ManAre.Space
Ignite Your Journey with New Experiences and Friends
Welcome
We are pleased you have arrived here and are looking forward to working with you to unfold the hidden qualities within us together.
We are calling for courageous men,
Men ready for adventure, to join our quest
Men willing to journey to the interior
Men who are ready to play, to feel into the depth and breadth of being a male today.
Through listening to the magic of myth and legend, folk lore, stories of epic trials:
Odysseus, Blue Beard, Iron John, legend of Kings and queens and battles and through the practice of creative expression with art materials we will explore what it might be to be male here now.
Our Use of Folklore
Ben will read a folklore story, a myth, or a legend each session, we will sit quietly to hold the energy of the story, together we will discuss the symbols and imagery in the story, finally Jarryd will lead the working with art materials to explore our relationship with the symbolism and archetypes being presented
Whats Included
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Listening to a myth, legend, or folklore story
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Group discussion on symbols and imagery
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Creative expression with art materials
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Guided, intentional process with no pressure or performance
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6 Two hour sessions
Workshop Starts 17th Of February
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6 fortnightly sessions, 2 hours each Tuesday.
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$90 total ($15 per session).
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We ask that participants commit to all sessions and pay upfront
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Full money back if you attend all 6 sessions.
Pricing
Workshop Starts 17th Of February
Our Creative Team.
Jarryd Eriksson
A young emerging artist with a passion for men’s mental wellbeing and the healing capacity of expression through art practice as a reflective modality.
A graduate of the La Trobe, Emporium Creative Hub, Arts Incubator – December 2025, and is a member of the ‘Spatter of Colour’ collective artist group, Bendigo
As an upcoming arts co-ordinator, Jarryd is a self taught using fine and abstract
artistic talents, mixed with contemporary and impressionist artistic styles.
Excellent conversationalist and intelligent intentional artistic direction— Regular
contributor to exhibitions, artbattles, murals and artist collectives.
Ben Wrigley
Has been a practicing artist principally in two distinct streams, architectural and conceptual photography and then a counter point, as a sculptor and maker. Running concurrently, his philosophical practice is coming to the fore, increasingly being concerned with the contemporary expression of masculinity and as contribution to the urgent need to reframe men's wellbeing towards better relationships.
Wrigley has been running a ‘WoodWorkShop’, principally for men, at the Old Church on the Hill during their fortnightly markets as an expression of ‘slow handmade’ and calming, for the past 18 months.
Professional Architectural Photographer 1985 - present
Numerous publications, notably two Australia Post stamps - Australian Optical Telescopes 2025 and Open Garden Scheme 2014
Numerous sculptural exhibitions, awards and commissions 1980 – present
As an artist in residence at the Emporium Creative Hub 2024-25 delivered 'The Wands, Pilgrimage - Bendigo' May 2025 with ABC Radio, WIN News and Bendigo Advertiser coverage.
Ben is a graduate of the La Trobe, Emporium Creative Hub, Arts Incubator, December 2025.