Wild Art Week!

St Petrocs, the Exeter-based charity which aims to support and encourage people who are homeless, or inadequately housed, to improve their circumstances and take more control of their lives is running art workshops all this week. They've put together a great team, and its a real innovation!


Petroc's write that:


'Each afternoon during the week of March 22nd - 26th, we will be putting on Wild Art Week which will provide a variety of types of art for people to sample.  Wild Art Week will be open to our clients as well as people on referral from other agencies in the city.  Art organisations such as Spacex, Exeter Phoenix, Double Elephant, RAMM and Exeter College are already signed up to take part and we hope that a second Wild Art Week will take place later in the year.'

Find out more at:http://www.stpetrocks.org.uk/index.php/site/news/

Arts Council Consultation

 Arts Council  England are consulting on their strategy for the next ten years. It's 'identify the key long-term goals that drive our decision-making, our investment priorities and our relationships with artists and audiences'.  Can I urge all people concerned about art funding issues to have a look and respond? the documents can be found here: http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/consultation/

While people will make up their own minds, its worth noticing that the word  'health' does not occur in this document once....

Its worth comparing that with the Welsh Arts Council's strategy 'Arts In Health and Well-being'  at http://www.artswales.org/publication.asp?id=727

You may feel you're on the wrong side of the Bristol Channel, but we should be letting ACE know there's more to the arts than elitism!