…Here & Now

The Australian Centre for Arts together with Health is using business office of their their website every bit a primal focal signal for Arts & Health Month, an first kicking started past times the Arts Health Network Canada. The whole view is to pivot your colours to the mast together with upload a disceptation of support. Do this past times clicking on the banner above. Below is an extract of my ain submission together with if you lot desire to read more, click on the sinister void below.

Arts & Health inwards the Here together with Now

There’s a feeling inwards the air. It’s hard to lay a finger on it, but its for sure a shift. This ‘thing’ that we’re all business office of - this Arts together with Health - well, how tin I begin this off - lay it succinctly - we’re evolving into a movement. {…} It may endure ripples shape our governments ‘austerity’ measures that’s causing a chain reaction, or it may only be, nosotros are to a greater extent than confident inwards who nosotros are, together with what nosotros believe. {…} Perhaps though, nosotros may endure also theme on those glassy eyed civil servants who dole out state-sponsored decrees on what constitutes ‘quality’ inwards the arts. Maybe it’s fourth dimension to rethink how nosotros are funded together with who determines cultural value? I larn out that enquiry open.

We should however, proceed our eyes out for the slick opportunists who are waiting inwards the wings - spotting a hole inwards the marketplace to plug with their commodified quick fixes - standardising what it is nosotros do together with believe, into something to market, that’s devoid of pregnant or integrity. Keep your eyes out for those selling snake-oil inwards a fourth dimension of ‘austerity’. Keep sight of your ain values together with don’t endure wrong-footed past times the cult of materialism.

We possess got a existent house inwards 21st century healthcare, but to a greater extent than than only ameliorating against sick health, through our long-term participation inwards the arts inwards all their guises, nosotros are business office of a much wider cultural together with populace wellness shift, across the life-course, together with potentially affecting positive generational change. The evidence is out there together with our fourth dimension is now. Let’s influence conclusion makers, create challenging work, together with realise that nosotros are business office of something far bigger than our private selves. 

We are a social create populated past times people who non solely desire social change, but are primal to how that alter comes about.

Craftivist Manifesto  

Craftivist, Sarah Corbett sent me this rather beautiful together with considered Craftivist Manifesto this week. Feel gratis to portion it far together with wide, together with if you lot fancy having a manus made version express to 100 copies, click on the icon above.

Worlds Apart, Worlds Unite - mind civilisation inwards time, house together with society

Since 2013, the superb NOUS MAGAZINE possess got organised an annual mini-festival. This winter, As We Are Away volition coincide with the launch of NOUS magazine’s wintertime issue,
NOUS 6: “Worlds Apart” commencing Thurs third Dec. 2015, continuing till Thurs tenth Dec. 2015. What: As We Are Away - Part 2: "Worlds Apart, Worlds Unite” will accept house on Friday, quaternary Dec 2015, 6pm till 10.30pm @ The Wonder Inn (next to Shudehill Coach Station) together with volition postulate a pocket-size fee of £3 - £6 (concession: £1 - £3). More details nearer the time. 

Broken Grey Wires

I had the swell pleasance of coming together artist, curator together with activist Lizz Brady this week. Her run with Broken Grey Wires looks superb together with I’m looking frontward to working with her over the adjacent few years. Want to know more?  Broken Grey Wires is a contemporary fine art organisation responding to together with exploring mental health. We run closely with the community, critically acclaimed artists together with major institutions, to opened upward up a dialogue together with furnish inspiration together with opportunities for people with mental wellness difficulties. The projection volition showcase innovative exhibitions inside leading contemporary fine art spaces, amongst workshops together with community involvement. Support has come upward from across the fine art scene, including Stuart Semple, who is currently an ambassador for the mental wellness charity Mind, Yinka Shonibare MBE, The Vacuum Cleaner, Daily Life Ltd, Everton inwards the Community, Jake together with Dinos Chapman together with David Shrigley. Broken Grey Wires welcomes you lot to explore mental wellness inwards contemporary fine art together with invites you lot to expect around, create, together with endure inspired past times our absorbing, option world.

Taking Art to the People

Monday 2d November, 4pm BBC Radio 4
“42nd Street are excited to denote that BBC Radio iv volition endure broadcasting a documentary nigh The Ancoats Art Museum, how 42nd Street has taken inspiration from its even to create The Horsfall together with the purpose of fine art inwards recovery together with practiced mental health. They’ve been working to brand the programme over the concluding couplet of months together with are delighted with the results. We are thrilled to endure able to lay Arts together with Mental Health do with immature people on this national platform.” 
We promise you lot tin hear inwards or work Listen Again together with laissez passer on us some feedback at @TheHorsfall

Wallace & Gromit’s Children’s Charity Grants 
The Wallace & Gromit's Children's Charity provides grants of betwixt £100 together with £10,000 to registered charitable hospitals together with hospices across the U.K. to heighten together with enrich the character of life of sick children inwards hospitals. 
The deadline for applications is tenth Dec 2015. Read HERE.

£4 Million Fund for Video Game Development 

The regime has launched a £4 1000000 fund for the UK's video games industry. Aimed at helping smaller companies displace concepts into production, from 2015 to 2019 the Video Games Prototype Fund volition offering grants of upward to £25,000 to back upward video games projects, every bit good every bit creating jobs, nurturing talent together with furthering the increase of games clusters all around the UK. Grants of upward to £50,000 volition also endure available for a express number of projects to accept their ideas beyond the paradigm phase. It volition also fund talent evolution initiatives, which volition include competitions for students together with graduate teams to create together with showcase novel games, mentoring for businesses together with individuals, together with opportunities for talented individuals to run on games paradigm projects. The kickoff telephone telephone for applications volition endure issued soon. Read to a greater extent than past times clicking on the good for you lot scenario above.  

Artists International Development Fund 

The adjacent application deadline for the Arts Council England's Artists International Development Fund is the 13th Jan 2016. This funding current is for artists to prepare links with artists, organisations and/or creative producers inwards other countries. Freelance together with self-employed artists tin apply for pocket-size grants of £1,000 to £5,000 to pass fourth dimension edifice these links to broaden your horizons together with opened upward your run to other perspectives. The programme is opened upward to emerging together with mid-career artists working inwards combined arts, literature, music, theatre, dance, visual arts together with crafts together with design. You must possess got received recognition for your run inwards England together with non possess got extensive international experience. Your application must also include a missive of the alphabet of back upward from the overseas partner/host. Read to a greater extent than past times clicking on the hypnotic Tokyo street scene above. 

Project Officer Healthy Living & Creative Design, Blackpool Council

Temporary Post for xviii months, Full Time (37hrs per week)
Salary scale: H1 £28,746 to £30,978
Ref: PL025
Deadline: Monday, ninth Nov at 12 noon
This is an exciting chance to run with the Arts together with Planning Services together with Blackpool Public Health. You volition endure based inwards the Arts Team together with prepare together with Pb on the delivery of a arrive at of ‘action-research’ projects. These projects volition demonstrate how a good for you lot living together with well-being approach to redeveloping the built surroundings tin positively impact on the lives of people inwards Blackpool.

You volition advocate for the purpose of artists together with other creative professionals inwards designing a character built surroundings together with populace realm where appropriate; working with staff together with external partners on commissioning artists inwards Blackpool to create models of practiced practice. The deadline for applications is Monday, ninth Nov at 12 noon; this purpose has received funding from Arts Council England. For amount details click on the photograph above.

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