This is an edited extract from Crafts, Creatures and Colour, posted on the +Culture Shots blog – a week-long series of events run by museums and galleries in Manchester and designed specifically for health professionals:
www.healthandculture.org.uk/blog/
Another great day at +Culture Shots. The knitting workshop proved very popular with staff, several of whom commented that they had made time especially to come and learn how to knit.
There was much discussion about the fact that knitting often inspires nostalgia in people, as they were originally taught by members of the family or have fond memories of grandmother and mothers knitting throughout their childhood.
Artist Rachael Gwilliam was on hand to help people get hands-on and explained how knitting had a recognised meditative effect. Other hospitals were abuzz with live theatre, music, drawing and, in the afternoon, live animal handling drew in staff from all over the site.
www.healthandculture.org.uk/blog/
Another great day at +Culture Shots. The knitting workshop proved very popular with staff, several of whom commented that they had made time especially to come and learn how to knit.
There was much discussion about the fact that knitting often inspires nostalgia in people, as they were originally taught by members of the family or have fond memories of grandmother and mothers knitting throughout their childhood.
Artist Rachael Gwilliam was on hand to help people get hands-on and explained how knitting had a recognised meditative effect. Other hospitals were abuzz with live theatre, music, drawing and, in the afternoon, live animal handling drew in staff from all over the site.
