Background
London Arts and Health (LAH) is a registered charity that creates and promotes opportunities for the arts to reach everyone in society – regardless of their health or personal circumstances. It has two primary focuses – creating opportunities for people experiencing health and care needs to engage with the arts and raising awareness of the health and well-being benefits of engaging with high-quality creative activities.
We believe that participating in the arts and offering routes to using creativity make a crucial difference to the health and well-being of individuals and society. LAH is a central pillar in the fast-emerging world of arts and health. LAH has been at the forefront of this work for many years and is widely respected for its support to individual artists, patients and service users, health professionals, and the wider public. The organisation works collaboratively in everything it does, partnering with a vast range of stakeholders to increase the impact the arts can have on the health of everyone in society.
People with acknowledged health needs (mental and physical) are traditionally excluded from the arts. Yet, research increasingly indicates that engaging in creative activity has wide-ranging health and well-being benefits. LAH exists to challenge traditional inequalities by generating more and better arts experiences for everyone.
Opportunity
We are looking to work with a black, Asian or ethnically diverse artist, practitioner, clinical member of staff across any health practice, or organisation to take over our social media channels and website during Black History Month 2022. We are looking for individuals or organisations specifically who are interested in, connected to, or working in intersections around Creative Health and who are also from in or around London.
Our active social media channels are:
We would like the individual or organisation to create and share a range of social media posts during October 2022 that reflect the experiences of black, Asian and ethnically diverse communities in either, or both the creative and health sectors. We would also like the individual or organisation to create a blog post on our website. We will also support the candidate to produce a small-scale creative health event/activity to take place during Black History Month. This event could be a talk, presentation, exhibition or performance that explores the experience of black, Asian and ethnically diverse people in the creative health sector. This event can be in-person or online.
The takeover will be supported by the London Arts and Health team.
After the project, we will hold an evaluation session to explore how this programme can be developed in the future.
Logistics
Report to: Anna Woolf, Director of London Arts and Health
Contract: Fixed term contract from 3 to 28 October, a Follow-up evaluation meeting is required in early November 2022
Location: Hybrid and completely flexible, with most work taking place from home
Budget: £1,000
Output: 6-10 social media posts, x1 blog post, x1 event during October
Application Process
To apply please submit the following information to Anna at London Arts and Health: info@londonartsandhealth.org.uk
- CV or Company overview (if the latter please provide on headed paper);
- Two-page (maximum) Programme overview including a simple timeline of the proposed activity;
- A very simple Budget breakdown – maximum budget is £1,000 and must include fee programming, any travel or tech costs and all taxes
If you would like support with your application please get in touch and the team can help: info@londonartsandhealth.org.uk
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