A Nature Visual Journaling Walkshop with sheree mack

Take a Walk Around the Nature Reserve & Across the Page

DATE: Sunday, July 19

START TIME: 12:00 PM

END TIME: 3:00 PM

Please note that only assistance dogs are permitted on site.

LOCATION: Gosforth Nature reserve.

Due to limited parking, you may need to park in the surrounding areas. If you find the car park is full, there are residential areas located close by

Extra parking is available along Benton Lane (A 5 min walk away - towards the Greggs factory)

You can find travel information here:

https://www.nhsn.org.uk/visit-gosforth-nature-reserve/

We may be able to help with your travel costs, please contact hello @ sister-shack.com (no spaces) for more information.

COST: £0/3/6/9

Thanks to generosity of the reserve, there is no entry fee.

ACCESS - You can find all access information here:

https://www.nhsn.org.uk/visit-gosforth-nature-reserve/

This is an all weather event. The visualing section will be indoors. The walk will be in rain or shine (except for extreme weather). Please dress accordingly. If you do not wish to do the walk, you can stay behind in the field room until the walk section is over.

AMENITIES

Toilet facilities on site include an eco-loo, located on the main path to the south of the reserve, and an accessible toilet at the reserve entrance.

The on-site field room (where the workshop visualing will be) also has toilets. You can store items in the field room here at your own risk. We accept no responsibility for your items.

https://www.nhsn.org.uk/hire-the-field-studies-room/

book here

Visualing walkshop

Taking inspiration from her visual journaling practice, join Dr. Sheree Mack as we take a walk around the nature reserve and across the page to discover new ways of exploring and documenting our vital connection with nature, others and ourselves. There are no rules in visual journalling. Everything is right.

We will smear paint on pages, stick down images and text to create a visual journal. Prompts, text, quotes are then used to allow us to start adding our own thoughts and feelings about nature connection.

Leave after our creative time together with your own unique visual journal to continue your practice beyond. “

This is an all weather event. The visualing section will be indoors. The walk will be in rain or shine (except for extreme weather). Please dress accordingly. If you do not wish to do the walk, you can stay behind in the field room until the walk section is over.

sheree mack

Dr. Sheree Mack, Creatrix : she who makes, with a practice which manifests through poetry, storytelling, image and the unfolding histories of Black people. Sheree engages audiences around Black women’s voices and bodies, Black feminism, ecology and memory, nature connection, grief and healing. As creative director of Earth SeaLove CIC, Sheree facilitates national and international creative workshops and retreats in the landscape, encouraging and supporting people of the global majority on their journey of remembrance back to their bodies and authentic selves.