This is a new website section that we hope will grow with contributions of ideas and links to inspire creative activities for Quaker Meeting events etc. We're launching with some the ideas suggested for the QAN Gazebo at Greenbelt Festival 2026 and the slideshow we created for our 2024 presence at Greenbelt.
This slideshow is designed to act as a background sequence of text and image for Quaker events and gatherings. It was launched at the QAN Gazebo at Greenbelt Festival 2024 and contains images contributed by many members of Quaker Arts Network each responding to a particular Advice & Query. Now available for streaming from our You Tube Channel here
Low budget and fun for all ages
This was a popular activity at a Ludlow Meeting craft day - using newspapers and masking tape to create animals. Rolling and twisting and screwing up into imaginative and some very realistic shapes. It could tie in with Noah's Ark story and our current concerns about climate change and impact on wildlife.
'Fridge Magnet Poetry'
One way it might work is to have large board/s with velcro pieces in lines and pre-prepared strips of card with words on , stuck with velcro and some blank pieces of card and pens
The invitation is for people to arrange the words into a poem, solo or collectively.
The pre-prepared words could include whatever you wanted, so plenty of scope for Quaker values & adjacent vocabulary.
Inspired by Buddhist Mandalas
A large canvas on which we could stick (or place) coloured leaves or collage from magazines.
Tibetan Buddhist monks destroy sand mandalas to practice non-attachment and to physically demonstrate the impermanence of all things. Sweeping away the painstakingly crafted artwork is a core meditation on the transient nature of material life and the cycle of suffering.