West Midlands

Hereford’s Courtyard Centre for the Arts is looking to recruit four music practitioners to deliver a new Creative Ageing project.

Successful candidates will be provided with an expert mentor, receive initial training and have the opportunity to shadow a mentor, enabling them to develop how they use their practice to facilitate workshops for older people in a variety of care settings.

Paintings in Hospitals is looking for a Loans Coordinator to provide an art loan service in the West Midlands that promotes health, wellbeing and empowerment for all.

A researcher with proven ability to write for publication is sought for a new post at the newly formed Arts in Health Centre of Excellence, within the College of Health & Social Care Research Centre (CHSCRC), University of Derby.

Two-day, free training workshops on "Museums as spaces for wellbeing", in six regions across England, designed for museum staff or volunteers who are interested in developing and delivering health and wellbeing work in their organisations.

The one-day conference is a collaboration between the doctoral training centre for the arts and dementia at the University of Worcester, University of Nottingham, and the Alzheimer's Society.

Confirmed practitioner-led workshops:

Kate Duncan and Claire Ford will demonstrate the Armchair Gallery, which inspires the viewing, appreciation and production of artworks through a series of workshops led by professional artists, using digital technology.

The City Arts exhibition will be held at the Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham, between May and September.

City Arts say: “Our reality is a succession of unique moments, each moment impacting on our well-being.  Our annual exhibition at the Institute of Mental Health is an opportunity for artists to express through art how they are experiencing and reacting to each of those moments”.

Art work must be delivered by 26 April 2017.

Sense are looking to recruit an Arts & Wellbeing Co-ordinator to work 37.5 hours per week (full time). As part of the Arts, Sports & Wellbeing team (ASW) based in Selly Oak, Birmingham. This opportunity will be on a fixed term contract ending 31st March 2018.

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The symposium will feature artists' presentations, a live portrait painting by Tanya Raabe-Webber, a Radical Practices open mic session and two panel debates and keynote speeches focussing on underrepresentation, exclusion and invisibility.

Curated by young people from Walsall Youth Justice Service, Beyond the Door is an exhibition of artwork, writing and music from prisons, secure hospitals, and by people on community sentences in the West Midlands.

13 Jan – 26 Mar 2017
mac Birmingham