Creativity and Wellbeing Week - preview

Being creative is great for your health; it gives you new skills and a sense of achievement and community.

Join us at our inspiring schedule of exciting events during Creativity and Wellbeing Week from 15 to 21 May 2023 to discover the benefits of creativity and unleash your inner artist. From music and crafts to outdoor activities, there’s something for everyone.

Activities for adults

Ongoing events

Tailor Made in Barnsley exhibition

Welcome to an exhibition celebrating Barnsley’s textile makers! The borough has centuries of stories of weaving, sewing and quilting to tell. Whether it’s a McLintock’s jacket, a Barnsley linen tea towel or a snappy Sugdens shirt, our fabric products were known for innovation and top quality. We’ve chosen items from the museum and archive collections which show some of the people, processes and products of this rich textile history. Find out more in the displays, leave us your own memories and have a go at making!

Monday 15 May 2023

Wombwell Wellbeing Walk

  • Provider: Barnsley Wellbeing Walks and Age UK Barnsley
  • Venue: Meet outside Katie's Sandwich Bar, Wombwell, S73 8EP
  • Time: 10am to 11am

For more details please call Age UK Barnsley on (01226) 776820.

Locke Park Wellbeing Walk

  • Provider: Barnsley Wellbeing Walks
  • Venue: Meet in Locke Park car park, S70 1YG
  • Time: 11am to 12pm

For more details please call Ian on 07902 806252

RSPB Old Moor Wellbeing Walk

  • Provider: Barnsley Wellbeing Walks
  • Venue: Meet in Old Moor car park, S73 0YF
  • Time: 1pm to 2pm

For more details please call Ian on 07902 806252

Happy Vibes Memory Cafe - dementia activity cafe

Join us for visual and creative activity, music, dance and more.

  • Provider: Age UK, Barnsley - Karen Dennis
  • Venue: Penistone Sports Centre
  • Time: 1.30pm to 3.30pm

For more details please contact n.stokes@ageukbarnsley.org.uk.

This is a dementia-friendly event.

To book, please contact Karen Dennis at Age UK Barnsley (01226) 776820.

Dementia Cafe

A dementia friendly cafe with games, raffle, refreshments, bingo, and gentle exercise.

  • Provider: Age UK, Barnsley - Karen Dennis
  • Venue: St Andrew's Community Centre, St Andrew's Road, Hoyland, Barnsley, S74 9HD
  • Time: 10am to 12pm

This is a dementia-friendly event.

For more details please contact Jill Barker via email at jillbarker@berneslaihomes.co.uk. You can also call 07976532292.

Stitches

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Knit and natter

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Sewing group

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Knit and natter

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Tuesday 16 May 2023

Dearne Valley Park Wellbeing Walk

  • Venue: Meeting outside Harborough Hills McDonalds, Old Mill Lane, S71 1LN
  • Time: 11am to 12pm

For more details please call Barry on 07947 656127.

Elsecar Wellbeing Walk

  • Provider: Barnsley Wellbeing Walks
  • Venue: Meet in the Elsecar Heritage Centre car park (Opposite the park), S75 8HJ 
  • Time: 11am to 12pm

For more information please call Pete on 07500 583946

Hoyland Wellbeing Walk

  • Provider: Barnsley Wellbeing Walks
  • Venue: Meet outside Hoyland Common Co-op, S74 0NE
  • Time: 7pm to 8pm

For more details please call Ian on 07902 806252

Crafts

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Crafts

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Crafts and chat

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Come and see - open studio

Invite you to visit our open studio group held at our new HQ. Have a brew and see what creative things folk are up to.

  • Provider: Creative Recovery
  • Venue: Prospect Street Community Centre, Prospect Street. (Turn off Summer Lane behind the George and the Dragon pub).
  • Time: 11.30am to 2.30pm

For more details please call 07916 282064, or email participate@creativerecovery.co.uk 

Wednesday 17 May 2023

Garden gathering @ the carers garden

  • Provider: Creative Recovery
  • Venue: Metrodome Sports Centre (Garden behind)
  • Times: 
    • 2pm to 5pm - various workshops including mosaic, willow weaving, storytelling, foraging and sketching.  
    • 5pm to 7pm - Latin band and drumming/percussion workshop. Bring your own picnic.

Hot drinks available throughout. For more details please call 07916 282064, or email participate@creativerecovery.co.uk

Silkstone Common Wellbeing Walk

  • Provider: Barnsley Wellbeing Walks
  • Venue: Meet at Julie's Cafe, 4 Stottercliffe Road, Penistone, S36 6EB
  • Times: 11am to 12pm

For more details please call Julie on 07917 6500917 or Sharron on 07903 390143

Picturing the Park

Drawing for wellbeing in the new walled garden training room. Be inspired by the beautiful surroundings of the park and try out new materials. There is gentle guidance on-hand to help. This event is free of charge.

Fine Fettle taster session

Enjoy a range of outdoor activities focused on the key themes of explore, mindfulness, skills and imagine. Let the woodland enhance your wellbeing naturally. Our workshop offers an insight to the Fine Fettle six week course running regularly at Wentworth Castle Gardens. For more details please contact Angela Wright at adventuringangels@outlook.com.

Suggestion Box Songs

Interested in music and song-writing? Join Nicolas Lewis for our open song-writing sessions. You can drop in and take part in the process of creating original songs using stories, anecdotes, dreams, poems and lyrics collected from our specially installed suggestion boxes throughout Barnsley. No experience necessary, just bring your creativity and enthusiasm! Nicolas is a performer, composer, and community musician. He's written for theatre, opera, and dance productions that have toured throughout the country. His songs have been broadcast on national radio and he frequently runs exciting community projects in Yorkshire and the Northeast.

  • Provider: Nicolas Lewis
  • Venue: Library @ the Lightbox
  • Times:
    • 10am to 11am
    • 11.15am to 12.15pm
    • 1.45pm to 2.45pm
    • 3pm to 4pm
    • 4.15pm to 5.15pm
    • 5.30pm to 6.30pm

For more details please visit our Events at our libraries page.

Knit and natter

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Crafts

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Thursday 18 May 2023

Come and see - UPLIFT Choir

We invite you to join the UPLIFT Choir and raise the roof.

  • Provider: Creative Recovery
  • Venue: St Paul's Church, just off Greenfoot Lane near the hospital
  • Time: 1.45pm to 3.45pm

For more details please call 07916 282064, or email participate@creativerecovery.co.uk 

Chatty Cafe

Dementia friendly cafe with fun, games, raffle, refreshments and a special action week quiz with prizes.

  • Provider: Age UK, Barnsley - Ellie Price
  • Venue: Cudworth Methodist Chapel, 280 Barnsley Road, Cudworth, Barnsley S72 8JP
  • Time: 10.30am to 12pm

This is a dementia-friendly event.

For more details please call Carol or Sarah on (01226) 776820.

Musical Memories

Dementia Choir and cafe. Singing for an hour and an hour for conversation and refreshments.

  • Provider: Age UK, Barnsley - Tracey White
  • Venue: Emmanuel Church, Huddersfield Road, Barnsley, S75 1DT
  • Time: Musical Memories 1pm to 2pm, Cafe 2pm to 3pm

This is a dementia-friendly event.

For more details please contact n.stokes@ageukbarnsley.org.uk.

Craft and chat

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Colouring and board games

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Coffee, chat, games and craft

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Rag rug and felt group

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Games

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Friday 19 May 2023

Sonic Whispers Workshop

Sonic Whispers is inspired by Emma and Carl’s experiences with Synesthesia and will explore different methods of creative expression. Synesthesia occurs when information meant to stimulate one of your senses stimulates several of your senses. For example, a sound may evoke sensations of colour. Using live music performed by Carl as a starting point. Emma will work with participants to play with how music can be interpreted visually. Inspired by Emma and Carl’s experiences with Synesthesia, the workshop will explore collectively drawing, painting and doodling sound. Emma Denby and Carl Cole are a creative duo working in their respective disciplines of visual art and music to create engaging installations and activities for a variety of audiences. Their work is motivated from seeing the positive change music and art can bring to people.

For more details please visit our Events at our libraries page.

Knit and natter

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Mindfulness colouring

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Saturday 20 May 2023

Celebrating clay

A day of clay-based activities, talks, demonstrations and workshops in partnership with students and staff from Barnsley College.

Sonic Whispers Workshop

Sonic Whispers is inspired by Emma and Carl’s experiences with Synesthesia and will explore different methods of creative expression. Synesthesia occurs when information meant to stimulate one of your senses stimulates several of your senses. For example, a sound may evoke sensations of colour. Using live music performed by Carl as a starting point, Emma will work with participants to play with how music can be interpreted visually. Inspired by Emma and Carl’s experiences with Synesthesia, the workshop will explore collectively drawing, painting and doodling sound. Emma Denby and Carl Cole are a creative duo working in their respective disciplines of visual art and music to create engaging installations and activities for a variety of audiences. Their work is motivated from seeing the positive change music and art can bring to people.

For more details please visit our Events at our libraries page.

Activities for children

Monday 15 May 2023

Story and rhyme

This is an ongoing event and takes place before, during and after Creativity and Wellbeing Week.

For more details please visit our activities for children page.

Board games

This is an ongoing event and takes place before, during and after Creativity and Wellbeing Week.

For more details please visit our activities for children page.

Code club

This is an ongoing event and takes place before, during and after Creativity and Wellbeing Week.

For more details please visit our activities for children page.

Story and rhyme

This is an ongoing event and takes place before, during and after Creativity and Wellbeing Week.

For more details please visit our activities for children page.

Story and rhyme

This is an ongoing event and takes place before, during and after Creativity and Wellbeing Week.

For more details please visit our activities for children page.

Story and rhyme

This is an ongoing event and takes place before, during and after Creativity and Wellbeing Week.

For more details please visit our activities for children page.

Reading and colouring

This is an ongoing event and takes place before, during and after Creativity and Wellbeing Week.

For more details please visit our activities for children page.

Story and rhyme

This is an ongoing event and takes place before, during and after Creativity and Wellbeing Week.

For more details please visit our activities for children page.

Lego club

This is an ongoing event and takes place before, during and after Creativity and Wellbeing Week.

For more details please visit our activities for children page.

Tuesday 16 May 2023

Story and rhyme

This is an ongoing event and takes place before, during and after Creativity and Wellbeing Week.

For more details please visit our activities for children page.

Story and rhyme

This is an ongoing event and takes place before, during and after Creativity and Wellbeing Week.

For more details please visit our activities for children page.

Story and rhyme

This is an ongoing event and takes place before, during and after Creativity and Wellbeing Week.

For more details please visit our activities for children page.

Lego club

This is an ongoing event and takes place before, during and after Creativity and Wellbeing Week.

For more details please visit our activities for children page.

Crafts

This is an ongoing event and takes place before, during and after Creativity and Wellbeing Week.

For more details please visit our activities for children page.

Wednesday 17 May 2023

Story and rhyme

This is an ongoing event and takes place before, during and after Creativity and Wellbeing Week.

For more details please visit our activities for children page.

Lego club

This is an ongoing event and takes place before, during and after Creativity and Wellbeing Week.

For more details please visit our activities for children page.

Story and rhyme

This is an ongoing event and takes place before, during and after Creativity and Wellbeing Week.

For more details please visit our activities for children page.

Thursday 18 May 2023

Concerteenies

Join Luke Carver Goss for 45 minutes of singing, dancing and energetic music-making for 0 to 5 year olds! Luke Carver Goss is a workshop leader, composer and performer who writes for and performs with unusual and regular instrumental combinations. He devises musical material with the groups he works with. He writes, performs and runs creative workshops regularly with poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan. His music includes commissions for Black Dyke Brass Band, Tredegar Town Band, The Sage Gateshead, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Symphony Orchestra and London Sinfonietta. He was a composer for the Cultural Olympiad and his piece ‘Pure Gold: a 4X4 Relay’ was broadcast on Radio 2 and 3. With songs, dancing and listening, this is a fun and informal gig for adults and their 0 to 5 year-old children.

Please book a ticket for everyone attending, including adults. You can do this on the Events at our libraries page.

Concerteenies

Join Luke Carver Goss for 45 minutes of singing, dancing and energetic music-making for 0 to 5 year olds! Luke Carver Goss is a workshop leader, composer and performer who writes for and performs with unusual and regular instrumental combinations. He devises musical material with the groups he works with. He writes, performs and runs creative workshops regularly with poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan. His music includes commissions for Black Dyke Brass Band, Tredegar Town Band, The Sage Gateshead, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Symphony Orchestra and London Sinfonietta. He was a composer for the Cultural Olympiad and his piece ‘Pure Gold: a 4X4 Relay’ was broadcast on Radio 2 and 3. With songs, dancing and listening, this is a fun and informal gig for adults and their 0 to 5 year-old children.

Please book a ticket for everyone attending, including adults. You can do this on our Events at our libraries page.

Colouring and board games

This is an ongoing event and takes place before, during and after Creativity and Wellbeing Week.

For more details please visit our activities for children page.

Story and rhyme

This is an ongoing event and takes place before, during and after Creativity and Wellbeing Week.

For more details please visit our activities for children page.

Story and rhyme

This is an ongoing event and takes place before, during and after Creativity and Wellbeing Week.

For more details please visit our activities for children page.

Story and rhyme

This is an ongoing event and takes place before, during and after Creativity and Wellbeing Week.

For more details please visit our activities for children page.

Lego and board games

This is an ongoing event and takes place before, during and after Creativity and Wellbeing Week.

For more details please visit our activities for children page.

Story and rhyme

This is an ongoing event and takes place before, during and after Creativity and Wellbeing Week.

For more details please visit our activities for children page.

Lego club

This is an ongoing event and takes place before, during and after Creativity and Wellbeing Week.

For more details please visit our activities for children page.

Friday 19 May 2023

Story and rhyme

This is an ongoing event and takes place before, during and after Creativity and Wellbeing Week.

For more details please visit our activities for children page.

Story and rhyme

This is an ongoing event and takes place before, during and after Creativity and Wellbeing Week.

For more details please visit our activities for children page.

Story and rhyme

This is an ongoing event and takes place before, during and after Creativity and Wellbeing Week.

For more details please visit our activities for children page.

Story and rhyme

This is an ongoing event and takes place before, during and after Creativity and Wellbeing Week.

For more details please visit our activities for children page.

Saturday 20 May 2023

Lego club

Provider: Barnsley Council

Venues and times:

These are ongoing events and takes place before, during and after Creativity and Wellbeing Week.

Crafts

This is an ongoing event and takes place before, during and after Creativity and Wellbeing Week.

For more details please visit our activities for children page.

Story and rhyme

This is an ongoing event and takes place before, during and after Creativity and Wellbeing Week.

For more details please visit our activities for children page.

Games

This is an ongoing event and takes place before, during and after Creativity and Wellbeing Week.

For more details please visit our activities for children page.