www.artsuplift.co.uk
Email: jenny@artsuplift.co.uk
The next series of movement to music workshops happening at Kenilworth library on a Friday morning for over 65’s. They are dementia friendly as well.
Arts Uplift a Community Interest Company specialising in arts and health and heritage.
Arts Uplift CIC is a not for profit Community Interest Company. Arts Uplift specialises in arts and health and heritage and works with a wide range of the community from children and young people to older people from across Worcestershire, Coventry and Warwickshire. It also uses a wide range of exciting arts in its projects from storytelling to dance to music etc.
It aims to use inspirational arts to enhance the physical and mental well-being of its participants and also teaches people about their local heritage as well as preserving it. Participant on Song-Writing for Well Being course said “Good mix of activities, and very inclusive. Better than a traditional counselling session.
What is arts and health? Arts and health uses a diverse range of arts practices to improve health and well being, both physically and mentally. The art is a vehicle to producing positive health outcomes. The arts forms might be drama, dance/movement, music (singing, performances, percussion/drumming), creative writing (poetry/stories/plays), drama, film and radio drama. Arts Uplift has contact with many high quality artists that can deliver these art forms. The art engages the participants in a fun and joyful way and creates a distance from the physical or mental illness/issue allowing space to be expressive and create and to be you. Or the art has a direct influence on the person’s health and well being by improving their physical and mental health, as for example in dance and movement with people with a stroke.
What conditions/issues can it help with? Arts can be used with a multitude of conditions/issues both physical and mental. For example, people living with dementia, people suffering from a stroke, cancer patients, anxiety, depression, social isolation, obesity, general old age, learning disabilities, autism, parkinsons, the list is endless.
Prevention
The arts can be used for the prevention of condition’s/issues also. Arts workshops and projects can be tailored to a particular issue, the content being informed by facts. For example, a series of arts and crafts workshops working with women that are smoking in pregnancy to educate them about the risks to the baby. A series of dance/movement workshops with older people that are at risk of falling to help with falls prevention. Under 5’s dance and movement workshops with the parents/carers to educate the parent and toddler about the positive benefits of exercise, to develop co-ordination and balance etc and to increase the bond between them.
Heritage & Arts
What is heritage and arts? Heritage and arts uses the arts to interpret the heritage and history that surrounds us and educate people about it in a fun and engaging way. It is also using the arts to gather new personal stories about history and heritage and create new resources that can be used again and again. For example, a project in a care home can use museums handling objects to stimulate memories. A storyteller can then speak with these residents to source stories based on real life memories. Cd’s and podcasts can then be created of these stories for the residents loved ones to keep or be used as part of exhibition.
Adults and Children