Care Makers Club

Sharing our Garden:
Creative workshops for unpaid carers

Care Makers is back for 2026! This year we are inviting adult unpaid carers, young carers and families to take part in Care Makers Club, a series of dedicated therapeutic art workshops using earth-based materials such as clay, metal, wood, paper and textiles which look into the more-than-human microworlds and ecologies within the garden.

You will investigate species, micro-organisms, trees and plants and look at how they are living, talking, caring for each other. You will explore what magic and lore surrounds them, and what we might discover and learn from them. Drawing upon this knowledge, participants will create a  series of artworks which offer us new perspectives and tools to see, engage, play and interact within the garden.

Reserve your place below on each block of workshops. 

Access costs for all attendees are supported, this might include travel, fuel, or other care costs, for example. Please chat to Ruby to find out how we can make it possible for you to join in: community@forganartscentre.co.uk. we will do all we can to support your participation. 

This activity is possible thanks to Inspiring Scotland’s Communities Fund.

It can be hard to recognise that you’re a carer. You might see yourself as a partner, friend or sibling to the person you care for, rather than their carer.

If you look after someone because they are ill, disabled, or frail, and you do it unpaid, then you are a carer.