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Form of Clouds Celebration Day is a celebration of our long-standing arts-based social prescribing program, the Form of Clouds. Form of Clouds works with local people referred through the NHS Social Prescribing Program, Adult Social Care and Community Referrals using art as a vehicle to improve mental health and wellbeing, as well as combating social isolation and loneliness.

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An open gathering to discuss the exciting potentials and important risk factors when developing new technologies across creative, clinical, and community settings. How do we navigate the needs, commitments, and concerns of these different groups when designing new software and media?

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Everyone has a story. Let’s make the world a little brighter — and a lot funnier — together! The Rep is proud to introduce Birmingham’s newest stand-up comics from our ground-breaking comedy workshop for members of the LGBTQ+ community.... LGBTQTeeHee!

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Led by the West Midlands Combined Authority, Culture and Creative Industries Team, this event explored Creative Health practice at a regional level.

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Ikon presents Agder Kunstakademi: TV Pain (2022–23), an installation by Zubair, a former student of an independent art school based within Agder Prison, a high-security facility in Froland, Norway, housing approximately 300 male prisoners. Zubair repurposes flat-screen monitors taken from prison cells, which are frequently smashed by inmates in moments of frustration.

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Organised by Ikon in partnership with Agder Kunstakademi and Culture Forward as part of Healing Arts Birmingham (HABrum), this symposium considered the impact of art on health in prisons. In showcasing initiatives from the UK and Norway, it highlighted contrasting philosophies of criminal justice and criminal care whilst reflecting on the role of creative practice within the prison and probation systems.

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