Hub Lovin’ with London Love Is

Join us on the 14th February (Valentines Day!) at the Hub Kings Cross to participate in a new social art movement. Mindful Maps and the Hub Kings Cross are co-ordinating and hosting this event, which will be facilitated by Vipul Bhatti from London Love Is… 

London Love is … is a social art movement that forms ‘Stand with Us’ human chains across the city. The focus of this participatory campaign is to engage people to celebrate by connecting and sharing, empowering to build, and to create together for one other. Previous human chains have been held on public spaces, this is the campaign’s first enclosed event.

The Hub Kings Cross is a space open to sharing, one that connects and creates ideas and builds on a vision. This human chain event will increase interconnectivity in the space, exploring another way to find our places, re-shaping it to find other creative possibilities and even new collaborative beginnings.

London Love is… and the Hub Kings Cross hopes you can join us on the 14th to Stand with Us. The human chain itself will take form up-to 25 minutes. A short talk and creative exercise will take place before.

London Love is… is a partner of the global campaign Peace One Day, which aims to have one day every year of non-violence and ceasefire.

Venue: The Hub Kings Cross, 34b York Way.
Date: 14th February 2012
Time: 12.30-1.30pm

For more information, email: sarah.cook@the-hub.net

Fesitve wishes from Mindful Maps

Happy festive season everyone! However you choose to celebrate (or not) I wish you a few days of healing reflection, loving kindness and connection with the most important people in your life. I’d also like to say a massive THANK YOU and send a virtual hug to all the friends, family and collaborators who have supported me in starting up Mindful Maps this year. It’s been about 8 months since making it official and the response has been mind-blowing, your encouragement has really kept this going over the ups and downs of early self employment :)

My Christmas wish is for this practice to keep growing, evolving and putting down roots. Here are a few things emerging for 2012 (projects and otherwise) that I’d like to share with you.

What 2012 holds for Mindful Maps:

• Exciting new collaborations with Emergent Research, Be Amazing Today, Ivan Nascimento, Kiln and others including some housing associations up North.
• Writing a business plan and orientating Mindful Maps towards creative learning and living.
• Taking Come To Your Senses to the next level with Auralab.
• Co-creating the next Visual Camp.
• Working towards a new and groovy website/archive/learning resource, hopefully with Asilia.
• Building the Mindful Maps community through partners and increased communication including turning September Sun into a newsletter/regular publication.
• More workshops, including ‘Graphic Harvesting in Everyday Environments‘ which I am considering expanding into a course.
• Lots of 1-1 Mindful Mapping following the launch this autumn.
• Developing my own practice as an artist – more making, doing and going to classes. One project currently on the go is a an illustrated book about female voice (so expect lots of tweets tagged #femalevoice in 2012).
• Integrating empathi into Mindful Maps as an art/craft project and online shop.
• Create and make available visual tools for learning, life and practice.
• Explore more body-related, physical practices and play.
• Find formal mentors and supervisors. Any volunteers?.
• Contributing to creative learning and social change conversations in the UK and globally. Expect a lot more noise.

If any of the above spark inspiration then I’d love to hear from you.

Enjoy, and as Bill and Ted said… Be excellent to each other!

 

Image: section from a painting by yours truly.


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