Date and time: 20th October at 7pm What: What are you going to do this winter to make sure you stay healthy? Where: Zoom event online with a Portswood community focus Come and join this community-led conversation about what we can all do this winter to ensure we stay healthy of mind and body. With… Read More
On 20th May 2020, we will be part of the organising team for the Positive Futures online event. This is all about young people, arts, creativity and mental health. Details here. This event is a partnership with Arts and Health South West, Hampshire Cultural Trust, and us, in our role with the Southampton Art In… Read More
Artist Claudia Friend is helping everyone make something together! Make a line – draw, scribble, sculpt, build, fold, paint, create or find a line – just one – curved, colourful, straight, loopy, dotted, thick, thin…get creative! Send the pic to Claudia on Instragram, Facebook or email doloresfroh@gmail.com including your name, location (e.g. Hampshire), Instagram tag…and… Read More
Today, our Health Model Village joined SO:Linked community project in the first of a series of events around Southampton, hosting drop-in events at Lordshill Library and Lordswood’s Kings Community Church. We asked people what they like about their areas and plotted their local gems on our big map. People told us how they like to… Read More
Interested in the connections between creativity and health? Join the informal gathering of the Southampton Art in Health Forum this Wed 26 Feb 12-2pm at NST City’s Tyrell’s cafe in Guildhall Square. More here.
On Monday 3rd February 2020, we were at Gods House Tower with 27 people from a range of arts projects, health services and community groups. This was a combined event between CHAOS (Creative, Heritage and Arts Organisations of Southampton) and the Southampton Art In Health Forum. We all shared a little bit about ourselves. We… Read More
Join VieNess for a day of inspiring talks and more, at the Phenomenal Women event on 8 March. Details here
Getting creative is good for our health. Whether you like dance, theatre, visual arts, cooking, gardening, music, cooking, sewing, woodwork (anything really), there’s so much potential to be creative and enjoy the creativity of others. The evidence says that arts can make a powerful contribution to health and wellbeing. As the Parliamentary Inquiry into Creative… Read More
Deb and Chris went to London Southbanks’ ‘Deathfest’ in 2012 & were amazed at how many people were there to find out more about death & dying, that they decided to try it in Southampton – and call it ‘Dead Good Days‘. With years of Palliative Care Nursing / Environmental teaching behind them, they continue… Read More
What’s On for a Sustainable and Healthy Southampton? Here’s some events that we are involved in, or think you’d like to know about: Getting net zero on track: a workshop with Hope for the Future This will explore the role of People’s Assemblies for a zero carbon future. Fri 31st Jan 2020 6pm at Edmund Kell Hall.… Read More
Our Health Model Village is a portable map, like a big jigsaw, that we take along to community and city events. It is an evolving 3D model, which we use as a focus for conversation, encouraging people to add to it in a number of different ways. Join us at SO:Linked Community Conversations event during…
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Health Model Village goes out and about
This workshop, with a focus on the role of a People’s Assembly, is being held on Friday 31 January, 6pm, at Edmund Kell Hall in Southampton. Book your tickets here Hope for the Future are specialists in training citizens to have effective conversations with their representatives. This workshop focuses on how a People’s Assembly can…
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Getting net-zero on track: a workshop in Southampton
Southampton Art in Health Forum 3rd Feb 2020 – 10am til lunchat Gods House Tower SO14 2NY We’re teaming up with the CHAOS network on 3rd February. CHAOS is a network for creative, heritage and arts organisations of Southampton. The gathering starts at 10am with a general CHAOS meeting, and then we’ll focus on health from 11.30am.…
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Southampton Art in Health Forum
We’ve had an amazing year with our Breathing Spaces project in St Denys, including: hosting five Clean Air Cafes; ten particulate matter air quality sensors installed across St Denys; and a whole load of community action. Hundreds of local people have been involved. We have been overwhelmed by the outpouring of enthusiasm and action for…
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Breathing Spaces pilot draws to a close
Happy Autumn! Our Breathing Spaces project is coming to an end, and we have our final Clean Air Cafe on Saturday 30 November. We’ll be sharing the learning from the project, celebrating the community activity that has been happening and having a think about the future. More details on our Breathing Spaces website. Interested in…
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Collective action
Interested in access to health, active travel and air quality? Join us on Fri 27 Sept 2019 for all or part of the day at our Southampton Health Cycle and/or City Wheel and Walk tour. You can join sections of the route, or you can come and chat at our various health stops. For more…
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Southampton Health Tour
In August 2019, we set up Southampton City Vision as a place for residents and those with a strong connection to the city to have a conversation about what Southampton should be like. We’d been to a Friday Forum gathering at Southampton Voluntary Services on 2 August, and heard about plans for the next phase…
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Southampton: our city, our vision
September steps towards a sustainable, healthy Southampton with the community at the heart. All Aboard, a Musical and Theatrical Treasure Trail at High Tide (11.30-2.30) on Sat Aug 31st 2019 around the River Itchen’s Cobden Bridge and Blue Rail Bridge. Watch out for the troll! This event has received a Breathing Spaces bursary from The…
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What’s on into September
Join us for the film premiere of The Race is On. Let’s start a revolution.…
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The Race Is On
Thurs 18 July 2019 / 11.30am–2.30pm October Books 189 Portswood Road, SO17 2FN Southampton Fancy having a go at mosaic making? Last year we made some mosaics with parents, to raise awareness of autism, ADHD and mental health challenges in young people. We were lucky to have local artist Will Rosie from All About Art…
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Mosaics and a cuppa
