Dreamers: An activity for NIMHAF and National Drawing Day

This year CCA invites artist Niamh Seana Meehan to design an activity for NIMHAF 10–19 May 2024 and National Drawing Day 18 May 2024.

In Dreamers Niamh invites you to listen, float, and linger with an audio coastal walk. Walking along edges of liquid space this audio will explore moments to find stillness, to feel how our skin touches seawater and how we can reimagine the desire path. A desire path is a path created by animal traffic, or a path taken as a short-cut. For this coastal walk the desire path will present listeners with the space to reimagine what they desire to find on their own coastal path.

Listen to the audio, pausing to draw or write anything that comes to mind. Suggested materials are pens, pencils, colouring pencils or whatever you prefer or have to hand. Alternatively you can listen to the full audio, then begin to draw what you feel, think or imagined as you were listening. You are also welcome to sit comfortably and listen. Niamh invites you to respond in your own way. 

You can download or listen below to this specially created audio. Intentional pauses will give you space to reflect, draw or write. Headphones are preferred. A selection of materials will be available to collect from 10 May 2024, from CCA, 10-12 Artillery Street, Derry~Londonderry, BT48 6RG. You can tag your drawings with @CCADLD, @nimhaf, #NationalDrawingDay