BrightSparks Arts

19/02/2026

We are very lucky to have our very own Green Room Gardeners recipe book featured in the Great Food Club newsletter today...

Thank you so much for featuring us! Scroll down the article to see our wonderful cookbook!

Is it still raining? Luckily, this ridiculously soggy February will soon be a distant memory as the daffs rise and spring arrives. On a personal note, I hit the big 50 this Friday, so I’m hoping for fewer downpours and more good food and drink.

18/02/2026

House of Circus is a Leicester based juggling and circus group. Join us to meet like minded people, make friends, and pick up circus skills. Sessions include a range of juggling skills (such as balls, clubs, and maybe other objects of your choice, diablo and devil stick), practices to improve hand eye coordination and balance, and other movement arts, such as AcroYoga, slackening, handstands, riding a unicycle and flow skills such as staff and poi. The sessions are facilitated by James, a freelance performer and contact juggler, Josh, a juggler and fire spinner and Christina, a certified yoga and AcroYoga teacher.

Every Thursday 6.15 - 7.45pm
First Session Free / £7 a session / Under 16s are Free but must be accompanied by an adult
7 East Street, Leicester, LE1 6EY

17/02/2026

The Creative Collage Collective is coming to Kettering Arts Centre in March. Join Loz and Sam for 8 weeks of exciting collage projects. No need to book, just turn up 😀

14/02/2026

And this piece created by Ian at a recent Smoothie session.

Don’t Quit.

When life gets s**t, don’t quit.
If you’re young or old, don’t quit.
If you have an addiction, don’t quit.
If you’re married, divorced, or single, don’t quit.
If the devil is on your back, don’t quit!

Lydia Towsey WORD Poetry

14/02/2026

And this beautiful piece created by Andy Richardson last November at a Wednesday Words online session. What a great piece.

Watching Long Lost Family.

Watching Long Lost Family brings tears to my eyes as the stories
unfold.

The pain and the loneliness, the lifelong unanswered questions and
the sibling intimacy that never happened.

The years pass and death claims its share of the cast while birth
brings new actors to the stage and there are moments of
refulgent happiness.

Lydia Towsey WORD Poetry

14/02/2026

Look at this beauty created by a member of the ArtsCafe group last November with Susan Jordan

13/02/2026

And this is 'Space the Final Frontier' created by Netty Jonas at a recent Smoothie session.

Space the Final Frontier.

Space the final frontier,
These are the voyages,
Of the Star Ship Enterprise.
Her ongoing mission,
To explore strange new worlds,
To seek out new life,
And new civilisations.
To boldly go where no one,
Has gone before.
I like my own space,
If this was my space.
I would live this life,
I would love this life,
Being part of Star Trek.

Lydia Towsey WORD Poetry

13/02/2026

And look at this beautiful piece created by Jan Tardy.

13/02/2026

And this blast from the past 'My Dream House' created by Ashanti Wenham last November at a Smoothie session.

My Dream House.
I wake up
in a house made of air.
The kind of air that can survive the elements,
walls windows doors and roofs.
Totally see through,
almost like an igloo
where the sun shines through.
No need for a loo,
or a bath,
or a shower.
Just a cooker
and an obidian food dispenser.
Clothes also made of air
that can survive the elements.
All posted at the top of the hill
in the garage
a home studio.
No need for a vehicle
as I can fly or teleport.
I sleep standing floating in mid air,
I like them, Jordan's I want me a pair.
The world is at peace,
I stopped and stared,
females
everywhere.

Lydia Towsey WORD Poetry

13/02/2026

I'm not sure who this is or who sketched her, but she's a beauty. Photographed 16.12.25 at The Bradgate Mental Health Unit.

11/02/2026

And join WORD Poetry tomorrow at Jones’s Bistro for the WORD Poetry annual spectacular!

Featuring Lydia Towsey and Tim Sayers, with special guests, and an open mic.

To sign up to the comedy themed open mic email hello@wordpoetry.co.uk.

In Association with Foxy Comedy
James Bistro , East Bond Street, Leicester, LE1 4SX
February 12th 2026
7.30-9.30pm
£4/£8 - via comedy-festival.co.uk or on the door

11/02/2026

Looking forward to seeing everyone at The Arty Social Online session tomorrow afternoon at 2pm. Login details remain the same.

And our programme for tomorrow as follows:

- Welcome & What’s on today

- News of the week introduced by Brigid.

- Host of the Show – Tim Sayers

- Show theme – Surprise surprise!

- Music – Jazz with Jane and singing

We look forward to seeing you then.

Hermione Aston