Working on a project that relates to health or wellbeing?
Looking for creative ways to look after yourself and others?
Interested in a career in the Creative Health sector?
Curious about cultural social prescribing?
Keen to meet others with similar interests?
Over three days in The Street at CSM, drop in, tune into various actvities designed to explore the relationships between creative practice, physical and mental health.
21-23 May | all day, anytime | Creative Health Hub: drop-in workshops, project health-checks & more
21 May | 12.30-2.30pm | Pot-luck picnic: informal networking & peer support over shared lunch (tea and coffee provided)
23 May | 12.30-2.30pm | Micro-sharing (PechaKucha) & networking – lecture theatre + zoom
Whether you are an undergraduate or postgraduate student, a researcher, lecturer or practitioner, or simply interested in finding out what creativity and wellbeing have to do with each other, the In Mind and Body Micro-Festival is for you.
To mark Creativity & Wellbeing Week, this peer-led series of drop-ins and sharing opportunities offers all members of the UAL community (and beyond!) a chance to connect around practices of arts and and health, in a spirit of radical inclusivity and care, facilitated by a growing network of students and staff keen to build a community of practice around creative health at UAL.
Drop-in Workshops include:
Stim Scape - inviting a collective rejoicing in stims and sensory soothers and representing neurodivergent pathways for joy and survival - with Annabel Crowley
Emotional Topographies - a unique workshop experience, exploring the landscape of your emotions through creative expression and delving into the realms of inner mapping and visual sociology - with Shannon Daly
Focusing Attention: making marks, making meaning - In an age of distraction, explore how the deliberate act of drawing can create a line of focus between the tip of your pen and your thoughts - with Ilga Leimanis
+ Explore our Collective Care Pledge, relax in our resource zone and discover a wide range of student and staff projects.
Further programme details coming soon - watch this space.
Interested? We want to hear from you!
OPPORTUNITIES:
CALL FOR WORKSHOPS & DISPLAYS: Tues-Thurs | all day, any time | The Street, CSM
Do you have a project to test, share, develop or display? Get in touch HERE
CALL FOR MICRO-SHARING: Thurs | 12.30-2.30pm | Lecture Theatre, CSM (and online)
Do you want to share a snapshot of your work, work-in-progress, ideas or questions with a supportive group in a fun quickfire PechaKucha format? (20 slides x 20 seconds each = 4 mins!) Get in touch HERE
Book your tickets here
Questions? Contact Kate: k.pelen@csm.arts.ac.uk
