Creative Wellness Experiences with Meaning & Purpose
Creative Wellness experiences take The Camera Work’s proven methods of success in its longer term community projects and condense them into a single full day of participatory, creative, cognitive and practical hands on creative interaction.
Participants engage with their creative and visual self by disconnecting from digital technology and speed and engaging with the practice Slow Photography.
We will compose meaningfull and expressive images, create an aesthetic and work wth tactile analogue film equipment, before thoughtfully editing our work into a compelling visual narrative that connects and communicates a singular vision. A group pop-up exhibition is then co-created and curated by the participants which they get to take home at the end of the day.
We will see what is often hiding in plain sight, creatively embrace limitations and own our mistakes and victories. There is no command Z in this experience, just acceptance of what we create here is our best self and we don’t delete that. We celebrate that.
We discover ways of being in the world through seeing and experiencing things from multitudes of perspectives and attitudes. In doing so the world becomes bigger and brighter and we become more connected to it. And those living in it.
When we learn to tap into our creative and visual self we see beauty in the mundane, we become curious, we play with story, colour, shape, line, light and shadow. We get to play with things that are always there around, inside and between us. We become children again.
Everything is illuminated.
And the only thing we stand to lose is boredom.
Ways of Being - Full Day Fee. £1,750
Our Ethos on CSR Days
There are numerous ways to spend time on CSR days and some of those involve a more entertainment bent, with time used up in activity rather than investing in it.
The Camera Work does not operate in that space. We take time and money seriously and only do work we believe in. Our work is ethical, moral and transformative to those involved both directly and indirectly. We create experiences that are carried outside of the immediate attendee’s physical space and temporal limits.
We understand these days require investment of time and money and they absolutely should have purpose. By ensuring purpose we mean to have that investment returned to the corporation, the participants, the wider community and social world. We’ll do something meaningful and leave a mark
That’s the whole point is it not ?