The psychological benefits of crafting – How using your hands to craft improves your mental health and resilience

Stories that Quilts tell…have you ever stopped to listen? (Gala Day)

For millennia, people have gathered to create; weaving, sewing and painting everyday objects while sharing stories and supporting each other and their communities.

Quilts tell stories of love, pain, grief, laughter and joy. They record the good times, and the struggles of the hard times. Quilts celebrate life events and build memories, create play and wonder and speak without words. Quilts can be both functional and an expression of our inner self and our creative endeavour. The needle and thread, in hand or machine, becomes the pencil and paintbrush. The artist’s tools.

Join Mindful Margaret River’s Martin Ringer for a talk about the benefits of crafting and the impact it has on mental health.

TALK TIME PENDING

Exhibition runs from 21 March -15 April. Mon-Fri, 10am-4pm

Venue

Foyer Gallery

Ticket Prices

Free

Related Events

• 

  Getting Back Up Again

  2 May @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
• 

  Strength in Vulnerability: An Open Conversation for Men

  3 May @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm