As part of Creativity & Wellbeing Week 2024, In Body and Mind invited students, practitioners and researchers engaged in the creative health at University of the Arts London to connect, share practice and collaborate in a spirit of in a spirit of radical inclusivity and collective care in action.
Over three days in The Street at Central Saint Martins, participants dropped in and tuned in to various activities designed to explore the relationships between creative practice, physical and mental health.
The invitation to participate asked the following questions:
Working on a project that relates to health or wellbeing?
Looking for creative ways to look after yourself and others?
Interested in a career in the Creative Health sector?
Curious about cultural social prescribing?
Keen to meet others with similar interests?
PROGRAMME
Creative Health Hub: drop-in workshops, project health-checks & more
Pot-luck picnic: informal networking & peer support over shared lunch (tea and coffee provided)
StREST: About Climate - discussion & podcast
Micro-sharing (PechaKucha) & facilitated networking
Projects & contributors include:
Acts of Control - Cara Jaime Lloyd
Be Well - Ellie Donaldson
Better Making - Anne-Marie Creamer
Burnout Season - Hattie Lawless
Chelsea Physic Garden: Health & Wellbeing Interventions - LCC Diploma in Professional Studies
Collective Care Pledge - R.M. (Marcelo) Sanchez-Camus
Emotional Topographies - Shannon Daly
FLOW Create - Dr Shama Rahman
Focusing Attention - Ilga Leimanis
Introducing Creative Health (and me!) - Dr Rachel Marsden
Just Like Us - Dr Hannah Zeilig
Live + Breathe - Love Ssega
Moving Joy - Fatima Rodriguez Montañez
Navigating Stuckness - Saffie Pluck
Pot-Luck Picnic - Shana Tufail & Kate Keara Pelen
Sensory Spacemaking - Dionne Elizabeth
Spiritual Stitching - Post-Grad Community / Catriona Mahmoud
Stim-Scape - Annabel Crowley & Shura Davey Joseph-Gruner
STREST: About Climate - Abi Rigby
Untold Stories of the NHS - Dr Kim Moore
Un-Spiralling - Rijul Narwal
Sample of Drop-in Workshops:
Stim Scape - inviting a collective rejoicing in stims and sensory soothers and representing neurodivergent pathways for joy and survival - with Annabel Crowley
Emotional Topographies - a unique workshop experience, exploring the landscape of your emotions through creative expression and delving into the realms of inner mapping and visual sociology - with Shannon Daly
Focusing Attention: making marks, making meaning - In an age of distraction, explore how the deliberate act of drawing can create a line of focus between the tip of your pen and your thoughts - with Ilga Leimanis
Collective Care Pledge (above), relax in our resource zone and discover a wide range of student and staff projects.