YOUNG CREATIVES
WEST COAST MAKERS
/2024
Everyone Here
Do you want to explore what ‘making’ and ‘creating’ mean to you? Are you interested in Theatre Making or Performing? Want to explore Scriptwriting, Zine Making and Music?
West Coast Makers is a creative space for young people to come together and be collectively ambitious – a place to bring ideas, have ideas, dare, dream and do.
No experience or audition required.
When? 2024
Where? West Cumbria
Who? 14-21 yrs
Cost? Free
We're leading pop-up workshops in schools, colleges and cultural spaces throughout 2024. We're building a new space to ask what it means to be creatively wild in Cumbria today.
Join us at the next pop-up workshops at:
*Bex Harvey
Hello, I'm Bex. I am a queer interdisciplinary maker and facilitator based in Newcastle upon Tyne. My work is about social experience, world-sharing and storytelling, usually, but not exclusively, through film. I work alongside and for a variety of communities; encouraging creative play and support individuals and groups in finding a way to tell their stories. In the past, I have worked with youth groups, elderly groups, LGBTQ groups, women's groups, refugees and children in care.
I also facilitate creative experiences and workshops on behalf of different cultural institutions. I have worked with BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle University, Durham University, CRISIS, Newcastle City Council and the National Trust.
I also work in collaboration with non-binary artist and musician, Sarah Li. Together, we operate under the name Unlearn & Publish, through which we make work about 'unlearning' and provide critique on the societal constructs that we believe to be really damaging to a progressive and nurturing society. Our work takes the form of publications, letters, films, performances and community-based workshops.
Insta g@bexharvey
Previous Workshops:
Zine-Making with Mack Sproates*
Carnegie Theatre & Arts Centre, Workington
*Mack Sproates (they/he)
Mack is a cabaret maker, binary breaker, lip-syncer and zine-ster. They love to make work that is silly and full of joy, to help represent the underrepresented and advocate positive well-being for the LGBTQIA+ community.
Their work is playful, educational, cut and stick, silly and raw, and often inspired by pop culture, 80s movies, comic books and their own experiences as a trans person. They also work as a youth worker, visual artist and they like to make weird little badges.
Insta g@mjgroovysproates
@hailtothezinebaby
Positivity & Togetherness with Izaak Gledhill*
Whitehaven Pride, Whitehaven Harbour
*Izaak Gledhill
Izaak Gledhill is an LGBTQIA+ North West artist based in the North East, whose work seeks to find the extraordinary in the ordinary of every day life. From conversations in taxis to arguments with sheep, his working class gaze on the stories heard and shared highlight the current state of the world we live in.
Tote Bags & Collaging with Dami Fawehinmi*
Carnegie Theatre & Arts Centre, Workington
*Dami Fawehinmi (she/they)
Hiya! My name’s Dami founder of @NaviiMedia where we run events, workshops and create media for marginalized communities to exist loudly and unapologetically.
I'll be running the community collage workshop and the personal story tote bag workshop where we will explore our creativity, embracing our individuality and community through art and you'll be able to take your creations home!
Immersive crafts can be a great way to express yourself and also take part in new art you haven't before, I can't wait to meet everyone!
Songwriting with Emma Dockeray*
Carnegie Theatre & Arts Centre, Workington
*Emma Dockeray
Emma Dockeray is a Cumbria-based singer-songwriter currently releasing pop songs with her band FLYNT. She has had her original music played on BBC Radio 1 and has recorded at the iconic Maida Vale studios in London.
From pop to country, Emma writes a range of music both as a solo artist and with her band. Emma is also a passionate music facilitator and specialises in singing, songwriting and music making with all ages.
Insta g@emmadockeray
@flyntofficial
Playwriting with Lee Mattinson & Louie Ingham*
Carnegie Theatre & Arts Centre, Workington
*Lee Mattinson
& Louie Ingham
Between us we have forty years experience of making theatre. We have worked in a number of theatres and will be looking at how to take an idea from it's initial inception to the page and the stage. This is a workshop for anyone who is burning to make any idea a blistering reality.
We run an inclusive space where we encourage people to be themselves. If being in the room is not your thing, or you can’t make a session, drop us an email and we’ll keep you in the loop about other Young Creative activity.
West Coast Makers is funded by Everyone Here
