What's On

Windrush Voices: Sound & Memory Lab is an immersive workshop exploring the power of voice, memory, storytelling, and sound. Drawing inspiration from Caribbean oral traditions, participants will discover the rich heritage of lullabies, church hymns, storytelling practices, and the rhythms of everyday life.

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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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Keneish Dance presents SHE: Through the Wild - a contemporary African-Jamaican music and dance experience celebrating women as nurturers, providers and life-force. A reclaiming of freedom, connection and resilience.

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The symposium is being shaped around the values of the forest, thinking about how these might be embodied in an event of this nature. We are bringing together different disciplines to exchange knowledge and skills, share a community meal, and create space for collective discussion.

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Journey into a uniquely interactive virtual reality experience that asks the question, Where are you feeling? Soul Paint is an immersive world that blends art and science to inspire personal introspection and universal connection. The experience has been co-created with behavioral scientists, patients and health care researchers.

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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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Join Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) and No. 11 Arts for a creative networking morning as part of Healing Arts Birmingham. Designed for emerging creatives, freelancers and early-career practitioners, What Next? is a space to connect, reflect and explore the realities of building a creative practice in Birmingham and the wider West Midlands.

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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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Bethak Healing Arts is a community wellbeing event for women, combining storytelling, folk music, creative arts, and traditional henna in a welcoming and culturally familiar space. Designed for women who may experience isolation, poor mental wellbeing, or barriers to accessing mainstream services, the event uses creativity and culture to encourage connection, confidence, and emotional wellbeing.

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Join us for a variety of creative wellbeing activities outdoors in our beautifully biodiverse community garden, along with a hot, healthy lunch for participants.

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Sarah Ticho will be discussing the research and creative development behind Soul Paint and the wider role of immersive technologies in enhancing health and wellbeing.

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LGBTQTeeHee! is an exciting opportunity to develop your comedy skills and feel like a superhero! Through comedy, we hope to build mental health resilience, reduce stigma and encourage honest discussions around mental health in a fun and supportive environment.

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