Come and join in our Festive Craft sessions!

🧵 Queer Craft: Festive Craft Series — Make & Mingle

Project 93 invites you to a relaxed, creative, and welcoming evening of crafting, chatting, and connecting! We are hosting a special three-part series of festive arts and crafts socials specifically for LGBTQ+ individuals (18+) living in Staffordshire.

Think of it like a traditional knit-and-natter with a healthy dash of winter magic! Whether you want to make fabulous festive cards, deck the halls with campy handmade decorations, dive into our communal stash, or simply bring along your own project, this is the perfect space to unwind and create.

📅 Choose Your Date (Or Join Us For All Three!)

This is a single event running across two optional dates—come to one or both!

Date 1: Tuesday 17th November

Date 2: Tuesday 15th December

🌈 What’s the Session About?

We are opening up the space at the Project 93 HQ, at the Dudson Centre for a flexible, pressure-free creative evening. No artistic experience is required—just bring your enthusiasm! Each evening, you have complete freedom to choose how you spend your time:

Festive Featured Activities: Get ready to sleigh the holiday season!

Card Making & Stationery: Spend the evening making fabulous, hand-crafted holiday cards and stationery that pack a serious punch.

Decoration Making: Dive into making show-stopping festive decorations, glittering ornaments, and mantelpiece displays that refuse to blend into the background—deck the halls with boughs of holly, darling!

Open Craft & Connection: Our cozy final gathering to finish up any holiday projects, swap handmade gifts, or simply unwind over a warm brew—slayyyy bells ring, are you listening?

Bring Your Own Project (BYOP): Prefer to do your own thing? Bring along your knitting, crochet, embroidery, sketching, mending, or journaling. It’s the ultimate excuse to tackle your "unfinished objects" pile in great company.

Raid Our Craft Stash: Want to try something else? Enjoy free access to our communal supply of pens, paper, card, scissors, and glue to fold origami, make friendship bracelets, or design collages. (Festive or totally unrelated craft—it doesn’t matter!)

Friendly Help on Hand: Dave and our charity volunteers will be around all evening to guide the featured activities, offer crafty tips, troubleshoot tricky ideas, or help you get set up with supplies.

✨ What You’ll Get Out of It

Pure Relaxation: A chance to switch off from everyday stress and enjoy some mindful, creative "me-time."

Connection Above All: The crafts are just a fun excuse—what matters most is the community we build together in a warm, chatty, and zero-judgment space.

Creative Freedom: Complete flexibility to join in the featured craft or work on your own piece, at your own speed.

📋 The Essentials

What to bring: Bring along personal craft projects if you fancy, or simply join in with our festive activities—all supplies for the led crafts and communal stash are provided!

Cost: Completely free, but booking is essential as spaces are limited.

Vibe: Relaxed, creative, social, and completely welcoming.

⏰ Times & Refreshments

We aim to start the session at 5:15 PM, but our doors will be open from 5.00 PM so you can get settled and chat before we begin. We wrap up around 6.45 PM, though we’ll be around until 7.00 PM to finish up conversations and pack away.

Refreshments: Free tea, coffee, water, and squash are provided. Hot chocolate, cans of pop, and biscuits are available for a small donation. Fully accessible toilet facilities are on-site.

❤️ About Project 93

We are a registered charity dedicated to providing inclusive support, advocacy, and education that empowers individuals and communities across Staffordshire to embrace their unique journeys.

While this session is free to attend, we rely on funding and community support to keep our programmes running. There will be an opportunity to pick up merchandise or make a donation during the event if you wish. Every penny goes directly back into our mission.

📍 How to Find Us & Parking

Our workshop is held at The Dudson Centre in Hanley (ST1 5DD).

Parking: Free parking is available in the back car park after 5:00 PM, accessed via Hanover Street.

Entry: Please enter through the back gate (the main front entrance may be closed).

Access: Use the intercom at the gate and search for "Project 93"—we’ll buzz you right in!

The Welcome Team: Look out for Dave, our volunteer leading the session (wearing a Project 93 T-shirt), who is there to support and make sure everyone feels right at home.

♿ Accessibility & Inclusion

Project 93 is actively committed to being fully inclusive and accessible:

We warmly welcome autistic people, individuals attending with carers, people with physical disabilities, and members of the Deaf community.

Dave has intermediate experience using British Sign Language (BSL) with the Deaf community to support direct communication.

Please note the main entrance door width is 750mm.

If you have any specific a

Description supplied by the event organiser.