Evolution Arts

One week until our Autumn Launch!

Our programme of daytime, evening and weekend courses, workshops and drop-in classes starts next week, and we’ve got your wellbeing and creativity covered.

Choose from drawing, painting, dancing, singing, creative writing, photography, yoga, Shamanic soundbaths, the Alexander Technique, Indian Head Massage, clowning and more!

Learn more about our growing programme of exciting offerings here: https://www.evolutionarts.org.uk/

Hope to see you soon 🥰

One week until our Autumn Launch!

Our programme of daytime, evening and weekend courses, workshops and drop-in classes starts next week, and we've got your wellbeing and creativity covered.

Choose from drawing, painting, dancing, singing, creative writing, photography, yoga, Shamanic soundbaths, the Alexander Technique, Indian Head Massage, clowning and more!

Learn more about our growing programme of exciting offerings here: https://www.evolutionarts.org.uk/

Hope to see you soon 🥰

Join professional photographer Eva Kalpadaki in Stanmer Park and learn how to capture amazing photos of the flowers and beautiful, colourful surrounds of Hearts and Flowers.

You will explore the technical and creative elements of mobile phone photography and apply into practice the tips and tricks to help you capture and edit that perfect image.

There will even be an opportunity to pick your own organically grown September flowers to take home!

Learn more and book your space here: https://bit.ly/3yJHoPk

Make this autumn your
‘Time To Thrive!’
An in-person evening coaching course for women with
Starts Tuesday 3rd September.

Life is full of surprises & changes & sometimes we just need a sense of clarity, perspective & self-nourishment to get us moving forward. Often when big changes happen in life, we can feel like we are at the middle of a crossroads, unsure what way to go next! Transition times are full of potential & hope, but also can be overwhelming and confusing & this course is designed to support you through these times to a more resilient & authentic life.

This course is designed for anyone going through transition & changing times. It’s an opportunity to have a focused space & sense of perspective just for you. You’ll explore what nourishes, inspires & motivates you so you can move forward with clarity & focus to create your ideal life.

Tuesdays, 6.30-8.30pm, 5 wks + Sun 3 Sept


To learn more and reserve your space visit website, linkinbio.

Get your Qigong on this Sunday!

Internal Qigong Alchemy, Sunday 18 August, 1.30pm to 6pm

This workshop will focus on the Fire Element which relates to the summer. In Internal Qigong it relates to our heart centre – the house of our spirit and consciousness. Qigong postures, movements, sounds, and breath sequences will connect us with the universal life energy (Qi) which increases our vital energy, so invigorate and revitalise us.

Your tutor Amadis trained with Qigong teachers for over twenty years. Since the mid-eighties he has studied Transformational and Medical Qigong, Internal Alchemy, Classical Chinese Medicine and language, all of which informs his teaching. He has taught Internal Qigong since the 1990s and practices acupuncture in a community clinic in Brighton.

Bookings via website.

Our quintessential Artist’s Way course is not only back in September but we are excited to introduce its new tutor Bella Cranmore (pictured below). Even if you’ve done the Artist’s Way course before, re-visiting it with a different tutor and group of people can be a completely new experience which will lead to fresh creative adventures and discoveries.

Bella says: ‘I first came across the The Artist Way over 22 years ago and have used it several times in my life to get unstuck, navigate new career paths, and introduce greater creativity and adventure into daily living. This included a fashion internship with Zandra Rhodes, running an Artists Open House in Brighton and finding a new passion for gardening.’

Now an Integrative Therapist based in Brighton, Bella trained at Re-Vision in London, which explores a creative soul-based approach to living, drawing on myth, fairytales, mark making and ritual.

Bella’s 10wk course ‘The Artist’s Way: Discover and Recover Your Creative Self: A 10-wk Journey with The Artist’s Way’ starts Wednesday 25 September, 7-9pm

https://bit.ly/4fvwTje

🙌 New 2-hr Hand Massage Workshop this Tuesday 🙌

Our hardworking hands need some time & attention. This short 2 hour workshop teaches a simple yet effective massage routine for your hands to practice with friends & family. The workshop gives some brief history regarding Thai yoga massage, which this hand routine is part of. The workshop is very practical and fun way of learning this routine, with lots of giving & receiving. No experience required, just come with an open mind and a willingness to learn.
6.30pm to 8.30pm


Book via website

Yoga Drop-in Classes
every day of the week


£10 per class / £8 concession
No need to book just come along

For more info, including teacher bios, see: tinyurl.com/bddauafe

🌻Summer Needle Felting Workshop in association with

🌸 Try out this mindful craft and learn the basics of needle felting whilst immersed in nature.
🌸 Have fun playing with wool and shaping woollen creations (hearts, flowers or wherever your imagination takes you) in the colourful, beautiful surrounds of Hearts & Flowers
🌸 Pick an organically grown bunch of summer flowers to take home.

You could even make a day of it and bring picnic!

Needle felting is sculpting with wool and involves creating 3D objects by stabbing wool with a felting needle.

Sunday 21st July, 11am to 2pm

Songwriting Workshop
Sunday 23 June, 10am to 4pm Westhill Hall,Brighton

Learn how to develop and craft your songs with singer songwriter and MA Songwriting graduate Sennen Timcke

✍️Focus on Lyric Writing, Harmony, Melody and Arrangement
🎶Interactive songwriting briefs
🗣️Peer to peer and tutor feedback on songs
🎸A fun, supportive way to learn how to develop and craft your songs using lyric writing, melody, harmony, and arrangement techniques.

If you’re just starting out, or need some fresh perspective, this workshop will help you tap into and harness your creativity and equip you with the tools to write songs. All musical genres welcome. Suitable for beginner to intermediate writers

Discovering Shodokan Aikido - with Paul
6 Fridays, 11am - 12pm, starting 7th June
STARTS THIS WEEK

Get to know how your body works both gently and at pace, studying basic and applied posture and techniques & the mental approach to practice.

At Brighton Buddhist Centre

Offered through Evolution Arts
More info & bookings via their website: tinyurl.com/2jhhd82v

It's almost time for the Roses!

Join Helen and Rona at Hearts and Flowers Stanmer Organics for a unique afternoon surrounded in nature and aromatic organic roses.

Smell the roses, learn about them, draw them, even pick a bunch to take home!

A Rose is a Rose is a Rose Workshop: Sunday 9 June, 12pm to 3.30pm.

Learn more and book your place here: https://www.evolutionarts.org.uk/service-page/a-rose-is-a-rose-is-a-rose?referral=service_list_widget

Mindful Mantras and Meditation
This Sunday, 2 June, 2-4pm brightonbuddhistcentre

Singing mantras and meditation can ‘water the seeds’ of heart qualities such as love, compassion, kindness and joy and help us to be more present in the here and now.

Bookings via

What is Restorative Yoga and how can it help you?

Yoga instructor Eva Kozacikova explains:

"Restorative yoga is a gentle and nourishing practice that helps to repair and restore your body and mind, leaving you feeling refreshed and rejuvenated. This gentle, slow-paced, meditative form of yoga allows you to focus on your breath while releasing tension in your mind and body. By softening and relaxing into postures with as little muscular and mental effort as possible, your body is better able to rest, heal and restore.

This class uses various props such as cushions, blankets, chairs, and yoga blocks. These props support your body as you ease into each posture, allowing you to deeply relax and release tension. By using props, you can comfortably hold poses for longer periods, promoting a deeper sense of rest and rejuvenation. Using props in restorative yoga can also help improve your body's alignment, reduce the risk of injury, and increase flexibility. By fully supporting your body, you can let go of any unnecessary tension and find greater ease in your practice."

Eva's next 6wk Restorative Yoga course starts on Tuesday 4 June, 12pm to 1.15pm, at Brighton Buddhist Centre, Tichborne Street. (Bookings through Evolution Arts).

Getting Started With Creative Writing
New 6wk course starts Friday 7 July.

The perfect course if you are new to creative writing and want to explore its possibilities, or if you have done a little creative writing in the past, and would like a refresher.

You’ll use the stimulus of listening to a short piece of writing - whether poetry or prose - to inspire you to write. Over the weeks you’ll build a momentum of our own creative writing practice through writing, editing and feedback.

2pm to 4pm, Brighton Buddhist Centre, Tichborne St.

https://www.evolutionarts.org.uk/service-page/getting-started-with-creative-writing?referral=service_list_widget

Meet our new tutor Bex Fidler!

With over 15 years experience in the applied and therapeutic arts, she has founded, led and facilitated wide ranging projects from Miss Represented, a creative arts project working with young women in the criminal justice system, to MotherSong, developing therapeutic sound, singing, and ritual approaches to empower expectant mothers for a positive pregnancy, birth, and postpartum experience.

Grounded in compassion, and non-judgement, Bex creates a supported space for self-enquiry, discovery, release and healing both in one-to-one therapy and in group sessions, running workshops and courses using therapeutic voice and singing to improve wellbeing emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually.

Bex is bringing her unique 6-week Circle Singing and the Healing Heart course to Evolution on Tuesday evenings, 7pm to 9pm, from Tuesday 4th June.

Learn more: www.evolutionarts.org.uk/service-page/circle-singing-and-the-healing-voice?referral=service_list_widget

Discovering Shodokan Aikido is a brand new daytime course starting on Friday 7 June.

Join Aikido 6th Dan Paul Bonnett for an introduction into this fascinating martial art. This practise draws heavily on cooperation rather than confrontation and teaches you how to tune in and connect to the differing energies of others.

Paul started his aikido career in 1979, originally practicing under Brian Elgood, now deceased. In the early 90s, he started studying the Shodokan system, developed by Tomiki Kenji sensei, and subsequently by its current chief instructor, Nariyama Tetsuro shihan in Osaka, Japan. Paul tries to get there every year to improve his knowledge.

Paul has been running Sussex Aikido since 1998. He is a karate 4th Dan and holds a 6th Dan in aikido

Learn more and book your place here: https://www.evolutionarts.org.uk/service-page/discovering-shodokan-aikido?referral=service_list_widget

Thank you to everyone who joined us on Saturday for our joint Open Day with . And also to all the staff, volunteers and tutors who helped make the day such a success. We hope you enjoyed sampling the different sessions (and of course the cakes!). It was lovely to see so many people gathered in our beautiful centre and we hope to see you again soon 😊🙏

Looking for some creative summer fun ideas in Brighton?

Choose from A Rose is a Rose is a Rose (flower &botany workshop), a Graffiti Photo Tour, An Alexander Technique Walking Workshop, and Summer Needle Felting.

The Rose and Needle Felting workshops take place at the delightful surrounds of Hearts & Flowers Stanmer Organics, where there is an opportunity to pick a bunch of flowers to take home with you included in the price of the workshop.

See our website for all our summer offerings outside & in.

Wishing you a gorgeous sunshiny weekend x

On Saturday 18 May we invite you to the Evolution Arts and joint Open Day, as part of this year’s
Come along for a day of FREE TASTER SESSIONS and dip your toes into the wide pool of activities that happen here throughout the year.

Tutors from some of Evolution’s upcoming summer courses and workshops will be giving you the chance to sample their sessions including CIRCLE SINGING, NEEDLE FELTING, INTRODUCTION TO THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE, SHODOKAN AIKIDO.

We hope you can join us, find out more about what Evolution Arts and the Buddhist Centre can offer, and enjoy some tea, coffee and cake. It’s looking promising for some sunshine in the Centre’s delightful garden too!

You can find the full timetable of the day’s events on website.

Who got to see the Northern Lights make an appearance in Brighton last night? 💜💗💙

Explore Your Inner Clown workshop
with Sarah Davies, Sunday 12 May

Forget children’s parties and circus clowns, this type of clowning provides a structured, safe space for adults to reconnect with their childlike playfulness and to explore the world through the wobbly lens of the clown.

Expect to play drama games, wear a red nose, dress up, laugh, invent and be in the present. No performance experience required.

Bookings via website

“I can attest that this is a wonderful course! I would highly recommend it to anyone who feels the need to be nurtured & uplifted, especially if you’re in a state of change at the moment. It’s nourishing and extremely helpful!” Rose

Time To Thrive - a unique in-person coaching course for women with Daisy Bruce starts Wednesday 15 May, 6.30pm - 8.30pm BRIGHTON BUDDHIST CENTRE

Learn more and book your place here:

Time To Thrive | Evolutionarts A course designed to support you through changing overwhelming times enabling you to lead a more resilient & authentic life. Come along to this central Brighton based course and gain a sense of clarity, perspective & self-nourishment to get you moving forward.

New Art Course ‘Art For Relaxation’ starts this Wednesday, 1.30-3.30pm, 10wks Bond St, Brighton, with Heidi Compton.

Learn more and book your last minute place via our website - link in bio and our latest story!
Testimonials:

‘I found your advice revolutionary. I realised that it had immensely soothing effect on my brain. It was the first time I realised that there is connection between my modest art creations and the way I feel. ‘

‘i definitely feel these sessions are beneficial not just from an Art point of view but for the soul.‘

🎨 Art courses starting this week…

- Art for Relaxation, Weds 24 April, 1.30 - 3.30pm, 10wks

- Painting in Oils, Thurs 25 April, 11-2pm, 7wks

Clarkes - The Art Shop Bond St, Brighton

Learn more:
https://www.evolutionarts.org.uk/artanddesign

Make this year your Time To Thrive!
An in-person evening coaching course for women with
Starts Wednesday 15 May.

Life is full of surprises & changes & sometimes we just need a sense of clarity, perspective & self-nourishment to get us moving forward. Often when big changes happen in life, we can feel like we are at the middle of a crossroads, unsure what way to go next! Transition times are full of potential & hope, but also can be overwhelming and confusing & this course is designed to support you through these times to a more resilient & authentic life.

This course is designed for anyone going through transition & changing times. It’s an opportunity to have a focused space & sense of perspective just for you. You’ll explore what nourishes, inspires & motivates you so you can move forward with clarity & focus to create your ideal life.

Wednesdays, 6.30-8.30pm, 5 wks + Sat 15 June


To learn more and reserve your space visit website, linkinbio.

Our Spring offerings are packed with energising music, movement and creativity designed to rejuvenate your senses and uplift your spirit.

Choose from: Pilates, Yoga, Clowning, Ukulele,, Photography, Art for Relaxation, Painting In Oils, and our Time to Thrive Women's Coaching Course and lots more!

Let your spring be a season of learning and growth with us 💛

Discover our full programme here: https://www.evolutionarts.org.uk/

Afternoon Pilates with Matteo - new 6wk course starts Wednesday 17 April, 1.30pm - 2.30pm.

"Finally, I found a class which is powerful, yet gentle, focusing on well-being of the clients and their physical abilities (client oriented), where there is not an unhealthy competition. The teacher is excellent. Professional, passionate about Pilates, patient, genuinely interested, able to relate his extensive knowledge, making sure that we all understand the exercises and are managing well." Andrea, Nov 2022

Great for beginners and those with more experience.
Reserve your place here: https://www.evolutionarts.org.uk/service-page/pilates-course-4?referral=service_list_widget

We're excited to announce the launch of three new courses this season: Discovering Shodokan Aikido, Make a Movie Using AI, and Art for Relaxation.

After the Easter break our regular courses kick off again the week beginning 15 April. Book soon if you plan to join Acylic Painting, Learning to Draw, Beginners Photography, Hatha Yoga Scaravelli Style, Pilates, Painting in Oils or Time to Thrive.

We also have weekend workshops galore for you this Spring/Summer, starting with Explore Your Inner Clown on Sunday 12 May.

Hope to see you soon!

https://www.evolutionarts.org.uk/