West Midlands

The Programme Officer Cohesion will work with the Sound It Out team as well as a broad number of external agencies and stakeholders to develop Sound It Out’s programme of
work in the cultural cohesion and refugee arts sectors (refugee arts in this case encompasses refugees, asylum seekers and economic migrants), and will coordinate delivery of activity. You will also be responsible for attracting funding to the strand and for administering this.

Young people between the ages of 16 and 24 who wish to make a positive difference within their community can apply for grants of up to £2,000 through the Starbucks Youth Action Programme.

The programme is open to young people for projects in Greater London, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Dublin, Edinburgh, Leeds and Manchester. Previous projects supported include introducing bee-hives to an inner-city park in Manchester, tackling cyber-bullying in Cardiff and supporting cheer-leaders in Kensington.

Worcestershire and Warwickshire Museum on the Move mobile museum bus scheme is presently developing themes and ideas for ‘Just Art‘ the next touring exhibition.

The designer is interested in representing Arts and Health within the new exhibition and the learning and community engagement team at Warwickshire CC is keen to include art work which fits under this theme including outsider art. The Museum travels to communities and schools across the two counties

Evaluator wanted for learning disability dance project.

Mencap, Birmingham Royal Ballet/Freefall, mac birmingham, Fox Hollies School and Performing Arts College and Midlands Mencap are working together on a grassroots-level learning disability dance project in Birmingham and the surrounding region. It is intended to extend the opportunities for people with a learning disability (pwld) to dance, be creative, communicate, challenge perceptions, and improve their health and sense of well being.

The personalisation agenda in Social Care means that service users are being given their own personal budgets, effectively becoming individual commissioners. It is predicted that by April 2013, over a million people will have a personal budget.

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 event offers an introduction to personalisation and how to prepare for this growing micro market.

praXis and Creative Remedies are pleased to announce the winning and highly commended projects for the West Midlands based Arts and Health Awards 2011.. The winning and highly commended projects are:

praXis Social Care Projects Award
Winner: B Arts for Soundstories
Highly Commended: The Courtyard Centre for the Arts for Dementia Poets in Residence

South Staffordshire and Shropshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust are seeking to commission four large scale site specific permanent artworks for a new build centre.

Expressions of interest are invited from artists for commissions worth between £8k and £6K each. Experience of public art projects is required; experience of working in healthcare settings or at least three years of graduate experience is desirable.

The Creative Communities Unit, Staffordshire University and the Participatory Practitioners for Change PPfC present a one-day conference on participatory video.

Creative Health CIC and Staffordshire Arts & Museums Service have announced their plans to merge the praXis and Creative Remedies websites and develop a new resource for arts and health practitioners across the region.