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MotherVoice is a day-long creative workshop for mothers, combining reflective journalling and music-making to support maternal mental health and wellbeing.

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Join Ikon for a relaxed daytime conversation with Vanley Burke and Professor Pat Noxolo.

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Join us for an evening of live music in the Outdoor Theatre as part of Healing Arts Birmingham, celebrating emerging talent from across the city. This special edition of MAC’s Brum Rising series brings together some of the most exciting emerging artists from Birmingham’s music scene.

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A chance for students, patients and medical professionals to take part in an empathy-building exercise known as the ‘story exchange’. Devised by the global empathy-building charity Narrative 4, the ‘story exchange’ methodology breaks down barriers by inviting diverse participants to step into one another’s shoes.

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A community research project led by the Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS) at the University of Birmingham and the Community Interest Research Centre (CIRC-CIC) explores maternity care in diverse healthcare settings, highlighting how women in the city of Birmingham, UK, often face barriers during pregnancy and childbirth, including language challenges, unfamiliarity with the healthcare system, and social isolation.

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

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YMCA Sutton Coldfield’s 125th Anniversary Celebration is a community-focused event celebrating 125 years of supporting young people, families and individuals across Birmingham and Sutton Coldfield. The afternoon will feature live performances, storytelling, film, creative contributions from young people, and opportunities for connection and reflection.

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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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This new body of work has been created by Birmingham based photographer, Maria Reaney. To create the project she worked with six young people from across the city and wider West Midlands region to explore the impact of the cost of living crisis, government policy and living with a disability.

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Join us for an afternoon of talks and discussions exploring the relationships between research, creativity and culture, and public health and wellbeing.

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Organised by Ikon in partnership with Agder Kunstakademi and Culture Forward as part of Healing Arts Birmingham (HABrum), this symposium considers the impact of art on health in prisons. In showcasing initiatives from the UK and Norway, it highlights 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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The Opening Ceremony for Healing Arts Birmingham is curated and hosted by B:Music on behalf Birmingham City Council Public Health, the Jameel Arts and Health Lab and supported by Healing Arts Birmingham Partners.

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