Exeter Conference for September

9th Exeter Arts and Therapies Conference

Friday September 17th 2010. 10.00am -4.30pm. The Exeter Guildhall, Devon.

In challenging times people need both art and community more not less.
Promoting successful Arts and Mental Health practice work in Devon.

This event celebrates the growth in the diversity, range and number of arts and mental health projects in Devon. We are offering many groups ‘shop windows’ into that they do and with many of the people doing this. The pace will be fast and furious! We will be showing educational, community, environmental and therapeutic approaches to creativity in living.

It is a chance to gather, give and receive inspiration and to feel our strength in numbers. We hope it will mark the beginning of an Arts and Emotional Health network for Devon. Because of its Devon focus we will only process Devon applications until the end of July . Application forms click here, e mail info@insiderart.org or ring 01392 677258

The event is very affordable (£20, or £12 concessions) thanks to the generous help of Devon Partnership NHS Trust, The Self Heal Association and Insider Art, supported by Arts and Health South West. The event is doubling as a membership meeting for AHSW.

We are honoured to hold this event in Exeter’s historic Guildhall, a building central in Devon life for 800 years. Due to the limitations of this special venue, places are strictly limited.

Presentations include: Arts on Prescription: arts with depression or anxiety. Blazing Tales: mixed heritage families. Bridge Collective: democratic mental health support. Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World: ecological and cultural resources for mental health projects. Magic Carpet: widening arts participation by disabled and disadvantaged groups. Insider Art: participation and healing environments REACH: Arts Council England initiative in arts and public health. Professor Norma Daykin: Evidence base. Double Elephant Print Workshop: print on prescription. Magic Carpet: Community Arts. Alex Coulter: Arts and Health South West. Exeter Arts Therapies Service: Devon Partnership NHS Trust. Exeter Healthcare Arts hospital arts.

The day will be Chaired by Malcolm Learmonth, Arts and Environment Development Lead, Devon Partnership NHS Trust. Further speakers are being added: see conference page on the Insider Art website for details along with papers, feedback and reports from previous conferences.

EATc is organised by Insider Art: providing arts and mental health projects, trainings and events.