Join Teddy Bear Josh and Joe to tackle the taboos around loss and turn private pain into shared healing.

Join Teddy Bear Josh and Joe for a series of welcoming, creative Queer Craft Club sessions as part of Good Grief Blackpool.

Through gentle, accessible crafting, we'll create space to connect, reflect and share in a relaxed and supportive environment, exploring themes of loss, memory, resilience and chosen family.

Whether you're a regular at Queer Craft Club or joining us for the first time, these sessions offer a chance to make, chat and spend time with others in the LGBTQIA+ community.

In this session

Teddy Bear Josh will be leading you through the making of a simple Memory Bear. You can bring your own fabric to use in the making of the bear; a T-shirt, hoodie or fleece flannel shirt is ideal.

Suitable for adults 18+

This will be a safe space to share stories and conversations about loved ones if you wish to.

The artwork created during the sessions will form part of a special display during the Good Grief Festival, honouring the stories, memories and often unseen experiences of LGBTQIA+ grief.

Please be aware:

Some of this session may be recorded for sound in order to create a soundscape and legacy video for the Good Grief Festival. We'll ask for your permission at the start of the session. If you don't want to be recorded, that is absoutely fine.

A support worker from Listening Ears will be attending the session to offer assistance if needed.

This session is in our upstairs workshop space. We have a lift! Otherwise it is fourteen steps turn a corner and two more steps. There is an accessible loo on the same floor.

GETTING HERE

Tram & Train to Blackpool North Station

Bus: No 6 or 18 to Topping St., No 3, 3a, 5c, 6, 18 to Church St (Stanley Buildings), No 5, 5a, 5b, 6, 7a, 14 to Talbot Rd

Driving: The closest pay and display car parks are on East Topping St and Talbot Road multi storey. There is also parking at the nearby Sainsbury’s supermarket, please make sure that you check the terms before you use the car park.

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