As part of Sheba Festival 2024, we hosted a series of painting, poetry, and zine making workshops at SWAP (Support For Wigan Arrivals Project)'s centre in Leigh. 
These workshops facilitated by Floating Art, Leigh-based poet Natasha Tingle, and the team of Multitudes Zine Festival! 
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Natasha Tingle

Natasha Tingle is a mentally and physically disabled British Indian woman living in Wigan.

She seeks to inspire and connect with audiences through her poetry and creative writing workshops.
Called The Queen of Metaphor, Natasha knits and weaves love into her words. She speaks her inner truth, and tries to raise a voice for those who feel silenced. She warmly encourages others to speak through writing workshops.


Find out more here.

Floating Art

Floating Art are a small independent business, we've been holding painting events & art workshops in Central Manchester and Liverpool for almost five years now and this year we are beginning to host Art classes in Leeds too. 

​Our workshops combine both fun and learning, We're passionate about you having absolute freedom over your creativity. We guide you from a blank canvas and teach you the required techniques to allow you to create something of your own making. We are not to be confused with other pop up workshops where you paint identikit paintings and don't learn techniques but follow somebody else's paint by numbers.

Find out more here.

Multitudes Zine Festival

We've been making zines and organising zine-related events for a long time now, and have noticed that zine spaces are often pretty homogenous (very white and very middle class, among other things) - and in ways that just don't reflect our own lives.

​We decided to make a zine space focused on Black, brown and global majority, neurodivergent, disabled, working class and LGBTQ+ zine-makers. Focused on those of us who, in multiple overlapping ways, aren't already at the centre of the publishing world, the literary world, and the art world.

Find out more here.