Arts and health organisation Community Touch has received funding from Camden PCT to provide weekly arts (drama, movement, music and art) and horticulture therapeutic activities on prescription.

The project aims to reduce health inequalities in the Kentish Town and Gospel Oak areas and can be accessed by anyone through their GP, social services, and community centres or by self referral. The project, Creative Health Lab, is designed to encourage participants to take an exploratory, creative and more engaged approach to their own healthcare.

Personality Plus is a new initiative designed to explore and promote creativity and a diagnosis of Personality Disorder.

On 18th November, Tate Modern will host an afternoon of artist talks, workshops and debates exploring the ways in which creativity is helping recovery from PD, and how prevention is possible through creativity.

For further information and booking forms visit
w: www.personalityplus.org.uk

The London Voluntary Services Council is hosting two day-long conferences to help voluntary and community organisations find out about opportunities relating to the London 2012 Games and their legacy.

The events will give information on the Games plans so far, community engagement and The Big Opportunity project and will take place on Wednesday 5th November in Ealing Town Hall and on Tuesday, 2nd December in Stratford Town Hall.

The event is £25 per person or free for some small groups. For more information, please contact the Big Opportunity Direct helpline: 0844 856 3420

The Campaign for Drawing and Bow Arts Trust present 'Drawing on Life' at the Wellcome Collection on 26-28 September and University College London (UCL) and the Wellcome Trust on 27 September. This unique free interactive festival will celebrate drawing and life, with leading artists and scientists, in a programme of events and activities exploring what it means to be human.

Visitors will be invited to delve deep into our understanding of the human mind and body in a series of free creative events, workshops and talks suitable for all ages. For further information please visit www.thebigdraw.org

Students at the Royal Society of Medicine are hosting Cancer Tales, a performance of short plays by the writer Nell Dunn telling the stories of women and their journey through cancer. The plays are based on conversations that Nell had with health care professionals and people affected by cancer and will be staged on Friday 10th October at 6.30pm.

A workbook analysing the script has been developed to teach healthcare professionals and will be available on the day. The staging will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Nell Dunn and Trevor Walker, the play’s director as well as TV and news presenter Anna Ford and Jed Mercuio, doctor turned author and screenwriter of the TV series ‘Bodies’. To book online, visit: www.rsm.ac.uk/students

The Clod Ensemble has unveiled a season of conversations, performances and workshops that examine the medical profession through the lens of the performing and visual arts. The events, which run from 30th October until mid December bring together artists, ethicists, clinicians, health carers and cultural thinkers to examine the way theatre and the arts may illuminate contemporary medical practice and vice versa.

After 22 years of work supporting the disability arts sector, London Disability Arts Forum has ceased trading. The organisation's regular funding from Arts Council England was cut at the end of last year. The organisation is still exploring options to continue to produce its bi-monthly magazine art disability culture and staging the London International Disability Film Festival.

Poems for…, the national organisation which supplies poem-posters free of charge to healthcare sites, schools and libraries has launched a new website www.hyphen-21.org/publicsite/poems-for. The new site allows people to download poems directly including a large number of bilingual poems. Launching the new site, Poet Laureate

Andrew Motion expressed admiration for "Poems for..." above all for its primary vision that good poetry belongs in the everyday and the eveywhere, and can offer vital connection across ethnic and cultural difference.”

Moira Sinclair, formerly Director of Vital Arts at Bart’s and the London, has been appointed Executive Director of Arts Council England, London. For the past three years, Moira was Director of Development at the Arts Council’s London office.

London based Sound Minds are offering DJ and singing workshops providing basic instruction in a range of skills including Beatmatching, Scratching, and MCing.

For more details, visit: www.soundminds.co.uk