Creative Sleepover

Creative Sleepover

THEME: Wearable Wonders

We are Amy Cooper and Hannah Kempe, we bonded over skip diving, growing food, dancing and dressing up. We are artists who both love hosting and bringing people together. In the late summer we spent time together at Three Pools Farm and this is what we dreamed up… 

You are invited to join us for a big sleepover weekend mixing open space and guided activities to support all our creative juices to flow around the theme of 

Wearable Wonders: make something wearable, be in your wonder.  

Is there a material that you want to explore being part of you, encasing, draping, entwining yourself? Have you witnessed power in what people wear? Power to attract, repel, protect, disguise? Where will you wear this wearable wonder? Will it last for your lifetime or be worn for a moment before becoming compost? Do you have an item of clothing that needs repair, adapting, adorning refining, to fulfil a desire you have,

Is there an extravagant form you wish to become, become it. 

You decide what you want to make and wear , a hat, earring, cloak, skirt, waistcoat, socks, shoes, armour… yes anything…You will make a wonder to wear.

This is an open space to get in the crafting zone within the beautiful living landscape of Three Pools Permaculture Farm near the Welsh town of Abergavenny.

We invite you to join us to…

• Have your creativity nurtured
• Cook and eat delicious and nourishing food
• Be part of an open, caring and creative weekend community
• Share materials, tools, skills, inspiration.
• Connect with your own nature, the nature of others and the nature that surrounds us
• Use your phone solely as a camera and relax into the present
• Enjoy days exploring, exchanging, walking, crafting & learning, wild swimming & saunaing.
• Relax into nights of fire, sauna, food, music, stories, stargazing and cosy sleep.
• Celebrate our creations…

Autumnal Weekend: 8-10th November 2024 (Arrive between 4-6pm on Friday, depart between 4-6pm on Sunday)

Location

We will be in the heart of Three Pools Permaculture farm near Abergavenny, it is easy to get to by train or car. We will provide a channel to help coordinate sharing travel and send the location in the welcome pack. 

Introduction to creative ways of thinking and making

You might be looking to learn some crafty skills, be an expert or maybe you want to try something new. We will help you find the skills and tools within the group to nurture your creativity.  Having seen who is coming we think it is pretty safe to say we have got people who can demo: Whittling, Willow weaving, Belt weaving, Sewing machine basics, Lino cuts and printing, Paper cuts, Peg looming, natural dying, stitch embroidery

A sleepover?

Bring your pyjamas, eye mask, earplugs, whatever you need, you are invited to a sleepover! H & A feel there is something special about sleeping in a room with other people, not closing the door on the world, but sleeping as a pack, a collective, sharing herbal tea and toothpaste, occasional snores, body heat, sleep talks and threads of dreams in the morning.

It isn’t for everyone we know, and if everything else about this weekend appeals except the sleepover bit then please get in touch. There will be two sleepover spaces, the Bunk house has 10 beds in total, 4 double and 6 single. One of the studios will be set up with mattresses and duvets. 

What is provided

• A daily rhythm of activities to participate in and contribute to
• Barn and studio spaces to get creative in
• A collection of tools and materials to craft with (if you want something particular please bring it or ask us and we may have it.)
• All the ingredients, equipment and meal planning for the weekend.
• Warm, dry spaces to sleep and rest
• Access to regenerative farm land to wander
• Wild swimming pond & sauna sessions
• Bedding if you don’t wish to bring your own.
• Night time fires and hot cocoa in the open barn - instruments and voices welcome.

Useful things to bring for creating:

• Building your wearable on to an existing structure is handy: a hat, jacket, belts, shirt, skirt.
• Fabrics and materials which excite you
• Old beads or buttons, curiosities in the bottom of a drawer which need a new life
• Scissors, pliers
• A stapler (& the staples which fit your stapler)
• If you want to bring your own sewing machine, for your sole use or to share, please do.
• Things to tie: Wire, string, shoe laces, ribbon, old bicycle inner tubes

Useful things to bring for comfort:

• Thermals and layers for the many different spaces and weathers we will be existing in
• Indoor footwear -Slippers
• Dry shoes for making
• Outdoor walking footwear - for muddy
• Earplugs & eye mask if you need for sleeping

We've been gathering inspiration on pinterest

https://pin.it/4kC6QbErD

Any Questions email amyjanina@gmail.com