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LAHF March 2010 Newsletter
25 February 2010
Welcome to LAHF’s March 2010 newsletter, full of national and local arts in health news, as well as previews of our events, opportunities and developments in arts and wellbeing. The LAHF monthly newsletter is free of charge and available to all, to sign up visit www.lahf.org.uk and please feel free to forward to any colleagues or friends you think might find it interesting.
Advocacy for Arts in Health on 3rd March
London Arts in Health Forum and Breakthrough have organised an event to offer support to artists and small arts organisations looking to raise their profile and build a better relationship with the media. This event will aim to help with making contact with the media, building relationships with the press and opinion formers and handling negative press coverage. It will draw on the experience of practitioners working in the field of arts in health and those whose job it is to encourage the media to talk about arts and health and to talk about it positively!
Speakers will include Louise de Winter, Director of the National Campaign for the Arts, and Catherine Rose, Editor of Arts Professional magazine, with workshops from PR professionals on how to plan a press campaign and how to deal with the press.
The event is free and will take place in central London on 3rd March from 11.30 – 4pm (refreshments will be provided). To register, e: damian@lahf.org.uk
Get Into Reading, The Reading Cure
The Reader Organisation’s Get Into Reading project has more than 170 read-aloud groups across the UK and aims to improve wellbeing, build community and extend individual literacy. On 2nd March, 6.30pm at the RIBA in London, The Reader Organisation and Mental Health Foundation are presenting a talk discussing the relationship between reading and health, e: pennymarkell@thereader.org.uk
Sculpture Commission, Finchley Memorial Hospital
Opportunities
Finchley Memorial Hospital, London first opened in 1908 but will be replaced by a new building, due for completion in 2012, and is looking to commission 3 new sculptures to commemorate the original building in the new hospital garden.
Deadline for submission of proposals is 30th April 2010, e: frances@francestobin.com
Joy of Sound Call for Proposals
Joy Of Sound have announced a call for proposals for their Sensorium 2010 event running 29th April – 1st May. Supported by a grant from Lambeth NHS Community Services, the event will allow attendees to experience in the practice of inclusive arts, theatre, dance and music. Proposals may include workshops, music, paintings, sculptures, installations, dance, theatre, film, photography, poetry, comedy and many other creative approaches.
Closing date for receipt of proposals is 17th March, e: William@joyofsound.net
Arts and Mental Health Petition to the Prime Minister
Angie and Tony Russell of the charity Breakthrough have started an online petition to the Prime Minister to make greater resources available within the NHS and Local Authorities for the use of arts as an aid to recovery, wellbeing and social inclusion for people with mental health problems.
The deadline for signing the petition is 10th July 2010, w: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Artworks/sign
Arts funding to be cut by as much as 20%
National News
A report entitled After the Downturn, by the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, has announced that in the period 2011-2014 the arts may experience “cuts of 20% or more”. The report investigates how inevitable public spending cuts may be allocated in the three year period after the next general election, and points out that as an ‘unprotected service’, unlike health and education, the arts will be one of those to feel the deepest cuts in funding.
The report’s recommendations include an increase in local (rather than national) power to administrate funding.
To read the full report, w: http://www.solace.org.uk/library_documents/After_the_Downturn.pdf
Opportunities
Wellcome Trust Society Awards, for amounts over £30,000, are open for applications. The awards are for projects that engage people with developments in biomedical science on a regional or national scale.
The deadline for applications is 31st March, w: www.wellcome.ac.uk
Clothworkers’ Foundation Grants
Opportunities
The Clothworker’s Foundation, set up in 1977, have two grant giving schemes with the aim of providing funding to improve the quality of life, particularly for people and communities facing disadvantage. The Foundation accepts applications at any time with no deadlines and decisions are made within 6 months of receipt of applications, e: www.clothworkers.co.uk
Addenbrooke’s commission
Opportunities
Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge is looking to commission an experienced artist to create a new artwork for its central lift lobby area. The £30,000 commission is open to artists from across the UK working in a range of media. The deadline for expressions of interest is 26th March 2010, e: arts@addenbrookes.nhs.uk
Theatre of the Oppressed Workshops
Event
Taking place this March are two theatre workshops facilitated by Adrian Jackson, founder of Cardboard Citizens, a theatre company applying Theatre of the Oppressed techniques in homeless hostels, community centres, schools and theatres to engage and inspire the marginalised. Joker Weekend, 20th – 21st March, is a facilitation practice for people with past experience of Forum Theatre and Rainbow of Desires, 22nd – 24th March, explores theatre and therapy.
Both courses will take place at the National Youth Theatre in London, e: stuart@cardboardcitizens.org.uk
LAHF’s Arts in Dementia Care event on 15th March 2010 from 12-6pm will explore the role of the arts in dementia care. The event will include presentations and workshops from practitioners working in the field including John Zeisel from the USA who will launch his new book “I’m Still Here”.
The event is now fully booked but if you would like to be put on the reserve list please get in touch as soon as possible, e: info@lahf.org.uk
Arts Council England Consultation
On 19th January Arts Council England (ACE) opened their consultation on future priorities for the arts. ACE has identified areas for development in the arts over the next ten years and is asking for your views to inform its long term strategic framework and next set of investment decisions.
LAHF will be making a collective response to the consultation and would welcome input to this from across the sector. We will be drafting this response in March so anyone wishing to engage with this should contact us by 12th March, e: info@lahf.org.uk
To take part in the consultation, w: www.artscouncil.org.uk/consultation
National Patient Environment and the Arts Conference
Presented by Building Better Healthcare, the third annual National Patient Environment and the Arts Conference will take place in Central London on 21st April. This one day conference aims, among other things, to identify good practice, provide tools to develop and sustain an arts programme and learn from other PCTs how to develop fundraising. Speakers will include Susan Francis, Special Advisor for Health at CABE and Beatrice Fraenkel, Chairman at Mersey Care NHS Trust.
Full price fees are £395 but LAHF newsletter subscribers can get a 10% discount by quoting reference “LAHF10”, e: events@ark-group.com
If you have any items you would like to be considered for the April issue of the LAHF newsletter please email them to info@lahf.org.uk by 25th March. We always welcome input and feedback so please feel free to email us at info@lahf.org.uk