Bensham Bites in June/July
Join us for our next set of food workshops as part of Bensham Bites and our first network meeting of 2026. This is the second block of workshops...
Artist call out
We are looking for an artist/creative person to work with us on the project Bensham Bites. Bensham Bites brings together various food focused projects in Gateshead, existing and...
Bensham Bites May and June workshops
Join us for our next set of food workshops as part of Bensham Bites. This is the first block of four workshops led by the organisations St Chads...
Flax, wildflowers and foraging
Weaving for Wellbeing is into its third block of 10 sessions, over half way through the project. Over the next block we have started to plant flax seed...
Basket making, natural dying and quilting
This is a belated blogpost about some of the workshops that took place January to March 2026. We are now in the middle of a break for Easter...
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....