#CreativityandWellbeingWeek
#GetCreativeGetOutdoors
Our curated programme this year reflects some of the breadth of fantastic creative health and wellbeing work happening across England now. We kick off with our partnership with University Hospital Lewisham and the Royal Horticultural Society with Breathe Arts Health Research who are celebrating nature’s restorative power for staff members in the hospital. We are so excited to amplify the work that collective misery are doing to around plant magic in order to decolonise access to nature and creative spaces. We also focus on young people’s mental health and creativity with a online APPG from the National Centre for Creative Health, as well as sharing the work that artist James Leadbitter the vacuum cleaner is undertaking with the GLA Culture Team across London. Julie’s Bicycle and Fast Familiar are launching a climate tool which allows you to assess the environmental impact of your project work, and we round off with the Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance awards launch for 2022.
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A note from Director of The Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance, Victoria Hume:
The Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance is thrilled to be partnering with London Arts & Health for Creativity & Wellbeing Week for the fourth year in a row. We know from our members how crucial the Week is to thousands of small organisations and freelancers around the country doing amazing work to build community and support health and wellbeing, despite the huge challenges presented by the last few years. The theme of Get Creative Get Outdoors resonates with the strong links currently being built between nature networks and creative networks, and joined-up thinking about community assets represented in important new research investments by the Arts & Humanities Research Council Creativity is fundamental to nature – not least human nature. We need it to thrive, but in times of social crisis we also need it to survive – to support our resilience and help us imagine new futures. To that end will be launching our new Creativity, climate and health: Accelerating Impact resource – built in partnership with LAH, Arts & Health South West and the NPAG for Arts, Design & Heritage in Healthcare – during the week and hope it will further support all the freelance creatives and organisations already joining the dots between climate justice and health equity, and help boost long-term investment in this work.
