Join us for Reggae Music Makes Me Smile, A free music and poetry workshop led by Dementia in Dub at @britishlibrary on 22/08/24. Based on @ronaldamanze's A Box of Smiles workshop, we will use poetry & lyric writing to explore the theme of the transformative power of a smile. 😃

Had a wonderful, unique experience as the invited dress artist of #ECHO @royalcourt. A new actor every night steps into the unknown & connects with Nassim Soleimanpour, his beautiful powerful play, the audience & themselves. Directed by brilliant @omar_elerian Don’t miss.

Our brilliant @MascUcl alumni @MaddieGRose Todd Henkin, Amalia Restrepo & Jamie Eastman wrote a fantastic @CHWAlliance blog about their journeys in #CreativeHealth 💚 https://t.co/tEJx7QnkPI #CreativityandWellbeingWeek

Open calls are now live for our Support Hub programme, including: ⭐Peer to peer mental health groups ⭐Professional development groups ⭐Reflective supervision support ⭐121 mentoring for early career artists ⏰Deadline: 23rd June @ 5pm 🙏🏽Share widely!

We’re a dementia-friendly borough! Find out how residents can live well with dementia and continue to be active members of our community after a diagnosis. #DAW2024 Learn more: https://t.co/lGQ9f9OCi6 @AgeUK_Islington @ichcarers @Arts4Dementia @IslingtonLife

Talk Dementia creative health program brings you, Recently relaunched with the support of Ashford place in Brent. The Box of smiles road show. supported by @Arts4Dementia @KrupeshHirani @Brent_Council @ashford_place @regfraternityuk @DavidLammy @Deepnessdement1 @KbitPlay

Big push for the @ace_national #ACreativeTransformation paid workshops for people with lived experience of brain injury, in Bucks and Yorkshire, in May. These events are led by experts by experience, with peer mental health support. Sign up: https://t.co/y2JDqydzGy. Please share.

thanks to @RowanMoore for reporting on this housing development in Lewes, demonstrating that sustainability, gentle density, cultural integration & viability can coexist @JonathanSmales @BeyondGreenUK @createstreets @boys_nicholas

Playing a musical instrument or singing is linked to better memory in older age

**Launch Event Invite** Join us for the launch of #MYRIAD, a new project, which aims to increase mental health support for people from global majority communities in Greater Manchester. Tue 14 Nov, 2pm-6pm At Company Chameleon Book a free ticket: https://t.co/Oqb2syyBRc

Paint it black

5 DAYS to @rcolemanvoices - ‘I might be demented but I’m enjoying being an artist that I wouldn’t without my #dementia’ at @willygilder01 'Unheard Voices' @CameoCinema 21.09.23 at 10.30 with #takingittothestreets campaign by @ReDementia2020 Book FREE tix https://t.co/KCGiSxwgo6

William Blake died on this day in 1827, to be buried in an unmarked grave at a pauper's funeral, having given us some of humanity's most transcendent art and poetry, and his eternal model of countercultural courage to make the unexampled

Looking to swap 2 Tuesday #BeyonceLondon tickets for 2 Monday tickets! Our friend just realised she bought the wrong day #BeyonceTickets #TicketSwapLondon #BeyonceTicketSwap

In celebration of #WorldTapirDay, here's a 1938 recording of a Brazilian (the 'yapping snuffler') and Malayan Tapir (the 'whistler') recorded by Ludwig Koch and published in the sound book Animal Language. (Image: Add.Or.4973 @BL_VisualArts; Sound: 1CS0070755)

I just subscribed to David Black’s Substack

Submission alert 🔔Research Poetry special issue. 300 word proposal with author details to Prof Paul Camic p.camic@ucl.ac.uk by 30 April. If accepted, manuscript submission due 1.10.23. Up to 6000 word submissions, different disciplines encouraged.

Opening this weekend at @Gallevery in London, "Full of Days" is a dialogue between Andy Holden and the late Hermione Burton, a local artist he discovered in his home town of Bedford. #thegalleryofeverything #galleryofeverything #outsiderart #selftaughtart #rawart #artinlondon

New Listening Desk at the British Library in St Pancras, created by @EmilyPeasgood. A curved horn encloses a parabolic sound-shower speaker. There are ten units across the country, installed on the premises of each of our partners in the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage Project.

Great listening @victischler