Creative Wellness at Home
Welcome to Creative Wellness at Home, a Creative Resilience Project by Community and Cultural Connections Inc (CCCi) and supported by funding from Inner West Council.
We’re hosting weekly do-at-home activities aimed at promoting mindfulness, creativity, cultural connection and resilience during lockdown. Each week, we’ll have a different activity for you to do with simple instructions!
These activities are designed by qualified art therapists and resilience specialists to help you stay mindful and connected. These activities will incorporate physical movement, mindfulness, and cultural expression to promote holistic wellness and resilience during this really challenging time.
Our weekly activities will be released via this newsletter and promoted on Facebook. We’ll also be sharing activities from other sources that you can do at home. You can also visit this link creativeresilienceinnerwest.substack.com to see all of the activities so far.
Submit and share your creative works
We’d love to see what you create. Email us photos, video, audio, words, anything that you come up with as a part of completing these activities. We’ll share them in our weekly emails and on social media. There’s also a chance a chance to win prizes at the end of the 10 weeks!
Announcing our competition!
We are very excited to announce that we’ll be running a small competition for creative entries over the next few weeks.
This competition is open to anyone who lives, works, or visits in the Inner West Council local government area.
You may enter as many creative entries as you like.
Entries are open from 13 September 2021 to 31st October 2021.
Winners will be announced 16 November 2021.
The entries will be judged by our panel of consulting artists and art therapists.
Guidelines for entries:
Entries can be submitted in any creative format: photo, video, audio, multimedia, text (creative writing or poetry), drawing, craft, painting, or other art. Photos of artworks are acceptable. Entries should be accompanied by a short (1-2 sentence/s) statement. We welcome submissions in languages other than English.
Entries should respond to any one of the weekly prompts from the Creative Wellness at Home project.
Entries will be judged on their capacity to address any of the following themes: resilience, mindfulness, creativity, cultural connection.
Entries are open to anyone who lives, works, or visits in the Inner West Council local government area.
The prizes:
First prize: $50 Coles Myer gift card
Second prize: $30 Coles Myer gift card
Third prize: $20 Coles Myer gift card
How to enter:
Email your entry to creativeresilienceinnerwest@gmail.com. Include your full name, age (optional), and suburb. We will respond to confirm your entry.
For assistance with entering the competition, please contact Susan Chen 0470 593 207.
Community and Cultural Connections is based in Marrickville works with communities from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds from across the Inner West, South West, and South Eastern regions of Sydney. We encourage engagement and participation from people from non-English speaking backgrounds, and these activities are designed so that anyone can take part.
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