Mental Health Boulder Project

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Creative Wick in partnership with Hackney Wick Boulder Project and CoreArts is being funded by the WickAward to deliver beginner climbing mentoring sessions (one-to-one) with a qualified instructor, to help people manage their mental health issues.

The benefits of bouldering and climbing as a mindful practice used as part of mental wellbeing management, have been apparent for some time to climbers, and are now being recognised more and more in mainstream areas and the media.

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Jason Warren, Teddy Baden, Xenz, Andre Hopley and Lee Walker – An Unconventional Canvas for Zippo

Creative Wick facilitated Zippo in commissioning five local artists – Jason Warren, Teddy Baden, Xenz, Andre Hopley and Lee Walker – to the project ‘An Unconventional Canvas’ with well-known street artist Ben Eine.
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Tradestars

In November, we partnered with Tradestars to commission local artists, with strong connections to HWFI, to create permanent artworks on the walls inside their new co-warehousing buildings located in Fish Island, giving formerly blank walls a distinctive mark to express the unique energy of this space. The Artists: Burrito (@burritoconluces_tattoo) I am Burrito, an artist…
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