Ongoing projects 2021

Colouring Together (over the next five weeks until the Festival Day on 19 June)

Colouring is a fun, therapeutic and creative activity which is popular for all ages!

We have a lovely drawing of Unity Doves Flying Together to download and print to colour at home.

You can download the drawing here to print at home.

Here’s an example partly coloured-in

colouring sample

This one has been done with felt pens – if you like a quieter image, then you can use coloured pencils.

Or how about colouring one with subtle shades of just one colour? You can colour in as a pair or family – make a game of it and take turns to colour in the same drawing.

You can start now and keep colouring all through the Festival. Do as many as you like: put the finished drawings in your windows, or anywhere where people will enjoy them to celebrate Creativity, Unity and the Festival.

You can colour them at school - we’d love to see a photo of dozens of these pictures from a whole class. Or a group of adults can colour in a set together. Enjoy!

Please don’t be shy, share your colouring on social media with the hashtag #cumbriaunityfestival on your own pages or share here at @cumbriaunityfestival on Facebook or email to kendalunity@awaz.info and we will post your super colouring online!

A Breath of Fresh Air (over the next five weeks until the Festival Day on 19 June)

This year we’ll be celebrating the outdoors in spring and early summer in Cumbria and encouraging everyone to enjoy A Breath of Fresh Air.

We can all start now, and then on the Festival Day of June 19th we’ll offer a drop-in forum to share what we’ve done and how that links with the Cumbria Unity Festival theme of reinventing unity.
We’ll post ideas and prompts here for all ages on CUF social media, including weblinks and suggestions if you aren’t able to get out.
We’ll encourage you to share any reflections and photos on social media with the hashtag #cumbriaunityfestival, or post on our Facebook page, or email to kendalunity@awaz.info

Co-ordinated by Chuck Whitehead, we’ll share weekly posts here about some of the Unity-related themes that can be explored in the outdoors, solo or socially:

Inclusion and diversity
Nature
Physical health and sports
Wellbeing, mental health
Fun, play and creativity

Of course our time outdoors is never devoted to just one theme. For example, gardening and growing can be about all of these diverse but interrelated themes – maybe with a different emphasis for everyone.

Will you explore the outdoors solo, or with a small group? We’d love to hear what you do and some of your reactions – but there’s also no need to overthink going outside!

We hope you enjoy being outdoors and reflecting on the value of the outdoors for Unity, whatever your age and wherever you are in Cumbria. You may be at home by the window, in the garden or off in the fells. You can join this for real and not on Zoom!