King Street Arts Lancaster CIC

A new exhibition in Thomas Storey gallery at The Storey from Monday 16th featuring art by Victoria Dessau and writing from Rosemary Dresher and Sue Becker.

Victoria and Rosemary are members of our Writing Collective

Open Studios this weekend at King Street Arts Lancaster CIC. This is a great opportunity to visit our artist studio spaces and see some of our artist at work, there is also an exhibition of work from the artists. You will also find information about some of our future workshops.
Why not make a day of it on Saturday and visit Luneside Studios and Assembly Arts as well and see the work from a host of Lancaster's talented artists.

Saturday is the last day for the Venus Revisited exhibition at Morecambe Library Lancashire Libraries. A wonderful display of thought provoking images and sculptures which celebrate humanity. Lancaster District CVS and Arts Council England

3 days of Venus Revisited exhibition at Morecambe Library! A sneak peak of some of the highlights of this collection of ceramics and drawings made by 17 local women in response to their menopause and ageing experiences. Thanks to Lancashire Libraries for the book display of related literature.
Lancaster District CVS Arts Council England

You can now see the Venus Revisited drawings alongside the ceramics in the exhition by 17 local women, responding to their experience of menopause and ageing, showing at Morecambe Library Lancashire Libraries until end of August. Great to see both in the same space! Thanks to Arts Council England and Lancaster District CVS for supporting this initiative.

Venus Revisited project is on the radio! Hear our BBC Lancashire interview at the link below, and see the celebration of what has been made in the exhibition of ceramics and large drawings at Morecambe Library until end of August.Lancashire Libraries. Thanks to Arts Council England, Lancaster District CVS for funding this trailblazing project!!
https://www.kingstreetstudios.art/current-exhibition

Visited The Coach House Gallery at Astley Park, Chorley today to see a great retrospective exhibition of work by Paul Mason. Very thoughtful combinations of and some fantastic reflecting on many things, the sadness and madness of the First World War alongside the contemporary problems pollution and Global warming. Well worth a visit. It's also in a beautiful setting.

as part of the project in The Storey. Thanks to Friends of the Storey Gardens, Lancaster for allowing us to use this fabulous space.. great conversations with lots of people about the project, body/ self image and ageing.. what more could you want in the sun?
Come and see us tomorrow in the gardens too and catch the exhibitions in the Storey building, (first floor display cases, and in the Gardens too, and catch the drawings at King Street Arts in the upstairs gallery. On until Saturday!

Terracotta sculpture's exhibition at in the first floor display cabinets. Every day until 6pm Sat 3rd August.

Exhibition of emotive powerful Drawings from The Venus Revisited Project at King Street Arts 5a King Street 11 to 5.30 until Saturday 3rd August.

We are Open 11 - 5.30 today and until 3rd August with an exhibition of drawings from the project and across at The Storey there is a display of sculpture from the project on the first floor and in The Folly in The Storey Gardens Friends of the Storey Gardens, Lancaster

Busy day preparing for The Storey with Mary and Sarah. We will be open on Wednesday- Saturday with ceramics in The Storey and drawings at King Street Arts' gallery. This project showcases the work of 17 local women exploring their changing body and self image from the menopause onwards. Thanks to Arts Council England and The Eric Wright Trust for funding and support from Lancaster District CVS and Lancaster Integrated Care Community and Morecambe ICC

open until 5 today in The Parish Rooms at StJohns Church in Silverdale.

Here today untill 5 lot's of original work
Silverdale Arts Festival 2024

Silverdale Arts Festival 2024 We are Venue 5
SATURDAY & SUNDAY 10:30 - 5:30

SpaceHive have extended our deadline to Monday 1st July for our crowdfund campaign Wellbeing Paint with Acrylics! https://www.spacehive.com/wellbeing-paint-with-acrylics-workshops
Only £380 left to meet our target, so we are nearly there! Please help us, even if you can only donate the cost of a coffee, or can share this link. Everything counts! Thank you to our backers, so far 58 of you have supported this project. We thank you.

Wellbeing Paint with Acrylics Workshops We want to deliver free art workshops in community settings for people with little or no art experience. Providing relaxed sessions that encourage creative freedom and promote the benefits of play.

Only 1 Day to the deadline for our crowdfund campaign Wellbeing Paint with Acrylics! https://www.spacehive.com/wellbeing-paint-with-acrylics-workshops
Only £489 left to meet our target, so we are nearly there! Please help us, even if you can only donate the cost of a coffee, or can share this link. Everything counts! Thank you to our backers, so far 54 of you have supported this project. We thank you.

3 Days to the deadline for our crowdfund campaign Wellbeing Paint with Acrylics! Only £590 left to meet our target, so we are nearly there! Please help us, even if you can only donate the cost of a coffee, or can share this link. Everything counts! Thank you to our backers so far: over 50 people have supported this project. We thank you.

https://www.spacehive.com/wellbeing-paint-with-acrylics-workshops

We are overwhelmed with all the extra support this project has received in te last few days: We are now at 84% of our target with only 8 days left to go. Every bit of support we can get will help us to develop and deliver this programme to launch people on an artistic adventure,

Follow this link for more information and to pledge if you can:

https://www.spacehive.com/wellbeing-paint-with-acrylics-workshops

King Street Arts Lancaster CIC Artist led arts organisation based in Lancaster City Centre offering creative workshops, art course

We want to thank everyone for their recent pledges to our Crowd Fund campaign we have now reached 68% of our target so not far to go and still 11 days to go if you would like to help us to be able to deliver our project.
The aim of which is to offer a programme of skill devlopment workshops via painting with acrylics to both young people and adults who have not previously been able to do this, and to develop their confidence so that they can share their work with their family, friends and everybody in the wider community, in a joint exhibition which they have helped curate.

Many of us already connect with the benefits that creativity can bring in, finding solace and a voice through self expression; help us to extend this great life skill to those who don't know it yet.

https://www.spacehive.com/wellbeing-paint-with-acrylics-workshops

Create Natural Plant Ink with Helen Leece
Wednesday 5th June 10 - 1pm

Come and explore the wonders of natural ink making with Helen Leece. Helen lives in the beautiful Trough of Bowland and is a wildflower meadow conservationist and well practiced in Ayurveda plant medicine and Flower Essences. She will be holding a series of four workshops at King Street Arts to explore the connection of plants to art. Have you ever wondered how to create natural plant inks that can be used for painting your own creations? Learn what colour flowers and barks make and how to stabilise the ink. Come along and get creative with other artists and beginners while we explore the palette from nature.

Book a place:
https://www.kingstreetstudios.art/store/Create-Natural-Plant-Ink-5th-June-p626125005

The Gathering Fields Flower Essences, Retreats and Apothecary