Clive Parkinson

Clive Parkinson, Director of Arts for health at MMU has been a fantastic contact and guidance for our project exploring arts for health. During unit X we had several meetings discussing our project and different aspects of arts for health, making sure our project is ethical and respectful to the people we will engage with. For example: I originally discussed with Clive the potential opportunity to run an art project at a children’s hospice. Through thought and discussion I realised the ethical complications of this, as it wasn’t going to be a long term placement and it would be unethical to build relationships with the individuals at the hospice and then to leave once the project was completed. As I build up my knowledge and understanding of arts for health I hope to stay working within the field and build up my experience to hopefully get involved with projects like these. I feel that this project is the beginning stages of what I hope to build into a career. All the people I am networking and connecting with such as Clive are hugely inspirational and motivational to get their guidance and experienced knowledge.

Clive supported and guided us at the start of our unit X. He gave me a list of contacts to email of individuals and organisations working within arts for health.

To include in the email:
“Clive Parkinson has recommended that we contact you as someone who has a very passionate, informed and rich observations on the developing arts and health agenda.”

–Dr Katherine Taylor

-Dementia imagination
-children’s psychologist
-mental health
-artthouwell
https://artthouwell.com/
-Ithrive
http://www.implementingthrive.org/

–Simone Spray & Rod Kippen

-42nd street, young people and their mental health

http://42ndstreet.org.uk/

–Tracie Daly

-heart in your home
https://www.artsprofessional.co.uk/node/209342

–Chris larkin & Joyce Booth

-British stroke association

https://www.stroke.org.uk/nw-community-stroke-choir

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-larkin-545a2638/

–Sarah corbett

-Craftivist collective
https://craftivist-collective.com/

– Amanda Sutton & Lydia Burke

-Venture arts
www.venturearts.org/our-work/about-us/team/

–Mark Prest

-Portraits of recovery
-alcohol recovery
https://www.portraitsofrecovery.org.uk/about/

-Sarah Harrison Greaves

-Post natal depression
-The other in mother

Email:

Dear …..

I hope this email finds you well. We are Tamara and Freya, third year Arts students at Manchester Metropolitan University. Our final third year project is focusing on Arts for health, we are doing workshops in a school, a youth group and at University as well as expanding our own knowledge on the matter too.

We have been speaking to Clive Parkinson for advice along the way, and he has recommended that we contact you as someone who has a very passionate, informed and rich observations on the developing arts and health agenda.

As part of our final piece we would like to make a documentary style film, to be shown during our degree show, with the aim to further spread awareness on Arts for health.

We would really appreciate the opportunity to come and have a conversation with you and ask some questions and use footage from this in our film. If the filming is not possible this would still be a great opportunity for both of us to gain more knowledge in a field we would both like to continue working on in the future.

We hope to hear from you,

Best Wishes,

Tamara and Freya