Creative Lunches: Sharing Art and Food

Creative Lunches is a community engagement project exploring intergenerational connections through creative activities inspired by artworks by Jan Davidz de Heem. The project responds to the following questions: 

• How can creative community workshops foster connections between people, across generations, and with artworks? 

• How does multi-sensory engagement through art support and encourage connection and sharing? 

• What is the impact of these connections on participants of different ages? 

Drawing on the Picturing Excess: Jan Davidz de Heem temporary display at the Museum, we will organise creative workshops and shared lunches in community settings. These consist of age-specific workshops for young children (including those with sensory impairments) and their families and for older adults, followed by an intergenerational session bringing the two groups together. 

Following an action research model, we will run two iterations of the workshops in the Romsey and Arbury areas of Cambridge City. We are seeking to develop an evidence base around the potential of creative community engagement work to build connections between generations. 

This project has been enabled thanks to the philanthropic support of an anonymous donor. 

• 1 x blog post/online article 

• Briefing paper 

• Conference presentation to relevant specialist audience  

Nicola Wallis (Project Lead),  Emily Bradfield and Kate Noble

Xenia Horne - Creative Practitioner 

Community partners: Jo Lyall and Cambridgeshire County Council Sensory Support Team, Cambridgeshire Older People’s Enterprise, local organisations supporting families and older people