Weave | Gwehyddu Arts & Mental Health Conference
WEAVE | GWEHYDDU 2025
Weave | Gwehyddu – Wales’ national arts, health and wellbeing conference – is back this autumn. It will take place 8-9 September 2025 at Wrexham University.
The conference, organised by Wales’ Arts Health and Wellbeing Network in partnership with Wrexham University and Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, aims to bring together more than 150 creative practitioners, health and social care professionals, and policy makers from across the country to celebrate Wales’ arts and health programmes and address the need for a long-term preventative approach to tackling health inequalities and pressures on services.
Wales continues to lead the way in placing the arts at the heart of health and wellbeing, driven by the Wellbeing of Future Generations Act and a memorandum of understanding between the Arts Council Wales and the Welsh NHS Confederation.
Weave 2025 will include a keynote speech from Sarah Murphy MS, the Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing, as well as panel discussions and breakout sessions covering subjects ranging from creative approaches to supporting young people’s mental health, and arts in dementia work to the use of nature in arts, health and wellbeing, sector-related research and innovation, and staff and creative practitioner wellbeing. More on the programme here.
This year’s conference is funded by the Arts Council of Wales and sponsored by Public Health Wales’ Hapus programme with CultureStep investment from Arts & Business Cymru.
Tickets are now on sale here. Space is limited so early booking is advised.
