Craftspace Collective are a group of young people aged 16-25 who are interested in craft, design and making.  Based in Digbeth’s Custard Factory, we create projects based around ideas of guerilla craft, DIY crafts and craftivism, often running interventions and workshops in open spaces around Birmingham to introduce craft techniques to the wider public. For more info about the Collective visit our blog at www.craftspacecollective.wordpress.com.

We are looking for three artists to get involved with our upcoming events in Northfield, Sparkbrook and Erdington this summer. Each artist will be invited to work with us over 2-3 sessions to develop and deliver a fun and interactive craft workshop at one of the events (exact dates TBC)  Read more... (211 words, estimated 51 secs reading time)

High Peak Community Arts is looking for a permanent Arts Development Worker who will take forward its strategic programme of arts development across the High Peak district of Derbyshire.

The worker will develop, co-ordinate and conduct High Peak Community Arts’ outreach programme of community arts projects with children and families and local communities and will take joint responsibility with the Board of Trustees and the staff team for the ongoing development of the organisation.

Application details are on the website www.highpeakarts.org

Deadline: Noon 27th February 2012

Staffordshire Creative Health and Wellbeing Network

Writing a Case Study event notes

Staffordshire Creative Health and Wellbeing Network’s events programme’s latest event was a practical guide on to how to write a case study about an arts and health project. Case studies are an excellent way of recording examples of your work and effectively communicating its benefits to potential employers.

The event was a mainly practical, hands on workshop where attendees began to write their own case studies.

Practical exercise  Read more... (460 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Older Adult service at Edward St Hospital, West Bromwich would like to offer the opportunity for a volunteer to work with our Occupational Therapy  team to facilitate a creative Arts Group for older adults with poor mental health and/or dementia. The applicant will need to have good communication skills, have an understanding of, or willingness to gain knowledge of mental health and dementia and a good level of creative arts skills suitable for this patient group.  Read more... (149 words, 2 images, estimated 36 secs reading time)

You will work with the Sound It Out team as well as a broad number of
external agencies and stakeholders to develop Sound It Out’s programme of
work in the cultural cohesion and refugee arts sectors (refugee arts in this
case encompasses refugees, asylum seekers and economic migrants), and
will coordinate delivery of activity. You will also be responsible for attracting
funding to the strand and for administering this. You will be a dynamic
individual with project management, fundraising and refugee arts and/or
cultural cohesion experience.  Read more... (201 words, estimated 48 secs reading time)

An opportunity has arisen for a part-time Arts Co-Ordinator post to create and develop a programme of community arts events based on the new Village Square  at All Saints Centre, Kings Heath, Birmingham.  The post holder will have experience of working with and designing art programmes for community groups, schools, youth, older people  and other user groups. The selected person will be competent using  a range of media and be able to recruit and manage volunteers. Knowledge of, and demonstrated success in funding applications will be useful in order to sustain the arts activities programme once established. The post holder will be required to work flexibly over 15 hours per week, varied depending on the workload, and be prepared to travel when necessary. An understanding of faith-based groups will be an advantage although the focus of the tasks will be with a variety of mixed community and church groups. Much of the activities will draw inspiration from the new facility which is outdoors but there is provision for cover for events in the new community buildings. Salary: £5,000 p.a.gross.  Read more... (227 words, estimated 54 secs reading time)

We are currently looking for applications from artists and creative practitioners who wish to undertake this exciting three-day residency in West Bromwich. This programme aims to explore how new or existing connections to and from Dartmouth Park to West Bromwich town centre can be established, highlighted and improved. This programme of Action Research will therefore invite each artist to explore the context and issues relating to physical and social connectivity to and from the park.

There are six short-term residencies available for February/March 2012. The residency will delivered from 28 February to 1 March 2012. Subsistence and accommodation over the three days will be provided. Please note that travel costs will not be provided.  Read more... (170 words, 1 image, estimated 41 secs reading time)

Wednesday 1^st February, 6.00pm – 8.30pm

Mitchell Arts Centre, Stoke-on-Trent

Staffordshire Creative Health and Wellbeing Network’s events programme continues with a practical guide to how to write a case study about an arts and health project. Case studies can be an excellent way of recording examples of your work and effectively communicating its benefits to potential employers.

The event is a practical, hands on workshop where you will begin to write your own case study based on a project you have already carried out. You will be asked to prepare a short project outline before the event and bring a laptop if possible to carry out a range of exercises aiming to help you to capture and communicate relevant information.  Read more... (236 words, estimated 57 secs reading time)

praXis and Creative Remedies are pleased to announce the winning and highly commended projects for the Arts and Health Awards 2011.

We had a fantastic response to the Awards and were really impressed and inspired by the innovation, energy and dedication shown in so many of the projects that entered.

All the winning, highly commended and long-listed projects will be featured in full on the new West Midlands Arts, Health and Wellbeing being website when it launches in February.

The Arts and Health Awards have been a real success and they will run again in 2012, details will be announced in Summer 2012.  Read more... (109 words, 1 image, estimated 26 secs reading time)

Wolverhampton Looked After Children’s Services participation Team and Wolverhampton Arts and Heritage Service are working together on an exciting new project. We want to produce a film for children aged 9-11 about what it is really like to be in care.

The aim of the film is to dispel myths about what it is like to be a child in care and so to help looked after children to integrate fully with their peers. It is also hoped that this will deter bullying they may result from perceived difference.  Read more... (338 words, estimated 1:21 mins reading time)