Embroidery and basket making
After the visit to the Shipley we were back at the Comfrey Project to finish working on our Cyanotype prints that were made last year. With the fabric...
Weaving for Wellbeing at the Shipley Art Gallery
Bringing in the New Year we are starting the second set of ten sessions for Weaving for Wellbeing, supporting creative wellbeing and nature-connectedness, for women who attend the Comfrey...
Flax making
Weaving for Wellbeing has continued every week running workshops exploring natural materials to create artwork. This week was an exciting session where we introduced the group to Rosie...
Weaving for Wellbeing in November
Weaving for Wellbeing has continued every week running workshops exploring natural materials to create artwork. The last three weeks the group has walked around the Comfrey gardens and...
Weaving for Wellbeing starts
This is the first blog post about our year long project Weaving for Wellbeing, working with artists Savannah Rios-Wills and Saya Naruse in collaboration with The Comfrey Project....
Weaving for Wellbeing
We are delighted to let you know that we have been successful with an Arts Council Project Grant application for our project Weaving for Wellbeing. This project is...
Bensham Bites Free workshops
Join us for two FREE workshops for residents of Gateshead exploring food, growing, preservation and nature. You can book on via the QR code or the below link....
The Amateur Ancestor and the Tyne Derwent Way
From January to March this year Dingy Butterflies CIC worked with Tyne Derwent Way to develop nine weeks of artist run workshops with the communities from Dunston and...
The Food of Gateshead’s Present
Ben will be talking at the next Food is Storytelling event on Sunday 20 July at Staiths Cafe, 1-3pm about the food of Gateshead’s present . He will...
Bensham Bites
There are still a few places left on the next two Bensham Bites community food and nature project workshops. These workshops are for primarily for organisations and community workers working...
Bensham Bites workshops
Join us for a series of workshops introducing the Bensham Bites community food and nature project. These workshops are for primarily for organisations and community workers working in Gateshead, but...
Ten years!
It was ten years ago on the 18 April 2015, that I signed the paperwork to constitute Dingy Butterflies CIC as a social enterprise. We had actually been...