Arts Care’s Here and Beyond Inclusive Dance & Disability Performance – The Event of the Year!

An Evening of Exciting Inclusive Dance – We are looking for an Audience of 2000!

Please help us to make this a memorable for all of our performers and for the City of Culture. Come and support Arts Care’s biggest Dance & Disability Performance Event of the Year in the City of Culture’s Venue Space, Ebrington Square, Derry/Londonderry

Over 100 young people and adult with and without disability performing stunning new world premiere dance works

Internationally renowned and London-based choreographer Cheryl McChesney and local choreographers Carmel Garvey and Jenny Elliott

Bring all your family, friends and colleagues. We value your support.

Date: Saturday 1st June 2013

Time: 7.30pm (doors open at 6.30pm)

Venue: The City of Culture Venue, Ebrington Square

To purchase tickets, please click here

Cost: Adult £5     

Children under 12 and concessionary tickets £3

Contact details for Arts Care: Arts Care Administrator, Amanda Turnbull, 02890535639

Arts Care is Northern Ireland’s leading Arts in Health charity. Every day our dedicated teams of artists, musicians, dancers and ClownDoctor encourage service users, sick children, families and healthcare staff to take part in meaningful arts activities, contributing positively to their sense of well-being and making the clinical environment more friendly and welcoming.

To make an online donation by credit or debit card towards our work you can now go our page at http://www.justgiving.com/artscareni . You will see that Rachel Nealis is currently collecting money for us in this year’s Belfast Marathon in May so you might also want to support her efforts on our behalf.

 
Thanks a million and good luck to Rachel! We really appreciate her doing this for Arts Care

 A dynamic and empathetic part-time, self-employed performer with music, movement and clowning experience to train and deliver the Arts Care pilot “Skylarks” programme

for 16 days engagement across the pilot programme.

 Arts Care Office, BSO Building, 2 Franklin Street, Belfast, BT2 8DQ

Closing date for applications: 4^th January 2013, 4pm

 Arts Care is Northern Ireland’s leading Arts in Health organisation. The organisation is now welcoming tenders for a performer with exceptional music, movement and clowning experience to undertake training and pilot facilitation for the Skylarks programme for older people who live with the challenges of dementia and Alzheimer’s.

This programme will be delivered in partnership with the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and all five Health and Social Care Trusts across Northern Ireland. The Skylarks programme is planned to take place from late January to April 2013.

 For full job specification, please click here.

For an application form, please click here.

 Arts Care is a company limited by guarantee with charitable status

 Company No N1058264

XR 77433

We are currently recruiting, on a self-employed basis, a Project Co-ordinator and a Project Administrator to begin working on the 2nd of January 2013.

A full job specification for both roles can be found here in our “Jobs” section.

All applications must be received into the Arts Care office by the 7th of December by 4pm. Late applications will not be accepted.

The project will take the form of an arts festival that promises to give older people an opportunity to explore and experiment with different arts forms, such as contemporary dance, music, sculpture, film making, creative writing and much more. The intention of the programme is to unfold older people’s creativity and to offer them a life-long learning opportunity that will involve learning new creative skills that will prove valuable in their everyday life. It is anticipated that new creative skills will not only enhance the older people’s quality of life, but will access them to exciting arts participation. An integral part of this project will be the engagement of Health and Social Care staff, who will also have the opportunity to unfold their creativity in the workplace.

One of the most exciting things about this project is the level of partnership, which is a critical component of ensuring best practice and widest population reach for this health and well-being project.

The project is to be held from January to March 2013

Information on key speakers and performers, call for abstracts, fees, registration and accommodation can all be found on the site and we have also included a blog (with the first post from our new student placement, Asta Elijoki from Finland) to keep everyone up to date in the run-up to the conference.

Jill McKeown, Artist-in-Residence with Craigavon and Banbridge Arts Care Committee, explains, “Service users and staff decided to make an artwork for the gable wall to provide a colourful backdrop to a new seating area which is being developed as a relaxation area. They want this area to be bright and welcoming as it was a dull, exposed and very windy space.

“The groups discussed possible themes and because it was such a windy area they decided up on the idea of kites and balloons blowing in the wind, which would also provide the opportunity to use bright colours in the piece.

The project involved the use of clay from its raw form, which was then moulded and drawn on to create the tiles for the finished piece. The initial tiles were dried, then ‘bisque fired’ and then returned to the group to paint with ceramic glazes before the final firing.”

Manager of Banbridge Social Education Centre Margaret McShane adds, “Previous projects in the Centre have involved mosaic and printmaking. On this occasion, Jill and the groups decided to use ceramics and they spent many sessions creating ceramic panels for the large area. The groups are always very enthusiastic and focussed hard on the project under the direction of Jill and assisted by care workers Iolanda and Alison.”

Unfolding Tales is a collaborative storybook that unfolds into a fifteen metre-long artwork.  Two artists, Rachael Bell and Arts Care Artist-in-Residence, Cheryl Bleakley invited patients from various wards in Musgrave Park Hospital to add their part to the evolving story.  Patients corresponded with each other through image, letter writing and the spoken word, each creating a page of the book.  Some of these artworks were also developed through workshops and correspondence with the involvement of other visual artists in Belfast and Berlin.

The Unfolded Tales spiral up the library’s central staircase under a video of a narrator, reading the story to library visitors.  Images of the hospital corridor ceilings flash overhead.  This is an exciting project with a beautiful aesthetic quality.  It captures the richness and uniqueness of life experience as people enter and leave the hospital, their stories overlapping for a short time.

Unfolding Tales is presented as Rachael Bell’s M.A. Art in Public project at the University of Ulster.

Arts Care is Northern Ireland’s leading Arts in Health Organisation and in 2012 it will celebrate 21 years of delivering high quality, sustainable arts and ClownDoctor programmes across a diverse range of healthcare services in all of Northern Ireland’s Health and Social Care Trusts. With an emphasis on a participatory approach, the Anniversary Conference will provide an opportunity for experts, and all those interested in Arts in Health Practice and Evaluation across the globe to come together. The aim of the conference is to explore, celebrate, share and gain in-depth knowledge of international working models of best arts in health practice and research development.

A separate website for the conference will shortly be live but, in the meantime, if  potential delegates have any queries, please email admin@artscare.co.uk. A link for accommodation can be found here

“Memory Wall”

An artwork created by the service users of Edenderry Day Centre

Tuesday 13th December at 11am

Edenderry House, Edenderry Day Centre, 18 Gilford Road, Portadown, BT63 5ED

RSPV to jill@jillmckeown.com