How might creativity help us imagine new ecologies of wellbeing in times of crisis? Much more than a showcase, this festival of creative health was a two-week open laboratory for co-creation, critical discourse and embodied practice. Part of Creativity & Wellbeing Week 2025

Explore the event series HERE

Drawing in Health & Wellbeing: Marks, Signs & Traces - with Dr Curie Scott
Polarities: a creative workshop to embody whatever may emerge via the arts - with Stella Sookun
Capturing Wellbeing in a Music Group for People with Dementia - with With Hannah Zeilig (Reader in Arts and Health at LCF) Julian West (Royal Academy of Music) and Lydia Nickalls (Wigmore Hall)
Sanctuary in Care: a participatory mapping workshop: participatory workshop invites attendees to reimagine care beyond institutional healthcare, mapping alternative care networks and traditions - with Shannon Daly
Caring for Caterpillars: when an Empress moth lays eggs on her foot(!), Katherine Pogson begins a 5 year journey of close encounters with the more-than-human - with Katherine Pogson
Can Everything Be Mended? (Screening + Q&A): collective Breaks & Joins explore the repair of our stuff, ourselves and our communities. 30 mins screening followed by Q&A - with Sue Mayo and Chuck Blue Lowry
Poetics of Relation: The Body as a Living Archive: movement-based workshop - Workshop designed as a creative space dedicated to embodied exploration, emotional expression, and meaningful connection - with Vicky Tang
Living Threads: How do we hold each other in conversations of care? How do we hold space for the stories we need to share? - with Carmel Keren, Charlotte Roberts, Xiangyu Dong, Janine Goldsworthy and Jenny Maxwell.
Neuroplasticity over Fear and Prejudice (NOFAP): open dialogue followed by workshop, examining how online spaces can work as pipelines into radicalisation, harmful behaviours and identities - with Shannon Daly
Subvertising Unhealthy Adverts: a workshop for creatives who want to take action in resistance to corporate advertising - with Oliver Furlong and Alice Karsten
Creative Toolkits for Care in Performance & Ecological Arts: a conversation between two disciplines: arts-research with a multi-species approach and performing arts with a focus on health and inclusion - with Katherine Pogson and Claire Shovelton
Supporting Agency in Workshops for People Living with Dementia: PhD student Millie Van Der Byl Williams shares the findings from her interviews with people living with dementia, carers, and arts and dementia professionals discussing agency
Thinking Through Drawing in Nature: Join Ilga Leimanis for this workshop outdoors, exploring walking, sketching and the relationship between the two
Shoe-shine: Tom Freestone offers to care for your shoes, using black polish made from found charcoal and beeswax from hives in Jaywick, Essex.
Utopias of Care: In this joyous workshop, we will create dioramas of care utopias which are idyllic, disability-friendly, anti-fascist safe places - with Phoebe Kaniewska
Performing Medicine: welcome To The Helminthic Therapy Support Group: 7 min short film of the Performing Medicine participatory performance + panel discussion - with Monika Gravagno
Den Building - using a range of materials from the natural and manmade world, this workshop explores the process of building a den - with Rose Grover
Mindful Bookbinding: join specialist printmaking technician Amber Ward for this bookbinding workshop, where participants can comfortably sit and learn the art of crafting a small, elegant sketchbook to take home.
Stories That Heal: Storytelling workshop with STRETCH Charity director Carlotta Allum
Spacemaking as Sanctuary: join Dionne Elizabeth for this participatory workshop exploring creative and embodied methodologies, particularly centering the lived experience of disabled, neurodivergent humans

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