11am - 12pm: Yoga with Leyla

Join Together Culture member, Leyla Tureli, who is trained in dance, movement, yoga, and somatics, for a movement medicine session as part of her social enterprise, Pulse of Life. This is a playful exploration of pulse and rhythm connecting body, mind and spirit which will both enliven and soothe the senses through a mix of movement, guided visualisations, dancing, body percussion and voice work. It’s an immersive and tactile way to unlock your creativity! The class is structured for people who have experience in yoga and other movement practices and those who are beginners. If you have any restrictions to your physical ability, please let us know in advance so we can provide inclusive activity.

1.30 - 3pm: Citizens’ Studio

In our Citizen’s Studio, which we describe as a Bake Off technical challenge meets an escape room, we’ll be collaborating to answer the question: What is a creative community and what is its potential to create a more inclusive and vibrant Cambridge? And, you’ll develop design thinking skills along the way.

2 - 4pm: Haunted House Making

Join our Community Director in the transformation of Together Culture at Fitzroy into a Haunted Studio that is a delight for trick or treaters of all ages. Across a series of 4 workshops, we’ll explore themes that we’re exploring throughout the Lifting the Veil festival to craft a uniquely Cambridge Haunted Studio and reveal the creative powers that lurk in each of us. We’ll be preparing to open the studio doors to trick or treaters on the evening of 31 October!

10 - 12pm: CV of Failure Writing Party

We know we need to take more creative approaches to fixing all of our systems to regenerate our world. Failure is a hugely important part of the creative process. So much so that those of us at Together Culture aren’t even sure ‘failure’ is a thing, we’re more convinced we’re in a constant state of transition if we have the courage to try new things. That’s what we’ll explore as we gather together and write our CV’s of Failure.

1.30 - 3pm: Citizens’ Studio

In our Citizen’s Studio, which we describe as a Bake Off technical challenge meets an escape room, we’ll be collaborating to answer the question: What is a creative community and what is its potential to create a more inclusive and vibrant Cambridge? And, you’ll develop design thinking skills along the way.

2 - 4pm: Haunted House Making

Join our Community Director in the transformation of Together Culture at Fitzroy into a Haunted Studio that is a delight for trick or treaters of all ages. Across a series of 4 workshops, we’ll explore themes that we’re exploring throughout the Lifting the Veil festival to craft a uniquely Cambridge Haunted Studio and reveal the creative powers that lurk in each of us. We’ll be preparing to open the studio doors to trick or treaters on the evening of 31 October!

10am - 12pm: Citizens’ Studio

In our Citizen’s Studio, which we describe as a Bake Off technical challenge meets an escape room, we’ll be collaborating to answer the question: What is a creative community and what is its potential to create a more inclusive and vibrant Cambridge? And, you’ll develop design thinking skills along the way.

1.30 - 3pm: Citizens’ Studio

In our Citizen’s Studio, which we describe as a Bake Off technical challenge meets an escape room, we’ll be collaborating to answer the question: What is a creative community and what is its potential to create a more inclusive and vibrant Cambridge? And, you’ll develop design thinking skills along the way.

2 - 4pm: Haunted House Making

Join our Community Director in the transformation of Together Culture at Fitzroy into a Haunted Studio that is a delight for trick or treaters of all ages. Across a series of 4 workshops, we’ll explore themes that we’re exploring throughout the Lifting the Veil festival to craft a uniquely Cambridge Haunted Studio and reveal the creative powers that lurk in each of us. We’ll be preparing to open the studio doors to trick or treaters on the evening of 31 October!

6 - 8pm

Join local filmmaker, Rosanna Greaves, for a viewing of her mesmerisingly atmospheric film about our relationship with our landscape and the people impacted by the draining of the Fens, ‘The Flaming Rage of the Sea’. Afterwards, Rosanna will share what she learned about how a culture formed as communities transitioned through the flooding of the fens and how it impacts us today. Rosanna will be joined by Kirk Woolford, Research Director at Cambridge School of Creative Industries, who will share his research into the Legends of the Norfolk Lanternmen and the ARU Living in a Changing Landscape Project. Together, we’ll explore how past and future collide as we look ahead to the scheduled re-flooding of the fens due to climate change induced sea level rise.

How does the culture and community of the past shape our world today? What might this mean for our communities and our evolving culture in the years that lie ahead?

6 - 8pm

Join us round the campfire with Professor Sebastian Rasinger of ARU and Professor John Mullan of UCL / Cambridge as we explore the power that ghost stories have over us. Why are we compelled to gather round campfires? And why, when we’re there, do we have a tendency to tell tales that frighten us? Is it actually comforting in some way? And why have some ghost stories stood the test of time? What makes them more memorable than others? And what sort of meaning are we making as a community when we gather to tell these tales?

Conversation / Group Reflection

Join Professor Malcolm Gaskill of the University of East Anglia as he reveals the history of witchcraft and witchcraft trials in our part of the world. How did what happened in East Anglia mirror the waves of witch trials across Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? Professor Ulinka Rublack of St John’s College will join to share insights from her work as a historian and her 2019 book The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler´s Fight for His Mother , which subsequently inspired an opera. Together we’ll consider what values, ideas, fears shaped culture and lead to what was perceived as witchcraft to be a crime? What is different and what is similar today?

Haunted House Making

Join our Community Director in the transformation of Together Culture at Fitzroy into a Haunted Studio that is a delight for trick or treaters of all ages. Across a series of 4 workshops, we’ll explore themes that we’re exploring throughout the Lifting the Veil festival to craft a uniquely Cambridge Haunted Studio and reveal the creative powers that lurk in each of us. We’ll be preparing to open the studio doors to trick or treaters on the evening of 31 October!

Movement Medicine: Lifting the Veil and Unlocking your Creativity Through Movement

Join Together Culture member, Leyla Tureli, who is trained in dance, movement, yoga, and somatics, for a movement medicine session as part of her social enterprise, Pulse of Life. This is a playful exploration of pulse and rhythm connecting body, mind and spirit which will both enliven and soothe the senses through a mix of movement, guided visualisations, dancing, body percussion and voice work. It’s an immersive and tactile way to unlock your creativity! The class is structured for people who have experience in yoga and other movement practices and those who are beginners. If you have any restrictions to your physical ability, please let us know in advance so we can provide inclusive activity.

Pumpkin Painting Drop In

Drop in and Draw, but with pumpkins. We’ll start by exploring the history of the Jack O Lantern - where on earth did this tradition come from? What did it mean to the people who started carving faces into turnips and pumpkins and setting them ablaze? We’ll use that as a way to have a chat about today’s culture and what Jack O Lanterns could symbolises for us and our community. Then our in house artists will work with you to develop your painting skills or adapt them to the canvas of the pumpkin. Personify it as a jack o lantern - or maybe go completely conceptual and develop a new way of expressing meaning on a pumpkin canvas.

Please bring your own pumpkin. They can be purchased from Waitrose directly across the street from Together Culture on Fitzroy.

6 - 8pm

Join Together Culture Member, Lucy Gonzalez, as she shares her cultural traditions from Mexico and leads the Together Culture Community in the building of our own Day of the Dead Shrine.

5.30 - 8pm

Open for Trick or Treaters

Trick or treaters young and old are welcome to add Together Culture Fitzroy to your route this year!

Haunted House Making

Join our Community Director in the transformation of Together Culture at Fitzroy into a Haunted Studio that is a delight for trick or treaters of all ages. Across a series of 4 workshops, we’ll explore themes that we’re exploring throughout the Lifting the Veil festival to craft a uniquely Cambridge Haunted Studio and reveal the creative powers that lurk in each of us.

Bobbing for Apples

Does any piece of fruit hold more cultural meaning than the apple? From witches to Newton to the forbidden fruit, apples hold meaning and mystery that we celebrate in rituals both culinary and otherwise at this time of year. Join us for some traditional apple bobbing!

6 - 8pm

Join Together Culture Member, Liam Taylor, who composes horror film scores to explore the sound of fear. We’ll screen segments of his film as Liam talks us through his approach to composing the score as he performs his work. As we go, we’ll discuss the nature of sounds and the impact on our emotions, is there something universal to sound and our reactions to it, or are certain sounds meaningful in different ways to different communities?

Workshop

Explore some traditional candle magic witches spells. How do we blend turning up with experimentation, collaboration with the natural world and ancient rituals with helping others to build our intuition? In this class, we’ll explore witchcraft traditions to develop a deeper understanding of how rituals are ways people everywhere and throughout time to reinforce intent, reflect, and find comfort in ambiguous and challenging times.. What draws us to campfire and light? What kind of magic do we all find in it? And how do modern day witches create spells with candles to help harness that sense of magic for creativity?

This workshop has a supplemental cost of £12.50 for candles, a candle holder, anointing oil, and a small spell book to take away.

V for Vendetta

Join Together Culture for the viewing of V for Vendetta.

5.30 - 7.30pm

Join Together Culture member, Leyla Tureli, who is trained in dance, movement, yoga, and somatics, for a dance session exploring the magic of the season. It’s an immersive and tactile way to unlock your creativity! If you have any restrictions to your physical ability, please let us know in advance so we can provide inclusive activity.

Workshop and Tasting

Does any piece of fruit hold more cultural meaning than the apple? From witches to Newton to the forbidden fruit, apples hold meaning and mystery that we celebrate in rituals both culinary and otherwise at this time of year. As we explore the history of the not so humble apple and the meaning we've ascribed to it, we’ll be joined by the CEO of the Cambridge Juice Company, who’ll share the history of orchard agriculture in Cambridge, we’ll explore folklore and apples, we’ll do a full sensory tasting of delicious varietals to become apple sommeliers, we’ll make a preserve in the form of an apple shrub to make a memory of the event, and we'll finish by mixing an apple mocktail to toast this magical time of year.

Conversation and Workshop

Scarcity is a mindset. It’s a belief that there are limited resources, that there isn’t enough love, opportunity, space, money for everyone. Abundance is a mindset that enough is subjective, and really, there is more than enough for everyone and everything. How do these different perspectives impact our imagination and our aspiration? How do they impact our relationships with one another and the relationship communities have with other communities? How do we shape systems that reinforce scarcity or abundance or something in between? Join psychologists, sociologists, and historians for a conversation about how we cultivate these different states and how they impact not only our individual, but our collective wellbeing along with some top tips to bolster our mental and emotional wellbeing. As ever, we’ll get interactive and noodle with the concepts so you can contribute your own ‘yes and’ ideas and think about how the concepts inspire creative approaches (or not) to your life & work.

Conversation and Workshop

The ancient origin of New Year’s Resolutions had to do with making amends, so everyone could start the year debt free. The ideas of wealth and debt have been with us for quite some time. Where did the notion of wealth come from? It may seem straightforward, but what is the connection between wealth and prosperity? Has the idea of wealth changed over time? How has the culture that we live today been impacted by notions of wealth? Who is involved in making, creating, and managing wealth? Are there helpful lessons to learn from a cultural perspective before we go about trying to redistribute wealth and create prosperity for all. As ever, we’ll get interactive and noodle with the concepts so you can contribute your own ‘yes and’ ideas and think about how the concepts inspire creative approaches (or not) to your life & work.

Conversation and Workshop

Last summer, Lankelly Chase Foundation announced that they were completely spending out because they felt their funds would better help to create new, lasting opportunity if simply put into the hands of people with big ideas and lacking the money to provide the time and peace of mind to bring them to fruition. Lankelly Chase is far from alone. Philanthropy is changing, in fact some say it must be laid to rest entirely in favour of models of participatory investment, universal basic income, and reparations. Together Culture’s membership model, Citizens’ Studio, and systems change incubator are linked elements of our theory of wealth redistribution change. Join this conversation with economists, investors, philanthropists, and activists to explore the origins of the intentions, mechanisms, and outcomes of these approaches to a radical redistribution of wealth. As ever, we’ll get interactive and noodle with the concepts so you can contribute your own ‘yes, and’ ideas and think about how the concepts inspire creative approaches (or not) to your life & work.

Conversation and Workshop

Growth! Growth! Growth! Eeegads, what happens IF the economy shrinks! Keep pushing that rock up the hill, don’t let it slide back, Sisyphus! Does it exhaust you just reading those futile lines? We all know we’re in this endless cycle of use of resources to create wealth that benefits a few and is leading to poverty, exhaustion, mental illness, community breakdown, sociological inequality, environmental degradation, climate collapse, and….well…there must, there MUST be another way. In this session, we’ll explore how the mantra of growth became the dominant economic model and we’ll explore other models being explored to create prosperity for all within the planetary wellbeing boundaries. As ever, we’ll get interactive and noodle with the concepts so you can contribute your own ‘yes and’ ideas and think about how the concepts inspire creative approaches (or not) to your life & work.

Conversation and Workshop

Charity professionals are creative superheroes! What they accomplish with open hearts and limited purse strings is a service to us all. Everyone deserves a safe haven in their darkest moments. Yet, what is the role of charities in a healthier society, a society in which prosperity is shared far more equitably, a society in which environmental regeneration regulations are respected and protected? Why are charities meant to embrace scarcity and provide below market wages to highly skilled people doing the work that creates a healthier society for all? What has been the impact of 13 years of austerity on the charity sector – who cares for the charity worker? And, ARE social enterprises the way forward?

Celebration, Talk, Making

Right! All this talk about money can be draining. Today, we’re going to explore the history of Valentine’s Day. For centuries, humans have created rituals at this halfway point between winter and spring. It is a time in which people experience scarcity of heat, of food, of sunlight. Valentine’s Day originated as a time to focus on hope, abundance, our relationship with the natural world, and, of course, with the love that holds us together. Pop into to Together Culture to learn more about the history of Heart’s Day (we’ll share the secret reason red is our signature colour), make some chocolate truffles, make a handmade Valentine for anyone or anything you love, and be reminded that you’re enough and we love ya!

We don’t take loneliness lightly. If you find Valentine’s an especially lonely time of year, or are suffering from SAD, our treatment room therapists will be on call for one to one chats. Please do book a private conversation if you need some extra support.

Conversation and Workshop

Healthy ecosystems regenerate. Each life and life force within the ecosystem has a role to play. How do we train our brains to think like an ecosystem? Is it in our nature? Or are we stuck in linear and binary mode? (spoiler alert: we’re not) Enter systems thinking. What are the frameworks for thinking in a more joined up way? How do we use these processes in all the work we do? Is the point to change systems, build new ones, or a mixture of both? Join designers, architects, and well, leading systems thinkers and futurists in an exploration of what systems thinking is - oh, and we’ll reveal how Together Culture is using systems thinking to assess the ideas that emerged in the Citizens’ Studio and building our incubator for the new prototypes our community shall develop!