West Midlands

Bloomin' is an arts programme developed by Creative Health CIC to reduce smoking during pregnancy in Dudley. Based on a social marketing model, the first phase of the programme will investigate the root causes of why women continue to smoke in pregnancy, despite hard evidence that it is harmful to both them and their baby. In the second phase, marketing interventions will be put in place to encourage behaviour change. Expressions of interest are invited from artists and designers who would like to work on the programme.

Friction is seeking an experienced project coordinator for its HLF-funded 'Echoes' project. Echoes seeks to engage people with their shared heritage through a series of interventions, events and online resources, leading to an immersive exhibition during the Summer of 2013. The post is a fixed-term part-time contract, ending in December 2013. Friction Arts is also seeking an evaluator for the same project.

For more information and an application pack, contact Marta Samalea at Friction Arts.

Last year Creative Health hosted a Health and Wellbeing themed festival as part of Artsfest profiling the work of organisations and artists working in arts, health and wellbeing.

This year Creative Health is offering the same opportunity on Sunday 9 September in Birmingham City Centre.

Sound It Out Community Music is an independent registered charity, and is one of the UK’s leading participatory arts agencies, with 20 years’ experience of using music as a medium to transform lives across Birmingham and throughout the West Midlands.

Its current CEO has recently been appointed as Managing Director of its new sister trading company; and therefore the company is seeking a new CEO.

The CEO is responsible for the overall leadership, development, planning, management, finance and operation of Sound It Out within the policies and strategies agreed by the board.

Mencap is delivering a programme of one-day training courses about learning disability awareness. 

Using real life stories and experiences the interactive workshops will help develop skills and build confidence in identifying people with a learning disability and adapting support to meet their needs.

A round table discussion that will examine the changing landscape in which arts and health practitioners find themselves and explore possible responses. Do we need to re-examine our practice and revisit the rationale behind established ways of working?

The National Deaf Children’s Society is the leading charity dedicated to creating a world without barriers for deaf children and young people.

The Me2 project helps mainstream leisure activity providers at all levels to be deaf friendly to ensure deaf children and young people can genuinely take part.

Defining creative practice for the health and social care market.

Whether you are just starting out or have been working in participatory arts for some time, this event aims to help you to describe and define your work in terms that address the outcomes of health and social care partners.

A workshop for Arts for Health practitioners exploring the possibilities, ethics and debates about showing art work at the new gallery at Hallam Resource Centre (Hallam Street Hospital) The workshop includes a presentation by Angela Tombs, Head of Learning and Outreach at Wolverhampton Art Gallery about co-curating exhibitions with community groups and breaking down barriers between communities and the establishment within galleries.

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. This free event offers an introduction to personalisation, how its delivery is structured and how to prepare for this growing micro market. It will include examples of work that is currently being developed including Telford and Wrekin development of guidelines for minimum standards and pilot of a quality mark for independent service providers.