Update: Both groups are now full! If you would like to join the waiting list, scroll down and fill in the sign-up form.
We’re really excited to launch two new Creative Wellbeing Groups in Lancaster and Kendal
The groups are free to join and are open to all neurodivergent people aged 18+.
Come and connect with other neurodivergent people in your area, have a brew and try guided creative activities in a fun and relaxed space.
Over 12 fortnightly workshops, you’ll explore collage, colour and textiles with local neurodivergent artist Danielle Chappell Aspinwall, experimenting to develop your own arty flare.
No experience needed - you’ll be encouraged to try and test out at your own pace.
The workshops will lead up to a celebratory exhibition event that the group will design and create together.
Access support will be provided - we’ll ask you about your access needs before the sessions start.
Bursaries towards travel costs are available to those who need them.
Scroll down to find out when and where each group will take place.
Lancaster
Where: Halton Mill, Halton, Lancaster LA2 6ND
When: Every other Thursday 11am-1pm, starting 3rd October (with breaks for half terms/school holidays)
Price: Free! With free refreshments provided
Kendal
Where: Castle Street Community Centre, Kendal LA9 7AD
When: Every other Thursday 11am-1pm, starting 10th October (with breaks for half terms/school holidays)
Price: Free! With free refreshments provided
How to join
We’ve received a lot of interest in these groups and places are now full! If you would like to join the waiting list, please fill in the form below.
If you have any questions, please email us at hello@mainspringarts.org.uk.
Waiting list sign-up form
About the facilitator
Neurodivergent (ADHD/Dyslexic/APD) artist Danielle Chappell Aspinwall explores her textiles practice through collaborative approaches via Fine Arts and Social Practice. As an artist she interconnects people and art through place, nature and wellbeing, advocating for positive change and exploring conversations around mental health, hidden disability inclusion and reducing landfill.
Her multidisciplinary approaches explore a variety of media through 3D installations, film, contemporary textiles, mixed media collage and illustration, inspired by dialogue, fun, doodles and play, exploring identity and resulting in creative conversational pieces and interventions that she also shares through educational activities and workshops.
Using autoethnography in her approaches, she often reaches antidotes of systems that art and wellbeing can achieve, sparking inspiration with workshops to not only boost practical art skills but to reduce stress and loneliness and increase wellbeing, cross-feeding into her art practice, teaching, co-collaborative workshops and codesigned community artworks.
Danielle has worked on a variety of commissions, workshops and projects with local councils, local and national organisations, CICs and charities, with projects co-funded by Heritage Action Zones, Arts Council England, and in partnership with the Lancashire and Cumbria NHS Partnership Trust, Lancashire Recovery College and EESF, and has exhibited nationally in the UK and internationally in India.
Danielle was born in Blackpool and is settled in Dalton-in-Furness, where she resides with her two children and loves escaping in the outdoors, paddleboarding and watching her children play football and sports. Her art studio is in Barrow-in-Furness, where she works freelance as Danielle Chappell or Yappers Chappers Designs, and she is also ‘Artist for Change’ at BarrowFull, the Arts Council Creative People and Places Programme for Barrow. Find Danielle at daniellechappell.com or on Instagram and Twitter @YappersChappers.
