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Welcome to the December edition of Willis Newson News.
Please forward to friends and colleagues - anyone can receive future newsletters by signing up via the contacts page of our website www.willisnewson.co.uk |
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| Elixir |
A special viewing of the final five Elixir films will take place on Wednesday 19th December 2007 6-8pm in the main atrium of Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. The films created from residencies within Pharmacy, Nuclear Medicine, Paediatric Oncology, Play Specialists and Domestic Services explore the invisible or less understood activities of the hospital. If you would like to come to the viewing please RSVP Emily at emily@willisnewson.co.uk or 0117 924 7617. www.elixirnews.info |
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| Hospital Arts Week |
As mentioned in previous newsletters Willis Newson are looking at the feasibility of a national Hospital Arts Week. A Hospital Arts Week could promote positive press, raise awareness of the breadth of activity taking place, help create joined-up thinking, develop funding and support professionals and practitioners in the field. Do you have an opinion ? We want your views; get in touch by e-mailing alex@willisnewson.co.uk |
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| Real as Yesterday... |
Ideal as a Xmas gift, Real as Yesterday... is a moving and uplifting collection of poems and stories from patients at Delancey Hospital inspired by memories evoked by live music. It celebrates the benefits of the arts in improving the wellbeing of older people. To order your copy of Real as Yesterday… click here to download an order form (Word doc, 404kb). More info at Arts in Trust. |
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| Moving On |
“…it can be beautiful,
it will be lovely,
it will be different. You won’t be sitting on an NHS chair for lunch,
it will be nice
"it’ll make you feel,
slightly
transported into a different world.” Service user interviewed as part of an evaluation by Professor Norma Daykin of the University of the West of England’s evaluation of Moving On, the largest project of its kind within the UK. Moving On provided “a unique but narrow window of opportunity to understand the impact of arts on health and environment.” The full report is due to be completed in February 2008. For more details on the project see www.willisnewson.co.uk/projects/ In another piece of work for Gloucestershire County Council of their Art-lift project an interim report also by Professor Norma Daykin has suggested that “participation in arts activity can offer real health and personal benefits, addressing some of the problems that can stem from chronic illness such as isolation, loss of self confidence and motivation as well as loss of social contact." See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/7123831.stm |
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| Useful Links |
PROJECT evaluation – a major funding and development programme engaging artists in the built environment on 11 December 2007 at Spike Island, Bristol. More info at www.publicartonline.org.uk Public Art and the Planning Process Workshops are being run by Ixia, the national public art agency, throughout England to deliver guidance on the content of a Supplementary Planning Document for public art. More info at www.ixia-info.com Wellcome Trust's Arts Awards programme supports arts projects that engage young people with biomedical science. Deadline is 11 January 2008. More info at www.wellcome.ac.uk/arts |
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