Horizons is Convenience Gallery's flagship arts educational and wellbeing programme. Supporting people to reach their potential and develop skills in the creative industry and arts. All within a supportive mental health setting. 

This is through creative 8 - 10 week courses, and coming soon through a monthly art club. 

Age Groups available: 14 - 18 & 18+

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Horizons delivers a wide capture of arts practices and practitioners in an accessible format into the community to create direct ways for local people to engage amazing creative skills, materials, methodologies and ways of thinking whilst creating new supportive communities and friendship between likeminded people. Horizons focuses not only on the learning of new skills and the creation of new communities but also on offering vital first steps for people looking to work within and gain a greater understanding of the creative industry and the opportunities available.  

Horizons supports people to reach their potential and develop skills in a supportive mental health setting with trained staff in Mental Health establishing a strong link with Open Door and routes to further additional support. 

Horizons in the first 2 projects has supported 27 young people aged 14 - 18 through providing 2 free to access arts and wellbeing courses, along with training 12 local freelancers and creating further paid career opportunities within our local area.

Horizons 1: this first interaction of the Horizons project aimed to introduce a wide variety of creative practice from traditional and experimental arts techniques leading to more brief and design lead practices. This was a 10 week course taking young people of all skill leveling with a focuses on fun and engaging sessions which led to a final exhibition from the work created by the young people. 

Horizons 2: Mural and large scale painting; the second interaction of horizons was shaped in response to the young people's interests specifically in large scale painting and murals. For this we brought together a cohort of leading painter and artists for Liverpool to teach both practical skills, conceptual thinking and varied material approaches to large scale painting. After the initial 4 weeks of artist led learning the young people then designed and individually produces their own large scale murals/painting we were then featured as part of a two week exhibition at the Bloom Building.