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Join us to make a beautiful scented candle, pressed flower jewellery and enjoy a sound relaxation workshop. No experience needed, come and enjoy a calm and uplifting afternoon. Light refreshments also available.

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The Man Behind the Curtain is a photographic exploration of male mental health — the emotions and struggles that men are so often conditioned to conceal from the world around them.

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Health In Rhythm is a dynamic creative health activity rooted in African arts, culture, and heritage, through the use of West African drumming as a powerful tool to improve well-being, strengthen identity, and foster meaningful community connection.

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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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We often move through cities and towns without noticing the nature that surrounds us. This workshop explores overlooked forms of urban nature with creative activities for health and wellbeing.

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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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Ampe Alive is a participatory creative health activity that draws on a traditional African recreational practice, to deliver a general wellbeing experience through movement, rhythm, and cultural expression.

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