Student Union

So we decided it would be a good idea to bring WHO?WHAT?HOW? to the student union to get students from MMU’s take on arts for health and to help spread awareness and thought into the different projects and scenarios arts for health can take place in.

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We wanted to do this in the student union rather then in the art school as we wanted to target a wider student audience, not just art students. We wanted to speak to and initiate conversations with people who may have not heard of arts for health before as it can be really impact introducing this concept.

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Many students were unfortunately reluctant to engage and it was hard to gain interest. There were a couple of participants in the activity – one of which sparked a conversation and made a really interesting point.
He believed that if someone is in a situation and dealing with ‘mental health’ for example, they should be in a room with all the materials and resources, and they should be able to choose for themselves what they want to do. This was really interesting conversation and it made me think about bringing options like these to the cards- thinking outside the box. I would say though that his idea would work for some people, but not everyone. From experience of putting on classes and workshops, not everyone feels comfortable having a free for all with materials and what they can do. Some people would rather have some form of structure to work within.