Arts education company Changing Relations are hosting a 10th birthday event on 17th January, kindly hosted by Durham Sixth Form Centre's Dead Dog Gallery and they would love you to join them in celebrating.
Clearly much of your bandwidth just now will be taken up with Christmas planning or what you can manage to get finished before a much-needed break. But they are determined to bring the post-Christmas, January blues-busting cheer and there will be bubbles and nibbles!
Together with a fantastic graphic design student from Durham Sixth Form Centre, they have designed a retrospective exhibition to give shape to the story of their first decade, the themes they have addressed, their social impact, the individuals and organisations they have worked with along the way.
And there's a live auction taking place on the night, giving you chance to get your hands on a piece of original artwork!
There's:
Life size photo montage collages
Textile banners
Lego-style moulds
Mixed media prints
Drawings
A beautiful collection of ceramics
And even a set of babygros with gender stereotype-busting messages emblazoned on the front!
They have a fundraising target of £5,000 for the night which will be used to support them shaping and delivering learning opportunities for schools and community groups experiencing budgetary constraints but in need of the resources and expertise they can bring to help them:
Help young people affected by domestic abuse in their homes, controlling relationships in their own lives or sexual abuse or harassment
Do the ultimate public-purse-cost-saving-prevention-work that young people need to help them make safe, healthy choices that enable them to thrive in adulthood.
So, from this perspective, as well as celebrating with all the wonderful people who have supported them along the way, they're really keen to invite business folk who might enjoy an evening of bubbles and artiness, to get an idea of who they are and what they do and whether this might be something they'd be interested to support.
If you'd be interested to support their work in any way going forward, come along and see what they're all about:
