Health+Culture Event
This event is fully booked, but if you’d like to express your interest in case someone drops out please email tazmin@theartsdevelopmentcompany.org.uk
We're hosting a one day event with NHS Dorset that brings together some of the most current practice and thinking around Creative Health from the County and Country.
When: Monday 29 January 2024, 10am - 5pm
Where: Dorchester Corn Exchange, High East Street, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 1HF
About the Event
Creativity and culture hugely benefits our health and wellbeing, and this has been understood and valued for many years now. Organisations and artists have become specialists in Creative Health, delivering person-centred projects and programmes with remarkable impact.
However this vital work is often overlooked, fragmented and fragile. In a health system built around large institutions, how can we better value and support the role of independent organisations and freelancers? As we move to new models of health commissioning, how can we navigate the system? And how could we work together to enable shared outcomes and impact?
At Health+Culture we’ll shine a light on the best practice in Dorset and beyond. We’ll hear from commissioners and those who’ve successfully navigated the system, and provocations from those with ideas on how we can do things better.
Our aim is to fill the room with the people from across sectors and roles, who support, or hope to support, the Creative Health in Dorset and our communities and neighbourhoods.
The day is structured in 4 sections
Where we are now: Short talks to bring everyone up to speed with what’s happening nationally in Health and Culture
What’s happening in Dorset: Presentations and provocations from Creative Health practitioners
Inspiration from the Country: Hear from the people leading change around the country, what can we learn?
What do we do next?: time to discuss and create actions for progress
Who’s it for?
We welcome anyone and everyone interested in Creative Health, including GPs, social prescribers, creative health practitioners, emerging practitioners, community mental health teams, community healthcare providers, social care, and cultural organisations and freelancers working with communities.
Speakers
We’ll be announcing the speakers throughout January 2024. Please check back regularly for updates.
Jane Willis
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Jane Willis is a creative health consultant, facilitator, trainer, certified coach, and mentor with expertise in strategic development, creative research and evaluation, sector support, and creative writing for therapeutic purposes. Jane recently co-led the development of the Creative Health Quality Framework.
Transitioning from the cultural sector into health in 1994, Jane was Director of Arts for Barts Health NHS Trust for seven years, founding the Trust’s arts programme Vital Arts. She left to set up award-winning arts and health consultancy Willis Newson, which she led for 22 years. During this time, Jane worked with more than 40 NHS Trusts, Health Boards and charities to establish a variety of creative programmes supporting health and wellbeing.
Ashleigh Boreham
Ashleigh is the Deputy Chief Officer for Strategy and Transformation at NHS Dorset. His current portfolio includes enabling research, innovation and working with strategic partners on change with a focus on the delivery of high value health programmes.
His Portfolio includes work with the Life Sciences and Academia, working with the Third Sector and developing health on the High Street as concept in partnership with NHS Confederation and Industry. This has led to a collaboration with the Art University Bournemouth for the delivery of an undergraduate course in Health, Architecture and Design in Sep 24.
Alexandra Coulter
Alexandra Coulter is Director of the National Centre for Creative Health (NCCH) which launched in March 2021. It was established in response to Recommendation 1 in the Creative Health report, which was published in 2017 following a two-year inquiry by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing (APPG).
NCCH is a partner in the UKRI research programme ‘Mobilising Community Assets to Tackle Health Inequalities’ and recently delivered the Creative Health Review which makes recommendations to government. Alex began her career in Arts and Health as Arts Coordinator at Dorset County Hospital from 1998-2013.
Penny Calvert
Penny is the Creative Health Associate for South West England and brings three decades in public engagement, project development, design and commissioning public art, training artists workshops and community links.
Penny’s roles have included setting up/ developing creative health projects and services in acute and mental health NHS Trusts, community, justice and charitable sector organisations. Penny’s key skills and passions are design thinking, nurturing creative skills in others and developing collaborative practice and solutions to enhance people’s experience of health and well-being.
Penny’s training includes: MBA Senior Leadership, Arts Therapy Foundation; BA Hons. Three-dimensional design; Arts, disability and employment; Prince2 project management and a PGCE in the lifelong learning sector.
The opportunity to connect and learn about the expertise and creative health programmes happening in the South West through attending this event will be invaluable. Being able to bring greater detail, evidence and innovation to conversations with health and care service commissioners and providers and lessen the gap between cultural, creative and health sectors.
Emma Lee
Partnerships Manager, Community Action Network
Emma joined CAN in September 2020 and has over 10 years’ experience within the voluntary and community sector after starting her career journey as a volunteer at Citizens Advice while completing her law degree.
She is passionate about the work and impact VCS organisations have on both the communities it works directly with and the wider impact it can have by ensuring people’s voices are heard.
Julie Matthews
Cofounder and Director of creativeShiftcic (cS).
cS is one of the leading Creative Health organisations in Bristol and the South West delivering Creative Health programmes and projects in collaboration with Health, Social Prescribing, Community and Cultural partners. They work in areas of under representation, partnering with organisations working locally with marginalised people and responding to need.
They know that engaging in the creative process in a safely held environment with no pressure supports positive mental health and wellbeing. Their programmes and projects transport people away from everyday stresses and worries, promoting relaxation, enjoyment, curiosity, connection, a sense of achievement and wonder. Their engagement method encourages people to embrace exploration, delight in discoveries, become confident in making change, adapt and see the world with fresh perspective.
The three directors of creativeShift are professional artists, each with over 30 years’ experience of delivering socially engaged arts practice and arts project management.
For 15 years they have been integral to the development of Creative Health in Bristol. In 2014 they were commissioned by Bristol Public Health to establish an Arts on Referral programme for the city. Today they deliver 12 weekly programmes citywide both in-person and online, as well as Creative Health events, training and projects.
Through this work they have developed the Bristol Creative Health Pathway bringing together partners across health, social prescribing, community and culture. This partnership working underpins the work of creativeShift and ensures they can provide a rich menu of high quality creative interventions that improve people's health, and deliver value for money.
Access
We want this event to be accessible to a diverse range of people, and welcome access conversations to discuss how we can best support you to attend. Please include what you need when booking your tickets and/or contact Gemma Alldred for a conversation: gemma.alldred@theartsdevelopmentcompany.org.uk
Dorchester Corn Exchange has wheelchair access and toilet facilities for wheelchair users. The closest changing place is Dorset Museum, one minute away from the venue.
If you have any specific requirements please include them in the ‘accessibility requirements’ section when booking your tickets. Please note we’re unable to guarantee a BSL interpreter or captioning if you book after 31 December 2023.