A partnership has been formed between St.Helens Council Arts Service, Adult Social Care and Library Service, to develop a commission that will engage local communities in arts activity culminating in a performance/exhibition/film/event/ production, date tbc. The commission will engage with people suffering with mental health issues – ranging from mild to moderate to more severe and enduring needs.
This 2-day course aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to working with offenders in the community. It explores key issues faced by volunteers, and the organisations that manage them. Participants receive a free copy of Clinks’ "Volunteering with Offenders in the Community" resource pack, which has been designed to support the training of staff and volunteers in the Voluntary and Community Sector who are working with offenders in the community.
The Pan-Merseyside Arts Officers Group have received funding from Arts Council England to deliver a project that brings professional artists and NEET (Not in Education Employment or Training) young people together to create a performance in a boxing ring that draws on themes of fighting, Olympic endeavour and those given by participants. Punchline will combine music, film and dance to create a multimedia performance in which personal or social struggles are taken into the ring.
Odd Theatre Company is looking for artists to facilitate workshops to produce artwork compatible with digital platforms. The organisation is working with a group of young people who will investigate social issues that are important to their community. The young people will find out what matters by interviewing people and groups in their area, and investigating their community’s stories, emotions, history and future through varied art-forms and community reporting.
Sefton’s Leisure Services seeks to recruit a specialist mental health worker to implement its ‘Creative Alternatives’ arts and health programme during maternity absence of the current postholder. The Referral Officer will be required to promote this programme to GP surgeries and health centres and to encourage clients with mild to moderate depression to undertake creative activity as an alternative to medication.
Is your organisation offering Arts participation, for people with mental health needs for wellbeing and inclusion outcomes?
The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has been awarded Lifelong Learning Network funding to develop a Post Graduate Certificate focused on the Arts, Social Inclusion and Wellbeing. The course will include a module focused on evaluating Arts, Health and Wellbeing Interventions.
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.
Two training streams will be offered:
· Participatory Practice for Health and Wellbeing (Weds pm)
· Public Art and Design for Health and Wellbeing (Thur pm)
Each group will offer a maximum of 10 places and to be fair to applicants, people cannot participate in both groups, due to numbers.
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. The programme has been researched by the Psychosocial Research Unit at the University of Central Lancashire.
The London Creativity and Wellbeing Week 2012 will take place from June 13-20 this summer and promises to be a great showcase for the huge variety of arts and health activity in the capital.
