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Festival of Hobbies
New Year, New Hobby?
Hobbies are good for you! Throughout January 2020 Harland Works will be tackling the January blues with a positive, upbeat campaign on the benefits of having a hobby.
Lots of the businesses based at Harland Works started out as hobbies - and now offer other people the opportunity to have a go at activities like pottery, yoga, animation, knitting or even, commissioning your own tattoo.
If you’re convinced by the benefits of hobbies, and would like to explore ideas for a new hobby for you, sign up to join Harland Works’ Festival of Hobbies this January.
Each day we’ll email you info on somebody’s favourite hobby - so that’s 31 ideas by the end of January. Each email will tell the story of someone’s experience of that hobby, and why they love it. And there’ll be a link to a way you can have a go yourself if you’d like to give it a try.
Sign up, and by the end of January you might have a whole new ambition for a hobby to try - and you could be enjoying the benefits throughout 2020.
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The 31 ideas!
We are looking for 31 people to share info on their favourite hobby! Could that be you? Help spread the word about how great your hobby is and what people can get from it. If so, we’d love you to be part of our January Festival of Hobbies. Send us your contact details here and we’ll be in touch to arrange how we to capture your story.
Do you run a sport, class, workshop, voluntary group, craft or art activity, social group that would like to attract new members in 2020? Is there someone in your group (or you?) who’d be happy to tell others about their experience? Can you offer a taster session for people to give it a try? If so, we’d love to hear from you! Contact us here and we’ll send you info on how we could feature your group in our January Festival of Hobbies.
From the archives - Festival Of Hobbies - New Year, New Hobby?
A few years (January 2020 … a lifetime ago!) ago we did a series on hobbies. The inspiration for the series was a post we did in Summer 2019 on wild swimming which is one of my family’s favourite hobbies. Lots of people contributed their favourite hobbies to add to a series that we shared throughout January - with the aim of cheering people up! It was good fun to do … and you can still read some of the blog posts that came out of it here. And if you have a hobby that brings you joy, that you’d be happy to share with us, please get in touch using this link - we’d love to update this series and run it again in January 2024….
Have you heard of GoodGym? Its a sociable way to go for a run, and do good. Linda Cairns talks about her GoodGym hobby
Rosie talks about her hobby which involves philsophy and pubs!
Fay talks about Plant Swapping as a hobby!
Enjoy some inspiring insight into the value of their hobby for them from women who play football for a hobby as part of Sheffield’s unique AFC Unity
Rob is a band leader of a big band. He talks about how much he enjoys his role with the band, and how music has to be the “best hobby”!
Alistair has been cycling most of his life and talks about what his hobby means to him
Felix comes from Germany and has child hood memories of his mother and grandmother pickling summer fruit in syrup to eat later in the year. He’s turned his passion for pickles into a business. Here he talks more about his pickling enthusiasm!
Mat is psychotherapist and counsellor based at Harland Works. He talks about the difference his hobby makes to his qualify of life.
Olivia has been coming to Blue Elephant Pottery studio at Harland Weeks weekly for about a year. She talks about what she loves about her hobby of pottery.
Flycheese Studio, based at Harland Works, is a fully equipped and working digital art and design studio that specialises in training and providing opportunities in the industry for people who need support to live their lives.
“I have a very early memory of sitting and drawing as my mum scraped away at a violin, and the next thing I knew I was scraping away as well! My dad must have been through merry hell. He certainly went to the pub or went off fishing a lot and I think I know why!”
Jess Gibson is a Sheffield based multi-disciplinary artist, writer and performer, who’s recent solo show Work in Progress was a hit locally and enjoyed a successful tour across the UK. Jess, who’s work often focuses on mental health and the spectrum of human emotion, joined us to talk about how she went from dancing and performing as a hobby, to touring a one-woman show nationwide.