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nesa is organising a another Wellbeing and Arts Partnership event. The next event will be on 29th March 2010, at The Drawing Room, The Pump Rooms, Bath. The event will bring together strategic organisations, artists and groups interested in developing a joined up approach to supporting health, social care and wellbeing in B&NES and surrounding areas. The meetings to date have explored what is expected from a Wellbeing and Arts' Partnership and how it can develop further arts and health projects in B&NES in the future.
The Partnership intends to
- maintain a strategic overview
- Collect and analyse evidence to advocate for, publicise and promote the use of creative approaches to support health and well-being in B&NES.
- target project delivery at key areas
- engage with the commissioning process
- deliver a flagship wellbeing project for the Cultural Olympiad
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| Invitation to the Wellbeing and Arts Partnership showcase event - 29th March 2010 |
| Wellbeing and Arts Partnership Minutes - Nov 2009 |
| Evaluation Wellbeing Partnership - March 2009 |
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| nesa's Creative Links project is celebrating securing £35,000 of government funding as part of a 'learning for pleasure' innovation spearheaded by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). |
| Creative Links, one of over 213 winning projects, will be running a scheme to establish a well-being consortium which will deliver creative informal learning projects with vulnerable adults. Creative projects using a variety of arts and digital media activities will increase and widen participation in informal learning, increase opportunities for participants to have fun, gain personal development and new skills and will link participants with clear pathways of progression to new training and development opportunities. The project will also develop a Creative Links section of the nesa website where participants will be encouraged to share accounts of their work and access learning resources. |
| Creative Links was launched at the World Mental Health Day art celebration on October 9th at Southdown Methodist Church Hall, Southdown, Bath. The event included an exhibition by the Inspirational Art Group and a variety of participatory arts workshops. |
| Sessions currently running on this project are:-
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| Digital Photography - Radstock |
| My Time My Space - Peasedown St John |
| My Time My Space - Keynsham |
| Pottery and Garden Sculpture - Southdown |
| Storymaking and Creative Writing for the Over 60s - Midsomer Norton |
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| Working with women residents of a medium secure unit in the South West, nesa’s Pathways Programme is providing enjoyable, stimulating art sessions on weekends. |
| Through collaboration with the women, Development Worker Deborah Aguirre Jones has found that fun, learning and experimenting are high on their wish list. |
| After selecting 12 ‘taster’ sessions from proposals sent in by artists, participants have so far painted on silk; made simple, chain bracelets; created books and pop-up cards; written poetry and prose; and built brightly coloured edible sculptures out of sponge cakes, icing and marzipan! |
| Graffiti has been particularly popular; a series of three boards were completed for display in the unit and a trip is being planned to see ‘Banksy Versus Bristol Museum’ at the city’s Museum & Art Gallery |
| Informally, residents have described enjoying the Pathways Programme saying, for example, that they can ‘express themselves’ and ‘get away from the ward’ in the Sunday afternoon sessions. The project’s long term aims are for arts activities to become part of normal provision within this service and to support women when they leave medium secure care. |
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| nesa is also looking for volunteers to join a fundraising group of local people to plan and organise fun activities for all ages to enable nesa to expand its work in the area. Maybe you, or someone you know, has been involved in nesa's work in the past and would like to support the future development of the organisation. Or maybe you don't know about us but would like to get involved as a volunteer fundraiser. |
nesa's Forthcoming Events
- 29th March 2010 - Wellbeing and Arts Partnership showcase meeting
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