The Anxious Explorers - Cinema Date

Anxious Explorers is a gentle, year-long project designed to help people step mildly outside their daily comfort zones, meet like-minded others, and build creativity and confidence into their routine. Together, we aim to end the year braver, more connected, and more open than we started.

Each month, the Anxious Explorers Club will take on a small exploration; sometimes physical, sometimes creative, sometimes reflective, offering manageable challenges that encourage growth without pressure. These monthly outings and activities are designed for people who understand that anxiety happens, and who want a supportive community to try new things with, judgment-free.

Clear instructions and accessible information will always be provided in advance, helping to ease fears and give participants the confidence to join in. The project acknowledges the ways fear can hold us back: fear of the unknown, of getting things wrong, of change itself. Many of these fears are old childhood coping strategies that once protected us but now keep us stuck in familiar routines, repeating the same comforting habits even when they no longer serve us.

Anxious Explorers invites participants to gently unlearn these patterns, replacing fear with curiosity, creativity, and connection. By taking small, supported steps together, we hope to rediscover joy in new experiences, build resilience, and create a community of people who are willing to “have a go,” even when it feels scary.

Will you join us on a year of explorations, one small step at a time?

This adventure:

February - Music & Films ; We are teaming up with Worcester Film Festival and inviting you to a taster of what their monthly film club is like. Usually the film club go and the movie first and then meet for a drink afterwards on a Sunday, for our taster session we will be flipping it around to better fit in to the chosen evening. We invite you to meet us for a drink to chat about films and tv shows and then we will cross over to Vue cinema to watch the film Cold Storage.

Thursday 26th February

Meet at Ye Olde Talbot, Friar Street (WR1 2NA) for 6PM drink and chat

Film info: Cold Storage 7pm-9.04pm, Screen 6

Cold Storage

Horror, sci-fi, comedy, Rated 15.

(https://www.myvue.com/cinema/worcester/film/cold-storage)

When a highly dangerous fungus escapes from a secret laboratory, a former bioterrorism agent is called back into action. Alongside two young employees, he must confront an invisible and out-of-control threat.

Venue:

• Find out more about Ye Olde Talbot https://www.greeneking.co.uk/pubs/worcestershire/ye-olde-talbot?utm_source=g_places&utm_medium=locations&utm_campaign=PD_pubpage

• Find out more Vue Cinema Worcester https://www.myvue.com/cinema/worcester/whats-on

• Wheelchair friendly venue, disabled toilet is available - Please make sure to state whether you need a wheelchair space when booking your ticket through us.            

• We will meet at either Ye Olde Talbot at 6pm or the front of Vue Cinema for 6.50pm, if it is cold we will meet inside, in front of the old box office which is right in front of you when you enter.

• If you haven't received an Anxious Explorers pack, we will give you one to take away so you may want a bag to carry this in.                          

• Obviously we can't control the volume or temperature in this meet up so please do come prepared with layers to put on if cold (the screens can be chilly inside even when its hot outside) and headphones if needed to better be able to cope.

• The £5 fee does not cover any drinks or snacks, please feel free to bring your own or purchase on the evening. I would bring in a bag so that not obviously bringing in your own and I believe hot food isn't allowed from external businesses so bare that in mind.        

• Nearest parking can be found in the NCP Cathedral Plaza (WR1 2HQ) or King Street (WR1 2NX). Vue Cinema can be found a short walk from both these carparks and from the bus (Crowngate Bus Station) and train stations (Forgate Street Station/Shrubhill Station), please make sure to check the scheduled end time of the chosen film (we will add when we know) to make sure you can get home again. The cinema address is 49 - 55 Friar Street, Worcester, WR1 2NA.                                

  
  

Calendar overview:

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March - Places; Gather together in a coffee shop/bar/restaurant.

April - Exhibition; Go along to an exhibition at a local gallery to look at art styles, talk about what we like and why.

May - Adventures; Visit a new town/place via train.

June - Workshops; Supported by local workshop providers, artists and crafters for example so that we can try something new.

July - Activities; A trip to take part in an activity.

August - Personal Challenges; Encourage us to challenge ourselves to face a personal anxiety and offer support to do together or find the opportunity. This could be anything from using the bus to public speaking.

September - Outdoors; Link in with a local walking group, aiming to embrace the outdoors no matter the weather. Encouraging us to prepare and enable enjoyment even in the winter months.

October - Seasonal Celebrations; Encourage finding joy in the changing of the seasons, learning to lean in to celebrating and finding joy in differences.

November - Review & Planning; A workshop combining reviewing how the year has been so far with an element of vision boarding and planning for the year ahead to reach personal targets.

December - Social Event; we will come together to celebrate the year’s achievements at a seasonal social event.

Throughout this project, participants will be invited to provide feedback at various stages. Upon completion, we will collate your responses along with insights gathered from your journals and sketchbooks in order to report back to Worcestershire County Council, as required under the terms of our project funding.

• All bookings are subject to organiser approval. We reserve the right to refuse or cancel bookings at our discretion.