Date: Tuesday 25 September 2018, 10:30 am - 1:00 pm
Venue: York Art Gallery

Mindfulness Based Creativity (MBCr) is an 8-week group course exploring the relationship between mindfulness and creativity as a means of playfully enhancing wellbeing and getting in touch with living the life we always imagined. It provides an exploration of mindfulness meditation and creative writing and drawing exercises in each session. Your tutors will be Dr Lauri Bower and professional artist Clare Belbin-Carlie of the Northern Centre for Mindfulness and Compassion (NCMC).

Sessions take place 25 September, 2, 9, 16, 23 October, 6, 13 & 20 November 2018, 10.30am to 1.00pm.

£250 early bird or £275 for the 8 weeks. YMT Membership is also required for this course (£22 max. concessions are available.)

For further information or to book your place please click here.

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Date: Tuesday 25 September 2018, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Venue: York Castle Museum

Please note: this talk has now finished. For our upcoming events, see our events calendar.

Join one of our knowledgeable volunteers every Tuesday and Thursday for a free talk from 12pm. The subject will vary but will relate to one of the displays in the museum.

Included in admission, no need to book.

Please note that as these talks are volunteer-led, we cannot guarantee that they will always take place. Please ring ahead on 01904 687687 or check with our Welcome Team on arrival in case of cancellation.

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Date: Tuesday 25 September 2018, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Venue: York St Mary's

Join staff from York Castle Museum and the My Castle Gateway team for a creative session that will contribute to York Castle Museum’s architectural brief for redevelopment.

Starting at St Mary’s church, the workshop will begin with a walk around the Castle Museum site followed by a cuppa tea and an ideas realisation session back at St Mary’s. There will be an architect sitting in during the workshop who can help by putting ideas into pictures, and facilitators will help by putting ideas into words. We are particularly interested in the following topics:

Movement – how do people move around the site, both into and out of the museum and all the surrounding amenities and attractions?

Sense of Place – what IS and Was this place, what makes is special at what point in history and to who? And…

Modes of Engagement – text, pictures, talks or objects, what is the best way of engaging all our visitors in the stories we tell?

To book your FREE place click here: 

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