Category: Stories
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. […]
Enjoy a session of Tai Chi in Egerton Park Bexhill as part of Museums Creativity and Wellbeing Week. Saturday 21 May 11am. For more information see www.bexhillmuseum.org
Wake The Beast Theatre Company have been working in partnership with the Clinical Psychology Team at the Whittington Trust since 2018, using verbatim theatre to support patients at different stages of cancer treatment. ‘The C Factor’ is our award-winning creative arts and psychology initiative devised with and for people undergoing cancer treatment, combining psychology, storytelling […]
Hello! We’re artist Chloe Cooper and composer Jackie Walduck. This year we’ve developed a cross-artform approach inspired by our artistic practices and many years of working together on projects with young artist-musicians with autism through a partnership with Turtle Key Arts, National Portrait Gallery and Wigmore Hall. The closing of galleries and music venues during […]