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Wednesday, 20 June 2012
FREE 'Evidencing Outcomes' training for artists and organisations, 4 July
Art Lift participants demand more
The Roses Art Lift programme, which has seen 30 people referred, either through their GPs or their health visitors, to attend creative workshop sessions each week between January and May 2012, has had participants demanding more as the planned series comes to an end.
Desperately keen to continue the workshops, and to receive their obvious benefits, three participants have taken it upon themselves to create and plan a new course to act as a follow on to Art Lift, called Arts For Health, which they hope will encourage other Art Lift alumni to attend. The aim for Arts For Health is to ensure that participants are able to continue to meet regularly for creative projects, to work towards eradicating the stigma associated with depression and mental health problems, and to ensure that the Art Lift legacy can continue as an active prominent force in their daily life.
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“This is really encouraging” says Sarah Blowers, Take Part Director at The Roses. “Art Lift is an arts intervention that works with people who suffer from anxiety and who struggle with confidence issues, so the fact that these people in particular are fired up enough to develop their own scheme is amazing”.
Determined to see this through, the first hurdle for Emily Smith, Abi Bunt and Cyril Bunt is to raise funds for the project, as they need to pay for the cost of the facilitator to run the project and to provide the materials for themselves and other participants.
Using The Roses’ Cafe Bar as a base, the trio plan to host an Open For All Coffee Morning on the first Wednesday of every month from 10.30am – 11.30am which costs £2.50. There will be children’s activities, storytelling and coffee and cake for all. The proceeds of which will be donated to aid the funding of Arts For Health.
“We really enjoyed taking part in The Roses’ Art Lift programme” explains Cyril “ As I started to build relationships with other people in the group, I found that I was really looking forward to the next session, and my confidence and outlook on life improved week on week. I got talking to some other participants and we all realised that we were not looking forward to the day the workshop ended, so we decided to do something about it”
Emily, Abi and Cyril are all young parents with a desire to continue to meet other people who struggle with anxiety, confidence issues and mental health problems. Having experience firsthand the benefits of having a structured arts intervention course in their personal daily life, they now are determined step out of their comfort zone even further by hosting this monthly coffee shop to raise funds to get the Arts For Health project off the ground.
The Coffee Shop takes place at The Roses on the first Wednesday of every month from 10.30am. Having successfully raised £15 at the first one in the start of May, they hope that the ‘open to everyone’ atmosphere will attract a good number of people at subsequent Coffee Shops in June, July, August and throughout the autumn.
This demand for more by Art Lift participants coincides with The Roses’ announcement that they have been successful in their application for additional funding to continue the Art Lift Course for new participants which launches in September.
If you would like to support Arts For Health programme, the course created by Emily, Abi and Cyril, which aims to follow on from Art Lift, attend the coffee mornings, or speak to Sarah Blowers, The Roses Take Part Director on tpdirector@rosestheatre.org
If you would like to join Art Lift in September, ask your GP to refer you onto the programme, or request a free referral form from Debora Hewlett by emailing assistant@rosestheatre.org. Your health professional must counter sign the form.
Beckie Smith
Marketing and Press Manager
The Roses
Sun Street
Tewkesbury
GL20 5NX
Email: beckie.smith@rosestheatre.org
Direct Dial: 01684 853070
www.rosestheatre.org
Box Office: 01684 295074
Arts in Health CPD workshops and courses
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Could you benefit from professional development in Arts
in Health practice or evaluation techniques? Willis Newson, in partnership with
the University of the West of England (UWE) is offering day workshops and
courses in subjects related to participatory arts and in evaluation. Gain new
skills, hone your practice, and meet other practitioners while learning from
leading professionals and academics and external specialists with significant
experience in the sector. Visit http://willisnewson.co.uk/uwe-arts-in-health-and-social-care-courses.html to find out
more.
The courses are open to arts in health professionals,
health and social care professionals including arts and occupational therapists,
activity co-ordinators, health care professionals, public health specialists,
psychotherapists and researchers interested in exploring connections between
arts and health and developing practice in this area. They will also be of
interest to artists, writers, musicians, theatre professionals and other arts
practitioners currently working or seeking to develop their practice in arts in
health.
“It’s really helped my practice […] very timely and
helpful,” said one student on the courses last year. “Quality of teaching was
superb,” said another.
Pick and choose the individual day workshops that
interest you, or work towards a formal qualification with the full 6-session
accredited module.
Participatory Arts
in Health and Social Care Settings (2012
workshops)
• 3rd October. The Context of Arts and Health: Research,
policy and practice.
• 17th October. Setting up and Facilitating Arts and
Health Projects
• 31st October. Safe and Ethical Practice in Arts and
Health
• 14th November. Introduction to Research and Evaluation
in Arts and Health
• 28th November. Marketing and Presentation Skills:
Bringing your project to life
Evaluating Arts in
Health Initiatives (2013 workshops)
• 16th January. Understanding Evaluation: Developing
evidence-based practice in arts & health.
• 30th January. Evidence Reviews and Document-Based
Evaluation Techniques.
• 13th February. Developing an Arts & Health
Evaluation Framework (Part 1): Aims setting to data collection (including
quantitative, economic and qualitative approaches).
• 27th February. Developing an Evaluation Framework
(Part 2): Data analysis to dissemination.
• 13th March. Creative and Arts-Based Approaches to
Project Evaluation.
All workshops will be held on the UWE campus in
Bristol
An award winning art gallery near Stratford upon Avon call for excluded artists for exhibition in 2013
We need
you!
The exhibition at Compton Verney
will be created from a selection of works submitted to an online gallery via the
Outside In website www.outsidein.org.uk
Deadline for entries is 20 July
2012.
Need more help
uploading work to the website?
Then come along to one of our
Surgery days which have been set up around the region. Here the Outside In team will help artists submit
their work via the website by taking digital photos and help them put together
their statements.
Date
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Place
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To book a
place
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Sat 12
May
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Call 01926
645529
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Fri 18
May
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The Public,
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Call
0773 556
8531
Email
outsidein@pallant.org.uk
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Fri 8
June
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The Barber Institute of Fine Arts,
University of
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Call 0773 556
8531
Email j.gilbert@pallant.org.uk
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From: Alice
Kirk
Learning
Programmer
Warwickshire CV35
9HZ
Tel: +44 (0)1926
645529
Fax: +44 (0)1926
645501
Spring exhibitions
2012@ Compton
Into
the light: French and British painting from Impressionism to the early
1920s 31 March – 10
June
Gainsborough’s
landscapes: Themes and variations 31
March – 10 June
Connect with Compton
Registered Charity
Number 1032478
Thursday, 7 June 2012
Visual Artournament- £1000 Art Prize - Gloucester City Gallery and Museum Call for Submissions
VISUAL ARTOURNAMENT
£1000 ART PRIZE
16TH AUGUST - SATURDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER 2012
GLOUCESTER CITY GALLERY AND MUSEUM
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
ARTournament is a ‘Mega-Arts-Competition-Festival’ and it’s launching on the
17th -19th August 2012 in Gloucester city centre.
Visual ARTournament will be judged by a panel, including
Ben Lewis, TV art critic (BBC2 Culture Show, BBC4).
The finalists will be exhibited at
Gloucester City Art Gallery.
HOW TO ENTER 2012 VISUAL ARTOURNAMENT
THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS THURSDAY 1st JULY 2012.
ELIGIBILITY
This competition is open to all artists living in the South West of England.
Artworks must be original work by a living artist and made after 2010.
Applicants must be aged 18 and over. Artists must be undergraduates studying
for a B.A. in fine art. All mediums will be considered.
PROCESSProcedure
Applicants are invited to submit artworks (2 max) in digital format (j.peg) by
e-mail for initial judging to; artournament@gmail.com
Or post a CD or DVD (film samples to be no longer then 3 minutes) to;
ARTournament c/o Sabre Arts, Sabre Close, Gloucester. GL2 4NZ.
Initial judging will take place between the 2nd and the 8th of July 2012. All
applicants will be notified of the outcome of the initial judging by e-mail by 15th
July 2012.
Successful applicants should bring their work for final judging on 3rd or 4th of
August (between 12pm and 4pm) to; Sabre Arts, Sabre Close, Gloucester,
GL2 4NZ. Artworks must be left without packaging and be provided ready for
hanging or display. Submissions to be clearly labeled with: a title, the artist
name and address, telephone number, email, dimensions, medium and price.
Unsuccessful submissions will be notified by 11th August and will need to
collect their artwork from Sabre Arts on 12th or 13th of August 2012, between
12pm and 4pm. Late collections may incur storage charges. Exhibited finalists
can pick up any unsold work from the gallery on 10th – 11th September 2012.
SALES
It is assumed that the artwork selected for this exhibition is for sale during the
exhibition. ARTournament charges 30% commission on all sales.
EXHIBITION DATES
16TH AUGUST - SATURDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER 2012
The VISUAL ARTournament winner will be announced at 12pm on the 17th Aug
2012 at Gloucester City Museum and Gallery. They will receive £1000 and
have their winning artwork exhibited with the finalists.
DEADLINE
Deadline for submissions is 1st July 2012.
PAYMENT
There is a competition entry fee of £10 per submission.
Cheques should be made payable to ‘ARTournament’ and sent to
ARTournament 23 Weston Road Gloucester. GL1 5AU.
Or see artournament.co.uk for details of how to pay on-line.
ARTournament will acknowledge the receipt of all submissions.
ARTournament take no responsibility for damage made to artworks during the
selection process and exhibition of works. The decision of the judges is final.
For any further enquiries please e-mail: artournament@gmail.com or see
artournament@gmail.com for details.
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