OK I guess its OK living near the sea. Maybe Turner was onto something...

Public Open Exhibition 2024: Calling all UK based *disabled visual artists! We want the best 2D contemporary art by or for learning disabled, neurodivergent, & disabled artists! Prizes, awards & the chance to exhibit at LEVEL! bit.ly/VisArtsCallOut
#OpenCall #DisabilityArts

Fantastic news that The Beaney has recieved funding to host singing sessions for people living with dementia in their beautiful museum #PowerOfMusic

Working in an ICS & want to develop #creativehealth approaches to deliver better health outcomes? Explore the creativehealthtoolkit.org.uk

Join us 10 – 11am on 23 May, for a Toolkit session during Creativity & Wellbeing Week to discover more
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📢 HUGE NEWS: Greater Manchester is to become the UK’s first Centre of Excellence for Music and Dementia hosted by Manchester Camerata!

💘 Over £1million raised from The Power of Music Fund (The National Academy for Social Prescribing, Arts Council England, The Utley Foundation) + NHS Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham.

🤝 Working…

Fantastic young person-led Mental Health & Arts Symposium 'A Prescription for Life' being hosted on 17 May by 42nd Street The Horsfall. Live streamed online, you can sign up for a panel discussion chaired by Arts Council England CEO Darren Henley. More info bit.ly/APrescriptionF…

With increasing concern around the mental health of children & young people, & the lasting impacts of this into adulthood, our #CreativeHealthReview focuses on how health & wellbeing benefits can be maximised through creativity into our education system.
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Whether you're planning an in-person or online event during Creativity and Wellbeing Week, you can now submit them onto the website:
creativityandwellbeing.org.uk

#creativityandwellbeingweek #events #arts
#health #wellbeing #creativehealth

CHWA is looking to highlight great examples of access for a new creative health resource.

If you or your organisation have any examples of best practice you'd like us to include, please email [email protected] by 29th April
📷 by Michael Laiden Photography

Looking forward to spotting these when I'm next in Manchester (best city in England IMHO!)

Passionate about arts & health? Join our team! We're searching for a Creative Health Connector to connect people with lived experience of ill health to creative activities to improve wellbeing. bit.ly/3JKvNBl
Deadline 10th June Salary £30,995 pro-rata (£18,597 0.6 FTE)

Festival of Cats finished today. A staggering 187 artists involved, 1000s of visitors and one troupe of Morris Dancers. Not bad for a team of 4!

Trying to explain to people that I'm not at work because I'm doing exhibitions about cats and folklore but I think this picture probably sums it up.

📢 Looking for a social media editor to join our team and help us promote published articles and reach new audiences through online audience engagement. If that's you, then please DM us for more info and to share examples of your work 🛜

📣Spread.The.Word.📣

T H E W R I T E T R A I L comes to West London:

📆 01-31 May 2024
📍 Online + #London Borough of #Ealing
💻 thewritetrail.co.uk

ONLY made possible with funding from Arts Council England 💛

#ACESupported #NationalLottery #London #LetsCreate #CreativeHealth

Elizabeth Casson, a pioneer of occupational therapy in the UK, was born 143 years ago today. 🎂

It's just over a week until our Elizabeth Casson Memorial Lecture, held in her honour, on 24 April with Katrina Bannigan FRCOT

Find out more: loom.ly/UnJWC7M

#RCOTCasson

Spent my morning making Cyanotypes and drinking coffee in the POW festival craft tent

In our latest blog, occupational therapist Gwyneth Ataderie (She/Her) tells us about her fellowship in population health and explains why more allied health professionals should think about pursuing fellowships: kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-an…