Annual Tamalpa Graduate Weekend & Fundraiser 2025

Open to all current students and graduates of Tamalpa UK, come and join us in Sandgate, Kent this November and connect with Peers & Faculty. Experience the diverse work of our Tamalpa Practitioners first hand, recharge your own body's creative wisdom and meet new colleagues with shared passions.

All participant tickets purchased go directly into supporting our Tamalpa UK fundraising campaign and supporting us to continuing offering the community interest work that we do. This year we are aiming to raise £10,000 towards core running costs for the year. The graduate weekend is one event amongst a series of upcoming fundraising events.

We are delighted that , and are joining us to facilitate sessions during the Graduate weekend, with more Tamalpa Practitioners to be confirmed. All facilitators, including faculty in attendance are donating their time to the weekend fundraiser and we are looking foward to connecting again with everyone.

The weekend will involve:

• Developing personal and professional practice through the Tamalpa Life Art Process®
• Time to reconnect with peers, teachers and meet new graduates from other training programmes
• Learn how current Tamalpa Practitioners are working in diverse settings, social prescribing, including performance and rituals
• Plug in and revitalise your own Tamalpa personal practice
• Have a chance to connect with your Self -Portrait or artwork that you wish to explore further (Optional and not required, Self Portraits hold the space as a Gallery)
• Be a part of building the Tamalpa Community in a fun and positive way
• Extended festive lunch break to have time to eat together collectively

Open to current students and graduates from Level 1, Level 2 & Level 3 Tamalpa training programmes only.

Image credit: TUK Graduate Weekend

Time: Saturday 10am - 5.00pm & Sunday 10am - 4.30pm (GMT)

Venue: Chichester Memorial Hall, Sandgate, Kent

Cost:

• Full price ticket £210 /Concession rate £170 (Plus Eventbrite fee)
• Early bird discount price £130 (+eventbrite fee) for registrations and full payment processed by 20th October 2025
• Day ticket £99/ Concession rate £70 (Plus Eventbrite Fee)
• Payment plans are available to pay by instalments for all ticket options, please contact Tamalpa UK office

• Two work exchange positions available with £140 discount off the full ticket price.
• Two Assistant opportunities available to Level 2 Graduates +

Further information please contact us directly.

Meet the Tamalpa Practitioners

Lesley Asare

Lesley Asare is a British Ghanaian Multidisciplinary Artist, Facilitator and Tamalpa Practitioner

As an artist, her practice is led by her quest for truth. She makes solo and collaborative work and wholeheartedly believes in the healing power of the creative process. Her work explores and celebrates identity, personal histories and the experiences of Black Women, Black People and People of Colour. Through her work, she aims to create the space for play, self-reflection, self-awareness and discovery, transformation, empowerment and healing.

As a facilitator trained in the Tamalpa Life Art Process® through Tamalpa UK, she creates a safe and sacred container for people to explore the wisdom of the body, holistically come home to themselves and give room to what is alive in them through the expressive arts.

Lauren Dowse

Lauren is a Tamalpa UK Associate Teacher and Tamalpa Practitioner. She has worked in the field of dance/performance for the past 25 years.

She started her training at the National Centre for Circus Arts, London, and her professional career began as a collaboration with music producer Sven Vath, where she devised, directed and choreographed large scale live art and music events. Lauren continued working with numerous artists in many contexts for stage and television. She then took her work into the education and outreach sector devising and delivering projects for young vulnerable women, disadvantaged families and young adults with Autism.

Lauren teaches creative movement classes and expressive arts workshops and has taught in many settings including The Royal Shakespeare Co, University of Brighton and Clean Break, a theatre-based education company supporting the rehabilitation of women with experience of the criminal justice system. Lauren has spent the last 9 years devising and developing projects for people in recovery from all forms of addiction and her work is sponsored by Create Recovery Arts Charity and New Note Dance. Lauren is also a Creative Coach and Wellbeing Mentor at the Academy of Contemporary Music, London.

Evelyn Aston Rhodes

Evelyn is an experienced Somatic Movement therapist, Tamalpa Practitioner and Movement based Expressive Arts Therapist (Tamalpa Method), who works in private practice and within the local community and third sector organisations. She supports individuals to understand their relationships with their body and rediscover resiliency, health and emotional wellbeing and regulation.

Evelyn has been training in Somatic practices since 2009 after years of studying Authentic Movement and Improvisation under the teaching of Victor Ma and Mandy Yim while living in Hong Kong. Throughout these practices she became fascinated with what is happening on a physical, emotional and psychological level when we move; how we can express a range of human emotions that enables personal discovery and the capacity for deeper meaning in our lives.

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