by Sarah Greenwood, a local rug maker. You can see her work on instagram sarahwarahsrugs, and local rug makers at work on Facebook: cumberlandragrugs

It’s a great way to recycle old clothes and fabrics. Hook your worn out or outgrown favourite garments into a new and functional mat or wall hanging. Make a memory mat!

£50 per person. Children over 10 welcome
Email Sarah via info@cumberlandragrugs.co.uk
For tickets click this link
https://www.trybooking.com/uk/ETRR

Shamanic Movement Medicine - Helen Whitehead
2025-06-26 13:00 - 16:00
Shamanic Movement Medicine workshop with Helen Whitehead.

As a shamanic practitioner and a life-long student of spirituality and personal growth, Helen weaves a beautiful combination of music,
dance and ritual to create an authentic safe space that allows for deep exploration, creativity and growth. Helen has trained for many years in Movement Medicine which draws on ancient shamanic traditions and contemporary brainscience. She also has a background as mental health professional all of which gives rise to a practice which is both deeply serious andintentional, as well as dynamic, informed and playful. Helen is passionate about facilitating lasting transformation in her students. Creating a space that welcomes all of life’s beauty and challenges. Every thing is invited to move, breathe and be.As a big fan of integration Helen invites you to create a bridge, to
weave what you have learnt, back into your everyday life.

About the workshop:
Join Helen and her co-facilitator Kirsty Daley Sapiain for this Midsummer celebration. We’ll move and dance together to celebrate the peak of summer. There will be space to find, create and work with our truest desires and intentions, using music, dance and the community of other dancers as resources to help us. You will be guided step by step to find your intentions with courage and love.
Accessing and acknowledging the fears that both guide us and sometimes hold us back.“We fear that we are inadequate, but our deepest fear is that weare powerful beyond measure.” ~Marianne Williamson.
If you have danced a thousand times before or if this is your first time you are very welcome. No experience is necessary you will be
guided with suggestions of how to explore your own unique movement. Every Body is welcome.
What shall I wear?
It’s good to wear layers of comfortable clothing to move in as you may heat up and cool down quickly.
Do I need to bring anything?
Bring a water bottle
Maybe some soft shoes/trainers for moving in we’ll be dancing on
matting in a big top. Dancing barefoot may also be possible.
The venue is accessible with an accessible toilet. Please contact us if you need any adjustments.
Prices
£17 Standard Entry
£14 Low income/students
Concessions / energy exchange available please contact Helen direct on 07890302904

Get Your Tickets here – https://www.trybooking.com/uk/EXHS

For more details visit https://schoolofmovementmedicine.com/

https://schoolofmovementmedicine.com/teachers/helen-whitehead/

Gilding and Kintsugi Workshops
2025-06-27 10:00 - 16:00
Join Amelia Bedson in the picturesque village of Lanercost near Carlisle in Cumbria for this unique event.

As part of the Echo Festival in Lanercost she will be hosting workshops in Beginners Kintsugi and Contemporary Gilding.

Kintsugi for Beginners – 10am and 12pm

Kintsugi, which literally translates as ‘golden joinery’, celebrates the Japanese philosophy of the beauty of imperfection.
In this beginners 1 ½ hour workshop, you will:

be given all the tools and materials which you will need for this workshop.
learn step-by-step how to safely break pottery and to repair it with gold, thereby embracing the cracks to make unique pieces of art.
make a finished Kintsugi pieces to take home which makes a beautiful mementoe of the day and can be used as ornaments or gifts.

Why this workshop is so special:

Kintsugi is a mindful, meditative art form that celebrates the beauty in imperfection.
It is a relaxing creative experience that you can share with others.
Your Kintsugi ceramics are unique personalised pieces of art that embrace the power of transformation.

The Art of Laying Gold Leaf – Contemporary Gilding Workshop – 2pm
In this 1 ½ hour workshop, you will:

learn the art of contemporary gilding, how it has changed over time and how you can use it in your own home to give it the Midas touch!
be given all the tools and materials required for this workshop.
learn how to gild a picture frame with Dutch Gold leaf.

Participants must be aged 18 and over for Kintsugi, or over 12 for gilding and be accompanied by a participating adult.

You can find Amelia on Instagram @amelia.jane.gilding, Facebook at Amelia Jane Gilding and on her Webpage at www.ameliajanegilding.com.

BOOK TICKETS HERE:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kintsugi-and-gilding-workshops-at-the-echo-festival-in-lanercost-cumbria-tickets-1332263248239?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

Limited tickets are available but some may be available on the day, please contact me directly via Email or call me on the day to check if any drop in places are available: 07857 696465

Refunds less than 21 days before the event – Please contact me directly and if I can sell your ticket on, I will be able to refund your ticket.
I am unable to refund the Eventbrite fee.
