Community Art Workshops
What I offer
Art workshops for communities.
I design and deliver art workshops for schools, charities, and community organisations across the UK, using a variety of art techniques to open conversations around themes like conflict, grief, identity, and belonging. What always surprises me is the depth people go to, the vulnerability, the openness, and the connections they make with each other. No art experience needed. The workshop comes to you, designed around your people and whatever the group needs.
Where I work
Schools, charities,
community spaces.
Schools & youth programmes
From primary through to sixth form. I adapt to the age, the curriculum link, and the theme, whether that's brought to me or built together.
Charities & support organisations
A one-off session or an ongoing programme
I work alongside your existing offer and design something that fits the communities you serve.
Community spaces & galleries
Workshops that sit inside exhibitions, cultural events, or community-led projects. Art made by and for the community it comes from.
Rooted in street art
The techniques.
Bold, accessible, built for people who have something to say. No art experience needed. Ever.
Stencil & large-scale portraiture
Making something monumental out of something personal. Works on reclaimed cardboard, walls, fabric whatever the space allows.
Collage & found materials
Newspapers, images, magazines. A way into the work for people who don't think they can draw and a method that produces something genuinely powerful.
Henna & calligraphy
Mark-making as a way into identity and belonging. Participants write in the languages that feel like home; Arabic, Geez, English, and others. For many, especially those far from where they grew up, it's a way back to themselves.
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In practice
Henna & Calligraphy
Art as Resistance and Healing
In Sudan, henna has quietly become a form of resistance; midwives and artists using hidden symbols in their designs to signal that a family wants to keep their daughters safe. This workshop is inspired by those women.
This workshop was born from personal experience. As someone connected to communities where gender-based violence is rarely spoken about openly, I wanted to create a space where it could be safely, creatively, and without judgment. We brought in a nurse and opened the floor. Anyone could ask anything. We talked about FGM honestly and without shame, then we made art, drank tea, and just existed together in the room. The henna and calligraphy became a way to process what was shared , participants writing in the languages that feel like home, creating phrases that belong entirely to them. People leave with something personal in their hands and a sense of connection to the others in the room. That is what the workshop is for. In collaboration with The Vavengers and Eritrean Muslim Collective (EMC) This workshop can be adapted for any community group, no art experience needed.
Let's make something together.
If you work with a school, charity, or community organisation and something here speaks to what you're doing, I'd love to hear from you. sarasamraaa@gmail.com
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