Overall reflecting back on the event, I felt it was such an achievement considering neither of us had experience in arts for health. We thought of a workshop activity that was engaging and interactive, and before we knew it we were showing amongst so many other groups and individuals who are also running projects linked to arts and health. This was a valuable experience and it has given me the confidence in my creative abilities and knowledge to apply for further events and actively engage to look out for more open call opportunities. Next time I hope to spend more time networking with others facilitating activities as it would have been a good place to build contacts and collaborate with other groups and organisations.
Creating and facilitating WHO? WHAT? HOW? was amazing to spark and initiate thought and conversation on Arts for health- and different ways it can materialise. This was really interesting and I realised it was important to state that I am not a art therapist, I am facilitating and actively involved in an exchange of ideas, thoughts and conversations.
We got great feedback from participants, even educators taking notes and photographs to use this interactive activity within their programmes for their younger students. This was a huge compliment.
For future projects and public engagement I want to research further into copyright and the technicalities of this.
We put out a board next to our display ‘What does arts for health mean to you?’
This was there for people to freely write down thoughts and opinions down as they pleased- a very basic way to get feedback and to see what they had got from the event and the arts for health message and theme. As you can see a couple of people wrote answers down, very light answers, nice and sweet warm up activity!
What does arts for health mean to you?
Like I have mentioned already, the event was fantastic opportunity to network.
Met munch was one of the organisations running a workshop at the event and we got the opportunity to trade contact information with them regarding collaborating together for another project in the summer – healthy knees.
Exploring Arts For Health 
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