SOUTH WEST
Out of Our Heads! Project
Exhibition Curation - article in Medical Education Online
Out of Our Heads! Four perspectives on the curation of an on-line exhibition of medically themed artwork by UK medical undergraduates - article in Medical Education Online
University of Bristol Medical School Creativity in the Curriculum
Since 2004, medical students at the University of Bristol have been required as part of their core curriculum to submit creative works for assessment. Such courses often harness the insights of established artists and writers in the illumination of medical themes. Less commonly students are called upon to link their own creative work with clinical and other life experience. Click link to read about the work in Medical Education Online article
Bristol, UK: Creative Words with Art for Health and Art for Health groups in NHS Brooklea Health Centre
Brooklea Health Centre in Bristol is one of several currently offering patients the opportunity to participate in free Creative Writing and Art sessions as part of a holistic vision of how people's health and well-being is helped and sustained. To see a gallery of artwork and writings, as well as information about the work, click the link above
SCOTLAND
Stories for Health
non-profit-making organization with a desire to promote understanding of Storytelling as a Healing Art
Research Project in Glasgow
Larry Butler of Lapidus Scotland with staff at Glasgow University is designing a participatory, action-research project to evaluate the experiential impacts of creative writing for recovery, well-being and the quality of life of people with enduring mental health problems
SOUTH WEST
Gloucestershire, UK: Art Lift project in GP surgeries
The Art-Lift project has brought together artists with patients in 15 health care settings across Gloucestershire. Artists worked with participants on a one-to-one or group basis, across a range of art forms - including poetry, textiles, painting and ceramics. The project was led by Gloucestershire County Council Arts Department in partnership with the Gloucestershire Primary Care Trusts, 5 Gloucestershire District Councils, arts venues and other arts and medical professionals from within the county
NORTH WEST
Cumbria, UK: Year of Writing
Read a half-year report by Project Lead Carol Ross of this innovative project involving partnership between Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust and The Learning Network
LONDON
Creative Health Lab
offers creative writing on referral in London
Creative Health Lab is a free service promoting Creative Writing as a
therapeutic tool to support health and wellbeing. Its groups sessions
are run by friendly, experienced practitioners and participants have
the opportunity to share their work in a newsletter or on the website
if they wish to do so. CHL also offer art therapy, art, yoga and
relaxation and horticulture sessions primarily to the Camden community in London.
SOUTH WEST
The Writing Edge is a new organisation that has just delivered writing-for-wellbeing elements for projects in Bristol. Eleven Bristol writers have formed the organisation, which will help to give more people in the city an outlet to discover and express their creativity in a way that supports their wellbeing. This September, the group have been contributing to two exciting new exciting projects, set up by the City Council and the Pierian Centre respectively, running new creative writing groups in Bristol Libraries and working as writers in residence on College Green.
From Sep 7 - 10 2010 The Writing Edge ran writing workshops on the theme of Celebrating Age as part of Bristol City Council's Celebrating Age Festival. The creative writing workshops were open to all over fifties, and took place in four libraries, Bedminster, Southmead, Knowle, and the Central library.
From September 18 - 26 The Writing Edge were involved in the Pierian Centre's art installation project Portents, which, for ten days, was on College Green. 'Portents' consisted of fifty art projects printed on two metre long 'tents', in an A-frame shape. The Writing Edge created one tent which included poems from some of our clients and our own work, reflecting on the theme of Hope, Histories and Home.
The Writing Edge have just been awarded £400 Cyprus Well, the Literature South West group, for their new Grassroots Literature awards scheme for the group's work at Portents.
SOUTH WEST
Arts and Health South West
aims to raise the profile and influence the development of the Arts and Health sector across the region and provide information and support. See its website for up-to-date information about Arts and Health projects
- Bristol GP Dr Gillian Rice backs poems-for-health therapy, article May 2005
