Arts & Health

Our artists work with health professionals in community settings to create accessible and inclusive programmes which impact on health and enhance lives across the boundaries of race, age and ability.

We are working with national organisations to develop groundbreaking creative engagement techniques and making the case for the arts as an effective tool to engage the public in the drive to improve health and wellbeing.

Click on links below to find out about our current Arts & Health Projects:

Health Partnership

The Manningham Healthy Living Initiative (MHLI) Annual Report 2009/10, documenting the various Projects we have worked on as part of the Arts and Health Partnership with Kala Sangam: MHLI Annual Report 2009/2010

Care Quality Commission - The Care Quality Commission (CQC) supports a nationwide network of community groups to help them gather patient and public experience stories. Artworks adapted its successful course, Ignite, to train members of this network in creative engagement and consultation techniques. This training course has now run a number of times and is continuing to do so with the newly formed CQC.
Hidden Voices - Following on from the success of the Get Your Pen Out / Forgotten project which Gary Staniforth, Artworks Creative Communities and BACC ran last year, Artworks and Gary have managed to find some more funding to work on a new project called Hidden Voices.

The workshops are a great opportunity to express feelings and emotions around homeless issues and to show the outside world that homeless people are real people with real lives and real talent.

Hidden Voices - Click on the links below to read the press articles:

Previous Arts & Health Projects developed & Delivered by Artworks Include:

Mind in Bradford - working with Mind in Bradford to develop a programme of arts sessions in which the centre's users could try different arts techniques and use them to create an exciting group art installation for the centre.
Bradford Deaf Centre - a project working with the Bradford Deaf Centre and it's users to design and make a mosaic installation for the centre's entrance, to celebrate it's 147 years of delivering services and positively enhancing and enriching the lives of all of it's users.
Wagtail Close - working with users of the Wagtail Close Centre to to create a series of poems and images which were collated to form a book of poetry.
Lilycroft Nursery - a 10 week Project working with mums from the Manningham area to address issues of healthy eating, the importance of exercise and environmental awareness.
The 'Get Your Pen Out' Project - working with people from across the Bradford District who have had direct experience of homelessness, to create a series of creative writings reflecting their experiences.