Culture Health and Wellbeing Alliance

The Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance is a national organisation representing everyone who believes that cultural engagement can transform our health and wellbeing.

Culture Shots 2015, partnership between Central Manchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, the Whitworth and Manchester Museum, University of Manchester. Photo by Andy Ford

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing

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Doncaster Community Arts - photo by James Mulkeen (www.jamesmulkeen.com)

Culture, Health and Wellbeing: an online training course

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A woman looks at an installation by Justin Wiggan during the Sense Arts Festival at Birmingham Mac

Installation by Justin Wiggan; Sense Arts Festival at Mac Birmingham

A Culture of Care: Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance national conference 2020

The 2020 Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance conference will be held on Thursday 19 and Friday 20 March 2020 at Derby Museum. Our theme will be Care: care for one another (participants, practitioners, commissioners); care for the environment; and caring economies.

Confirmed panellists include Lord Howarth of Newport (president of the Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance), Esme Ward (Manchester Museums), Gregor Henderson, Public Health England, Ian Solomon-Kawall (May Project Gardens), Zena Edwards, poet/ arts activist, Daniel Regan, Freespace Gallery/Arts & Health Hub and Thanh Sinden (Museum Detox). We're thrilled that Baby People's Melisma Choir will be performing on day 1 with more performances to come.

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For opportunities and ways to get involved, click on the teasers below...

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Hubbub Theatre Company

We are excited to announce our first ever annual awards for the CHWA 2020 Conference. Working with our award partners, we aim to showcase good practice and people who are leading the way in creating a culture of care for each other, their communities and the world.

The award categories, linked to our core themes of the conference: partnerships ( caring economies), practitioner wellbeing and climate change.

Deadline: by 5pm on Monday 24th February

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High Peak Community Arts’ Project eARTh; participants working with artist Caro Inglis

Bursary Places for Derby based practitioners and carers

In partnership with Arts Development at Derby City Council we are offering 10 free spaces to attend A Culture of Care to freelance creative practitioners and carers who live, or whose practice, is based in Derby.

We are particularly keen to ensure the bursaries are representative in relation to the protected characteristics recognised in the Equality Act 2010 as well as class and socioeconomic status.

Deadline: 9am, Monday 24 February.

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Creative Potential CIC

CHWA 2020 Awards: Artist Commission

In partnership with Arts Development at Derby City Council, the Alliance would like to commission an artist based in the East Midlands region to create physical awards for the winners of the CHWA 2020 Awards.

The 3 new artworks will creatively respond to each of the award categories and celebrate the creativity, curiosity and commitment of people working in the culture/health/wellbeing sector in England.

This is a paid opportunity.

Deadline for submission: 5pm, Wednesday 26th February

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70 Stories

These stories represent personal experiences of the impact of creativity, culture and the arts on health and wellbeing. The first stories were published by the Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance (CHWA) to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the NHS in 2018, and we are continuing to grow the collection of stories. If you have a story you would like to share, please contact us.