Thank you to everyone for creating a wonderful space for all! The Queer Creative Space
Crafts, storytelling, games, workshops.
Calling crafters, geeks, gamers come along and let your creativity out.
Apollo’s 70’s short shorts workshop
Learn how to make a pair of seventies short shorts from a pattern.
With a bit of help from pre-prepared pattern pieces, you learn all you need to take a sewing pattern and turn cloth into clothes.
Facilitator: Apollo
Location: Crafting
Apollo’s how to make a Teddy bear
More a demo session on making teddy bears, as it takes longer than we have to create new bears.
Facilitator: Apollo
Location: Crafting
Apollo’s How to use your Granny’s old singer sewing machine
Using some older hand cranked sewing machine which are often inherited from older relatives you’ll learn how to set it up and sew.
I’ll show these are excellent work horses capable of another century of use.
Facilitator: Apollo
Location: Crafting
Cardboard tube characters and dots to dots
Create your own toilet roll characters, dots to dots and colouring pages.
Facilitator: Liam Creature
Location: Crafting
Drawing your animal spirit
A meditation on finding your animal spirit, then drawing it in pen and ink.
Facilitator: Debz
Location: Crafting
Games
This year I’d like to open the space for some open games playing sessions.
Bring a game or come see what we’ve brought along.
Location: Crafting
Intention clay sigil
Learn about and create a clay sigil after being taken on a ritualistic guided meditation journey. This process will help you find and connect more deeply to your personal intention.
Most suited to adults, but accompanied under 18’s could be accommodated. Max participants: 8.
Facilitator: Liam Creature
Location: Crafting
Isidora’s smudge (incense) stick making
Create incense sticks with foraged native herbs and plants.
Facilitator: Isidora
Location: Crafting
Mal’s sensual leather care
While this workshop will include some basics, such as products and tips for working on different garments, the focus is on the interaction between the two individuals in a leather care scene.
Whether it's simply massaging a person through their leather shirt or incorporating complex kink dynamics into bootblacking, this session should give you some ideas for the next time your leathers need to be worked on.
This will include some demonstrations of scene options and time to ask about specific leather care needs.
After this workshop, space will be made for a leather social.
Facilitator: Mal
Location: Crafting
Open art and craft sessions
A range of art and craft materials will be available in open session to come along and do.
Location: Crafting
Power clay sigil
Create a clay sigil to symbolise your inner power! Learn about and create a clay sigil after being taken on a ritualistic guided meditation journey.
This process will help you connect with and feel your inner power more strongly.
Most suited to adults, but accompanied under 18’s could be accommodated. Max participants: 8.
Facilitator: Liam Creature
Location: Crafting
Queer leather culture - Bootblack 101
An interactive workshop for beginners to caring for boots.
This will cover the basics of cleaning, conditioning and shining boots whether you're just planning to take care of your own, or work on a stand at your local leather or kink space.
We'll also cover setting up a stand, negotiating a bootblacking scene and the tipping culture of Bootblacks if the group is inclined to.
Feel free to ask questions throughout, and bring your own boots if you like, work with a partner, or just sit back and watch!
After this workshop, space will be made for a leather social.
Facilitator: Mal
Location: Crafting
Story telling
Billy will run a story-weaving workshop which involves sharing stories and collectively weaving these stories together while weaving foraged items into a wheel.
The purposes of this workshop are to hand over the power of storytelling to all for community building, wellbeing and connection, to hold space for creativity in both words and physical crafts, and to teach people new skills around making practical and creative use of natural materials and foraged treasures.
The workshop invites participants to weave in a collective wheel or individually so that they have something to take away.
Facilitator: Billie
Location: Crafting
