As part of this year's Creativity & Wellbeing Week (16-22 May 2022), Vikki Parker (artist, mental health advocate and South East LENs Champion) will be organising and curating a Brighton programme of events to showcase freelance practitioners, arts and cultural organisations / social prescribing initiatives that support creativity/culture, health and wellbeing in the area.
This will be the 4th year of Vikki leading on this for her local community. With the support of CHWA, she is extending the reach of focus this year by creating a special blog, Creativity and Wellbeing Week Spotlight: South East, to promote work happening across the region.
Vikki shares,
" It's such an exciting opportunity to share work, especially for freelancers who do not operate with funding, and also to expand awareness to the wider community about the excellent support available for wellbeing through arts.
I started with a small group of fellow practitioners in the first year and we just had fun and celebrated the work. It has since grown but you don't need to be ambitious about it. "
How to get involved:
Brighton / Hove / Lewes based
If you are in the Brighton / Hove / Lewes area and you would like to host your own event / or are already planning something for that week, you can list your event in the main Brighton Programme. This will be a downloadable PDF with live links to your contact details and ticket links.
- Your event will also be included in a main Facebook event and shared extensively on social media
- This main event will be uploaded onto the Creativity & Wellbeing Week website
- This main event link will be included on the Creativity and Wellbeing Week Spotlight: South East on the CHWA website.
- You will have the opportunity to raise awareness about your work, support the Arts in Health mission
- A blog will be written about the Brighton week & an opportunity to be interviewed for Vikki's ' 'Art Yourself Alive' podcast series that focusses on the Lived Experience stories of creativity & wellbeing
The listing is FREE and open to freelance arts & wellbeing practitioners / arts and cultural orgs / CIC's / Charities & Social Prescribing hubs.
If you want to be included in this Brighton programme, please submit your event details form
Click here to read a PDF prepared by Vikki about how to get involved.
The deadline for submitting an event for this programme is APRIL 8th 2022
***If you are an arts organisation in Brighton that isn't running an event, but wants to be part of an organisation directory which will feature at the end of the PDF to raise awareness, email artywisdom@vikkiparker.com .
South East based, but not in Brighton?
If you are holding your own individual event and have / will be uploading it to the main Creativity & Wellbeing website, you can simply email any URL/ link to Vikki Parker at artywisdom@vikkiparker.com
Deadline for submissions for the Creativity and Wellbeing Week Spotlight: South East - Friday 8 April.
To learn more about Vikki's work and her model of developing a local festival, please contact: artywisdom@vikkiparker.com