Join the Community at The GATHERing
Hosted by The Warnborough Foundation
Event Details
- Date: Friday, November 6, 2026
- Time: 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
- Venue: Warnborough HQ, 18 Lower Bridge Street, Canterbury, Kent CT1 2LG
- Registration: Sign up via Google Forms
- Limited to 15 places.
Connect with creative thinkers, practitioners, and local neighbours at The GATHERing, a friendly meetup hosted by The Warnborough Foundation. It is an open space to swap perspectives, spark collaborations, and explore meaningful topics through open dialogue and attendee-led mini-workshops.
Writers, artists, therapists, and community members of all backgrounds are welcome. Drop in for a quick chat or stay for the entire session.
What to Expect:
- Free tea and coffee (bring-and-share snacks are always welcome)
- Informal networking and small group discussions
- Attendee-driven skill shares and presentations
Space at the venue is limited, so please reserve your free spot in advance.
Confirmed Speakers and Workshop Leaders
Clare Dash: Drawing Back into the Body
Clare Dash is an artist, registered art therapist, and workshop facilitator whose practice spans over 30 years in the UK and Australia. She works at the intersection of art making, somatic healing and creative living. Her clinical background includes two decades in NHS mental health settings, in acute inpatient wards and community mental health teams working with complex trauma and dissociation. She is a fully qualified trauma therapist whose heart-centred approach integrates art, spirituality, and parts work: the understanding that every aspect of ourselves, however challenging, carries meaning and deserves compassion.
Website: www.claredash.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clare-dash-b79617216/
Workshop: Drawing Back into the Body
We carry more in our bodies than we realise. Stress, tension and unspoken pressure often settle into the shoulders, the jaw, the chest or the gut long before we find words for them. Drawing Back Into the Body is a 30 minute introductory session for busy professionals wanting a different way back into their own bodies, not through more thinking, but through movement and art materials.
Kevin Groves: Radio Drama
Kevin Groves currently lives in ‘White Cliffs Country’, Dover, UK. A veteran of many local and national festivals including three Edinburgh Fringe runs to date, and numerous other fringe festivals (including his own at Dover Fringe Festival). His quirky suspenseful storytelling often takes the audience to surprising places filled with twists and turns. An experienced storyteller, writer, producer, and perfumer. His radio drama productions air regularly on BBC Upload and local radio. Between running Dover Fringe he is currently producing his first animated feature film called ‘Margaret And Alice’, a gothic horror: https://margaretandalice.uk
Storyteller at https://kevingrovesstoryteller.uk
Writer & Producer at https://batteredhatproductions.uk
Talk: Radio Drama
Radio drama and podcasts have been around for years, but since COVID, there has been a burst of interest in radio and podcasting. Kevin talks about the importance of this medium despite the wealth of video streaming platforms eclipsing this ‘simplistic’ media. He will explain how to go about setting up a podcast specifically focused on drama; the technology, the workflows, and broadcasting.
Elizabeth Sillo: Connecting through Music and Creativity
Elizabeth Sillo, British-Hungarian mezzo-soprano based in Canterbury, is a member of the BBC National Chorus of Wales and a former concert soloist in the City of Manchester Opera. She has participated in various international opera and oratorio projects performing with English, Italian, French, German, Spanish, Hungarian and Welsh professionals including Verdi, Puccini, Lehar and many other famous composers’ musical treats. Elizabeth stretches the borders of Music and Art and she participated in a very successful ‘Brain research on stage’ scientific concert series in London and in Estonia with an internationally well-known brain researcher/neurologist.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-sillo-b5338265
Workshop: Connecting Through Music & Creativity
In this workshop, you can immerse yourself in wonderful operatic and folk
melodies through interactive discussions and musical brain games.
Danielle Williams: Sharing Legacy Through Creativity
Danielle Williams, is a multidisciplinary artist based in Canterbury, with a passion for music and visual arts. Currently her work is focused on her pen and watercolour sketches that are usually created live at local music events. Aside from this, the subject matter in her work typically includes portraits and nature, while paying special attention to colour and light. As well as being a visual artist, Danielle is a vocalist and musician who collaborates with other musicians. Also, she created her original music. Danielle has been interested in art since early childhood, so after doing art and photography at secondary school, she went on to do a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design at the University for The Creative Arts (UCA) in Canterbury. However, she eventually ended up with a degree in Animal Science, but soon after graduation began a consistent art practice.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daniellewilliams.art
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielle-williams-253007199/
Sharing Legacy Through Creativity
People can be creative for their entire lives, but their output is unlikely to stay the same. E.g. musicians are capturing a moment in time, especially when performing live as they hone raw feelings that create a unique energy on stage. As Danielle captures these moments in her art, she is also capturing people as they share their stories. There is a feeling of connection through storytelling because we all have our own individual stories, but we are also able to associate elements of our story to other people’s experiences. Someone may intend to create something to be personally remembered by but rather than looking at legacy as an individual idea, could it be something that we all share through creativity?
