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BBC ARTS & CULTURE  (London)

Your gateway to visual arts, literature, culture and getting creative. Catch up on the last 7 days of BBC Arts, Culture & The Media ...

www.bbc.co.uk/arts

BBC HEADROOM, UNWIND YOUR MIND (London)

One in four people in the UK suffer from some sort of mental health disorder. Find out more about some of the most common disorders and what help and support is available.

Ruby Wax has made a series of films for Headroom called Ruby's Room in which she meets people with first-hand experience of mental health problems and finds out how they have learned to cope.

BBC Headroom have set up a dedicated number, 0800 0933 193, for anyone experiencing mental health issues themselves, concerned about a friend or family member in distress or looking for services in their local area. The number is free to call from a BT landline. Calls from other operators and mobile phone lines may incur a cost.

www.bbc.co.uk/headroom/mental_health

THE ART HOUSE (Southern, Southampton based)

Welcome to The Art House, a cultural melting pot for arts in Southampton. We are a welcoming, vibrant and charmingly quirky venue, run for LOVE and not for profit!

Please join our mailing list for the latest information. Email 'Subscribe' to info@thearthousesouthampton.co.uk

If you want to get hold of us, please email info@thearthousesouthampton.co.uk

BLACKREBELKID (London based)

www.blackrebelkid.co.uk

THE CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH ( National, London based)

Work to improve the quality of life for people with mental health problems by influencing policy and practice in mental health and related services.

We focus on criminal justice and employment, with supporting work on broader mental health and public policy.

The Centre for Mental Health
134 - 138 Borough High Street
London
SE1 1LB

Tel: 020 7827 8376
Fax: 020 7827 8369
Email: katherine.hall@centreformentalhealth.org.uk
Website: www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk

CREATIVE FUTURE (Southern, Brighton, Worthing)

Empowering Marginalised Artists and Writers

Creative Future is a registered charity, bridging the gap between the community arts and the professional arts sectors in the South East. We provide talented marginalised* artists and writers opportunities to earn income from their creative work. We give those excluded by society the chance to reintegrate through their own talents by providing training, support, exhibiting and publishing opportunities, selling & promoting their work at the highest levels. We raise the profile of individual artists/writers and the organisations they access, whilst challenging public stereotypes of marginalised people.

www.creativefuture.org.uk

CREMERPROJECTS (London based)

Cremer Projects is a not-for-profit association with the aim of supporting and devoping the career of disabled artists working in new media, photography and sound.

www.filmpro.net/cremerprojects/index.html

THE BETHLEM GALLERY ( )

Bethlem Royal Hospital, the original 'Bedlam', founded in 1247, is one of the world's oldest hospitals for the care and treatment of people with mental health problems.

For over 150 years the hospital has actively collected artwork created by its patients. Specialising in art about mental illness and by those who have suffered from it, the Archives and Museum on site, house an outstanding collection of paintings and drawings by artists, past and present. Included are works by Richard Dadd, William Kurelek, Jonathan Martin, Vaslav Nijinsky, Louis Wain, and a growing number of contemporary artists.

The Bethlem Gallery and the creative studios at Bethlem encourage and support patients and artists who have experienced mental distress.

www.bethlemgallery.com

DADA DISABILITY NEWS (Northern, Liverpool based)

All the latest opportunities from DaDa-Disability and Deaf Arts (Notrthern based)

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RACHEL GADSDEN (London)

Rachel Gadsden has won a number of awards for her work including the Juliet Gomperts Memorial Scholarship and the William Brooking Research Scholarship. In 1999 a series of Rachel's drawings was exhibited in the Dostoyevsky Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, as part of the annual International Dostoyevsky Symposium. In 2003 Rachel's Wasteland painting (part of the Penallta Colliery series) was awarded the 'Most Popular Painting Prize' in the Hunting Art Prizes Competition, Asylum won the People's Choice Prize at the The Whittingham Riddell Shrewsbury Open Art Exhibition 2005, and Touching Angels (Iraq) won the People's Choice Prize at the Holton Lee International Disability Arts Competition 2007.

In December 2004 Rachel was awarded an Artsadmin Digital Media Bursary to develop her North Wales Hospital project.

Rachel received an Arts Council Grant for the Arts Award from Arts Council SE to develop her Poetics of Decay Project. ACE SE have also selected the Poetics of Decay project to be part of Inside Out. Commissioned by ACE SE, Inside Out has brought together a team of artists to make work responding to places and spaces in the south east. The work was launched on the 22nd June in Brighton during Architecture Week 2005 and on the web at:

www.art-architecture.co.uk/insideout
www.rachelgadsden.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk

MIND (National)

Mind helps people take control of their mental health. We do this by providing high-quality information and advice, and campaigning to promote and protect good mental health for everyone.

www.mind.org.uk

NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR THE ARTS: PROTECTING AND PROMOTING THE ARTS

The National Campaign for the Arts is the UK’s only independent organisation campaigning for all the arts. Since 1985 we have worked to protect and promote the UK’s world class arts scene and acted as a powerful and effective advocate for the sector, able to influence the people who matter. With a growing, UK-wide membership, the NCA is driven by the needs of the arts sector. We believe that only speaking with a united voice can the arts truly be heard.

www.artscampaign.org.uk

OUTSIDE IN

Brings work by marginalised and outsider artists to a wider public. Outside In was set up in 2006 to offer opportunities for marginalised artists. The main vehicle for Outside In is a biennial open art competition.

Outside In is trying to create a level playing field where access to the art world is possible for all who create. Our aim is not to turn people into ‘artists’, but to challenge the art world to embrace and make itself accessible to a wider range of individuals and ways of making.

Winner of the Gulbenkian Prize, Museum of the Year 2007, Pallant House Gallery is the host of Outside In. It has an exemplary learning and community programme with inclusion at its heart. The Gallery houses one of the best collections of British Art in the country.

www.outsidein.org.uk

THE OTHER SIDE GALLERY (London based)

The Other Side Gallery contributes to the growing movement of Contemporary Outsider Art.
Many of the Gallery’s artists have led extraordinary lives and the work you’ll find here is infused with their remarkable stories.

Our aim is simple: to facilitate social change by creating opportunities for access and inclusion in the arts. We celebrate the sheer power and uniqueness of our artists’ work and the ways it challenges negative public misperceptions and stereotypes.

The Gallery is managed by representatives of its core artists: people who have experienced disadvantage in way or other.

We collaborate with organisations that artists are involved with - these artists include people using mental health services, people with physical disabilities and people with learning difficulties, homeless people, refugees, substance abusers, offenders and ex-offenders.

For more information please email admin@theothersidegallery.org

07981453293
admin@theothersidegallery.org
www.theothersidegallery.org

PERSONALITY PLUS (London based)

www.personalityplus.org.uk

SCOTTISH MENTAL HEALTH ARTS & FILM FESTIVAL ( International, Scotland based)

2009 audience figures are estimated at over 10,000!

The Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival (www.mhfestival.com), aimed at transforming attitudes towards mental health, goes from strength to strength, as it looks forward to the fourth year in 2010.

Over 200 arts events took place in venues ranging from town halls to miners clubs, universities to hospitals, libraries to cafes and many iconic arts venues including Kelvingrove Art Galleries, Eden Court Theatre and the Old Fruitmarket.

Well known faces both attended and contributed to the three week Festival including musicians Emma Pollock, Karine Polwart, Rod Jones, Frightened Rabbit, James Yorkston, Norman Blake, Graeme Duffin, Alasdair Roberts, John DeSimone and Attic Lights; writers Tom Leonard, Liz Lochhead and Denise Mina; plus world champion cyclist Graeme Obree and Billy Elliot film star Gary Lewis also engaged audiences.

Whilst community groups, local artists, students, writing groups, health practitioners and people who access mental health services, also got involved in shaping the diverse and entertaining bill of events on offer in 2009.

Our international film submission for 2010 is now open.

Please send an email to smhaff@gmail.com for the guidelines or visit the website mhfestival.com
 

TOGETHER: FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING: OUR SPACE ART GALLERY (London based)

The Together: Working for Wellbeing Our Space gallery was established at 12 Old Street, London EC1V 9BE, in 2006. It supports and celebrates all artists in the mental health arena, as well as any external artists or performers who would like to help reduce stigma and prejudice in mental health.

www.together-uk.org

WELLART BLOG

Art group use Step Up packs for workshops

WellArt is an artgroup for people with depression or other mental health issues. Martin Turp (Outside In artist) runs the group. To see more of Martins work visitwww.outsidein.org.uk/martin-turpWellArt have been using the Scottie Wilson pack and produced some great work. You can visit WellArt’s blog herewww.wellartatworkbase.blogspot.com and see what they have created.

To find out more about Step Up packs visit www.outsidein.org.uk/Step-Up

WORLD COMMUNITY ARTS DAY: 17th Feb 2010

"Art As A Catalyst For Caring And Sharing" Be creative on the day to raise an important issue you believe in and help create a World Festival Society for a day.

www.communiversity.org.uk

ZYRA

This eccentric and eclectic site contains thousands of pages of information on a wealth of subjects and an encyclopaedic set of things linked together conceptually, and references to thousands of places around the world. There is so much stuff at this site that it's getting like the big museums where it takes a week to see it all. Or maybe that should be "weeks" depending on your level of patience and interest!

FUTURE DEVELOPMENT CONTINUES ON THIS WEBSITE WHICH IS ABOUT ALMOST EVERYTHING. Take some time to explore it and see this for yourself.

www.zyra.org.uk

MORE TO COME...

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