LAHF Newsletter - 21 February 2012
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In this issue
LAHF News
News
Events
Opportunities
Resources
LAHF News
Apologies for the (possible) radio silence!
Over the past couple of months, we have been busy updating the LAHF website. Among the latest developments is a new blog and integrating our Facebook page as well as (hopefully) making the site more user friendly. There will be more content added over the next few months but the main structural work has now been completed and the new site can be seen (as always) at www.lahf.org.uk
As part of the website development, we have had some problems with the past two issues of our newsletter and we understand that some of you have not received these. Please accept our apologies for this. We have now changed our email newsletter system and we trust that normal service will now be maintained - please add this address to your safe sender list to ensure that it ends up in your Inbox not your spam folder! The material from the recent newsletters can always be found on our website so there’s another reason to check out the new site!
We’ve also been busy developing some new projects which we will be announcing soon so look out for updates.
News
Be Creative Be Well Evaluation published
Over three and a half years, the Well London programme empowered some of the capital’s most deprived communities to take a proactive role in enhancing their health and wellbeing.
Creative people and places fund opens for applications
The Arts Council has launched a new £37 million fund to support arts activity in areas where levels of involvement are currently low.
Public health spending
The Department of Health has published projected figures for 2012/13 public health spending.
Personal health budgets and NHS Continuing Healthcare
The Department of Health has published a discussion paper which explores personal health budgets for people receiving NHS Continuing Healthcare.
London NHS provider to cut third of voluntary sector funding
NHS Enfield primary care trust has confirmed that in financial year 2012/13 the voluntary sector in the borough will receive £500,000 – a third less than the historic spend of £750,000 in previous years.
State of the Arts Conference 2012
Video and audio content from this Arts Council event is now available online, alongside the State of the Arts blog.
Voluntary Arts partners CRESC to host new £1.5 million research project
A multi-disciplinary team led by CRESC (Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change at the University of Manchester) Senior Research Fellow Dr Andrew Miles has been awarded £1.5 million by the Arts and Humanities Research Council for a five-year research project under its Communities, Culture and Creative Economies funding programme.
Big Draw Artworks go on Display in Surrey Hospital
Following the success of a two year fundraising campaign, two large drawings by illustrators Posy Simmonds and Michael Foreman have recently been loaned to a hospital in Surrey by the charity Paintings in Hospitals.
Consultations and surveys
University of Central Lancashire
Is your organisation offering Arts participation, for people with mental health needs for wellbeing and inclusion outcomes?
Commissioning Outcomes Framework , NICE consultation – deadline 29 February
As part of the process to develop a Commissioning Outcomes Framework (COF) that measures the health outcomes and quality of care achieved by clinical commissioning groups, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is encouraging organisations, groups and individuals in England to comment on potential new indicators.
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Events
An Introduction to Personalisation, Telford – 28 February
The opening up of service provision means that artists now have the opportunity to develop and offer services that creatively meet the needs of individuals.
The Arts and the Big Society 'Sticking Plaster or Resistance?' The Politics of Arts’ Interventions in Health contexts, Winchester – 29 February
A seminar hosted by The Centre for Research into the Arts as Well-Being at the University of Winchester.
Select Edit: Public Private, Walsall – 29 February
A sharing day on the theme of Arts and Health asking: How do artists work with authentic material and lived experience and transform them into artwork for the public arena?
Strategic Commissioning for Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Exeter – 7 March
A one day event bringing together commissioners, voluntary and community sector organisations, arts and cultural organisations and academics to understand and engage with commissioning and to stimulate opportunities for working together.
Place shaping to create health and wellbeing, Newcastle – 29 March
Fuse Quarterly Research Meeting co-hosted by Gateshead Primary Care Trust.
Addiction and Performance: the New Normal?, Kingston University – 4&5 April
Registration is now open for this joint conference, organised in partnership between Kingston University and Liverpool Hope University, and to be held in Kingston.
Anatomize, London – 20 April
Over several weeks and using the collections at the Hunterian Museum as initial source material; students from Rose Bruford College have designed a blend of sound, light and costume to create an Installation Promenade Performance.
Cr8net Conference, London – 24 April
CIDA have announced that Cr8net 2012 will take place at the Royal Institution of Great Britain.
Music in Healthcare seminar at RNCM, Manchester – 10&11 May
RNCM Music for Health invites people working in the cultural and health sectors to attend a 2-day seminar about music in healthcare.
Exhibitions
Vietnamese Mental Health Services’ exhibition, Together Our Space Gallery – until 29 February
A new exhibition featuring the paintings and artwork of service users from The Vietnamese Mental Health Services (VMHS), a charity which aims to serve the mental health needs of people from Vietnam who are living in the UK.
Bridge Over Troubled Water, Bethlem Gallery – until 2 March
The first solo exhibition of a current resident of Bethlem Royal Hospital, presenting vibrant large-scale watercolours of imaginary scenes that represent his experiences growing up in Jamaica and England.
For the Love of Art, Royal Brompton Hospital – until 27 April
An exhibition about love, spring and valentines, featuring artists from The Other Side Gallery.
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Opportunities
Jobs and commissions
Job Opportunities at CoolTan Arts – various deadlines
Administration and Community Involvement Officer, Self Advocacy Trainer & Project Administrator, Communications & Volunteer Officer, Volunteer Coordinator.
Cartoon artist, Medical Research Council – deadline 23 February
The Medical Research Council (MRC) will celebrate its 100th birthday in 2013.
Memory Bank Development Manager, Yorkshire Film Archive
Yorkshire Film Archive has worked in partnership with a range of health and social care providers to develop Memory Bank - an accessible range of practical tools using archive film footage to support and enhance reminiscence and memory work, lifting mood, improving communication and increasing a sense of wellbeing.
Artists wanted, Older People Project, Rotherham MBC – deadline 26 February
Artists are wanted for a project in an Older People’s Mental Health Unit in the grounds of Rotherham General Hospital.
Public realm artist, Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham – deadline 2 March
Expressions of interest are invited to create a new public realm sculpture to be sited outside the new headquarters of the Institute of Mental Health, on the Jubilee Campus of the University of Nottingham.
Trustees and Volunteers
Emergence, Non-Executive Director – deadline 24 February
Emergence are specifically seeking individuals who would identify themselves as a service user with a lived experience of personality disorder and those who have a professional or caring experience of personality disorder.
Koestler Trust – volunteers
The Koestler Trust has been awarding, exhibiting and selling artworks by offenders, detainees and high security patients for 50 years.
Older Adults Creative Arts Group Facilitator, Volunteer Opportunity, West Bromwich
Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Older Adult service at Edward St Hospital, West Bromwich offers the opportunity for a volunteer to work with its Occupational Therapy team to facilitate a creative Arts Group for older adults with poor mental health and/or dementia.
Funding
People's Health Trust: Healthy Communities Small Grants Programme
This small grants programme makes awards of between £5,000 and £10,000 to local projects which help people live longer, healthier lives and address health inequalities.
Creative England: The Development Fund
The Development Fund is open to individual writers, writer/directors and/or producers based in the English regions for the development of all types of feature films, including animation and documentary.
Education and Training
Inclusive Music Training, Joy Of Sound – 24 February
Joy of Sound, inclusive music and arts providers, are offering training in their approach to inclusive, accessible music workshop facilitation.
Artists Professional Development Programme: Developing Arts for Health
Places are still available.
Manchester Metropolitan University Arts and Health Training Intensives, Manchester
Over May/June 2012, Arts for Health will be delivering training modules that offer artists the opportunity to refine their knowledge and practice within the arts and health sector.
Other
Hackney Life - contribute to a new crowd-sourced documentary, Mosaic Films – deadline 12 March
Hackney Museum has teamed up with production company Mosaic Films to produce a short documentary from material submitted by the public.
Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture 2012 – deadline 30 March
The Marsh Christian Trust and the PMSA invite nominations for the Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture 2012.
Artists & Community Groups to Exhibit in MK Hospital, MK Arts for Health – deadline 6 April
Call for artists and community groups to exhibit work in Milton Keynes General Hospital.
Exhbition opportunity, Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
As part of the programme of arts activity at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust, changing gallery spaces are available to provide artists with temporary exhibition opportunities.
Gwanwyn Festival of the Arts for Older People, Wales – deadline 2 March
Gwanwyn is a month-long national festival held across Wales in May each year celebrating creativity in older age.
Resources
New Well London Website
The new Well London website has now been launched, containing resources from the lifespan of the award winning project.
Binleys publish clinical commissioning map
More information has been added to the existing clinical commissioning group map with the addition of SHA clusters and PCT clusters.
'Who Cares? Museums, health and wellbeing'
The 'Who Cares? Museums, health and wellbeing' publication outlines the programme that the six Renaissance North West museums have been running over the past two years.
Cultural Attendance and Public Mental Health
This provides evidence that simply going to a museum, art gallery, film or concert on a regular basis increases longevity, and that culture is a separate variable.
Art Lift evaluation
The evaluation of the Art Lift project by the University of Gloucestershire is now available.
Long-term conditions and mental health
More than 4 million people in England with a long-term physical health condition also have mental health problems, and many of them experience significantly poorer health outcomes and reduced quality of life as a result.
National Arts and Health Policies Project, Australia – PlaceStories
As part of the National Arts and Health Policies Project, AHF and its project partners Regional Arts Australia (RAA) and the Rural Health Alliance (RHA) have created Arts and Health Stories – a growing online community of artists, arts workers and health professionals from across Australia committed to integrating the arts into federal government health policy.
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