Poetics of Care: a festival of creative health

How might creativity help us imagine new ecologies of wellbeing in times of crisis? This festival is much more than a showcase — it is an open laboratory for co-creation, critical discourse and embodied practice.

Communicating Complexity: Cystic Fibrosis - 19th May

What can a career in creative health look like? - 19th May (Online)

Tending to the Heap - 20th May

100 Stars of Care - 20th May

Spacemaking as Sanctuary - 20th May

Stories that Heal - 20th May

Mindful Bookbinding: Mini Sketchbooks - 21st May

Den Building - 21st May

Performing Medicine - 21st May (Online)

Utopias of Care - 21st May

Shoe-shine - 21st May

Encounters in Orbit - 22nd May

Thinking through Drawing in Nature - 23rd May

Better Making Launch Event - 23rd May

Supporting Agency in Workshops for People Living with Dementia - 27th May

Creative Toolkits for Care in Performance and Ecological Arts - 27th May

Subvertising Unhealthy Adverts - 27th May

Neuroplasticity over Fear and Prejudice - 27th May

Living Threads - 28th May

Poetics of Relation - 28th May

Can Everything Be Mended? - 28th May

Caring for Caterpillars - 29th May

Sanctuary in Care: a participatory mapping workshop - 29th May

Capturing Wellbeing in a Music Group for People with Dementia - 29th May

Polarities: A creative workshop to embody whatever may emerge via the arts - 29th May

Book launch: Drawing in Health & Wellbeing: Marks, Signs & Traces - 30th May (online)