26th July Special Session 'Clay Sculpture' with Mahtab Grimshaw

In this July session we are celebrating 6 months of sessions in Boscombe - and hope to be holding our workshop outside in the Orchard Garden at TOSH, with Boscombe mother-artist Mahtab Grimshaw . Guided by Mahtab, we will be making air dry clay sculptures, with elements foraged from our Orchard Garden. Super exciting!

Mahtab Grimshaw is an experienced artist passionate about bringing stories to life through puppetry. With over 20 years of experience in theatre and media as a professional puppet maker and puppeteer, Mahtab has led numerous workshops, including at Central Saint Martins, various after-school clubs in London and Bournemouth, and a puppet making workshop for the BEAF Arts Summer Programme 2024 in Boscombe.

"A puppet maker at heart, I remain deeply connected to performing art and story telling. Something that progressed to sculpting after immigration and motherhood. My moving puppets stopped moving, they lost their limbs and started to tell stories silently instead!

Working primarily with air drying clay and resin I create figurative work focusing on female body with a poetic approach. My artworks are where poetry meets sculpting and each and every one poppet has a story to tell. They all live in my head till the day they are born holding a piece of my soul, my experiences and my journey through life, from childhood, immigration, love, loss, motherhood, belonging, estrangement and nostalgia."

Mahtab Grimshaw

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M/Others Who Make

Join Boscombe and Southbourne based local mother-artists Emilie Giles and Corrianna Clarke for this M/Others Who Make creative session.

• Let's gather, share and make together: A new, simple creative make each session, led by a m/other.

• With your children in attendance - or not! Events are adult-centred but children are welcome to attend and participate.

• No particular level of experience is necessary to attend: Women at any stage of their careers or creative journeys are welcome.

• We provide everything: Creative kit, guidance, tea, toast and some toys and play space for any little ones.

"All of our groups are designed to welcome women, people who birth and non binary people who are mothers, parents or carers at any stage in their journey. Makers of all interests and disciplines are encouraged to join us, whether your creative identity is a profession, a passion, or lying dormant, you are welcome. Children are encouraged to attend too and are integrated into the meeting, for the dual roles of mother and artist are recognised and given equal value within all MWM events." (MWM)

Events are open to all *mothers and non binary parents. Expectant, new, grand, great grand, step, foster, adoptive mothers. Those with babies, or older children. Mothers without living children. Mothers who breastfeed, mothers who bottlefeed. Mothers of any race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity. Mothers with a disability.

This in-person event will be held at The Old School House Boscombe, located at Gladstone Road East, Boscombe, Bournemouth, UK. Access is step free.

The M/Others Who Make principles that underlie it and inform the running of all the hubs:

Consciously Celebrating Care and Creativity

Welcoming and valuing the different roles you hold, as care-giver, as friend, partner, m/other, child, sibling – and the creative ones – as a maker of stories, songs, paintings, costumes, cakes, photos, pots, poems and more. During our events, the presence of children or other dependents is always welcomed. We support you to make the decisions that are best for your care.

Radically Supporting Connection

Championing the power of peer support. We believe in the profound and transformative power of meeting one another as equals no matter who you are, and whatever your experience has been. We share skills and resources that enable us to support one other to find the answers we need.

Inclusively Inviting Community

Validating specific identities and experiences. We invite people to bring their whole selves, intersecting identities and lived experiences to our events. We aim to bring people together in meaningful and enriching ways, finding points of connection and solidarity, alongside celebrating difference.

M/Others Who Make is an international initiative connecting and supporting women and non binary people to thrive in their creative paths, alongside sustaining their caring roles, of self and others. We aim to enrich our community through peer support, mentorship, events, scratch work sharings, and creative opportunities.

At M/Others Who Make we celebrate care, cultivate creativity, and support connection.

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PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALEXANDRA SZIGETI

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