You asked for a weekend creative play session and we delivered! Fun, artist-led creative play sessions for carers and their wee ones aged birth-five years, Starcatchers’ Saturdays takes place every week at Wester Hailes’ Westside Plaza.
Every Saturday at:
Westside Plaza, Wester Hailes
Babies from birth to 18 months: 11am – 12 noon
Children from birth to 5 years: 12 noon – 1.15pm
Join Starcatchers every weekend for a free creative play session for families with little ones aged birth to five years-old.
Based in the Westside Plaza, Wester Hailes, we’re easy to find and everyone is welcome to drop-in.
Starcatchers’ Saturdays explores different art forms and themes every week, inspired by what the wee ones who join us enjoy most! From a desert camp-out adventure, to underwater exploring, to singing with shapes and shadows, each session is full of exciting new activities for wee ones and their adults to discover together. You can also join us for a free lunch!
To find out more about Starcatchers Saturdays, email lead artist Kerry Cleland, or just pop along!
A huge thankyou to our Starcatchers’ Saturdays Crowdfunder supporters: Timothea Armour, Alison Cleland, Eric Donohoe, Brian Hartley and Natalya McDonald
Lead Artist Starcatchers Saturdays
Madeleine is a visual artist based in Edinburgh. She strongly believes in the potentials of artistic play to positively enrich daily life.
Lead Artist Starcatchers Saturdays
Hailey is a Playworker aswell as a visual artist and musician. With over a decade of experience working with children and young people, and an SVQ Level 3 in Playwork, her commitment to creating engaging and imaginative play opportunities remains at the heart of her practice.
Lead Artist – Fife
Roz is an actor and facilitator based in Edinburgh. She is passionate about working with children and families who might not traditionally engage in the arts, as well as creating accessible work for early years audiences and children with additional complex needs.
Lead Artist Starcatchers Saturdays
Amie is a Theatre Maker, Writer and Immersive Specialist. Her performance background led her on to becoming one of the creators of the UK’s longest running immersive theatre show ‘The Great Gatsby’ directing the Theatr Clwyd, West End and Korean Production, she is currently rewriting it for the New York transfer.
Lead Artist Starcatchers Saturdays
Claire Docherty is a performer and facilitator based in Edinburgh. Through her work as a community musician, drama facilitator and performer, she has found a love for combining her passions in order to create fun multi- art form sessions for all ages that allow space for expression.
Creative Babies Artist and Project Coordinator
Kerry loves performing in, making theatre and creating play spaces for early years audiences and children with complex additional support needs.
Wester Hailes’ Community Wellbeing Collective (C.W.C.) is a group of 30+ people living in and connected to Wester Hailes who run activities to support community wellbeing.
The CWC run the Community Wellbeing Space in Wester Hailes’ Westside Plaza shopping centre. The space provides free community wellbeing activities, run by CWC members, to enhance health, wellbeing, local action and to help Wester Hailes people feel more connected to their community.
Through their program, the CWC aims to combat a range of issues such as negative effects of poverty, social isolation and low mental health. They do this through the open space and communal activities offered at the Community Wellbeing Space, which include mindfulness, zumba, creative writing, care cafes, baby creative play, yoga, tango and colour meditation (to name a few). These activities and communities create a new space where the people of Wester Hailes can come together to knit tighter support networks, develop skills, connect to further resources, and not only survive but thrive.
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