Weston-Super-Mare FRIDAY 3 – SUNDAY 5 APRIL 2020
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Weston-super-Mare FRIDAY 3 – SUNDAY 5 APRIL 2020 Co-produced by The Arts and Culture Programme, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust and Culture Weston. BOOKING CULTUREWESTON.ORG.UK CultureWeston cultureweston cultureweston WELCOME TO... The Weston Arts + CULTURE WESTON is a pioneering UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS initiative that places outstanding BRISTOL AND WESTON NHS Health Weekender! cultural and heritage-based FOUNDATION TRUST will come activity at the heart of Weston’s into being on 1st April 2020 This inaugural festival celebrates wholeness and daily life and future development. (subject to regulatory approvals) togetherness; the anticipated joining of two hospital It supports and illuminates all that when University Hospitals Trusts to form University Hospitals Bristol and Weston makes Weston ‘Super’ through a Bristol NHS Foundation Trust st partnership-led programme that and Weston Area Health NHS NHS Foundation Trust on 1 April, and the launch dynamically develops people and Trust merge to form a combined of Culture Weston, a new initiative that develops, places. Ambitious new events organisation of over 13,000 supports and promotes cultural and heritage-based such as The Weston Arts + Health staff. Building on many years of activity as a vital part of the town’s life and growth. Weekender shape a thriving town and partnership working between the destination that reverberates with two Trusts, the merger will help At a time of new beginnings and new This is a whole community collaboration. opportunity, optimism and energy. bring stability to Weston General partnerships across placemaking, Creative workshops, walks and talks, Hospital so that it remains at the the arts and healthcare, we look back visual arts, performances, music, medical Culture Weston is being led by North heart of the community. The new at Weston’s truly super history as a seminars, hospital based arts activities Somerset arts organisation Theatre Trust will provide exceptional health resort, celebrate the many and and much more, magically mingle across Orchard, in collaboration with North services that meet the needs of varied opportunities to get creative the town to create a unique programme that are on offer now, and look forward with something for everyone. Somerset Council, Arts Council local people as well as delivering NotFromUtrecht to establishing Weston as a beacon England and the local community. specialist services across the for Arts and Health in the future. South West and beyond. THE HOSPITAL’S ARTS AND Image by CULTURE PROGRAMME operates As well as Weston General across all ten hospital sites, working Hospital, the Trust comprises The arts are good for you, it’s official. So go on, dip your toe in partnership with civic and cultural Bristol Royal Infirmary, in waters new this weekend, and feel wonderfully refreshed! organisations to apply research Bristol Heart Institute, Bristol and encourage best practice in Haematology and Oncology Anna Farthing arts and health. By improving Centre, Bristol Royal Hospital Fiona Matthews ARTS PROGRAMME DIRECTOR the aesthetic environment and for Children, St Michael’s CULTURE WESTON DIRECTOR University Hospitals Bristol and providing opportunities to engage Hospital, Bristol Eye Hospital, Weston NHS Foundation Trust with creative activity, we support Bristol Dental Hospital, South the well-being of staff, students, Bristol Community Hospital, volunteers, visitors and patients. and Central Health Clinic. Full details and booking at cultureweston.org.uk Artist, Luke Jerram, will Creative Ageing be creating a bespoke artwork for The Weston Convention Arts + Health Weekender Friday 3 April All weekend | By the Grand Pier 1-5pm | Weston College Conference Centre, Knightstone Road, BS23 2AL Blakemore Paul £10 (tea and coffee included) Advance booking required. Age: 16+ Photograph Luke Jerram’s multidisciplinary practice involves the creation of sculptures, installations and live arts projects. Artists and creative activity Living in the UK but working internationally since 1997, For anyone who works with co-ordinators working with older people are welcome Jerram has created a number of extraordinary art projects or cares for older people to bring a small display and which have excited and inspired people around the world. leaflets about their work. A lively afternoon of presentations, provocations and discussion Further information will With many of his artworks in permanent collections about how creativity can transform the ageing process, inspired by be provided on booking. including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York The Baring Foundation’s research and recent report on the health and the Wellcome Collection in London, he also tours his benefits of arts activities for older people.baringfoundation.org.uk art installations to art festivals and museums. Gaining extensive international media coverage he has exhibited GEMS of wisdom from acute care with many of the established cultural organisations Hear from the artists and medical staff who have been devising interventions for long stay patients around the world. In 2019 alone, he had 117 exhibitions in at South Bristol Community Hospital; learn more about the Frailty teams working across University 22 different countries.In 2019 Luke Jerram was made Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust; and celebrate the best practice of Weston a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. In 2020 he General Hospital’s Geriatric Emergency Medicine Service (GEMS), the specialist team who care for was given an Honorary Doctorate from the University of older patients living with frailty and their carers. GEMS are the 2019 NHS Parliamentary Awards, Bristol and made an Honorary Academician of the RWA. South West Regional winners in the category of Excellence in Urgent and Emergency Care. His artwork the Museum of the Moon is one of Luke’s most successful arts projects that has caught the public’s imagination which so far has been presented in different Presenters confirmed to date include: ways, more than 150 times in 30 different countries and John McMahon, Isobel Jones, Amy Creech, experienced by more than 10 million people worldwide. Arts Council England Alive, Lighting up Later Life City of Bristol College & Once Last year it was presented at Glastonbury Festival and Arts and Therapies even on BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing in Blackpool. Matt Lenny, Adam Rees, Director of Public Health, St Monica Trust Michael Prior, Learning from each artwork and moving on, Jerram North Somerset Council The Reader is continually re-inventing his arts practice. As his Ruth Charity, practice is well known yet quite diverse, Luke Jerram Alex Coulter, Artlink, Oxford University Hospitals Stephanie Jalland, Arts and Health South West Hoodwink in Hospital Theatre Company was described by Bloomberg Television as “probably Laura Waters, the most famous artist you’ve never heard of.” Alison Teader, Air Arts, University Hospitals Beth Calverley, Arts in Care Homes of Derby and Burton The Poetry Machine lukejerram.com BOOK AT CULTUREWESTON.ORG.UK | 5 LukeJerram Living well with Libraries Join in special ‘Feeling Good’ storytime or rhymetime sessions in North Somerset’s libraries – fun, free sessions all week sharing stories and rhymes for The Empathy Room children under 5 and their parents and carers. Claire Hall 10am-5pm | Sovereign Centre, opposite the Food Court Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 Stories in Scrubs Letters in the Leaves Friday 3 April Friday 3 April Award-winning North Somerset artist Claire 9.30-10am | Weston Library, Town Hall 10am-12pm | Weston Library, Town Hall Hall presents ‘The Empathy Room’, a series of Free and drop-in Free and drop-in glass art works about mental illness. These fragile and highly personal artworks are Guest NHS staff in uniform will be installed in a dark room and accompanied by leading a special session for 0-5s, Come for a rest in the library’s indoor original music, inviting visitors to contribute featuring stories that help to promote garden, take a seat, and meet arts and their own responses and experiences. health, happiness and hilarity. Join in health specialist Elspeth Penny, and and exercise your chuckle muscles! medical researcher Alice Malpass. Create your own very special letter using Wider Artworks an otherworldly letter-writing rack, unusual opening times as above Reading Well helps you to pens, homemade inks, and inspiration. understand and manage your health No experience needed. All abilities and Members of North Somerset Arts will also and wellbeing using helpful reading. ages are welcome! Made possible by the be showing a selection of wall based work The books are all chosen and Life of Breath project. lifeofbreath.org endorsed by health experts, as well on the theme of Heath and Wellbeing to as people living with the conditions complement the Empathy Room installation. covered and their relatives and carers. Available in your local library: Get Creative at Lego Club! Saturday 4 April Happy HeArts • Reading Well for mental health 10.30am-12pm | Weston Library, Worle Ebb & Flow by Gail Mason 2pm-5pm | Food Court, Sovereign Centre • Reading Well for dementia Library and Weston Children’s Centre Saturday 4 April • Reading Well for young people Age 4+ • Reading Well for long term conditions A free drop-in visual arts workshop that • Reading Well for children takes you on a journey of self-discovery. Be Find out more n-somerset.gov.uk/ creative and de-stress, relax and unwind. libraries and librarieswest.org.uk Artist