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Pod Clare
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: Mid Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art, Painting, Illustration, Installation Art, Sculpture, Mixed Media, Mosaic, Other
25 happy years experience delivering participatory arts projects, large and small, in many art forms with any partners. Longstanding Chairperson of HAUL Arts in Health.
Age Cymru / Gwanwyn
Age Cymru is the largest charity working with and for older people in Wales. Our vision is to create an age friendly Wales. Gwanwyn is a month-long national festival held across Wales in May each year celebrating creativity in older age.
Website | Email | 02920 431576
Aimee Renee
Creative Practitioners | Location: North West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Painting, Illustration, Mixed Media
I'm a Community Artist/Voluntary Art Grp Coordinator. I have also worked as a creative activities coordinator at Park lodge residential care home. My Art group helps improve peoples lives, health & wellbeing & reduces social isolation. I work alongside Prestatyn Iachs OT & GPs social prescribing network
Website | Email | 07541039703
Aimee Renée Colville
Creative Practitioners | Location: North East Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Painting, Sculpture, Mixed Media
About Aimee's Friday Art Group From 16th January 2015 i started a community art group based at Artisans Collective,The old Library Heritage centre in Prestatyn. Back then it was just a simple short term venture but today it has grown into an amazing inclusive hub of Creativity& friendship
Website | Email | 07541039703
Aimee's Friday Art Group
Creative Practitioners, Arts Organisation Representative | Location: North West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Painting, Illustration, Sculpture, Mixed Media
16/01/15 was the first ever Aimee’s Friday art group held at The Artisans Collective in Prestatyn. Our aim is to bring people together, share ideas, techniques, socialise, make arts/crafts, have fun & enhance lives through art.The group is open to anyone regardless of artistic ability or experience
Website | Email | 07541039703
Alex Bowen
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative, Arts Organisation Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: Mid Wales, South East Wales, South West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Performance Art, Participatory Art, Painting, Photography, Music, Theatre, Dance, Installation Art, Sculpture, Mixed Media, Audio Video, Spoken Word, Mosaic, Ceramic, Digital, Animation
Strategic development, co-ordination and networking skills combined with a person-centred and proactive approach. Supportive and agile organisational and project manager. Proven track record in financial/ budget management and fundraising, with success in securing a wide range of funding streams.
Website | Email | 07368422907
Alex Staples - Arts Project Manager, Arts for Health and Wellbeing
Healthcare Representative, Arts Organisation Representative, Local Authorities & Public Services | Location: South East Wales
We know the benefits of arts in health, and work to incorporate it into healthcare in Cardiff and the Vale. Using art to improve quality of care and wellbeing for all is key to the evolution of modern healthcare. We offer a holistic approach to our patients, improving their overall outcomes.
Website | Email | 07557671698
Ali Franks
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: South West Wales
Area of Art: Performance Art, Participatory Art, Theatre, Spoken Word
Lecturer in Applied Drama: Education, Wellbeing, Community at Swansea College of Art, University of Wales Trinity Saint David Applied Drama Practitioner. Specialist in using drama as a tool for personal development and emotional health. Chair of Board of Directors for PeopleSpeakUP
Website | Email | 07951 725912
Angela Rogers
Creative Practitioners, Arts Organisation Representative | Location: South West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art, Photography, Illustration, Installation Art, Mixed Media, Audio Video, Ceramic
I am the Wales Coordinator for Engage - Engage Cymru - the leading membership organisation for visual arts and gallery education. I also coordinate WAHWN organising training and networking events pan Wales.
Website | Email | 01834 870121
Arts Connection - Cyswllt Celf
Arts Organisation Representative | Location: North West Wales, Mid Wales
Arts Connection is a participatory arts charity based in Llanfyllin, Mid Wales. We work in North Powys, Wrexham and the border communities. We are revenue funded by the Arts Council of Wales and have provided high quality participatory arts projects in a wide range of artistic mediums since 1994.
Website | Email | 01691648929
ArtWorks Cymru
Arts Organisation Representative | Location: North West Wales, Mid Wales, South East Wales, South West Wales
ArtWorks Cymru is a partnership of Welsh organisations who are developing practice, supporting training and career development, and advocating for participatory arts in Wales. ArtWorks Cymru is project funded and creates programs of work led by different partners to further its aims.
Website | Email | 07966450299
Avant Cymru
Creative Practitioners, Arts Organisation Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Performance Art, Painting, Music, Theatre, Dance, Spoken Word
Avant Cymru are a forward thinking theatre company from the south Wales valleys. We create relevant, distinctive theatre, performances, experiences and educational opportunities many of which are based on improving health and well being.
Website | Email | 07834402953
Ben Walker
Creative Practitioners | Location: North East Wales, North West Wales, Mid Wales
Area of Art: Photography
Full time freelance professional photographer. I have worked with Bangor University & Pontio for over a decade on a wide range of photographic services. Primarily events coverage as well as academic showcase, promotional, documentary & arts coverage, especially with countless & varied Pontio events.
Website | Email | 07912068631
Beth Pickard
Creative Practitioners, Educators & Trainers, Researchers | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art, Music
Beth is a music therapist and PhD researcher at the University of South Wales exploring pedagogy of disability. In addition, Beth is also Course Leader for the BA(Hons) in Creative and Therapeutic Arts degree, where visual arts students develop inclusive and participatory practices in the community.
Website | Email | 01443 654429
Bethan Page
Arts Organisation Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: Mid Wales
As an experienced freelance arts consultant I have devised and managed creative projects with a wide range of communities and diverse sectors. Working in collaboration and in partnership is key to the success of these projects, along with involving participants in every aspect of the work.
Bethan Ryland Pili Pala Arts Wales
Arts Organisation Representative | Location: South East Wales
I am director of Pili Pala Arts Wales, which specialises in delivering high quality arts sessions to all ages, individuals, schools and communities. I am also PhD candidate at Liverpool Hope University, lecture at USW and Newman University and work part -time for Caerphilly arts service.
Beverly Belshaw
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative, Educators & Trainers, Researchers | Location: North East Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Painting, Mixed Media, Mosaic, Other
I am an artist and art therapist. I work with children and adults alike, using mosaics, silk painting, textiles and mixed media art. I believe my commitment to both professions inform my practice bye creating a balance that is fundamental to the work I do with others.
Bryn Jones
Healthcare Representative, Arts Organisation Representative | Location: Mid Wales
I spent 13 yrs working with the arts in Mental Health in Aberystwyth and over 10 yrs working for the Arts Council of Wales including leading on the Arts and Health strategy development. For the past 10yrs I’ve worked within community development in Penparcau and Aberystwyth securing major funding.
Carol Downes
Creative Practitioners, Arts Organisation Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: North East Wales, North West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art, Painting, Illustration, Mixed Media, Other
I am a Community Art Tutor and Artist/Crafter/Designer. I enjoy colour and texture in my work, and I love to inspire others to get creative. My specialism is Batiking, mixed up with freestyle stitching and layering. I enjoy working collaboratively, and coming up with the unexpected.
Celf o Gwmpas
Creative Practitioners, Arts Organisation Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: Mid Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art, Painting, Installation Art, Sculpture, Spoken Word, Mosaic, Animation
Our purpose is: 'Creating social inclusion, inspiring artistic ambition & providing a recourse for the wider community'. We: Run arts & health projects for socially excluded groups; support, train & mentor artists, especially outsider & artists w/ disabilities & provide space & network for artists
Website | Email | 01597 822777
Celf-Able
Creative Practitioners, Arts Organisation Representative | Location: Mid Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art, Painting, Photography, Mixed Media, Mosaic, Ceramic
Disabled-led inclusive art group in Montgomeryshire.
Website | Email | 01938 810058
Chris Monk
Creative Practitioners, Educators & Trainers | Location: South East Wales, South West Wales
Area of Art: Performance Art, Theatre
Drama practitioner and educator with experience of working with children from 5 to 18. Passionate about the application of performance to develop communication, creativity, collaboration, confidence and critical thinking.
Claire Cressey
Arts Organisation Representative | Location: North East Wales, North West Wales, Mid Wales, South East Wales, South West Wales
Claire has worked in the arts for 20 years, specialising in social exclusion. Currently Director for Live Music Now Wales, Claire was previously Community Producer for WNO, and Assistant Director for Artswork, (youth arts) where she created the English National Youth Arts Network (ENYAN).
Clare Charles
Creative Practitioners, Arts Organisation Representative | Location: South East Wales
I co-run several artist projects including Arcade Campfa, madeinroath and Yellow Back Books, as well as making my own work. In autumn 2019 Arcade Campfa will be working on a new project with Gail Howard and Llandough hospital, resulting in an exhibition across both venues.
David Rhys Webber
Creative Practitioners | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Photography, Music, Digital
I've been working as a photographer for 20 years. In the last ten years I have been working in arts and health settings, delivering workshops to various health boards.
Website | Email | 07752510489
Eleanor Shaw
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative, Arts Organisation Representative | Location: South West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Performance Art, Participatory Art, Painting, Photography, Music, Theatre, Dance, Illustration, Installation Art, Sculpture, Mixed Media, Audio Video, Spoken Word, Poetry, Literature, Digital
PeopleSpeakUp is a social arts and well-being enterprise based in The Ffwrnes Fach, Ffwrnes Theatre, Llanelli. We work with communities to find their stories through artistic and personal exploration on speak up projects through visual arts, storytelling, creative writing & The Spoken word.
Website | Email | 07972651920
Emily Underwood-Lee
Researchers | Location: South East Wales
I am Research Fellow at the George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling. My research concerns first person and autobiographical storytelling and performance with a focus on feminist performance, narratives of illness, performance and the maternal and performance and disability.
Emma Baker
Creative Practitioners, Educators & Trainers | Location: South West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Sculpture, Ceramic
I am a former secondary school art teacher who now runs a ceramics business and works as a freelance practitioner in schools. I am inspired by body positivity and the beautiful Welsh countryside.
Emma Beynon
Creative Practitioners | Location: Mid Wales, South West Wales
Area of Art: Poetry, Digital
Emma leads creative writing workshops for Health and Wellbeing. She has managed projects for Bath Festivals and Peak, with funding from The Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Children In Need. Emma has witnessed the positive impact of creative writing to shape lives and develop confidence.
Forget-me-not Chorus
Arts Organisation Representative | Location: South East Wales
The Forget-me-not Chorus is testament to the potential of song, music and shared creativity to enrich and enhance people’s lives. A charity for people with dementia & their families, we have created nine choirs who gather weekly across communities, care homes and hospitals in Cardiff & Newport
Website | Email | 02922362064
Gill St John Griffiths
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative | Location: South East Wales, South West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art, Sculpture, Mixed Media, Other
Arts and Well Being Creative Practitioner. Initiating and facilitating co-created and co-produced projects. Sharing visual stories, supporting community connection, combating isolation, promoting creative ownership. Mentor - supporting professional Artists and Designers, Startups and Graduates.
Guy O'Donnell
National Dance Company Wales creates extraordinary and inclusive dance which engages and resonates with audiences; we work with the best dancers and choreographers from across Wales and the world to make dance for stages large and small, in unusual spaces and online.
Website | Email | 07305534981
Gwawr Wyn Roberts
Local Authorities & Public Services | Location: North West Wales
I work for Gwynedd Council as a Community Arts Development Officer. I am also a registered Art Psychotherapist. I am involved in the development of arts in health within the county by delivering participatory projects, research and training.
Hafren, The Entertainment Venue
Arts Organisation Representative | Location: Mid Wales
We are a mid scale theatre in Newtown, Mid Wales with an active community engagement programme.
Website | Email | 01686614232
HAUL Arts in Health
Healthcare Representative, Arts Organisation Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: Mid Wales
Long established group using the arts to improve health care settings, and delivering participatory arts projects for hospital staff and all kinds of health groups, including a well received social prescribing programme - see Facebook
Heather Louise Chandler
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative, Arts Organisation Representative | Location: North East Wales, North West Wales, Mid Wales, South East Wales, South West Wales
Live Music Now is the UK’s leading musicians’ development and outreach charity. We provide exceptional live music experiences to people with limited access to the arts, due to disability, illness or social disadvantage.
Website | Email | 02920488654
Heather Parnell
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Other
heatherparnell.wordpress.com Heather is a visual and public artist who has many roles in Arts and Health, including Artist in Residence at Cwm Taf University Health Board.
Inside Out Cymru
Arts Organisation Representative | Location: South East Wales
Inside Out Cymru is an Arts and Mental Health charity delivering arts workshops and activities across Gwent. We work to break down barriers to opportunities and to encourage access to the arts and creative expression to promote mental health and well-being.
Website | Email | 07588871843
Jess Courtney
Arts Organisation Representative, Local Authorities & Public Services | Location: South East Wales
I am the Visitor Experience Manager for Tredegar House, a National Trust property in SE Wales. Tredegar House is a place shaped by our local community. The house, its surrounding gardens and parkland stand proudly at the heart of Newport’s heritage.
Juliet Barnes - Your Medicines Your Health
Healthcare Representative | Location: North East Wales, North West Wales, Mid Wales, South East Wales, South West Wales
I am the National Co-ordinator for the all-Wales Your Medicines Your Health programme, promoting safe and effective medicines use. Our public information and engagement campaign has incorporated a schools art project and has worked in liaison with students from Cardiff School of Art and Design.
Juliette Salter
Creative Practitioners, Educators & Trainers | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Performance Art, Participatory Art, Painting, Music, Literature, Mosaic, Ceramic
I am a fine artist, voice leader and musician. I teach community arts and crafts for all ages, singing for breathing for the British lung foundation and singing for wellbeing. My background is in complementary health. My own art practice is primarily as a painter in mixed mediums and as a singer.
Website | Email | 07504957717
karen woodley
I am a Person Centred Accredited Therapist and Clinical Supervisor providing Counselling and Movement Psychotherapy to individuals and groups. I also Supervise therapists, social workers and holistic therapists. I believe in human kindness & each persons uniqueness as a creative link into life.
Website | Email | 07852873857
Kate Pawsey
Healthcare Representative | Location: South West Wales
Kate Pawsey has an MSc in creative writing for therapeutic purposes from Metanoia Institute. She works freelance in a range of settings - museums and galleries, with women in sheltered housing, and with the team at Skanda Vale Hospice, West Wales. She is writer in residence at The Bakelite Museum.
Website | Email | 07866684265
Katherine Algar-Skaife
Researchers | Location: North West Wales
I am passionate about improving the quality of life and well-being of people living with dementia and those who support them, and in particular through the arts. Over the last 10 years, most of my research has focussed on the benefits of the arts for those who live in, work in, and visit care homes.
Website | Email | 01248 382226
Katja Stiller
Healthcare Representative | Location: South West Wales
Katja has been working for Valley and Vale since 1998. Development of Person-Centred Creativity combing humanistic principles with a range of arts activities to improve participants’ self- awareness, self-esteem and wellbeing. Specialises working with people with anxiety /depression and training.
Kira Withers-Jones
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art
Lara Ward
Creative Practitioners | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Performance Art, Participatory Art, Theatre, Dance
I’m a freelance movement artist, a collaborative performer maker, and community practitioner. I’m a performer with The Gravida Project, which centres on inviting pregnant dancers and performance artists to explore their inner and outer creativity, with a focus on maternal mental health.
Website | Email | 07545562524
Laura Oliver
Creative Practitioners, Arts Organisation Representative | Location: Mid Wales
Area of Art: Theatre
Creative Learning Coordinator at Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 1st class honors BA in Performance Studies from Aberystwyth University LAMDA Tutor
Literature Wales
Arts Organisation Representative | Location: North East Wales, North West Wales, Mid Wales, South East Wales, South West Wales
Literature Wales’ role is to facilitate and stimulate literature programmes and events throughout Wales, and promote the best of our literatures internationally. We also develop and support the writers of Wales at every stage of their literary journey.
Website | Email | 02920 472266
Lora Morgan
Creative Practitioners, Educators & Trainers | Location: North West Wales
Area of Art: Mixed Media, Other
I'm a young community artist based in North West Wales. I love working with the elderly - within community art groups and focusing on mental health/wellbeing. I usually work with textiles and mixed media. I also own a handmade crafts shop in Caernarfon where I run craft for wellbeing workshops.
Maria Hayes
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative, Educators & Trainers, Researchers | Location: North West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Performance Art, Participatory Art, Painting, Illustration, Installation Art, Sculpture, Mixed Media, Digital
Dr Maria Hayes draws movement, story and music in performance as well as spending time drawing the natural world. With 32 years of experience, in particular of working with people with mental health issues and other forms of disability, Maria knows everyone is a potential artist.
Website | Email | 07817297922
Marion Cheung
Creative Practitioners | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Painting, Illustration, Installation Art, Mixed Media, Audio Video, Digital
Multi-disciplinary artist, 10 years experience working in community arts; project co-ordinator; trained in life story/oral history collection; creative practitioner. Lead artist for Maindee Stories a textile arts project with a women's group that won the Voluntary Arts Epic Award 2018 for Wales.
Website | Email | 07974083369
Martin Sotelano
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative, Arts Organisation Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Painting, Photography, Dance, Mixed Media, Audio Video, Digital
The Old Post office Art and Therapy Centre was established here in the Welsh Valleys so that Art, Culture and the Healing Arts can be readily available in solid ways that can be created by and given back to the community. Our desire is to create new exciting artistic experiences.
Website | Email | 01495793529
Mel Roberts
Creative Practitioners | Location: North West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Mixed Media, Mosaic
My passion for mosaic began 6 years ago and I love recycling materials and vibrant colours. My business is Mazin Mosaics selling North Wales. As an enthusiastic reative practitioner I have worked with the elderly, local community & art groups, men & women's sheds and learning disabilities adults.
Melanie Wotton
Healthcare Representative | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Performance Art, Participatory Art, Painting, Photography, Music, Theatre, Dance, Illustration, Installation Art, Sculpture, Mixed Media, Audio Video, Spoken Word, Poetry, Literature, Mosaic, Ceramic, Digital, Animation
I am an Arts in Health Project Manager and Curator at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board. I worked previously as Exhibitions Coordinator for the Hearth Gallery, UHL, and am responsible for developing community based arts projects across Cardiff and the Vale, supported by Arts Council of Wales.
Website | Email | 07970 070170
Michele Heidi Sutton
Creative Practitioners | Location: North West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art, Painting, Installation Art, Sculpture, Mixed Media, Other
I am an independent artist/teacher with many years experience working in community arts. I currently teach a variety of creative courses and workshops including: mindful, slow stitching; easy handmade books; pyrography; mono and block printmaking. I also offer a Creative Confidence Coaching service.
Website | Email | 07919952356
Pauline Down
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative, Arts Organisation Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Music, Theatre, Other
Pauline Down is a singer & composer who currently leads choirs in South Wales and singing workshops and holidays internationally. She pioneered an award winning arts in health training programme in North Wales and has many years experience of leading arts in health trainings, projects and workshops.
Website | Email | 07952752823
Peak - Art in the Black Mountains
Arts Organisation Representative | Location: Mid Wales, South East Wales
Peak works creatively with professional artists and communities, responding to our unique rural location and environment. Peak's overarching goal is to offer opportunities for children and young people. Our targeted writing and visual arts and health activities support positive health and wellbeing.
Website | Email | 01873811579
Penny Alexander
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: North East Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art, Photography, Installation Art, Literature
I'm a visual artist and use text based mediums such as typewriters to record people's shared stories & memories. Following residencies with participants on acute wards several pieces of my art have been commissioned for hospital corridors. I also am a "phase 2" cARTrefu artist working in care homes
Website | Email | 07923935104
Pip Lewis
Creative Practitioners, Arts Organisation Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: South West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art, Painting, Photography, Illustration, Installation Art, Sculpture, Mixed Media, Mosaic, Ceramic, Digital, Animation
Pip Lewis is a founder and Director of spacetocreate, a leading Pembrokeshire-based visual arts organisation. Holding a Post-graduate diploma in Art Psychotherapy and BA Hons in Fine Art from Reading University, Pip has taken a lead in delivering a wide range of arts, health and wellbeing projects.
Website | Email | 07879335253
Prue Thimbleby
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative | Location: South West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Spoken Word
Prue has been leading the Arts in Health Team for Swansea Bay Health Board since 2012. As part of her role she has established an extensive digital patient story programme. Prue is also a freelance Artist and she was a midwife. Her passion is for the people to thrive and have their voices heard.
Website | Email | 07443336090
R. Lyle Skains
Creative Practitioners, Educators & Trainers | Location: North West Wales
Area of Art: Literature, Digital, Other
A Senior Lecturer in Digital Writing at Bangor Uni, Lyle conducts practice-based research in writing, reading/playing, and publishing transmedia narratives. She is PI on the arts & health project "Infectious Storytelling", Co-I on the arts & science project "You & CO2" (both Welsh Crucible-funded).
Rachel Jones
Healthcare Representative, Local Authorities & Public Services | Location: North West Wales
I manage Annedd Ni, Anheddau's Day Service based in Bangor, North Wales. We offer sessions such as art, drama, music, cookery and living skills to adults with supporting needs, such as learning disabilities, in the North Wales area.
Ray Hobbs
Creative Practitioners | Location: South West Wales
Area of Art: Photography, Illustration, Mixed Media, Digital
Graduate Documentary Photographer, experienced in respectfully representing communities and individuals in their home and other environments. A body of work on the loneliness & depression of men & their journey into environment of Men’s Shed Cymru. Photo-documented Engage Cymru Dementia workshops.
Robert Aitken
Healthcare Representative, Arts Organisation Representative | Location: North East Wales, North West Wales, Mid Wales, South East Wales, South West Wales
Area of Art: Music
Music in Hospitals & Care is a charity that uses professional musicians to sing and play for people in healthcare, to improve their quality of life
Website | Email | 02920 391415
Rosemary Elizabeth Graham
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: South West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Painting, Poetry, Other
Practising Painter / Textile Artist, Facilitator, Speaker, Life Coach, Life Musician, (assoc: member of Music Chichester University - Life Music, Professor Rod Paton), Yoga Teacher, Published Poet / Writer & Lapidus member. A/H Workshops LAH, SWAH, NW ARTS & HEALTH, ARTS AND HEALTH CYMRU, SPAN, NFS
Royal College of Psyciatrists Wales
Healthcare Representative | Location: North East Wales, North West Wales, Mid Wales, South East Wales, South West Wales
We have over 600 members, fellows, affiliates and pre-membership trainees throughout Wales. We lead, represent and support psychiatrists to government and other agencies, to improve the outcomes for people with mental illness, and the mental health of individuals, their families, and communities.
Website | Email | 02922331080
Sarah Pogoda
Creative Practitioners, Researchers | Location: North West Wales
Area of Art: Performance Art, Participatory Art, Theatre, Other
I'm a Lecturer in German Studies at Bangor University, and my research areas explore Artistic Research, Institutional Critique, Avant Garde Performance Art and Theatre. As Artistic Research I pursue interventions, Happenings, and Participatory Performances.
Sian Fitzgerald
Local Authorities & Public Services | Location: North East Wales
I am the Community Arts Development Officer for Denbighshire County Council and currently sit on the steering committees for WAHWN and the North Wales Arts, Health and Well-being Concordat. I am the NEWales representative for Engage Cymru and Vice Chair for Edau (NW Arts and Education Network).
Website | Email | 07717540857
Sian Rendell
Healthcare Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: Mid Wales, South East Wales, South West Wales
At Llamau we believe that no young person or vulnerable woman should ever have to experience homelessness. Our mission is to eradicate homelessness for young people and vulnerable women. My role as Involvement and Engagement Manager is to create engaging opportunities for people we support.
Website | Email | 02920239585
Simon and Caroline
Healthcare Representative | Location: South West Wales
We run a support line and website for those who have experienced Spiritual Abuse. We plan to set up a retreat where more intensive support can be given. We hope to be able to provide creative therapies especially within an eco therapy context.
Website | Email | 07709655836
Simone Joslyn
I am head of Arts at ardiff and Vale University Health Board. We are excited to be working in the arts and health arena and are always on the look out ofr new, innovative and fun projects that improve the lives of our patients, staff and communities.
Website | Email | 02921836049
Sophia Keene
Healthcare Representative | Location: North East Wales
I’m Sophia I am a mental health nurse working in older persons psychiatric liaison at Wrexham Maelor hospital. I am also studying for my masters in dementia at Bangor university.
StillWalks
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative | Location: South West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Photography, Audio Video
StillWalks is a video resource and system designed to address issues of stress and anxiety and to develop wellbeing. Alastair Duncan, founder of StillWalks, is a visual artist working with sound, photography and tapestry weaving. He has a keen interest in the environment, both natural and man-made.
Website | Email | 07887 906236
Sue EL Davies
Creative Practitioners, Arts Organisation Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: South West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Performance Art, Participatory Art, Painting, Photography, Music, Theatre, Dance, Illustration, Installation Art, Sculpture, Mixed Media, Audio Video, Spoken Word, Poetry, Literature, Mosaic, Ceramic, Digital, Animation
Highly experienced cultural sector professional. Expertise: creative programming, delivery of events, activities, exhibition development, partnership development and programming, formal learning, lifelong learning, strategic arts management, fundraising, interpretation, project management, evalua
Suzanne Griffiths-Rees
Funders & Policy Makers, Arts Organisation Representative | Location: South West Wales
I am a Development Officer at the Arts Council of Wales with a background in music. I sit on the Arts and Health Programme Development Group within the Arts Council.
Tanya Dower (Music Now)
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative, Arts Organisation Representative | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Performance Art, Participatory Art, Music, Installation Art
MUSIC NOW use music and sound as a therapeutic vehicle for exploring creativity to enhance learning, manage health, and live longer happier lives! And we have FUN! Whether individual, group or organisation, we can design and deliver tailor made lessons and sessions with participants of all ages.
Website | Email | 07463580558
Theatrau Sir Gâr / Carmarthenshire Theatres
Arts Organisation Representative, Local Authorities & Public Services | Location: South West Wales
Theatrau Sir Gâr offers the people of Carmarthenshire and beyond a variety of live theatre performances and productions, and a programme of participatory activity which focusses on wellbeing and social inclusion, including dementia friendly events, and creative activities for older people.
Website | Email | 0345 2263510
Tŷ Pawb
Arts Organisation Representative, Local Authorities & Public Services | Location: North East Wales
Tŷ Pawb is a cultural community resource, bringing together arts and markets within the same footprint. We present a contemporary programme of welcoming and inclusive exhibitions, socially engaged projects and live performance.
Website | Email | 01978 292093
Valley and Vale Community Arts
Creative Practitioners, Arts Organisation Representative | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Performance Art, Participatory Art, Painting, Photography, Music, Theatre, Dance, Mixed Media, Audio Video, Spoken Word, Poetry, Digital, Animation
Valley and Vale is committed to providing access to a range of creative activities and interventions that will enable a diverse range of people to develop skills, confidence and self-esteem.
Website | Email | 01656 729246
Vicky Guise
Creative Practitioners, Arts Organisation Representative | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Music
Vicky is a music therapist, musician and music teacher based in Cardiff. She is the chair and co-founder of Harmoni Cymru CIC, bringing live music and music therapy to hospitals and care settings in South Wales.
Victoria Malcolm
Creative Practitioners | Location: South West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Painting
Specialisms:painting, drawing and colour use, basic printmaking. Active as voluntary art assistant in Oriel Myrddin Carmarthen and PwerdyPowerhouse Llandysul. Welsh learner moderately fluent. Experience in home education, manager of Popty, Triangle Network international artist workshop in Wales.
Website | Email | 01559395394
Wendy Keay-Bright
Creative Practitioners | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Installation Art, Audio Video, Digital, Animation
I am a designer with over two decades of experience in the area of interaction, animation and moving image design, including teaching, research and development, project management, knowledge transfer and public engagement.
Yvonne Murphy & Omidaze Productions
Creative Practitioners, Arts Organisation Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: South East Wales, South West Wales
Area of Art: Performance Art, Participatory Art, Theatre
Yvonne Murphy is a theatre director, creative producer and creative practitioner with nearly 30 years experience of using drama and theatre to create positive social change. An ACW Creative Agent, Yvonne also runs Omidaze Productions which creates bespoke training, workshops, projects & productions.
Website | Email | 07949626538