Statement following the death of Professor Jason Arday from Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance and…
C&WW 2026: How to get involved
Our national festival of Creative Health: Creativity and Wellbeing Week is an amazing platform to champion, celebrate creative health across the country. This year our festival theme is “Critical Hope” (for acute times).
“Critical hope” reflects the ability to realistically assess the environment through a lens of equity and justice while also envisioning the possibility of a better future.
Championed as an idea by Paulo Freire, “critical hope” is an active, necessary, and realistic, rather than passive or naive, stance against oppression and despair, deeply rooted in his work Pedagogy of Hope.
The theme acknowledges the increasing precarity in the health and care sectors including the impending NHS redundancies, ongoing instability in funding for Creative Health and the rising pressures linked to planetary health and climate change.
We hope this event will gather the sector in a space of critical hope, reconnecting practitioners with their passion and inviting visions for the future of creative health.
There are a range of downloadable assets on the website, and we have included the PSD files for photoshop and even a ppt template this year. All downloadable from a Google Drive.
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