Category: Stories
Sofie Layton is an artist with a significant and professionally acknowledged experience in participatory and public engagement practices. In this short blog post, she reflects on how AI might be utilised to care for patients or even, affect the empathy of healthcare professionals. Sofie will be sharing more about this work on Friday 24th May […]
Ever since it became a national festival in 2019, Norfolk County Council has supported and celebratedCreativity and Wellbeing Week. The week promotes the work of our local creatives and arts and cultural organisations to showcase the amazing and wide-ranging work they are doing to support health and wellbeing. Norfolk Creativity and Wellbeing Week continues to […]
Musicians: Arthur Lea (piano) Ben Hazleton (double bass) Kat Eaton (vocals) Nat Keen (guitar) Marcus Bonfanti (guitar) Tanya Cracknell (violin) Back in May 2022, The Spitz provided music for the opening of the dementia-friendly lounge on Hardy Ward at Northwick Park Hospital. Bassist Ben Hazleton and saxophonist Pete Wareham underscored the ribbon-cutting by hospital dignitaries […]
This year’s Creativity & Wellbeing Week theme of “Creativity” set me thinking about creativity’s sheer variety. That’s why I’m focusing my project for the Week on seven different artforms and how they can all boost wellbeing. I’m calling it “Treasure Trove”, because that’s how I see creativity – an inexhaustible treasure trove to explore, enriching […]
During 2022/23, the public health communities team at Birmingham City Council commissioned an array of projects for the Arts, Culture and Health programme, notably a Jamaican 60th Anniversary Celebration Event which focused upon raising awareness in the following five focus areas of health: Pregnancy, Mental Health, Musculoskeletal Disease, Cardiovascular Disease, and Diabetes. Alongside this, a […]
*Using only a pencil and two colours, create a piece of work which best describes how the outdoors impacts your wellbeing. *This challenge is to test your creativity using the medium of pencil and sketching on a A4 size paper, two random colours picked with your eyes closed and an eraser is not allowed. Over […]
Have you ever wondered …what a dandelion might be thinking? …what it might be witness to? …what it might be feeling? Today, I’d like you to offer you an invitation to think like a dandelion! *When you discover a patch of their sunny yellow heads bobbing in the wind, or notice their fluffy seeded pom-poms, […]
Isobel Murdoch from Medley has come up with some ideas to help you explore art, music and nature’s impacts on health and wellbeing this Creativity & Wellbeing Week. *Listen to some of these pieces of music on a birds theme: Tit Willow by Gilbert & Sullivan; The Swan from Saint-Saens’ Carnival of the Animals; A […]
We all know our rubbish gets collected every week. We put it in the bin, a big old truck comes and takes it away and we never see it again. But have you ever wondered what happens to it afterwards? What’s it like to be responsible for collecting all of the waste from 2000 people’s […]
This year’s Creativity & Wellbeing Week’s theme is ‘Get Creative Get Outdoors’ – in line with this we have been looking to fill the festival roster with events that promote and highlight the importance of incorporating our art with the world around us – while exploring the many ways art can be found in nature. […]