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Simran Creative Lab tomorrow

WORKSHOP: Tuesday 11 October 2022, 2:30 – 4:00pm at Collective on Calton Hill

Join WSWF on an amazing journey of self-discovery; bridging the gap between art, spirituality and mental health.

A wonderful journey through Sikh history and Sikh teachings.

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This creative table-based workshop is designed to help you learn how we can still our busy minds before approaching everyday tasks and challenges.

This session will help you discover Simran – a focused practice – while making some fascinating creative artworks of your own. Come and enjoy learning new ways to find focus in a busy world and have fun making some creative works with us in a group setting.​

Don’t worry if you haven’t done anything like this before. You will gain valuable insights on how to use Simran before any task and use your own phrases to do so – this workshop will show you how.​

This is part of a series of creative workshops designed to run alongside the Journey of the Mind exhibition, exploring how Sikh teachings can be used as tools to help anyone.

Ages 18+ ​

Exhibition: Mina Heydari-Waite

In sleep it made itself present to them

Exhibition
02.10.21–21.11.21

Open Sunday – Thursday 10am – 5pm

Launch Event
Friday 01.10.21, 7–9pm
Book free tickets here

Collective is delighted to present a new installation by Glasgow-based artist Mina Heydari-Waite.

Building on discourse around Iranian diasporic identity, Mina invites viewers into a new immersive set. Composed of sculptural objects and a sound work, this installation creates a dreamscape that holds the audience in a conversation about ritual sites, moments of rupture and Social Dreaming.

In sleep it made itself present to them translates the embellished architecture of Persepolis – an ancient city in modern Iran rich in cultural meaning and ambiguity – into a digital space, rendering it flat and geometric. Processing the elaborate motifs of Persepolis through graphics programmes, Mina prepares them as a CNC-machined, flat-packed kit.

An integrated sound work is made in collaboration with sound artist Claude Nouk and reconstructs fragments of conversation with Mina’s mother, Hamideh Heydari-Waite, a psychotherapist and anthropology researcher based in London.

Their conversation explores and expands on ‘Social Dreaming’, a practice that distinguishes dreams from the dreamer and explores their possibility to uncover wider collective meanings. In this exhibition, Persepolis itself becomes an emblem of this collective mode of dreaming.

Join us on Friday 1 October, 7-9pm, to celebrate the opening of the exhibition. This is an open event and all are welcome. Much of the event will take place outdoors in our new ‘Play Shelter’ so please dress for the weather!

Numbers inside the exhibition will be monitored in line with social distancing advice so a short wait may be required.

Please RSVP by booking a free ticket on Eventbrite.