West Midlands Arts & Health Awards 2011: Winners Announced

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

praXis Public Health Projects Award
Winner: Walsall Council Creative Development Team for Walsall Feeling Good Project
Highly Commended: The Cultural Sisters for A Picture of Sexual Health

Telford and Wrekin Council & NHS Telford and Wrekin Healthy Spaces Award
Winner: Walsall Council Creative Development Team for Goscote Monumental Arts Project

A Judges’ Commendation was also given to Esther Whitney for her project A Thimble Full, a sculpture project about living with Asperger’s Syndrome.

All the winning, highly commended and long-listed projects will be featured in full on the new West Midlands Arts, Health & Wellbeing website when it launches in February. The Arts and Health Awards will run again in 2012 and details will be announced later this year.