Events

Talk the Walk and Groundwork London will co-present a free networking meeting on 21^st April to discuss community kitchen gardens and their contribution to local health and wellbeing.

Presented by Building Better Healthcare, the third annual National Patient Environment and the Arts Conference will take place in Central London on 21^st April. This one day conference aims, among other things, to identify good practice, provide tools to develop and sustain an arts programme and learn from other PCTs how to develop fundraising.

This April, inclusive music and arts providers Joy of Sound are running three one day trainings courses in accessible music workshop facilitation.

MIND in Hammersmith and Fulham in partnership with the BFI Southbank, the London college of Communication and Goldsmiths is bringing together film programmers, film makers, mental health specialists and those with experience of mental distress for a 2 day open seminar.

LAHF is also planning an event on 15^th March 2010 from 12-6pm to explore the role of the arts in dementia care. The event will include presentations and workshops from practitioners working in the field including John Zeisel from the USA who will launch his new book “I’m Still Here”.

London Arts in Health Forum and Breakthrough have organised an event to offer support to artists and small arts organisations looking to raise their profile and build a better relationship with the media. This event will aim to help with making contact with the media, building relationships with the press and opinion formers and handling negative press coverage.

London Arts in Health Forum and Breakthrough are jointly planning an event to offer support to artists and small arts organisations looking to raise their profile and to build a better relationship with the media.

The Reader Organisation’s Get Into Reading project has more than 170 read-aloud groups across the UK and aims to improve wellbeing, build community and extend individual literacy.

At 7pm on 1^st March the National Campaign for the Arts will present an arts funding debate with the motion “This country can no longer afford to subsidise the arts”. Taking place in London at Kings Place, the debate will be chaired by Joan Bakewell and speakers include Melvyn Bragg, Matthew Elliot, Simon Jenkins and Matthew Taylor.