QA test - Creative Health and Wellbeing
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Creative Health and Wellbeing is a strategy detailing how we’ll work within health and social care, and how we’ll promote collaborations between organisations and practitioners in the creative and health sectors.
Can you tell us about the origins of Creativity and Wellbeing Week, and how it has evolved over the years? What does the festival aim to achieve today?
The festival began in 2012 and was funded via the cultural Olympiad (part of the Olympic legacy) in East London to promote arts and health for all Londoners. By 2019, it went national as we forged a partnership with the Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance, seeing 50,000 attendees taking part in around 600 events across the country.
- Now in its 14th year, Creativity and Wellbeing Week is an opportunity for thousands of cultural organisations and creatives to showcase their wide-ranging work to support health and wellbeing across the UK and beyond.
- This includes activity in hospitals, museums, theatres, residential care, galleries, community centres, heritage sites, libraries, and people’s homes.
This year, our theme is ‘New Horizons in Creative Health’.
As part of this, we aim to engage with a wide range of grass-roots community organisations, practitioners, and participants across the country. We’re keen to understand their approach to and experience of, creative health practices, while asking key questions about the challenges of sustaining this work.
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breakfast | organisations | we aim to engage | grass-roots community organisations | challenges of sustaining this work | key questions |
| Lunch | creative health practices | challenges of sustaining this work | key questions | challenges of sustaining this work | we aim to engage |
| Dinner | we aim to engage | grass-roots community organisations | we aim to engage | creative health practices | key questions |
