Members: Arts Organisations
Here you can search for a wide range of arts organisations delivering health and well-being projects and programmes.
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Mark Smith
I run an arts and media social enterprise 'Sixty Six / Ninety Nine' that has a primary focus on suicide prevention and awareness. I'm currently working with the Mental Health Foundation and Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB. (May 2020) I'm the co-founder of the Welsh Mental Health Arts Festival.
Celf-Able
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative, Arts Organisation Representative, Educators & Trainers, Researchers | Location: Mid Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art, Painting, Photography, Installation Art, Mixed Media, Mosaic, Ceramic
Celf-Able is an inclusive art group run by disabled artists in Powys. We are disabled- and artist-led, but open to all ages and abilities, artists and people who just want to have a go at art. We meet in Newtown, Machynlleth, Welshpool, Llanfair Caereinion and Caersws.
Website | Email | 01938 810058
Lara Ward
Creative Practitioners, Arts Organisation Representative | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Dance
I'm an older people's project worker and practitioner for Motion Control Dance, in Barry and across the Vale of Glamorgan. We are currently delivering movement sessions in Care Homes and Day Centres, focused on improving health and well-being and increasing participation levels and mobility.
Website | Email | 07545 562524
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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).
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
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
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
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
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
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
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